Kinda riveting, watching the cake melt in the rain, but I gotta get some work done. Will check back later.

#uspol
#collapse

Broker nudges his buddy in the next cubicle, whispers: "Maybe the mixed-race career civil servant with lady parts WAS the better choice?"

#uspol
#collapse

Die #Verdrängungsgesellschaft ist transnational:

"The problem with the soft apocalypse is that it is still an apocalypse. It still ends in #collapse. We tell ourselves we have time, that the worst is always just ahead, that we will act when we must."

From: the Indian Express.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/middle-climate-apocalypse-we-really-care-9890542/

Much of Friedman's column is boilerplate US propaganda. However, this line is correct: "But if Trump turns out to be wrong, he will have sown the wind, and we as a nation will reap the whirlwind. But so, too, will the rest of the world."
#USpolitics #tariffs #economics #trade #collapse #
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html

Climate-threatened life
will keep trying ... 'til it can't.
Knowing, we owe more.

The three worst presidents in US history (Herbert Hoover, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump) were all hailed for their business background and skills. Time to retire the trope that businessmen know anything about running nation states.
#economics #depression #recession #collapse #macroeconomics #USpolitics #leadership #vandals #nihilism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reason-advisers/

There are people who think Trump is smart.

“There has certainly been no piece of trade policy in my lifetime that is at this level of stupidity, right?” said Rob Gillezeau, an assistant professor of economic analysis and policy at the University of Toronto. “It’s not grounded in anything intelligent. Like, they’re kind of just like ignoring economics altogether.”
#collapse #trade #Canada #tariffs #economics #USpolitics
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html

bro see, this is exactly the problem i have with you guys lately. how often have we been thinking this in the last 40 years?

why don't you just spit it out and say that you wish for it to #collapse bc it obviously sucked for the environment? jesus christ.

and even then, systems can have multiple stable states? neo feudalism is one option for that?

creating ever more chaos has worked very well for him and he cares not who gets hurt.
#trump #tariffs #saint #stupid #economy #collapse #pray #meme

especially the #collapseaware-in-bio dudebros. you know that the bigger half the globe has lived though this since the beginning of industrial imperialism? you are not special. not even close. and you still have an 5-earth-overshoot-lifestyle.

preaching living-with-less while jetting from #collapse conference to #collapse conference...

you know who lives with less? 99% of humanity. ask sub-saharan africa about that one.

Failed State watch: "In practice there will be nothing liberating about it. Over the two months since returning to the White House, Mr Trump will have brought America’s overall tariff level to its highest since the second world war, setting the country up for slower economic growth, higher inflation, more inequality and, quite possibly, fiscal trouble."
#economics #USpolitics #trade #tariffs #collapse
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/30/trumps-liberation-day-is-set-to-whack-americas-economy

though climate change grows,
seasons' rituals lull us
to think they'll repeat

Occupied Korea is facing a demographic crisis, characterized by a record low fertility rate. This is leading to a shrinking and aging population, which is expected to cause economic collapse due to a reduced workforce and depleted pension funds. The country will also struggle to maintain its essential infrastructure due to lack of workers. Socially, this may cause loneliness and cultural decline.

DPRK is learning a bit of "Do nothing. Win." technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk

I'm going to attempt to make the move again. I wonder if anyone here thinks there's more activity on Bluesky? This is a quiet place compared with Twitter! What I'd love is to have a level of debate and discussion on #ecologicalemergency and related topics #climate #biodiversity #polarisation #fragmentation #collapse and how to #mitigate