Lemmy, is there a community documenting the collapse of the US?
Lemmy, is there a community documenting the collapse of the US?
It would be nice to see the collapse discussed in real-time, but also have something to reference in the future as significant turning points.
yes, every single goddamn community
Probably keeptrack@lemmy.world ?
Edited to make the name linkable. Also, I guess it's nice for you. But it fucking sucks for many of us.
Edit 2: added alternate link out of curiosity.
I'm directly affected by Trump, but I think the decline started decades ago. We're just at the hoverbike stage now.
404 edit: ok if you include the /c/ only lemmy instances can follow it
Relative links are a minefield because sometimes ! works and sometimes it federates a direct link that is worthless
!keeptrack@lemmy.world should work on any fediverse platform.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks, subbed! This is focused on Trump though, and I don't think the decline started with or ends with his presence.
I'm making a personal list. It's so fucking long already...
slrpnk.net is such an underrated instance
Any of the US news communities would be a good place to start. https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack is tracking the 2nd Trump administration specifically.
Theres like 30, i see news about it on every other post.
There's a lot of collapse comms in other instances as well
You taking about the collapse of democracy in the US, or the disolution US as a nation state? Because I definitely don't think the later is happening any time soon.
I'm sure there's a USA news community
Literally every comment section is an American politics community
Even if it's a comm about ducks wearing hats, somecunt would mention maga
Well is the duck wearing a maga hat?
Sorry, I'm guilty of this. For me, my more whimsical threads and comments are a healthy distraction from our new American autocratic hellscape. Some escapism is good for mental health. Sometimes I slip and mention of American politics because that's what's causing me stress, and that's a mistake. I shouldn't bring up politics so much.
Try the podcast It Could Happen Here
keep track.
I'll be submitting weekly sourced round-ups of all the bullshit for everyone in the future to reference
I think history books are meant to be the reference for later. And I think it's two separate jobs to report something that's currently happening. And analyzing it with hindsight and judging the impact and importance of the events. That's kind of impossible while we don't know the consequences yet.
Oh, just wait a little bit longer. Executive orders requiring the modification of recorded history is not far away.
The world may be mocking the Gulf of America, but if idiot boy makes it official, there's a whole country that'll be using that name.
orders requiring the modification of recorded history is not far away.
That has already happened in some red states.
Just like freedom fries, right?
We'll have to see about that. Changing history records and telling your story instead of the truth is as old as humanity. But with recent technological advances, we have misinformation on the rise. And we'll have to see whether we can tell apart a generated video from a recording of a historical event in 10 years time... I certainly hope so. And that kind of technology is going to make progess as well. Maybe facts are just a thing of the past... That kind of sides with OP though... I mean it'll be impossible to tell apart a record of events from fakes... But if you took them themselves and verified things while they're still happening, that could prove to be helpful.
This just sounds like every discord server everywhere rn