Zelensky… why are you doing this?

Everybody’s a racist, it’s just to what degree. Just like everybody’s a hypocrite.

I can only hope that you are right.

The same vibes can lead to feeling on board with mass deportation.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

If by minority you mean <50%, then yes. But given how many people voted for Trump, the percentage could be substantially higher than 20%.

The rest of the world will be watching, so there will be sufficient documentation.

Good question. Would South Africa accept the refugees?

It’s going to be fun seeing the administration trying to come up with a legal definition of white and hearing the outcry of MAGAists who suddenly discover they aren’t “white”.

If it’s collapse, I hope it will be well documented, so that the world learns from it. It could quell all the right-wing rhetoric world-wide if the US collapsed from such a stunt.

The EU is already doing its best to attract scientists from the US, so if you’re educated, you might have good chances, especially if you’re willing to learn a new language. Probably you could get your family into the EU too.

I honesly don’t know where the Black American population is gonna go. I mean, the continent of Africa has been divided so much by European colonialization, that its very hard to track back to an ancestry origin.

This is one thing I’m kinda hopeful about actually. The continent is really large and spreading out 100 million people across it could work out quite well. Black culture is already pretty popular in parts of Africa, and Black women in the US are the biggest group of people getting degrees, if I’m not mistaken. It could be massive brain drain from the US to the advantage of African countries.

Also the world could be at risk, since the US would end up as a war zone… Imagine the KKK or other neo-nazi groups gaining access to a nuclear silo…

Indeed. I do wonder how quickly they’d go from “we’re the best, we don’t need y’all” to “alright, give us everything you got!”.

I’m at the point where I am leaning more and more into the “just burn it all down and start over” side of things.

FPTP is probably the biggest problem, IMO. If there were proportional representation in the senate and house of representatives with ranked choice voting, some instant run-off for single-winner elections, the US would probably look very different. Of course things like restricting presidential powers, and disconnecting the judiciary from political influence would do something too, but the aforementioned things would probably do more.

Wouldn’t surprise me if the MAGA crowd considered itself as “native” and conveniently ignored the indigenous population completely, just like bible thumpers believe “dinosaurs were put here to test us” and that the world is 9000-15000 years old. My guess: they’ll say “American Indians --> Indians --> India”. It’s the most simplistic thing I could think of.

It doesn’t seem like ICE has problems with that at the moment.

If the current US administration had to do it, my bet is the family guy meme

Given the simplistic way the current administration thinks, it wouldn’t surprise me if a visual color-test / race card were implemented.

Thinking about what the current US president and his lackeys might have as an endgoal is racist? OK. Be unprepared then.

Having guaranteed buyers for your product is great for China. As long as the war goes on, they will be able to sell their goods to Russia at a price they see fit. They can saddle Russia with insane debt like a developing country. It could be very interesting to see Chinese be taught as the first foreign language in Russia as part of a deal.

Hopefully though, Western powers (and the US) will be able to supply enough to end the war or at least push back the Russians and secure the original borders. I do wonder just when that could happen.

There’s a nice middle, which we’re getting out of right now. People were dumb, but not too dumb. Now they are becoming too dumb thanks to social media, worse education, and other influences.

However my personal and of course anecdotal experience is that if your policies are well chosen and your theories grounded in research and even well informed common sense it’s much easier to lead smart, well educated people

That requires a lot more work and the most likely outcome is that right-wing, neo-liberal, and conservative policies will be much less likely to be the default.

For the simple reason that planes are subsidised.

“Battles”. They don’t really care, come on now. If they cared, they’d be educating people, but they need a dumb populace in order to control them more easily.