I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.
So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.
I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.
If it helps I don’t think it’s going to collapse as much as others seem to think it will. The US is sturdy and will continue to be a global power even after it ceases to be a superpower, much like Russia or Germany.
I can see individual states collapsing because of climate change but not the entire country itself. If anything it will continue to exist in a fragmented state.
The US is blessed with some of the most plentiful resources and favourable geography in the world. Hundreds of millions of people living in that land under a single government would never not be a power.