• Miller@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Things just keep getting worse to the point America is starting to wonder if it really can solve its problems by blowing things up.

    • Jay@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I mean… if the white house were to blow up at the right time it would fix a lot of things.

    • deft
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      3 days ago

      It’s what empires look like as they fall

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        2 days ago

        Well the scary part is that sometimes the decrepit fool is followed by a youthful crusader who revitalizes it in blood and conquest that he’s actually capable of instead of just shitposting a war.

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          It happens. You see a lot in history vets of a lost war come home and become mercenaries or bandits or something similar and that capable individual has willing, experienced fighters to draw from

          Best example is hitler. Bunch of WWI vets angry about defeat and formed literal street gangs. Peaky blinders isn’t entirely fictitious on that end. Thirty years war is another good example.