Quote (thundercock @ Jun 2 2020 04:30pm)

How do you define collapse? The US is on it's second form of government since becoming independent.

Quote (IgoSoHard @ Jun 2 2020 11:48am)

I’d give it about another decade or so before the soy boys completely ruin the greatest country in the history of the world.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jun 2 2020 04:49pm)

My prediction of the options listed: 45-100 years

Ultimately the degradation of civil liberties, constant civil unrest due to unrelenting mititary-industrial complex and military occupation of foreign countries, increasingly expanded powers of the chief executive, unsustainable and increasing wealth inequality, and lack of preparedness in regards to technological (AI) and environmental changes will result in the collapse of the American Empire (formerly a Democratic-Republic) in about 100 years

Quote (Bongmaker @ Jun 2 2020 01:33pm)

Fuck yea, thank you for a great question and a great point. Though I would argue we are in the third form of governance.

The collapse would be dissolved as the "United" States.

It makes more sense for the states to keep their pre-defined borders (You know humans, whatever is easier) rather than redraw them, etc. (You know, until I need your water Michigan, then you're fucked.)

Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 2 2020 06:52pm)

The Democrats are the source of the problem. They have stoked flames of hatred and lowered the political discourse into mass dehumanization of swaths of the population. They use crises as tools to expand their power at the expense of the populace, and go so far to create crises for this very reason. There will be no peace until their propaganda is shunned en masse.

Right wing protests never lead to looting or the normalization of violence. Right now you are hearing teenagers saying that violence is okay because it is still better than “Trump”. And these ideas were fed to them by the political machine. This is inexcusable.