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  • R (Guest) roger:
    but you could probably find a masonic lodge, another zombie org in most areas
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    its not lol
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    yeah
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    you barely have the VFW, Lions' Club, Elk's club, hanging on by a thread
    we've got local chapters here of lions and elks (i think they are called chapters?), just went to look em up on google, and theres a schizo google review on the elks club about how it is a satanic freemason organization
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    have you been to a church lately? they're not all packed full
    the last time i have been in a church was when i was like 11 years old
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    some are but nothing like it used to be
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    have you been to a church lately? they're not all packed full
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    why do to chruch? i can stream netflix and order grubhub?
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the temptation is too strong
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    but the comfort and ease of staying home, and being constantly inundated to pleasure and entertainment anytime, anywhere
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    what communal organizations are thriving these days?
    i'm not christian, but i would imagine the only immediately available source of community right now would be a local church
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    i don't think social media is exclusively to blame
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
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    i find it very interesting how social media has caused widespread political polarization and radicalization of millions

    and i cant help but find humor and enjoyment in the results, because i dont know how to cope with this reality
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the ones that remain are hallowed out husks
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    all the civic organizations that formed the bedrock of communities in the 20th century are all but dead
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    boy scounts are dead
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    you barely have the VFW, Lions' Club, Elk's club, hanging on by a thread
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    i find it very interesting how social media has caused widespread political polarization and radicalization of millions
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    what communal organizations are thriving these days?
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    that's nearly complete
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    i find myself mostly interested in the "social" collapse side of things
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    i don't have a crystal ball, though
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    hegemony of the West*
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    but for the hegemony if West as a whole, the dominance of the dollar for international settlement and trade, and the excesses that come along with that... that is going to come to an end
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the situtation will be different for everyone, depending on where they are
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    when people lose faith in institutions that's just what happens
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    over the long term? complete economic, social, and societal collapse
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    what do you think is going to be the end result?
    may i ask what you believe will be the end result?
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    if i'm going to live in a cyberpunk dystopia, i want to see it and feel it and experience it all
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    no, and i'm pretty thankful for that. but there is a fucked up part of me that wants to
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    do you live in the city, in the USA?
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    if you believe that to be the case, then you should prepare accordingly
    i'm not talking like, all out civil war, but we are likely going to see a lot more isolated incidents like mass shootings and riots and the like
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    if you believe that to be the case, then you should prepare accordingly
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    capitalism will always exist in some form or another
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    what do you think is going to be the end result?
    mass-scale civil conflict and unrest, unironically
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    it's not merely economic
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    i think we've probably got a long way to go before we see the end of capitalism, but i am not known for being optimistic
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    what do you think is going to be the end result?
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    we're basically reaching end-stage soviet union levels of propaganda and all-time-low trust in institutions
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the atomization of the people
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the lack of community
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the constant saturation of electronics
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the whole empty vacuous consumerist culture
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    what "system" are you speaking of? like, the internet as it is now?
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    you probably understand, you seem like a sharp person... this system... the one we're currently experiencing, it's not going to last forever
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    i might take up fentanyl addiction as a hobby because that seems probably the best way to meet new people IRL
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    roger said:
    the future is in meat-space friend
    true but nobody wants to be friends anymore
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the internet, even at its 'best' is alienating
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  • ninturez0 @ ninturez0ninturez0's icon:
    there seems to be a large amount of people that want to move away from normie social media back to message boards etc,. but they never actually do it
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  • R (Guest) roger:
    the future is in meat-space friend
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