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.
what makes me uncomfortable is when fellow leftists think that even the most anodyne pacifistic daydreams of america’s fall are ‘fucking terrifying’ or ‘nihilistic’ and use marginalized communities as ideological human shields to run defense for american empire like it isn’t currently killing homeless and trans people everywhere it goes and wouldn’t do much more of that if its hegemony were less precarious.