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Eh we've been through much worse.
Just kick back, grab a pint, and wait for enough women, minorites, and leftists to get fed through the tree chipper for this whole thing to finally blow over and improve marginally, as is our tradition.
Edit: /s because apparently this is not obvious holy shit
The joke here (if you follow US history) is that those are the groups who are actually going to stand up and frequently end up sacrificing themselves for a better future, but are never acknowledged.
I want to believe the same thing, but that's little comfort to the ones who get fed into the wood chipper.
Great advice, hopefully they throw me into the woodchipper headfirst, I guess.
Or maybe go fuck yourself.
This is satire friend <3
Maybe take a creative writing class, learn how to read the room, practice some public speaking or something.
And every time it's been catastrophic.
Look, the scenario we're looking at right now? If we are being optimistic and assuming that it is not abnormal in US history, then the comparable situations are the end of Reconstruction, the Wilson Administration, and the Nixon-Reagan period. All of which had horrifically corrosive effects that took decades to address, and never have been fully resolved.
That which does not kill you, cripples you against future problems. This is not a minor concern that will just blow over, even under an 'ideal' resolution.
The leopards surely won't eat your face.....
I'd say this is the worst domestic crisis the US has been through since the Civil War, if that. It might "blow over" in the sense that the world won't literally end, but in that sense Nazi Germany "blew over" too.
And people seem to forget that it took years of concerted effort of several major world powers to end Nazi Germany. They didn't go voluntarily, and this time we have no world powers who are really interested in stopping it. Most of them are in fact busy cheering it on.
Yeah. Even the EU lacks the capability or—frankly—willingness, to seriously intervene, and of course China will take the opportunity to enter Taiwan and eat popcorn while their only real geopolitical rival destroys itself.
Back in WW2 days, most world powers had very little interest in stopping Hitler either. In fact, they couldn't care less and often tried to keep to their own, internal affairs instead of starting a war with nothing in it for them.
It was only after Hitler continued to invade one neighboring country after another that they had to do something, or they themselves would have been next. It was only after Hitler marched into Russia (twice) that Russia hit back, and that more or less turned the tides of war (Stalingrad).
Poe's law