US dominance in the world has ended, inevitable imperial decline is looming
This is absolutely true. The American population is spoiled rotten and not worth a shit. It is a society that has for practical purposes a 50 % out of wedlock birth rate. A defunct subversive educational system. Is ass deep in debilitating recreational drugs. A substantial number of people who don't know whether they want to be boys or girls or something in between. That elects a cluster of vaudville entertainers as politicians. Which is now applauding psychopathology as a creative civil right. And we are importing more of the same with our immigration policies as fast as we can bring them in.
The American population is spoiled rotten and not worth a shit. It is a society that has for practical purposes a 50 % out of wedlock birth rate. A defunct subversive educational system. Is ass deep in debilitating recreational drugs. A substantial number of people who don't know whether they want to be boys or girls or something in between. That elects a cluster of vaudville entertainers as politicians. Which is now applauding psychopathology as a creative civil right. And we are importing more of the same with our immigration policies as fast as we can bring them in.
You can add overweight, lazy and don't give a shit. A bunch of parasites who brag more about scamming the system than getting a job. Who follow Hillary's lead and blame everyone but themselves for their limitations and failures. Whose self-esteem is through the roof, but don't know shit about shit.
But ... the half of the country that does work, pay taxes, and follow the law make this the baddest-ass country in the world.
A bunch of parasites who brag more about scamming the system than getting a job. .....and blame everyone but themselves for their limitations and failures. Whose self-esteem is through the roof, but don't know shit about shit.
How do you think it got that way? lies, lying to themselves through the rally round the flag education system which told them they are the best while the rest of us laughed and quietly went about our business
You can add overweight, lazy and don't give a shit. A bunch of parasites who brag more about scamming the system than getting a job. Who follow Hillary's lead and blame everyone but themselves for their limitations and failures.
what is the big deal here, the Romans lasted a thousand years, you have had a quarter of that, but then you have had more barbarians to contend with, including many more in your own country, take heart though; decline lasts a long time and remember the Russians know far more about empire than you do, theirs is very old
I think the repetition of the words I listed were the entire purpose of the article, nothing more.
The notion that America is an empire in the sense that the old tsarist empire was or that the Soviet Union was is laughable. And the CIS that replaced it is a pale shadow of what the tsars and commissars had.
I routinely condemn the drift toward an imperial presidency and the vast spread of military bases we have around the world but that is not comparable to a Roman empire or the tsarist empire or the Soviet Union.
You have to admit that Trump made a lot of people very happy with that creepy image. It's a total meme-generator. We'll be seeing that image for years to come.
You'd almost think that PDT posed with the orb just to make Alex Jones really happy.
America is an empire like was pagan Rome. Very much so!
Ancient Rome used its legions to conquer and rule provinces via appointed governors. Like Herod's family ruled Canaan/Israel. But they directly ruled them, collected taxes, conducted the Roman census (as Joseph and Mary obeyed their Roman census obligation), had Roman magistrates, conducted official business in Latin, maintained the Roman roads, built extensive aquaducts, etc.
Can you say that America does anything comparable? We generally don't conquer anyone (with a few exceptions like Iraq/Afghanistan) and, if we have bases in foreign countries, we don't rule them or tax them or conduct a census or adjudicate in their courts according to American law.
So they are not comparable. Rome directly ruled an empire. America is at most a neoliberal neocolonial superpower with huge economic and military influence.
The two are not the same or directly comparable.
If you want a closer example, the British empire would be much closer to the Roman empire but even that falls considerably short of a fair comparison.
Can you say that America does anything comparable?
Not only comparable, but uncannily similar.
If you cannot see it, you must have exceptionalists blinders on your eyes.
That would be you with jealousy. Every time we go to war it cost America huge in life and dollars. We never financially make a killing by going to war. We never own the land we conquer and we always try to leave it better if the people will allow it. Who has the blinders on?????
That would be you with jealousy. Every time we go to war it cost America huge in life and dollars. We never financially make a killing by going to war. We never own the land we conquer and we always try to leave it better if the people will allow it. Who has the blinders on?????
