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I'm hoping for the AI bubble to pop. I want to see Nvidia and X and Tesla and Microslop and OpenAI all crash and burn.

But there's another part of me that knows there's a good historical precedent for what happens in these situations. My brain is zapped but Larry Fink was the architect of the previous market crash that led to BlackRock profiteering wildly and becoming the immense beast that it is today.

I know that the big AI companies/AI affiliated companies are what is keeping the US economy afloat at the moment and I know the US will play the "too big to fail" card to do yet-another immense transfer of wealth from the proles directly to these companies in the form of bailouts.

I don't think AI-only companies are gonna survive this. I think OpenAI might be the first domino to fall. But Google commands a vast amount of diversified income sources, unlike OpenAI, and I wonder if almost every other big player in AI will get swept under but, with big bailouts and the power that Google commands, it feels like they will be poised to gobble up all the smaller fish and expand their monopoly to integrate themselves into every level of government administration as the government cuts back on expenditures to weather the fallout from the bubble popping plus the immense cost of bailouts, so I can see it being a Faustian bargain where money goes into Google (either directly or indirectly), Google vacuums up all the business and especially the data centers, then Google offers the insolvent US government the "solution" of selling them terminals for every citizen interfacing role that runs on AI and embedding AI in all sorts of bureaucratic processes that occur mostly behind the scenes. For a "small" fee, of course. (Or maybe Palantir or some scumfuck company like Larry Ellison's swoops in and profiteers from the fire sale as the market burns.)

(I'd explain all the fuckery with Larry Fink and BlackRock and how I anticipate the parallels to play out this time around but there's a lot of threads and I'd have to have the brain power available to brush up on the sources and weave the narrative together but that's not gonna happen for me today. Has TrueAnon covered BlackRock yet?)

Strange to think that the scenario of the AI bubble popping and causing all sorts of economic catastrophe for the working class people around the world while the US starts to crumble and descend into fascism and civil war is my optimistic take and that my doomer take is that AI collapses but it doesn't take the market with it and instead AI gets monopolized, bailed out, and forcibly integrated into all levels of society while the US descends into fascism and civil war.

It's 2026 and people still say shit like "communism is when government does a thing so the US army doing bad shit isn't capitalism actually!"

I know this probably isn't helpful to say but sometimes I wonder if it's even possible to reach people politically when peoples understanding is so warped and confused. How do we fight against such a giant flow of ignorance and propaganda?

It feels like an impossible task when people don't even know what words mean.

I really appreciate and respect people who continue to try and educate people on these things because they must have the patience of a saint to not get burnt out.

EDIT: man, you guys are giving me such detailed answers that I totally don't deserve. Thank you, and sorry for my initial defeatism.

CW: drunken ramble and depressing realities

i've been spending a lot of time reading about ww1 and ww2, maybe all of that is getting to my head but surely ww3 will be so much worse. it is inevitable right? imperialist cooperation is breaking down in front of our eyes. America is effectively becoming if not aleady a fascist state. I cannot see an outcome that is not global warfare.

those wars were awful, I mean truly violence I cannot comprehend. I read about these events through an academic lense and I am so detached from the horror of them but I am horrified by the knowledge that my future is likely worse. what can we even do? are we even capable of avoiding this fate? I wonder if global socialism will be born through rubble and famine. i do not want to starve.

I am not asking for comfort, though I am not entirely sure why I am making this post. I don't want sympathy to be clear. idk. I am just reading about China's situation before communism and holy shit it was so awful. I am so seperated from the reality they experienced that I don't think I can fully fathom it.

I am sorry if this is a meaningless ramble I decided to drink tonight bc of the winter storm and I am in a crisis mode. I don't want to see my partner suffer. they deserve a better life than we are going to get. I wish a better world was possible without having to suffer so much for it but maybe that is the priviledge speaking. I dont't know how I can look her in the eyes and tell her it is worth it. I just want to escape.

I often wonder what my life would be like without these attachments. I want to give myself fully to resistance and while I am not afraid of losing my life doing so I am terrified of my loved ones suffering because of it. I don't my partner and my family to suffer because I oppose fascism. I don't want the reality of what america is to destroy the people I love. I am terrified that there is no hope for this place. i don't want to be executed in the streets but I can't not act. the more a learn about the past the more terrified I am of the future.

I am glad I found hexbear and I am glad ti changed my perspective on the world but holy shit have I suffered for it. fascism is terrifying but I can't not act against it. I am only putting this in doomer because it feels wrong for main or chat.

I've already asked that question on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, so I had to ask it again here in this Lemmy community.

This is the warmest winter in 40 years, 50-60% snowpack, and we're the headwaters for a good chunk of US agriculture. All of the seasonal cycles are so off that nature thinks it's 2-3 months ahead or behind what it should be. The weather this month is normal for April. I was sipping my coffee this morning while looking at the drought-parched landscape and thinking about the impending catastrophic fire season. My phone sent me one of those stupid autogenerated photo collages. It's of how different winters were just a few years ago.

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I'm so tired of feeling like I'm "crazy" because no one around me can realize that the US is not "on its way to becoming" Nazi Germany, but is in fact already Nazi Germany. I'm so tired of my history of psychosis making me think "Maybe I'm not the only one who can see clearly" as that's usually a red flag for me. I wish I could just close my eyes and be a lib again, but that's not healthy or useful. Besides, I don't think I can close my eyes. But I have a significant disability, so what can even do? I barely work now, and probably won't for much longer, so it seems organizing would be largely ineffective. Relying on government benefits, I'm just next in line for slaughter. Another voice disappearing into the void. I'm just so tired.

like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don't know. What can you even say to people who don't understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about it?

