I think No Church Attendance will be reported
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Things are going to get real fucky.
Those in power will be unable to trust each other and their employees even less. We may end up living where we work.
Diseases will be widespread, and no care will be offered to anyone but the privileged.
Famine, likely entirely manufactured, will cause massive amounts of starvation.
Modern conveniences will be slowly lost. Cars will be falling apart because no one can afford mechanics, and the lack of vehicle regulations leads to excessive accidents.
Planes will break up midaire. Widespread blackouts when shit goes sideways. Forget about medicine.
Waterways will be polluted beyond what can be boiled. Breathing in big cities will be hazardous. They will say “efficiency” but not one instance of efficiency will be observable.
Kids showing academic excellence will be abducted and sent to special indoctrination schools so that they can only benefit the regime.
Women will have rights removed. All men will have to do a two year duty in war. Church attendance will be reported to the government.
I have more ideas but I’ll stop there
Slartibartfass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Criticism, questioning, ambiguity, or hesitance will also be reported.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Strikes me that you’ve forgotten about the rest of the world.
oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
The rest of the world isn’t coming to help as long as we only hurt those within our borders. No one stood up to the Nazis until they started moving on other countries, even though they were already known to be committing atrocities. The rest of the world is just going to cut us off and let us burn, most of the world hates the U.S. and only plays nice for economic and military reasons.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we’re in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.
And stating that “most of the world hates the U.S.” is definitely a sign that you don’t quite understand how we feel about the US.
oppy1984@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
I guess I’ve just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I’ve really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There’s also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he’s seen directed at the US when he’s traveling Asia and Europe.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I mean I could be. 13 year old me thought of most of this stuff during his hormonal days