In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

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    4 days ago

    LOL empire. They haven’t lasted for even a century. It will be a footnote in history.

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        4 days ago

        This fucker just swings at everyone.

        I think someone shit on their waffle this morning.

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            Well then, enlighten me and tell me exactly from when to when you consider them an empire?

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              Probably from the moment of our emancipation from England. Occupied more territory than most European states ever had at that moment.

              If you want to be pedantic about it how about when we occupied the width of an entire contenant? September 9th 1850

              We didn’t spring fully formed from Zeus’s forehead to fund the destruction of the Reich.

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                from the moment of our emancipation from England.

                I was asking from what year, decade even to what year. This is as vague as it gets. If I wanted to be pedantic I would ask what a “contenant” is. That date you mention is about California? I think you don’t get what being an empire means. It’s not having a really big country.

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                  So you are unaware of the goings on in the year 1776?

                  How about you define empire? I’m sure Leopold II left lots of decorative plaques for you to learn about it on.

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                    So you are unaware of the goings on in the year 1776?

                    What? Do you think becoming independent makes you an empire? Jeez, I would say stay in school and learn some fundamentals, but then again you’re in the US. This is pointless

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            4 days ago

            As a country. Britain, Spain, Portugal have been around for much longer as a country. That period is not as long as they have existed in the capacity or form of being an ‘empire’.

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          1787 was less than 100 years ago? Because that’s when their Constitution was ratified.

          Also their revolutionary war was 1776 to 1783.

          How wrong are you willing to be?

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            They may be referencing the USA’s increased international hegemony starting after WWII rather than the founding of the nation.