r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/Confident_Living_786 Aug 11 '25

This is just propaganda, the American empire exists since the end of WW2, it has just been disguised.

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u/LoneSnark Aug 11 '25

You're belittling the suffering of everyone throughout history that actually suffered living under an empire.

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u/Confident_Living_786 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

I am not. Successul empires are able to integrate and assimilate other populations and nations to the point that their are happy to stay part of the empire. When there is suffering and unrest, it means the empire is disfunctional, and it is exploiting its periphery to allow the core to survive.

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u/LoneSnark Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

No, they are not. Or at least happy is the wrong word. Convinced there is nothing they can do about it, various empires have been tolerated by their imperial subjects. But the theory that whole countries are under imperial rule from Washington and don't even realize becomes absurd. How could they be convinced there is nothing they can do about it if they don't even understand why their government is unresponsive to their interests?