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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

I'm more and more convinced of the theory that Imperial decline is accelerated because only its builders understood it properly, the successors genuinely believe the justifications given by the builders and thus self-sabotage it. What a timeline.

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Here is a comment of mine from two days ago:

"We're not doing anything.

The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past's bullshit and took power.

Now it just burns because it burns"

We're in lockstep in our thinking about this

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

So far it's the explanation that makes the most sense, though I don't discount the possibility of being part of a genuine purpose.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Less of a purpose than the logical conclusion of late capitalism becoming fascism.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yep I have made basically the exact same argument for years. It has been decades in the making.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you can't teach your kids to be as nasty as you

also this is why China needs a Xi Jingping/Deng Xiaoping AI

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