I think it will be no longer than 10 years at this point.

Unless the U.S. finds another way to give itself a shot in the arm and hobble along for another 25 years (which is possible, I guess) - this country is cooked. It is already so much different than even 2 years ago, just in terms of general consciousness, that if this trend continues, it will fall within our lifetime. Like others have said the contradictions are becoming ever stronger, other countries are increasingly powerful and most notably China and the global south are rapidly growing.

The U.S. will not be able to win a war without deploying nuclear weapons and obliterating the entire world along with itself. I wouldn’t put it past them to try if/when it comes to that, but the period of domination where they could fend for themselves is gone. Recruitment rates are in the shitter and again, the general population is extremely unhappy with the way things are going. Class consciousness still has a way to go, but we’re getting there. It’s not like it takes a whole country to complete the initial stages of a revolution, and more and more people are getting radicalized by the minute.

Ultimately, it’s going to take a serious world event that weakens and splits the bourgeois of this country (which is already kind of happening) and the swift action of the masses to take advantage of that when the time comes. It absolutely has to be soon, not only do I believe that it will be, but it has to be, or climate change and the US lashing out will genuinely cause hell.

In our lifetime ain’t just a saying, people. Get out there

At this rate it probably won’t lmao

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The guy definitely read a few cherry picked quotes and ran with it as though he was an expert lmao

Fr, this is why I deleted reddit because it just was so filled with garbage and gave me a bad outlook at other people, I got so used to seeing others as stupid because all I saw were stupid people on reddit so I got a little more doomer. Still tho, every once in a while something so absurd comes up you’ve got to share it with each other 😭

Reminds me of toddlers using complex words tbh, mom I OBJECTIVELY did not poop my pants okay? Like bro there’s still shit all over you you’re not helping yourself 💀

It was relieving to switch from “top comments” to “newest” where there at least were some people who didn’t swallow this garbage lmao

Ah yes, good evening my dear dialectic. Lovely materialism we’re having today, huh?

I didn’t know this guy existed, this is the first I’m hearing of him

But there was seriously the dumbest shit ever said in that video. Dialectical materialism apparently was “created by Marx” to progress humanity towards our true self, God. He took Hegels idea of the absolute idea and like twisted it into being the exact same thing as Marxism and then somehow made Stalin sound like he was advocating for us to go BACK to primitive communism… like there was just so much misunderstanding (or deliberate lying, more likely)

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I think this is a solid line of thinking. A terrifying one, but solid.

I know things have been much better under Biden!

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erm… more deportations than 45… border wall construction… more oil drilling than anyone ever… killed rail strikes… prison population all time high… one tiny COVID relief check… Roe struck down during his term… GENOCIDE FUNDING… Etc. Etc. Etc.

Before you scream “BAHHHH BIDEN CAN’T CONTROL IT ALL” let it be known that he does control the first 4 things and the very last one. He has bypassed congress to give weaponry to Israel and Ukraine, and done many of those things solo. The Democratic party could minimize or end all of the rest. Roe could have been codified like 50 times in the last 30 years and it wasn’t. Now they want to blame the SCOTUS for doing what they’ve wanted to do forever instead of just codifying it. Democrats are funding and creating cop cities. They don’t pass anything genuinely beneficial for more than 0.05% of the population. Even for those people, it isn’t enough most of the time.

They’re really not that different. Sure, they don’t OPENLY say they want to kill trans people. They don’t care if it happens though. These establishment fucks are bought by the exact same people the Republicans are. It’s time you start believing you live in a fascist dictatorship, you’re in one.

I’m concerned too! What else am I going to be able to use as toilet paper? (This joke only works if they print… but either way)

Did the liberals redefine dictatorship to mean absolute authority by one brutal ruler?

Yes, literally yes. This is how it is used colloquially in many parts of the US, Kim Jong Un and Xi are both literally the strongest men in their whole societies and everyone listens to everything they say at all times. Zero material or class analysis.

This is also how they think of Hitler. He literally controlled it all in their minds, and I genuinely believe this is why they sympathize with Nazis so much because they genuinely believe fascism isn’t an oiled machine funded by many arms of capital and people, but is truly a brainwashed population completely subservient to one person. Like I said, no class or material analysis. Embarrassing.

Edit: Further, I have had acquaintances who know I’m a communist and heard me use “DoTP” before ask me in good faith - “So why do you think a dictatorship is the way to go? Why one person?”

They were not being rude or bad faith. They were trying to understand my position and did not even consider the possibility that I am talking in class dictatorship terms. It’s very sad to see.

Real lol it would get shot down the moment it actually threatened any of their daddy donors’ profits, or they just wouldn’t even propose it

This is the only reason I think they might not pass it, but if they twist it just enough to serve their masters like y’all said…

That’s kind of what I was thinking too like, great TikTok is the scapegoat and China bad blah blah but what about the rest of the internet 💀

Like others said I think they’ll find some kind of loophole or way to apply it only to their “adversary” industries and twist it to be able to serve their own donors. If it even gets passed

There’s no way this gets past the senate, right? Right?!

For real though, just an updated PATRIOT act for the internet, and clearly a response to mass spread of effective working class/pro-Palestine propaganda. Can’t have the slaves seeing other slave rebellions!

I’m sure we will be treated much better by the other right wing fascism 💀

Kids these days just don’t know discipline… back in my day we used to get beat up by our parents and I could beat my wife no questions asked… tired of this Vladimir Marxist bull shit… I can fart whenever I want… but I need to find a bathroom before shitting… land of the free… yeah right

Nah fr though, should be considered abuse deadass. Negative impacts all around. Everyone here touched on it all already. Don’t mean to make light of it