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People have been convinced of that my entire life, and I'm old now.
by laughing_man 7mo ago
People have been convinced of that my entire life, and I'm old now.
- vincnetas 7mo agoyes it takes multiple generations until empires collapse. even then there are remains left. usa will not disappear it will just become less relevant.
- sph 7mo agoDreaming of the day where the average non-American doesn't know who the US attorney general is, the name of their secretary of war, and the details of every internal political machination.
- 9dev 7mo agoI recommend dreaming of they day they don't have a secretary of war but defence again
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 7mo agoI don't mind the name change because it more correctly signals what the position has always been -- a secretary of war with a "secretary of defense" mask on.
- laughing_man 7mo agoYou say that, but the world has been a relatively peaceful place since the US became the world's only superpower. The "multi-polar" world the Europeans are always dreaming about could very well be one in which much of Europe looks like Ukraine today.
- brazukadev 7mo agoA lot of English people still have issues accepting they are not a world super power anymore.
- californical 7mo agoMy parents refused to digitize their precious memories stored in VHS tapes. We’ve watched them every few years, and whenever I’be tried to convince them to digitize the tapes, my dad says “oh we’ve been hearing about vhs tapes degrading forever now, it still works” Meanwhile the video fades more and more every few years, you can barely even make out faces and objects in the frames now. But it’s happened so slowly that he never really realized that it was happening all along
- chronc6393 7mo ago> People have been convinced of that my entire life, and I'm old now. People in the UK still think they are the #1 superpower today