skells @skells@qoto.org

@yogthos@mastodon.social time will tell, I'm sure.

Have a good evening.

@yogthos@mastodon.social i think you can make a case that the federal US will collapse, but the states will likely stick the landing to varying degrees of success

i.e. the top down governing class (you know, like the soviet and chinese communist regimes) will tumble but the regional governments will manage ok

@yogthos@mastodon.social my contention is that you're still living in the fallout of the USSR because top-down systems atrophy the political instincts of the people

the US has the juice to revitalise itself, believe it or not - try not to guzzle all the propoganda

@yogthos@mastodon.social ...and yet it fell

@yogthos@mastodon.social of course not, can't take away from your personal experience

I know many Russians who consistently deplore the Communist regime; those who spent their entire life under it, are particularly against the USSR.

to draw a line under the debate, I have no doubt that China does a great many things better than the West. I suspect that there may be a Bismarck effect going on, where contradictions are being swept under the rug to the detriment of the political health of the country in the long term (see, Germany, Russia for historical precedents)

I'm ill informed and receiving propaganda from both sides so I agree that I have limited ability to make a call. But please don't imagine that China has circumvented the dangers of power and governance because *Communism* when historically it has such a poor track record.

@yogthos@mastodon.social it was developed in a lab run by the head of bioweapons for the PLA, don't give me shit about responsiblity lol

@yogthos@mastodon.social where in the USSR?