Am I overreacting? Is this too blackpilled? It genuinely seems like this is a very dark potent, especially at this nexus of heightened contradictions

"Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as "a very, very, very high strike threshold."

I was going to effort post, but I will just say that this shit truly makes it feel like the world is ending. It’s wild how each day is worse than the last as they continue to force it into anything and everything, and genuinely the only way I can find peace is to spend as much time offline as possible. At this juncture though, it seems almost impossible :/

I am thankfully getting better and socializing more irl. It's just I can't help but feel social media is a fucking poison. The only good experience I got was on fucking RedNote. Every western social media is poisoned to the brim with racism and chud shit.

It's just It feels like you can't really ever touch grass. Internet and irl are interconnected now and there's nothing much one can do about It. Feeling like I'm learning to socialize from scratch.

Climate Collapse Satire for us all.

This is why Venezuela and Greenland are the two sides of the same coin. It's not just me saying this. It's none other than Macron saying it as well (no matter how

I need some help

Of course Amerikkka killed another innocent person point blank today, on video with no ambiguity. Of course the chuds are celebrating and the libs are doing nothing and I'm sitting here at work on 10 total hours of sleep over the last two days watching everyone around me not care at all. Or maybe they all just hide it better?

IDK man it feels like my whole life is just leading up to me doing something horrible to some people who deserve it and then ending myself. And no one cares. And I know what will happen as the chuds will call me a fat ass and libs will say "Epstein" and there will just be new ghouls to replace the old ones.

How do I numb myself to stop caring so damn much? I swear I can't do this anymore

Posting here instead of c/traaaans because of how depressing it is.

I deconverted a while ago, yea. And part of that was letting go of the idea of anything else after this. It took a while but I was more or less fine with it, idk. But then I realized I'm trans. I have realized how much pain my body causes me. And a lot of things just aren't fixable. Its shit and going to be shit. My body doesnt match what it is supposed to be. My voice. Obviously being treated like shit. And that's just it. My life forever. Forever tormented by all the things that cause me dysphoria I can't change. And then I die and I'm gone. I've been struggling with this for a year+ at this point. I distinctly remember some very nice people, mostly early on in this, tell me I was grieving and would eventually accept it. But I haven't. I can't. I don't even think its better. My one life I was born wrong and will suffer for all of it because of that. I can't move to acceptance. My whole life, body, all of it is wrong and cant be fixed and then I'll die and thats it.

Deliberately very light on specific dysphorias because I fear people will invalidate me.

created a climate collapse satire channel for us collapsniks

I messaged everyone I know locally today to try and get a band of even 2-3 people to just hold up a sign at an intersection or something in response to what is happening with Venezuela. Not one person would go with me. I emailed my local DSA weeks ago to prepare for things and never got a response from them either.

It's short notice so I didn't have huge expectations, but I know some of these people aren't busy. They just don't care anymore. Got burnt out over the last couple years.

So tomorrow I'll be out alone. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but fuck.

Logically people have said this is the desperation of a dying empire, but from my experience reality doesn't follow logic. It just follows whatever benefits the U.S. and Israel the most.

What's next? Iran falls overnight, allowing Israel to kill the resistance through attrition? Seems more likely than ever.

2026 looking like the year of "U.S. and Israel enacting their 5d chess master plans to systematically eliminate their enemies one by one once and for all"

I bet in 2027 the U.S. and Israel discover the secret to immortality or ascend to godhood or something.

Woke up this morning to 4000 spam emails and that someone had bought and redeemed a £100 amazon gift card on my account.
The annoying part is that I recently had some of my gaming accounts hacked so I'd already changed all of my passwords.
I've had 2FA on everything since forever, but apparently it's all just security theatre 'cause it seems there was no obstacle to them doing this.
Guess I'll try getting amazon to reimburse it but I have terrible luck

edit: amazon said fuck no lol
edit 2: I've been refunded

No college degree. Massive gap in my resume (years). FUCKING TRANSGENDER. Fucking beginning of my transition, I look awful, I sound awful, and I have no actual reason for someone to hire me. My CIS friends with NO GAPS, STUDYING are getting turned down for retail jobs. Jobs at car washes. WHAT FUCKING HOPE DO I HAVE?? And I'm moving so I have to quit at my current job. I'll have good references, my previous employers have all loved me, and I technically have a bit of a nicer position for my resume now but still. I'm fucking cooked. And I desperately need a job bc no SO and I need to move out. Parents are going to be unbearable when I have to come out.

Call me a liberal, but I can’t keep derailing threads about this and fully address it in a post on its own. I am worried all the progress we have made is down the toilet and the right’s now the one advancing and winning year by year.

I get it, we’ve been in the minority opinion before like with gay rights. As doom and gloom as it looks, there is no denying that things have gotten better. And even during the aughts backlash times of the “anti-PC tirade”, being progressive still felt avant-garde and more sophisticated than being a chud. Some of that energy eventually manifested into Obama (as much of a fraud he was, even when I was a kid it was still awesome seeing him win.)

Now I feel like it’s the inverse. Not only are we losing these cultural battles, but I feel fogey being a non-CHUD. CHUDs are highly praised everywhere and thanks to the internet, CHUDs have been able to make their own Hollywood alternative and their own cultural institutions to build real soft power.

I would love to know of any possible signs of hope this little golden age of chuddery will be short-lived and we’re making some small wins. I would also love to know how the rest of y’all keep on trucking.