Sometimes I'm reminded that while I should read more articles from different perspectives, it tends to become a wasted effort. Usually
while I'm trying to read an example of said articles.
My intent was to post the first article I stumbled upon in it's own thread because it almost felt like it had an interesting perspective, until I realized that I was just reading more agitprop by leftists, for leftists.
Observe:
Sure, the idea that there won't be any specific date when everything clicks into place and the downfall is announced on every news channel is logical, but then the subtle exaggerations of the current situation became apparent.
For example, there's this comparison:
In the last three months America has lost more people than Sri Lanka lost in 30 years of civil war.
Sri Lanka had about 17 million people in 1990. There are 340 million people living in America. But hey, "there's no such thing as scale, Mario!"
And the deaths aren't evenly spread either, keeping in mind the Dems in NY and other states sacrificing their retired population for sympathy points.
As you read through more of this guy's articles (because he makes sure to post links to them, sometimes multiple links to the same one), it becomes apparent that his greatest tool is the strawman. There's the idiot chuds who like Trump, but there's also the "intellectuals" at WaPo, NYT, and CNN of all places. As though those people haven't been sounding the alarm enough about how fascists are everywhere! Somehow, only the wizened and genius immigrants who lived in countries that experienced dictatorship and ethnic strife really know what's going on!
What it also reminds me of is a prepper blog I should've spent more time reading and lost the name of. One of the contributors was a survivor of the Bosnian war, and he often pointed out the key threats his family faced like a lack of water, the need to stay with a group because lone wolves were at greater risk of dying, the importance of having even a pistol to defend yourself, etc. This all seemed to line up with what an SHTF world is like more than "normal life with increased risk of death".
Remember what I said about agitprop? What becomes apparent in this man's equivocating his time as a relatively privileged resident of Colombo during the Sri Lankan conflict is that he's gaslighting all his leftist readers who live relatively normal lives into thinking that they're actually living in the midst of a much more deadly period. Because a collapse is a collapse, even if he's trying to make it seem like your life won't always be a struggle. "Oh, you think you've got it good? Well, actually, this is creeping fascism bro! You think you already know how bad it is because you read Vox and the Daily Beast? No you stupid white liberal, let me enlighten you!"
Let me theorycraft for you some of the real aspects of an American collapse. There's going to be the struggle for food (this is a big country, and once those truckers stop their round trips, there go the cities. Or did you think your local Albertsons just teleports that stock in?) as people subsist on stale Lays chips, unheated canned ravioli, and the occasional Strange Meat pie because nobody knows how to hunt. Then there's the possibility I heard mentioned a few times on fringe blogs, the day when cops in the cities decide that they've had enough of a risky job, take their guns, and walk off to protect their families. Don't forget about some anarchists or Siege fans launching attacks on our unprotected power grid! Yeah, life won't exactly be normal when you can't make any digital transactions. Better max out your credit card on survival gear while you can. We haven't even gotten to the part
where up to half of the military deserts (you think only one side will have access to tanks? Get real.) And then there's the
Warlords...Raz has nothing on the potential strength of these people.
In other words, if this is collapse, we're not nearly as far along as this guy claims.
Things will probably get worse, but you can't absolve these leftist bloggers trying to scare liberals into desperate action by claiming the fascists are already here of the blame.
