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Riff McClavin's avatar

You kind of left out the entire realm of outer space as also somehow belonging to the cretins who steer American policy.

Trump inaugurated a space force headquartered right here in Colorado for that purpose with their own nifty flag for poking into extraterrestrial soil and claiming it as part of our celestial front yard, Vasco da Gama-style, no doubt sanctified by the mumbling of a few Hebrew scriptures, the admonitions of which -- like covid measures -- are meant for the rest of us to follow but noticably not them.

I'm really hoping China gets that base. If I'm going to be subjected to ancient writ, I'd much prefer it be Confucius.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Empires expand until they are stopped, and then they start declining. Usually they overreach at that point. The American Empire has already done that several times, and its decline is demonstrated to its citizens every time their car hits a pothole or another bridge collapses.

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