• Diurnambule@jlai.lu
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    8 months ago

    So are you trying to make him say what he didn’t say because your butthurt ?

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          8 months ago

          One, no empire is “great,” they all suck donkey dick, that’s the definition of an empire, two, the meme specifically states “most powerful.”

          America is objectively the most powerful empire to ever exist, just as the British were more powerful than the Romans.

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            8 months ago

            i think the only thing keeping china from taking that top slot is reach and the use of the dollar worldwide. both of those are collapsing. the US might not be the biggest asshole on the planet for much longer

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              Eh… don’t count on it. China has some significant weaknesses. In the short term, economic growth has slowed significantly. Debt in the private and public sector is having consequences, both in the housing market and elsewhere. In the longer term, China is aging at a faster rate than the US, both due to a low birth rate and immigration rates that are virtually nonexistent compared to the US. China’s GDP is outpacing the US for now, but it’s an open question how long that pace will last.

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              Yeah, instead we’ll get a nation that treats North Korean workers so poorly they riot and execute the management.

              Good times for humanity ahead…

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                  That America’s actually work tip the scales, along with having a military not made of meat grinder slaves and eighty year old Soviet tanks. Plus, you know, a real navy and air force.

                  And while modern France and peers could indeed no diff the Romans or Victorian Britain, only America and Russia have enough nukes to kill the world (go us!)

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        I just wouldn’t call it an empire, that’s all. I’m not a historian but to me, empires are made by occupying other countries.

        The US is a powerful nation of course, but they don’t have the same focus on conquest as the other countries throughout history have had.

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            8 months ago

            That would be interesting, to compare the land mass of the US with the max size of the Roman empire. My guess is that the romans would win by a hair.

            But the Brits would definitely win because they have Australia, which is almost as big as the continental US just in itself, let alone all the other countries they conquered.