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.
Yeah I sometimes get a little queasy when people here cheer about the possibility of my state balkanizing. I do agree it would be funny and would help reduce worldwide imperialism, but also I live here and don’t like the idea of suddenly being stranded in a kleptocraric fascist Christian theocracy that goes broken within a year. I worry about some homeless folks I know too
Like I know I probably wouldn’t experience 1% of what Palestinians or the Yemeni are going through, but like, I want my apartment and I want my money to be recognized as money and not Jesus fun bucks. Disclaimer though, I know I’m a crakkker and a settler and so I definitely have first-wolder disease and privilege that would probably get destroyed in open balkanization.
Death to America of course.