But seriously, how fucked are we?

[ColinC]

On a scale of 1(not fucked at all and everything is going to be just fine) to 10(Nazi Germany wins world War 2 and Man in the High Castle shit takes effect -but with more nuking), how seriously fucked is humanity as a direct or indirect consequence of Trump winning this election?

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. It will depend on who you are

[ColinC]

2. Im thinking in terms of the general life expectancy of

Human civilization. Not even so much the fate of an individual nation or well being of any individual group of people...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Our species will definitely continue to exist on this planet.

[peregrinus]

10. In caves

[2naSalit]

4. That's assuming...

The biosphere holds up and doesn't kill us first.

[ColinC]

5. I see this as a great response to post 3.

[Think. Again.]

6. I know, most people want to think the ecological effects won't be that bad...

...and that we'll just "adapt!" and learn "resilience!", but the changes our planetary environment will now go through will be catastrophic.

Yes, there will probably be a human animal left on earth when things calm down, but any societies we rebuild at that point will be unrecognizable from what has developed alng with us so far.

And that might be a good thing in the long run, for the human species anyway.

[flamingdem]

13. Climate disaster was going to happen regardless

but now it will happen faster.

I feel the most for other species. It is not their fault.

All the beauty in the world and a handful of ugly humans denying us our future.

[Think. Again.]

18. Yes, the definition of an "invasive species".

[highplainsdem]

7. I don't see any reason to vote in this. But I will point out that focusing on "how fucked we are" is about

as useful as sitting in a car stuck in mud and focusing on how stuck you are. Or, worse, encouraging anyone else in the car with you to just sit there and talk about how stuck you are.

[Turbineguy]

8. Knowing how fucked we are is the First Step.

[k55f5r]

9. You just brought up a memory of my survey team& I

Stuck in a mud puddle. We couldn't see the hood of the suburban - It was under the mud. Couldn't open the doors cause the mud was up to the windows. I crawled out of the back window and got on the roof and got the attention of a dozer driver - he pulled us out. We made a bucket brigade using our hardhats to wash the mud out of the engine compartment.

[ColinC]

11. So... like a 5?

[electric_blue68]

21. Wow, some story! Glad you all got out w help!

[electric_blue68]

22. I think you can do both. Acknowledge your fears, and then try to help against the coming potential, and easily first to

happen bad actions, events, etc.

[flamingdem]

12. Worried that the cabal will wreck the economy

Seems likely.

Who will I blame when I lose everything. Everyone else will be screwed as well.

Holding out hope that normal people will hold the line against madmen.

[TheKentuckian]

14. I'm not sure but I'm certain that the hole digging will hasten rather than be minimized much less

stopped and sure as hell not reversed so at least 6.5 but maybe 9ish.

[Trueblue1968]

15. Totally Fed

[moondust]

16. When half the U.S. electorate

believe that tens of thousands of provable lies in 4 years, 34 felony convictions, two impeachments, an attempted coup d'état, at least 26 accusations of sexual assault, six bankruptcies, and on and on and on are not disqualifying for the highest public office in the land?

[electric_blue68]

19. It's not "half the electorate" when around 30% of Eligible voters didn't vote.

We're screwed just the same, though.

[moondust]

23. Okay then...half the voting public.

Which does not include the non-voting public.

[Xavier Breath]

17. To paraphrase a line from an episode of Roseanne that has stuck with me for all of these years:

We are so beyond fucked that it would take the light from 'fucked' six years to reach us.

[electric_blue68]

20. I put a "7". It sure could get to 9, or even 10.

Still, I'll try to do what I can.