# Resolved: America is a dystopian shithole. Also, leopard hijacks

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**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-america-is-a-dystopian-shithole-also-leopard-hijacks/1022330 "2025-08-20T17:47:20Z")
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### Author: ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-america-is-a-dystopian-shithole-also-leopard-hijacks/1022330/100 "2025-08-21T13:25:11Z")

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I don’t think the US is a dystopian shithole, but we sure as hell are heading that way. We are probably heading towards economic collapse as well as the social and political collapse that is already well underway.

The federal government is sending armed men to the streets, masked men to kidnap innocents, and subpoenaing the private medical records of people guilty of bad thoughts. (At the moment, kids treated for transgender conditions.) The courts are allowing the privacy of the census, social security, etc. to be breached. Political opposition is being made illegal.

> [@Texas State Representative Nicole Collier is now a political prisoner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-state-representative-nicole-collier-is-now-a-political-prisoner/1022249):
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> I just saw on Rachael Maddow on MSNBC that Texas State Representative Nicole Collier is being held as a political prisoner in the Texas State House, because she won’t sign a GOP “consent decree” to have Texas law enforcement “accompany” her 24 hours a day, subject to arrest at any time. The Texas GOP has done this to all other Texas House Democrats as well. This is outrageous!

We are also picking stupid fights with as many other countries as Trump can keep track of.

Fwiw, i have nicer stuff than my European friends, but they have nicer lives, and that’s been true for years.

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