• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I expect this sort of stuff will make the collapse in the US far worse than it was for USSR. Car culture entirely depends on well functioning logistics. Once those start to break down then all hell is going to break loose. It’s only going to take a short disruption of food and fuel being delivered to the suburbs to make them unlivable.

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        For sure. Everything about US infrastructure is built around cars and the availability of gas. If gas becomes a luxury commodity, then the suburbs could to turn into mad max.

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          Indeed, and the whole culture of rugged individualism doesn’t really help things either. People in a socialist society like USSR were able to come together and help each other, but in the US it’s going to be dog eat dog.