As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and embracing exclusionary nationalism to exploit its underclass.
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Spain also had to go through a round of fascism before their empire fell, right? So everything’s going on track for the american empire to fall by 2050, I’d say.
Man, i hope we can fast track that, i don’t want my life to be practically over before things get less soul crushingly awful.
Not really. They lost most of the empire in the early C19 then spent the next century+ murdering each other until Franco was the last man standing
Rise of oligarchs, control of every aspect of life, regular people getting poorer, rich getting richer, domestic violence is accepted while LGBT people are prosecuted because they were born LGBT? Russia did that long time ago, and maybe it’s poor and there are no perspectives outside few very big cities, corruption is very high, but it will not collapse any time soon. Imperialism is shit, but combined with militarism it can last very long time.
I hope that people in USA and other countries like Russia and so on, that are under living under right wing oligarchs, can be free and will be free.
