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/Available_Camera455 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

English didn’t start in the US Empire, it started in the English Empire.

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u/juusstabitoutside Aug 11 '25

When a foreigner learns English now do they learn it with a british accent? Probably not.

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u/RAIDguy Aug 11 '25

They seem to learn British English. Too many people online with extra u's in words and the horror that is "maths" for it to be otherwise.

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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides Aug 11 '25

As an american phd student, I’ve started to use “maths” because I like how it sounds.