• SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Why, 'cause only America should get to stomp on the rest of the planet for fun?

    • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Oh, Americans shitting the bed and losing global hegemon is a great thing. But I'm not sure they think the same, and I consider them fully capable of taking the world down with them out of spite.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        Those of us born in the sweaty butt-print of Babylon itself have some people to save, then.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        I don't know. Maybe 20 years ago, under an embattled and desperate neoconservative government. But the current US political system seems to be focused more and more inward. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw another Bleeding Kansas or Business Plot play out in my lifetime.

        But until then, the US can lash out abroad in the moment. But Iraq/Afghanistan illustrated the extent of its staying power. I don't think we could launch Afghanistan War in 2022, purely due to the degradation of manpower. The labor shortage problem isn't confined to the private sector.