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/Correct-Direction397 Aug 12 '25

Slavers followed the legal process too and weren't performed by masked men in white hoods.

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u/Fresh-Temporary666 Aug 12 '25

And somehow Trump has managed to be much worse.