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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

The Scholar Who Predicted America's Breakdown Says It's Just Beginning

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The Scholar Who Predicted America's Breakdown Says It's Just Beginning

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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Professor who predicted 2020s unrest sees US sliding deeper into crisis
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Fifteen years ago Peter Turchin warned America was on the brink of a decade of growing political unrest. This is what he says now.
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    Dude. We all saw this shit coming. A blind man could have seen this coming.

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      Not really. Perhaps people could foresee some dissatisfaction with Trumps presidency, but this article is talking about a longer trajectory, as in building towards all out civil war.

      I don’t think that’s a generally held opinion amongst americans.

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        In fact it’s quite common, most people I know were expecting civil war when the turd won the second time.

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          most people I know

          Is that a sample from which you can derive statistically meaningful data ?

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            It’s larger than 1, which is the number of people of people the article is holding up as some kind of Cassandra.

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            Well the sample size is probably sufficient, there’s obviously a bias toward woke folk though.

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              That’s the problem. You’re hanging out with too many “MuH vIoLEnT RevOlUtiOn!!!” types. If you want the system to fail, of course you’re going to see every reason why it would fail.

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                What? That’s not what woke means. Aside from that, every sane person would want a system with Turd at the helm to fail.

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                Hey actively hates ML here, for once the bastards ain’t wrong. Even my largely offline friends can practically feel it, we’re hoping for a Soviet or Yugoslavia style break up since us being on the West Coast would keep us a good bit from the immediate blast radius. The Great Basin, Sonora, and Mojave are great buffer regions.

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          Not right then, just inevitably. As we are seeing lol

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      You might’ve seen shit coming, but most Americans just don’t want to accept that the world they’re used to is crumbling. It’s annoying af.

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      you can say anything is just beginning and there’s no way to prove you wrong

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        [email protected] ‘s reign of terror is just beginning.

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          Your reign of terror is just beginning

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            You’re breathtaking

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              Aww thanks ❤️

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      Unfortunately not all of us saw it, and some even still vehemently refuse to accept it

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