Damus
Dissident Sound · 3w
SoCal has the best weather in US they just happen to be past their prime as a state if i was going to assign cities / states a human biological age equivalent i would say US - 70 Russia - 50 China...
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Interesting. It implies that the cycle can start over though. Because China in the 20th century would have been 80+ on that scale, with the political system getting so weak that it exploded into civil war. And it didn't really begin ascent until the 1980s with Dengism slowly turning it into a powerful state again.

But that's a round trip that took over 100 years. Which is why I am not optimistic about the prospects for the USA. It would not begin to start over until long after we are dead (if ever). But at least there are some local areas that are better than others.
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Dissident Sound · 3w
well let's look at Russia and Ukraine - both went through USSR collapse where things were really bad but eventually Russia was reborn while Ukraine ultimately ended up more fucked than it ever was ... imagine being in Ukraine in the 80s, looking around, seeing that things SUCK and saying let's acce...