Flutterby™! : idiot train to moronsville

I mean, the whole thread, but Peter ‪@notalawyer.bsky.social‬

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

But as the thread goes through specifics, like Joel‬ ‪@polyparadigm.bsky.social‬

“They re-directed their natural disaster response teams into the pogrom corps, and removed all age limits, even before anyone had invaded.” ‪ and JoyousPanther‬ ‪@joyouspanther.bsky.social‬

They blew up the weather satellites because they showed climate change was real.

We get past the specifics and into the culture, and I suspect that this is broadly applicable to lots of collapses: Suz from Aotearoa‬ ‪@suezana.bsky.social‬

I think the people who are not in the USA have a totally different idea for why it will collapse.

Mine are racism, Sexism, hate of others, religous intolerance , USA exceptionalism, greed & lust. But mostly massive overspending on military & reliance on bullying others through military means."