Fucking grim. This is kind of the final fall of any concessions the capitalists made to the proletariat in the face of the existence of the USSR and the threat of socialism at home. They’ve decided we’re not a threat and there’s no need to placate us. This isn’t even a case necessarily of making the line go up by stripping the copper out of the walls as most people with money will subscribe to a streaming service or cable anyways, as it’s free. It’s paid for with unlimited US dollars which can be expended at no meaningful cost. Next up libraries I’m sure. We’re going back to workhouses. And I can’t help but feel some of this is part of a push to have an uneducated, indoctrinated, poor, desperate population that can be pressed without much resistance into signing up for war with China as a soldier as a chance to escape the spiral of poverty and pain. And as I’ve said I don’t think the war with China will be anything but a world war. It won’t be US troops marching into China. It will be US troops attacking the Sahel states and toppling them to install a comprador loyal to western capital. It will be them doing piracy on the high seas against Chinese shipping under an “embargo” and fighting the PLA there if they resist. It will be a wide-ranging conflict that could be low or high intensity.