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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The US is masquerading as what‽ Is anyone actually buying that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Lots of people, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nobody in the long list of countries bombed or regime changed by them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No I don't, not sure what you're thinking of