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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > The US should just give up and be an empire already.
Should the US just go for it and become an empire?
Yes! 1000 years of 'Murica!
No. forcing democracy on people is a contradiction.
Lurk Moar before you post, Applewhite.
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SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

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THe united states already is an empire, just not in the way you think of them (rome, britain). It's an "economic" empire. A "cultural" empire.

why would we bother conquering militarily to take what we are already getting through other means. War can be a way to make money and it can be a way to waste money. Usually it's a waste of money (50% of the time at least, i.e. people lose wars)

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SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

drat americans are poo poo at history.

we already control the EU, we have the middle east set up to make our war machine make us money every year for the next two centuries and we outright just own like half the important countries in the world. even our debtors cant touch us because they'll go broke without us around to pay them back

the american empire is about as good as its ever been right now

Not "us": the rich are the only ones getting rich off of the political industrial military complex. Everyone else basically suffers from the wars.

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