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(Including this counter-story.) It's hard to think of a place with more active intelligence assets (whether US or foreign), useful idiots and organized criminals than the US, too. I honestly think a big reason for the US being the way it is is the sheer volume of BS inflow.

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Most powerful political & economic entity for multiple decades. Compromised by criminals since pre-federation times. Massive spook underemployment after the spy war the cold war essentially was. Mass ideological capture after CIA ops (etc.) during the cold war. It's dead, Jim.

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Cinder

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Jan 8, 2019

I don't know if it'll burn, exactly. My hunch is US goes the way of the UK, blathers on about being the center of the world while everyone knows it's been supplanted. Just a hunch, yet Brexit is 7 decades on from WW2, and that empire was long gone by the time that war had ended.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Yes, there is. But I think the main accelerator is climate change. Tech has already updated the US to pseudo-failed state levels a lot faster than it did the UK, but the sheer vulnerability of the US along every metric of climate destruction is more troubling.

12:20 PM · Jan 8, 2019Twitter Web Client

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When your main economic growth area is about to become literally uninhabitable, there's no telling what the repercussions of that will look like.