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minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThe US is masquerading as what‽ Is anyone actually buying that?
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWell of course, as long as the US has halfway working elections, it’s technically not an empire. So it’s well hidden, if it really is one.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHaving elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agooh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders
minus-squareaeshna_cyanea@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoBro it’s literally still a monarchy. The monarch just hasn’t been in charge since like, 1689. The british empire absolutely functioned as a parliamentary democracy
minus-squareLinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoLots of people, unfortunately
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoNobody in the long list of countries bombed or regime changed by them.
The US is masquerading as what‽ Is anyone actually buying that?
Well of course, as long as the US has halfway working elections, it’s technically not an empire. So it’s well hidden, if it really is one.
Having elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example
oh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders
Bro it’s literally still a monarchy. The monarch just hasn’t been in charge since like, 1689. The british empire absolutely functioned as a parliamentary democracy
Lots of people, unfortunately
Nobody in the long list of countries bombed or regime changed by them.