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    “Most powerful empire the world has ever known”

    Lol Americans

    The Romans conquered the known world with pointy sticks and diplomacy.

    The US hasn’t been on the winning side since ww2 despite having nukes and spyplanes.

    Even the British Empire spanned the globe, and all they had was cannons, rum, and syphilis.

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      Yeah they may not incorporate other countries like previous empires, but their sphere of influence is undeniable unfortunately.

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      Rome wasn’t the most powerful empire, merely the third longest lasting; the Assyrians and Egyptians had a run that puts Rome to shame, and the Khans wielded far more power than any individual emperor.

      The US is just the only world power left in modern time that could deploy anywhere within 24 hrs with more than just a strike force (and they can do so far far harder than any previous “empire”). The US “empire” is based on deployment potential, banking, and diplomacy. Nukes are just the key required to gain entry to the table so you don’t get wiped at deployment.

      Bricks is literally the alliance trying to match US power and still hasn’t. This is mostly a barrier to entry problem rather than personal power, but it does stand that no previous empire could match the modern US in millitary, finance, or diplomacy.

      But hey give it 50 years we are doing our best to shit on two of those.

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        A few trolls can take America by installing a puppet red head president who will then dismantle the country in a few years time.

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            See also

            • Adolf Twitler

            • Benedict Donald

            • Cheeto Benito

            • Cheeto In Chief

            • Cinnamon Hitler

            • Comrade Cheetolino

            • Con-Hair

            • Despot Cheeto

            • Diaper Don

            • Draft Dodger Don’

            • Fanta Menace

            • Hair Furher

            • King Mierdas

            • The Manchildian Candidate

            • Mango Mussolini

            • Orange Julius Caesar

            • President Gold Man Sucks

            • Prima Donald

            • Pumpkin Pinochet

            • Tangerine Toddler

            • Tangerine Tyrant

            • Trumplethinskin

            • Tweeto Toupee’to

            • The White Pride Pipe

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        So are you trying to make him say what he didn’t say because your butthurt ?

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              One, no empire is “great,” they all suck donkey dick, that’s the definition of an empire, two, the meme specifically states “most powerful.”

              America is objectively the most powerful empire to ever exist, just as the British were more powerful than the Romans.

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                i think the only thing keeping china from taking that top slot is reach and the use of the dollar worldwide. both of those are collapsing. the US might not be the biggest asshole on the planet for much longer

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                  Yeah, instead we’ll get a nation that treats North Korean workers so poorly they riot and execute the management.

                  Good times for humanity ahead…