Comment on Are we living through the end of an empire?

Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• radroot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Or maybe even the 1770s

  Still, got a funny feeling these days

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  • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ted Kazinsky made some very good points.

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  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    We got awfully close in the 1860’s

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• Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  HP Lovecraft believed the West was being destroyed in the '20s.

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Christians have believed the rapture would happen in life time since the crucifixion...

    It is basic narcissism.

    I am so special that I cannot conceive the world will continue without me, therefore it must end in my lifetime.

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  • Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    By those people.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  We’ll fall right when the rapture happens. So, you know, any day now

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I thought the rapture was not the fall but just the beginning of a century or so of torment for those sinners left on earth.

    Maybe the rapture has already happened and so few people left that nobody noticed and this is the century of torment...

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    • Spacecraft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Rapture happened when harambe died, he was the only one to go to heaven.

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I hate that this makes absolute sense

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  • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Elon Musk as Andrew Ryan.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      So beaten to death with a golf club? Oh no…

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