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minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-24 hours agoi think they haven’t been an empire for just as long as it had existed? they were settlers first, right? with the indigenous genocide and all.
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoThanks for trying to buy us a little more time.
minus-squareDirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoRight, the US wasn’t a superpower until around WWII, so we’re less than 100 years into it really being an empire. But it can also be said that in some ways it became an empire because it inherited the imperial tendrils of the British empire.
i think they haven’t been an empire for just as long as it had existed?
they were settlers first, right? with the indigenous genocide and all.
Thanks for trying to buy us a little more time.
Right, the US wasn’t a superpower until around WWII, so we’re less than 100 years into it really being an empire. But it can also be said that in some ways it became an empire because it inherited the imperial tendrils of the British empire.