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It's very obvious that 
is circling the drain now, but clearly this didn't just happen in a vacuum. It must've started crumbling at some point... but when?
Some people might say it started after 9/11, others might say it goes back to the Raegan administration. A few might even say it started after losing the Vietnam War, or when they went off the gold standard. Or maybe even earlier...
What do you think? 
The US is threatening to decline, just showing a few cracks in the armor. It isn't quite there yet. While American life is getting worse, that has never been the measure of American Empire. It is domination and contol. Most countries still do whatever the US pressures them to do, imperialism is alive and well, its dog in the Middle East hasn't been crushed despite doing genocide. The US is in the process of cannibalizing the EU and they're gladly handing themselves over.
There is still a struggle against the empire and we must support it.
BRICS is a pretty big removed in the armor. The next few years as they establish themselves is going to be interesting
Context-independent no-no word filters are such fucking crap
I kinda think they're hilarious and have considered manually typing removed as a bit but it always seems problematic
Thing is, if you make them context dependent to handle common cases like Sremovedhorpe you open the door to just abusing the filter. So there's definitely a balance point between too sensitive and too forgiving.
I wouldn't put too much stake in BRICS, however it is a definitive sign that things are slowly shifting away from imperial control