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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn't know it happend, thought the US collapsed already.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I know you're joking, but if the U.S. does actually collapse, very few people on the planet will have the fortune of being unaware.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

collapse is less of an event, and more of a protracted decay and crumbling away of its structural integrity, out of which the existing contradictions which had been always simmering below the surface become increasingly sharp at points and times and ruptures along the fault lines begin to appear at increasing rates