Garbagio comments on Why Is It So Hard to Imagine the End of American Empire?

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

Buddy, I don't think you know what an empire means. Empire doesn't mean "the citizenry have resources," it means everybody kowtows to our political interests. You wanna know how fuckin big the American empire is? When covid hit, half of Europe still hadn't fully recovered from OUR housing market crash in 2008. Not just half the world, half of the economic bloc that we treat as "equals." You can't bridge "The US isn't an empire because their people don't have healthcare" and "Why does every country turn a blind eye when the US does X."

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

I'm not your buddy and yes I am more than familiar with the term empire.And no, I'm not talking about healthcare although that would be one of the points. Most countries have better infrastructure both in energy and public infrastructure like trains, or public transport in general, better social security, better education, better life work balance.

Clearly you've taken the 'Fuck America Yeah' copium.

Mate I don't care about the US at all nor does anyone who lives in my country. Americans are so delusional that the think they have any impact. The only impact they have now is the increase in fuel prices because of the non-war that they are losing.

Luckily the country I live in now (a genuine ancient empire BTW) , there is little impact thanks to investment in green energy, EV's, nuclear energy and overall innovation and no dependancy on anything US. Actually my current country, would bring the US to its knees financially, but yeah, keep waving the flag 'buddy'. The only thing the US is good at, is bullying.

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