The US empire collapsing doesn't necessarily mean that life will get worse for ordinary Americans.
Remember that Europe only achieved high standard of living and social democracy AFTER colonialism ended. And the Nordics never even had colonies in the first place.
In fact I consider this fact to be a disappointment because Americans will never be punished for their crimes.
>doesn't understand imperialism award
>>2888769what is there to elaborate on? don't you like awards?
>>2888716>AFTER colonialism endedthat's why they made colonialism 2, also called neocolonialism, also called keeping all the extraction in place and outsourcing the enforcement to the locals
For some reason people really don't like accepting that social democracy in Nordic countries is sustained through domestic natural resourse extraction.
>>2888716I know that you say this. But do you also look like this?
>the Nordics never even had colonies in the first place.
The nordics have colonies but they exist through shell companies taht exploit natural resources from africa and the middle east.
The euro bourgs have found its easier to colonize by couping govs and using shell companies instead of direct territory. Nothing channged
>>2889034because it isn't; Denmark, Iceland and Finland have no significant natural resources, and the Norwegian welfare state predates the discovery/exploitation of their oil resources
The Northern Swedish iron mines are decreasingly important economically
Nope. It was better to be a 1930s German/British/Japanese citizen than now. They didn't have existential crises or have to take medication for depression. They had a world to conquer and fight over. Now look at them. They're pathetic.
>AFTER colonialism ended
did it really though?
>>2889172they got blasted on medica lcocaine in those days.
>>2889629It didn't really end so much as it assumed a different form. Same thing with slavery btw. All these "old time problems" that the liberals claimed to have resolved never actually got resolved.
>>2888983>>2889629US neocolonialism reached its zenith right as American worker living standards began a tailspin from which they've never recovered. Meanwhile they peaked while the USSR was at its strongest. The simple formula that colonialism allows imperialist states to support higher standards of living has *some* truth to it, but the vulgar idea that the stronger an empire is the more prosperous its citizens will be is clearly not true. Imperialism quite simply doesn't guarantee high living standards, and a lack of it doesn't guarantee low ones (see China).
>>2889653Don’t bother. OP is just another moron who thinks that what they see on TikTok is real. Dumbass even posted a soyjak
>>2889650i'm sure glad that the nuclear arms race ended and we returned all the bombs and got refunds for all those trillions of dollars we spent and we never have to worry about the threat of global annihilation ever again.
>>2889653i'm supposed to believe treatler thesis even though us worker standard of living decline as military budget get higher and higher, meanwhile DPRK and Cuba are able to survive and treat their people with dignity even under sanction and isolation. noooooo you don't want socialism, it's bad for you is the message.
>>2890803This changes everything…
>>2890121It's not that I believe it, but there is a kernel of truth to it in that having a large neocolonial empire obviously makes it easier to outsource class antagonism and maintain higher living standards for workers in the metropole. It's just that people apply this thinking far too rigidly and dogmatically, in the process essentially reproducing the bourgeois notion that there simply isn't enough global wealth to support universally high living standards.
>>2890834this is a good sabo post, i was sad (and mad) when you yelled at me for being mean to the burger troops.
neutralpedos are we really posting on here GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG
>>2890803Delaware also used to be a Swedish colony.
>>2888716The fact that the America's manufacturing industry is so rent-sought makes me doubt this. The US can't build anything and won't be able to until the current financier class is removed or reigned in.
The avarage american doesn't have anything to do with your shitty turd world culture and low trust society
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