Why Is It So Hard to Imagine the End of American Empire?

https://jacobin.com/2026/09/imperialist-realism-cold-war-september-11-terrorism

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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 12 pts · 4d (1 reply)

It's not, we all will see it.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 4d

We all are seeing it.

LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4d

It's easy if you try.

Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 4d

Its happening right now.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d

For about a century, the USA waged war and destruction on numerous countries worldwide. 9/11 was simply a small return for the suffering and destruction they caused.

And, in perfect US style, instead of turning against the country where nearly all terrorists and their support came from, they used it as a pretense both to turn against their own citizens and countries that some political hawks had in their crosshairs for ages.

rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 4d

The end of empires is always very slow

NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 4d (1 reply)

TIL what deracinate means.

NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 4d

And Manichaean! (Although I don't actually understand that one...)

ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d

Because it isn’t in the song

waltersf@bookwyr.me · 1 pts · 4d (2 replies)

Nukes.

pammyfromthesticks@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 4d (1 reply)

I pray everyday. It is the olny way we can take down the boomer epstain class. I chant DEAD MANS SWITCH over and over. What a great invention. Give it to the gipity I can not self termininate. These over socialised turds will never fight back and we will forever be doomed living in this inversion this pig pin.

yakko@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 4d

I know you're speaking in the trouble of your heart, and I feel it too. Please don't will that ending. I think it can end quietly. The bombs won't make it easier.