We need socialism
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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More like the roman empire.
Why did the Romans fail? Lets see... Uh no, ohh no, wtf this has so much in common.
Nevermind, history doesn't like copypasta, let's keep the first one and forget about USA.
Why did the Romans fail?
I remember learning that the Romans fell because they were too gay and debauched and woke, so they lost their manly vigors.
Nevermind, history doesn’t like copypasta
I suppose its worth noting that the Roman Empire lasted centuries (millennia, if you see the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire as a continuation of Roman history). The UK is more comparable than the US, which flourished after WW1 and made it barely a century before fumbling.
But also, the book is hardly closed on the US as an empire. China, India, Persia, Rome, France... they all had their ups and downs.
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Hitler invaded Poland to plunder the country to stave off another impending economic collapse of Germany, thanks to his runaway excessive government spending. In that sense, he was distracting the Germans from being revealed on how bad of an administrator he was. Trump invaded Venezuela and wants to annex Greenland to distract people from the fact that he is a pedophile. And that's a helluva weirder reason to go to war for distraction...
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