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Nation-wide Chesterton's Fence happening right now, with people learning a hard lesson soon enough. Let's just hope it won't be too late to repair their broken
by zelphirkalt 2y ago
Nation-wide Chesterton's Fence happening right now, with people learning a hard lesson soon enough. Let's just hope it won't be too late to repair their broken systems.
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoIt's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. The changes made thus far present at least a decade of rebuilding to fix, and we're only 100 days in.
- Capricorn2481 2y ago> It's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. We're never out of time but the problem is time? There is absolutely a point of no return.
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoSorry, I should have said: The problem is the time frame of the fix If the US ends up a smoking ruin it can still be fixed, it'll just take longer.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoI mean, eventually we also hope some other places develop something like a functioning democracy, or whatever is better in the future, and we hope it will be a matter of time until they at some point do. The problem with the US is though, that they have the most powerful military on the planet, and the US ending up in smoking ruins probably means lots of other places going down with it, when the US looks outside for reasons of its failure. It is quite dangerous.
- nandomrumber 2y ago[flagged]
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoPlease don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We were much better off the last 4 years than it looks like we will be for the next, but it was far from ideal/perfect.
- nandomrumber 2y agoWho’s “we”, what does better off mean and over what time period. Predicting the future is hard. Having said that, certainty does make planning easier.
- yoyohello13 2y agoThe only real issue is these assholes are taking me down with them.
- bilbo0s 2y agoMaybe that's what the people want? Maybe they don't like the fact that there's people out there making 500 grand a year? At least not while they're struggling to make ends meet on 50 grand a year. Now your leaders are supposed to be wise enough to not take down the 500 grand a year guys. But what if they aren't?
- chgs 2y agoAnd someone with a mere 10m in the bank makes more than 500 grand just from their wealth appreciating. Yet people seem to have far less concern about people with such relatively low wealth.
- yoyohello13 2y agoI'm WAY closer to the 50k group than the 500k group. I just want a leader who has some empathy.