Are we living through the end of an empire?

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• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Maybe but also factor in that people have been predicting the downfall of the USA since the 1960s.

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  • 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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    • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Elon Musk as Andrew Ryan.

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• Switchblade@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Doomers are the worst.

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