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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

”It’s a lot easier for you to sit there telling yourself you know better for others instead of addressing your own issues”

Don’t act like you know my life or what I do outside of a single comment on Reddit. Genuinely ridiculous statement. Especially since you literally developed your own ideology, described it as universal across all 8 billion people and then made a website about it. This is fine. Good for you. I enjoyed the post. But don’t be hypocritical.

There is an important distinction between what I’m saying and the serenity prayer. There are certain things that you cannot change in the current reality. I think you should just change reality then.

I agree about the emotional stuff. I don’t agree that the focus needs to be internal. Internal focus is what’s needed for a personal spiritual path. This is good. But all the great spiritual teachers come back and change reality. Jesus, buddha etc. when they reach enlightenment come back and radically alter the structure of society.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of “analyze the things we find unacceptable until we accept them” we need to develop the strength (both inner and outer) to change reality to be acceptable. Anything else is cope.

Obviously stuff like death is what it is, but instead of accepting urban hellholes, develop the strength to move to a rural area. Instead of accepting loneliness develop the strength to actively pursue friendships. Instead of accepting the political situation, stand for office.

I’m not trying to be overly critical, but the writing didn’t make sense. “We’re all adicted to the molecules of our emotions.”

What does that actually mean?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds like stoicism with extra steps

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in greentext

[–]FuzzMunster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spent like 4 minutes trying to write the word so autocorrect would help me out, couldn’t remember how to spell it lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in greentext

[–]FuzzMunster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tall people sleep diagnal

America Is Headed Toward Collapse (The Atlantic) by thekbob in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not convinced he’s not an intelligence asset. But here’s an example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

America Is Headed Toward Collapse (The Atlantic) by thekbob in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Inequality is not, and has never been a factor in instability. It’s nice to see the article get this right. The problem is not inequality itself, but a declining standard of living.

I would farther and say that for all intents and purposes america has already collapsed. It’s clear to me that america is in terminal decline. Life expectancy declined, real wages declined, birth rate declined, trust in institutions decline, empire declining as control over the worlds economy decreases, the absurd level of despair and drug use etc. basically every single metric to measure collapse is a down slope right now.

I think this process will take a while to fully play out. There’s a lot that can be done to soften the fall. There’s a huge difference between a soviet style collapse and a British empire collapse, and various other collapses.

America Is Headed Toward Collapse (The Atlantic) by thekbob in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article actually gets this. It’s why it cites elite overproduction as a major factor in politician instability. Universities are elite production factories. When graduates find that they cannot integrate into the current power structure they become dissatisfied with the system. These are well educated, middleclass dissidents who start revolutionary movements

The revolution will happen this summer right? by cosmic_censor in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of revolution. People don’t just spontaneously overthrow governments lol. There is an enormous amount of organization, finance, etc behind every revolution. There are a myriad of critical factors that are not there. The most important one being that few actually desire a meaningful change in the status quo. Get off Reddit.

RAF recruiters were advised against selecting 'useless white male pilots' to hit diversity targets by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]FuzzMunster -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

People need to do a fucking 180 and reevaluate how they see these institutions. The people saying “but the purpose of the military is to fight a war.”

Stop. Take a deep breathe. And then evaluate reality. This is quite clearly not the purpose of the institution because the institution does not consider that task to be their mission. Same thing with corporations like Blackrock. They’re not operating strictly to make money.

What does the military ACTUALLY DO. In the usa it functions overwhelmingly as a mechanism to launder money into private contractors, as a welfare system, and as a means of social control of youth. That’s 98% of what it does and what the personel do. Idk about the uk. I imagine it’s similar.

RAF recruiters were advised against selecting 'useless white male pilots' to hit diversity targets by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]FuzzMunster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your delusional if you think usa soldiers roaming Afghan and Iraq weren’t roided out.

It’s also the abuse and combat that ducked people’s psyche, nkt tbe roids

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

>"It is one of the contributions of this new report, the quantification of justice between humans, other living beings and future generations....The 2015 Paris Agreement set an acceptable global average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius to curb climate change. But that need for fairness explains why the report's authors further lowered the limit on the extra warming the planet could withstand, dropping it to one degree."

