Honestly, I haven't studied much history at all. But from what I've heard, Rome and the US have a lot of similarities. |
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^someone thinks they're clever. |
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A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
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Both were attacked by barbarians. Ahem. |
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And we both have holidays which are only excuses to have orgies? |
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If I remember correctly, we both hold elections on days that people have to work. Even though restrictions on this exist, you still have that symbolic of bias towards the rich ruling the government. |
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The only difference is a little technology. People that like to think we live in a more civilized world are only fooling themselves. Roman empire crashed and burned. British empire crashed and burned. The American empire will crash and burn too, eventually. |
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Ah yes, todays world is also filled with a lot more "illusions". The "illusion" of security, the "illusion" of safety, the "illusion" of having choice. You have no choice. You have owners. Get used to it. |
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You're only thinking of the TINY fraction of this planets population that even has access to this medicine your talking about. |
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The quality of human life has been risen dramatically over the majority of the planet, though some places have had a more significant increase than others. We don't all have to forage for food and fight wild animals all the time. I'm sure places like poverty-stricken Africa have SOME medicine as well. |
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Remember, 50% of this planets population lives on LESS than $2 dollars a day. I doubt these poor bastards are getting the medicare they need. This isn't even including the hundreds of thousands of people in developed countries like the US of A can't even afford. You want to be healthy? Fork out the fuckin' cash then! |
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And 100% of Starbucks charge MORE than $5 for a cup of coffee! |
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You`re speaking way too generally. The quality of life in lots of parts of this world have been declining steadily for a while. Especially since the rise of the american empire. Sure, your neigborhood is looking good. Let`s go ask the people in indonesia, africa, south america, and all the other places that american corporations have completely, utterly taken advantage of for their own greedy desires and see what they say. |
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You're right and you're wrong. You're correct that American imperialism has fucked the world. But it's not the corporations so much as the combination of corporations and guns. If it was just business, then people would have stopped doing business with the abusive companies a long time ago. It's that they are forced at gunpoint by their governments, that gives them problems. |
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Indonesia. Africa. South America. |
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I think both of you have good valid points, but America has done good and bad. The idealism of America has been the same as every other empire. Americans think that when they do something to another nation, they are helping them. Every empire has said that. Every empire (just about) has suffered from corruption which ultimately (or helped) lead to its demise. The big thing about today like was said before was about the coorperations and how they have more power than some countries. (Walmart, Microsoft, ect). They are like leeches or parasites, feeding off the people and countries from which they reside in. |
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From every time we meet, to every time we part, i will add another memory to my shattered heart, and for every dream we chase, another memory will take its place, so we can remember it one day.
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This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
The USA is becomming more and more similar to Nazi Germany if you ask me. |
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It depends on how you quantify suffering. In prehistoric times, there were no plagues because no one lived close enough to each other to cause pandemic spread of disease. In prehistoric times, there was no instantaneous first degree burns due to phosphorus shells or napalm. There was no radiation poisoning or carcinogenic chemicals in the water supply. |
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No cancer or Aids either,.. and all of that. |
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