u/HasturInYellow

Seriously. The states mostly hate each other as is. Split up, be happier. You'll have little Russia down in the south where rights are a joke and children go back to the mines but hey, that's just good solid capitalism. And then you'll have everyone else forced to live with their crumbling neighbor slinging shit over the fence for a few decades.

And the incredible thing is, they could CHOOSE to be human again. At any time. They could just willfully have their humanity back and not be subject to such repercussions.

But they won't.

Clearly not enough violence was used.

Visiting China is pretty safe, easy and affordable (after the flight). Not a great government but that is mostly a pain in the ass for the citizens.

I'll be honest, Iran doesn't seem to target military assets all that much. Or at least, the air defence is much better around those areas. Which isn't crazy.

While the attack and deaths are sad and should not be celebrated, what should be celebrated is the crushing of the fantasy that Israel will not face any consequences for behaving like demons. I hope every Israeli is unable to sleep due to that realization. Perhaps something would change.

I really, really hope that one of them develops a higher heat tolerance and can pick up vaguely where we left off. Hopefully the ecosystem isn't fucked enough to just kill everything.

Genuinely surprised. How many others have not been so lucky?

It has not been that way for that long though. They used to lose support if they openly killed people in the streets.

I think you are underestimating the level of chaos and violence we are headed for. This is going to be much worse than Rome. We will be the barbarians at our own gates.

What's really crazy is that Europe will soon need most homes to have central heating. With the AMOC collapse hurrying along, Europe will actually fall off in temp soon and be more like Canada. Meanwhile the eastern USA will be flooded and very hot because the current stopped pulling hot water away from the coast.

Give that like 20 years or so. Maybe less.

I agree. I like the post and its message, but in general everyone needs to focus less on identity and more on community. People have really lost the plot these days. What are we doing all of this for? So our families will have a good life, right? Everyone the world over is mostly just looking for that.

How long do people think it will take for there to be shooting over this? Not everyone is going to just let people get disappeared in front of them without doing anything.

Which is why the entire system needs to be ripped out root and all.

That being said, it's a risky gambit and doomed to failure and disaster if nothing is ready to pick up right afterwards.

So get planning everyone. We need a new system. We need details about who is doing what, why and how.

As far removed from capitalism as is possible/reasonable would be great.

Absolutely. I was just talking about my daily life. I don't give a shit if something gives me cancer or sterilizes me at this point. My body is so irrevocably fucked by pollution already, unless it kills me/debilitates me within the next 10 years, I don't care. A shortening life span is meaningless to me.

This is just one more apocalypse to add to the pile. We are no more fucked that before we knew about this. Humanity can only die once.

Still, kinda shit, eh?

A large part of the efficacy of vaccines comes from everyone around you also being mostly immune. If there are giant holes in the shield, everyone near those holes becomes more vulnerable. The vaccines can be overcome by the disease if enough viral load is present.