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So Trumps directly challenging the seperation of powers by attcking judges.
Fuck Yeah. Fascism!
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38872680
appeal rejected
Fuck Yeah. Fascism!
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38872680
appeal rejected
Ffs you don't even have any idea what the term "fake news" actually means
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/auguste-bartholdi.htm
But please tell us why you know more about the statue of liberty than the fucking National Park Service, the agency that's responsible for the monument.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/auguste-bartholdi.htm
But please tell us why you know more about the statue of liberty than the fucking National Park Service, the agency that's responsible for the monument.
From the context of history, studied over centuries, all empires, ancient and modern, despotic and beneficent have come to an end. Great powers, superpowers and even hyperpowers have eventually lost their position of preeminence. So it is not unreasonable to predict that the same will eventually happen to today’s hyperpower USA.
However, given that the world is far more connected, interdependent etc., than any other time in history, it is plausible that the rest of the world will eventually rise more rapidly than the USA, and this may feel like a decline of USA (i.e. we could see a decline in relative standards, but not in absolute standards). It is plausible that we will see a world more united and equal than ever before in history, with democratization of knowledge, commerce and opportunity being a key driver.
However, given that the world is far more connected, interdependent etc., than any other time in history, it is plausible that the rest of the world will eventually rise more rapidly than the USA, and this may feel like a decline of USA (i.e. we could see a decline in relative standards, but not in absolute standards). It is plausible that we will see a world more united and equal than ever before in history, with democratization of knowledge, commerce and opportunity being a key driver.
In terms of economic power it's only a matter of time before China overtakes them (they've done it with total GDP PPP already, but that's not saying that much).
Political power...I'd say it's insanely difficult to predict. Mostly because there's no one to really take over hegemony, the only candidate is China and they have no real interest in seeing the US fail, they're way too mutually dependent on each other economically.
Of course US hegemony is bound to end at some point, but I don't think anyone can credibly predict whether that will be in the next decade or two, or rather in a century.
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Dan Carlin's stuff isn't bad, but he still places narrative above all. His material is really well sourced and all, but it still pushes a particular side of the story, and especially when it comes to something as complex as the downfall of the Roman empire, there are a lot of perspectives of equal value.
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True as well.
Political power...I'd say it's insanely difficult to predict. Mostly because there's no one to really take over hegemony, the only candidate is China and they have no real interest in seeing the US fail, they're way too mutually dependent on each other economically.
Of course US hegemony is bound to end at some point, but I don't think anyone can credibly predict whether that will be in the next decade or two, or rather in a century.
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Dan Carlin's stuff isn't bad, but he still places narrative above all. His material is really well sourced and all, but it still pushes a particular side of the story, and especially when it comes to something as complex as the downfall of the Roman empire, there are a lot of perspectives of equal value.
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True as well.
Guess you know more about this than me tbh 
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@king Ale
http://www.espn.com/olympics/wrestling/story/_/id/18623475/iran-says-ban-us-wrestling-team-lifted
Don't know those two, but will check them out.
Had a bad introduction to Carlin too, first thing I of him I listened to was his WWI podcast, and he started off with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but...in his story of the assassination there were quite a few things that were simply wrong, like that sandwich myth.
Had a bad introduction to Carlin too, first thing I of him I listened to was his WWI podcast, and he started off with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but...in his story of the assassination there were quite a few things that were simply wrong, like that sandwich myth.
