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Americans are winners as were the Brits before them. History will always favor the winner. The only practical lesson out of this sad story and countless others
by euix 6y ago
Americans are winners as were the Brits before them. History will always favor the winner. The only practical lesson out of this sad story and countless others through history is: learn to be strong and so you can be a winner.
- croes 6y agoLearn from history. Every empire falls.
- hindsightbias 6y agoThe Roman, Pandyan and Byzantine Empires had pretty good runs.
- croes 6y agoStill fallen
- euix 6y agoTrue, but we live relative to the lifespan of an empire. A person born in 1842 in China would have lived only known a falling empire his whole life. A person born in 1945 in America will only know an ascendant one. The "long run" of our lives are much shorter, we don't wait around to get satisfaction that empires fall or "justice" gets done, however you define that. If we live in the era of one victor over another then that's reality for us.
- 082349872349872 6y agoLearn to mind your own business, and you can have brotherly love, can have five hundred years of democracy and peace, and then get unjustly blamed for the cuckoo clock.