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Written by Charlie Stross on 2025-01-23 at 10:44

Thought for the week ahead:

The death spasms of a dying empire are ugly and dangerous. Also, they look very far away for a very long time until suddenly they're all around you.

All my plans for the future are now as provisional as they should have been in February 2020 ...

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Written by Cavyherd on 2025-01-23 at 10:53

@cstross

In some ways, the worst of it is the grief for the loss of the future I thought I was growing up into

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Written by Yvan on 2025-01-23 at 11:04

@cavyherd this, hell yes... so much of what my 80s and 90s childhood taught me to expect of the future is lost, "delayed" if one still possesses any hope... as humanity rather than collectively focussing on co-operation and progress continues to instead be bogged down in brain-dead & regressive tribalism, conflict, and pursuit of clearly insane capitalist goals at the cost of everything ... even hopes for capitalistic progress have themselves been hobbled by a kleptocratic class interested only in their own wealth. @cstross

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Written by Noodlemaz on 2025-01-23 at 11:30

@yvan @cavyherd @cstross yes, this. I grew up a citizen of the EU with rights associated with that that I took for granted. Travel was easy, I had the option to work and move abroad relatively simply. That was taken from me.

I've watched the prospect of conflicts grow and turn into reality, and increasing destabilisation of post-war peace that was just a given, thanks to all the History.

It's a completely different, fucked up situation now. Fire and flood and meltdown, the adults never cared.

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Written by Yvan on 2025-01-23 at 11:39

@noodlemaz @cavyherd @cstross cannot hit a "like" button on that, need a "commiserate" button... from afar I watched the fall of the Berlin wall and the development of the great EU project - Europe, including the UK, was definitely a centre of hope. I moved to a UK in 2006 that I respected, a UK that was part of the EU, a country I eventually intended to settle in (and have) and become a citizen of Europe. But what I really experienced was to watch it all start to crumble, and UK citizenship become not worth the paper for anything other than a way to escape growing government hostility towards immigrants.

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