There are people who think Trump is smart.

“There has certainly been no piece of trade policy in my lifetime that is at this level of stupidity, right?” said Rob Gillezeau, an assistant professor of economic analysis and policy at the University of Toronto. “It’s not grounded in anything intelligent. Like, they’re kind of just like ignoring economics altogether.”
#collapse #trade #Canada #tariffs #economics #USpolitics
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html

bro see, this is exactly the problem i have with you guys lately. how often have we been thinking this in the last 40 years?

why don't you just spit it out and say that you wish for it to #collapse bc it obviously sucked for the environment? jesus christ.

and even then, systems can have multiple stable states? neo feudalism is one option for that?

Pretty interesting attempt at a minimal OS designed to run literally anywhere.

https://collapseos.org

> Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse.

especially the #collapseaware-in-bio dudebros. you know that the bigger half the globe has lived though this since the beginning of industrial imperialism? you are not special. not even close. and you still have an 5-earth-overshoot-lifestyle.

preaching living-with-less while jetting from #collapse conference to #collapse conference...

you know who lives with less? 99% of humanity. ask sub-saharan africa about that one.

Failed State watch: "In practice there will be nothing liberating about it. Over the two months since returning to the White House, Mr Trump will have brought America’s overall tariff level to its highest since the second world war, setting the country up for slower economic growth, higher inflation, more inequality and, quite possibly, fiscal trouble."
#economics #USpolitics #trade #tariffs #collapse
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/30/trumps-liberation-day-is-set-to-whack-americas-economy

though climate change grows,
seasons' rituals lull us
to think they'll repeat

Occupied Korea is facing a demographic crisis, characterized by a record low fertility rate. This is leading to a shrinking and aging population, which is expected to cause economic collapse due to a reduced workforce and depleted pension funds. The country will also struggle to maintain its essential infrastructure due to lack of workers. Socially, this may cause loneliness and cultural decline.

DPRK is learning a bit of "Do nothing. Win." technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk

I'm going to attempt to make the move again. I wonder if anyone here thinks there's more activity on Bluesky? This is a quiet place compared with Twitter! What I'd love is to have a level of debate and discussion on #ecologicalemergency and related topics #climate #biodiversity #polarisation #fragmentation #collapse and how to #mitigate

→ How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis
https://thewalrus.ca/how-i-went-undercover-to-expose-americas-nazis/

“I think #accelerationism is the most dangerous and overlooked threat facing us today. […] [I]t has never had such a widespread following in the white #supremacist community. […] What they do believe is #society will eventually #collapse, either on its own or from a man-made event, and their goal is to speed that up by sowing #chaos and #political tensions. To accelerate it.”

Today I was reading the transcript of “The Great Simplification”, a video about the hard times we will face due to overshooting Earth’s boundaries.

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/animations

I was struck by this analogy:

“Like a shark needing to swim to get oxygen flowing through its gills, our current economic system has an imperative to grow in order to satisfy prior financial commitments. We can’t stop nor can we slow down or the system will crash.”

Our problem in a nutshell.

#Deliberately #degrading #infrastructure and cutting staff will result in #systemic #failures

National #security at grave #risk

#Markets #collapse
Commerce enters #bedlam
Investors #panic

Consumer #confidence tanks

Planes #crash
Bridges collapse
Roads #crumble away

#Tainted food, water, and drugs will poison people

#Disease runs rampant

Mail will not get delivered

SSI and Medicare payments will stop

Brought to America at break neck speed thanks to #Republicans

https://www.yahoo.com/news/social-security-employee-warns-people-153300562.html

"""
The summer the fires reached the city limits. The winter when the power grids failed. The monsoon that drowned the subways. The sky turns orange, and we take photos of it. We caption it: Eerie but beautiful. We order groceries, the courier arriving in the haze, their mask the only barrier between lungs and poison. We rate the delivery five stars.
"""

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/middle-climate-apocalypse-we-really-care-9890542/

#collapse is one thing after another breaking and not getting fixed

From: @shansterable
https://ohai.social/@shansterable/114248242771543445

The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba w/ Ilan Pappe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ujQ4xk4clM

The Zionist narrative is collapsing. From Gaza’s destruction to the West’s complicity, Historian Ilan Pappé unpacks the Nakba al-mustamirra (ongoing Nakba), Israeli genocide, and the urgent need for global solidarity to challenge apartheid and safeguard human rights. What does this mean for the future of Palestine—and the world?

What a bunch of morons...

#DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA #Codebase in Months, #Risking Benefits and System #Collapse

"Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in #COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening..."
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

Antonio Turiel (in English) "Abandon All Hope: Dire Times for Europe" https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/03/29/abandon-all-hope-dire-times-for-europe/ #MAGA #EU #collapse #RearmEurope #energy #resources