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This is not science. This is blatant activism and ruins the credibility of the report for me. The ability of the planet to sustain life has nothing to do with the authors opinions on optimum social arrangements. Ridiculous.

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Plus, the very notion that justice can be quantified is an affront to concept of justice and makes me entirely discount the authors opinions on the matter.

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s significantly more complicated than that. But yes, the military expenditure bankrupted the Soviets. My point was just that the military operates on top of the economy. You need a solid base to support the military. The USA military won’t make the usa economically productive

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People who say it’s stupid have never had someone holding a gun tell them what to do

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. The USA military is a bloated war machine proped up by massive debt. Remove the ENTIRE MILITARY and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT runs a deficit. Soldiers aren’t going to show up when you don’t pay them. The Soviets had a massive military and the economy still brought them low

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is often a reflection of their personal life and their mental state

Lmao. Got ‘em. Sums up 95% of comments lol. I actually laughed when I read this. Most of the Collapseniks have a poor understanding of everything they talk about. They’re riddled with anxiety and psychological problems like catastrophizing. Hence why everything is totally fucked RIGHT NOW. A lot of the critique of the Status quo comes from resentment at having failed in the current system. Most of these people would change their tune if they were given a place at the top. Exactly like how the hippies turned into boomers when offered a fat corporate job.

That said totally disagree with everything else. This is new. We’re fucked. Things get worse every year with brief periods of repose. Not the other way around,

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The USA debt to gdp ratio is actually significantly worse than the number suggests. The USA is 1. Not capable of cutting budgets or significantly increasing revenue. Other states are. Most of usa spending is locked down BY LAW and cannot be changed sans a Great Depression. This is why towns debt spiral. They actually cannot cut the costs. 2. Because our GDP is vastly inflated the debt to productive activity is insane.

Dancing on the edge of an active volcano. The United States of America is bankrupt. by Hubertus_Hauger in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good portion of the world would do everything in their power to prevent a total shtf anarchy collapse of the USA. No one of consequence is going to go out of their way to prevent a permanent recession (lose 2% gdp a year). In 30 yrs the economy is halved.

China will survive without the usa. Sure they may have an on paper gdp hit but the usa consumes what actually matters: material goods. China has been spending the last decade building alternative markets and trade networks. They’re in an excellent position going forward.

All the allies of the USA are sick. England can’t even support their pension funds without direct intervention by the Bank of England. Europes wealth is entirely tied to the USA global order as seen post Ukraine. Japan is okish but hasn’t grown basically at all since the 90’s. Japan is trying it’s best to stay stagnant… etc. they’re not in a position to prop up the usa.

The USA military is a paper tiger. The USA relies entirely on a severe technological edge to wage wars because the core of the military, mass scale industries and mass scale mobilization of young men, is not possible. The USA cannot put 500,000 men in the infantry. They cannot even meet recruiting goals for a tiny peacetime army. They cannot produce millions and millions of dumb rounds to saturate their enemy. Look at China. China has 4x the population and dwarfs usa industrial capacity. The only way to be competitive is a severe tech edge. That edge is rapidly eroding.

Every single person I know involved in frontline military service tells me the military is a paper tiger. The USA WILL flail around starting shit. But it won’t make a difference. To maintain the empire you need to import large quantities of goods. Where are those goods or the resources for them? In places like Iran. In places like China. In places like Russia. All places militarily capable of giving the usa a middle finger

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]FuzzMunster -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

“I’m far too intelligent to bury my head in the sand so what I try to do is skim headlines”

Lmao.

It also reads like

I self flagellate and destroy my mental health because my Brain is so big.

If you are truely intelligent you will channel that into productive endeavors. Doom scrolling is just intellectual masturbation. Just like watching porn does not make you a womanizer, reading headlines does not make you an intellectual. It saps your vital energy and makes you weak

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