• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Objectively speaking, the US nuking itself would solve a lot of the world’s problems.

    Mostly I’m just being flippant as a way to cope with a very real fear that I am going to die.

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      2 days ago

      It wouldn’t solve the world’s problems. It would simply make China the preeminent superpower, and cause a horrific environmental disaster.

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          1 day ago

          You can replace US empire with human civilization and the same would be true. American Exceptionalism is just as bad in a negative way as it is when its positive exceptionalism.