Is Vlad paying you to say these things? Because they're daft.
You didn't even address my salient points; you just ignored them and hoped they would go away.
No, America most certainly is not an empire in the sense that the Roman empire was. It's not even comparable to the British empire. That's not to say that we aren't doing a lot more than we should around the world but you should compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges.
You just have an ax to grind on this issue because poor Mother Russia and the weak sister (the EU) don't have the clout that America does.
It's not our fault if we are strong and the EU is weak (by choice) or Mother Russia is weak (due to longterm mismanagement and reliance on a gas-station economy in an era of falling energy prices as America ramps up to finally destroy OPEC's power over world economies).
You just have an ax to grind on this issue because poor Mother Russia and the weak sister (the EU) don't have the clout that America does.
By such statements you expose how your mind and emotions work. You do not care for truth, you care for clout, you have several axes to grind, you are bitter etc ... You have fear of being weak or inferior so you need to put down others etc ... You take your feeling of worth from identifying whith power that you are subject to or group that you belong to, etc ...
By such statements you expose how your mind and emotions work. You do not care for truth, you care for clout, you have several axes to grind, you are bitter etc ... You have fear of being weak or inferior, etc ...
Is that your lame-ass Euroweenie version of "I know you are but what about me?"?
Is that your lame-ass Euroweenie version of "I know you are but what about me?"?
Putting your complexes toward Europe aside, it is hard for you imagine that someone is REALLY interested in subject of debates, and not in his ego or gain.
$20,000,000,000,000 (TWENTY TRILLION) in federal debt and you call it fun? What the hell is your background? Another do-nothing, federal employee that sucks the teat of the American taxpayer?
I see two options - 1. multipolar world, where USA can be first among the equals, or 2. bipolar world, where USA will dominate Europe and Latin America, while China will dominate Asia and Russia. (Africa will be zone of proxy conflicts)
I think that because bipolarity is the most common for all complex structures it the most likely.
Transformation might take couple decades, best if without major war.
Obviously, you must be experienced at borrowing over or above your capabilities to pay back debt, just like these elected government monsters in Washington DC.
I see two options - 1. multipolar world, where USA can be first among the equals, or 2. bipolar world, where USA will dominate Europe and Latin America, while China will dominate Asia and Russia. (Africa will be zone of proxy conflicts)
1. multipolar world, where USA can be first among the equals, or...
We haven't heard that one in the last fifteen years, since corrupt President Chiraq and his embarrassing prime minister de Villepain descended on the United Nations (in the runup to the Iraq invasion) to explain to us benighted American clods in condescending tones that the era of America as the lone superpower (hyperpower, unipower) was over and that the EU was the new pivot man in a global Russian/Chinese circle jerk.
And it still hasn't happened.
or 2. bipolar world, where USA will dominate Europe and Latin America, while China will dominate Asia and Russia.
You'd better phone the Kremlin. I don't think Vlad would appreciate your idea that his role in history is to be China's bitch.
It's over? Already? Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
BTW, who's taking over world domination?
Islamic jihad. It has shown a remarkable resistance to change over fourteen hundred years and an uncanny abilility to feed off the weakness of other nations.
Islamic jihad. It has shown a remarkable resistance to change over Seventeen hudread years and an uncanny abilility to feed off the weakness of other nations.
Muhammed was around in the 7th century. So only around 1400 years.
Seriously, I do not want to duplicate or plagiarize, so google this:
rome america empire
No, I won't waste a google (DDG) search on it.
You never addressed the very fundamental differences in governance, central control, courts, taxes, census as I laid them out in my above post. I didn't even get to issues like citizenship by which individuals in the Roman provinces were also full Roman citizens, as was the case with Saul of Tarsus (the apostle Paul).
It's very easy to ignore that someone has pointed out that you are profoundly wrong and just insist instead that they go off on a wild goose chase via google, all so you don't have to admit that you said something stupid and unsupported by historical facts.
So, no, I won't google it for you because you're just wrong.