• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Yeah, it took a plague, real shit winter, famine, mass migration invasions and many civil wars. US has a long way to go to reach that point.

    Historians might look at this point in time and say “Trump’s second presidency severely weakened the dollar. This had the knock on effects to make borrowing more expensive which made it harder to maintain their public expenses. Their issue was that the army always eats first, the people get the rest. No bread and games was ultimately the downfall.”

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      23 hours ago

      Dont down play what damage trump and musk will do like that. Its like trying to tell the people its better to be occupied by the nazi rather then have crazed conmie rusians ransack and rape their way through europe.

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        12 hours ago

        Not trying to downplay what Trump and Musk are doing. They’re eroding democracy and turning the US from a mid-level oligarchy to a full oligarchy like Russia has now. I’m talking strictly about the downfall of US global hegemony in the global world order.

        Rome took centuries to fall and it’s likely that the US will also need a similar amount of time.