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Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009) by rdiddly on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:25PM (#16613397)
No, we're projecting Donald Trump onto a hypothetical Roman politician imagined in 2009 by Ugo Bardi the Oil Drum writer, due to the coincidental and quite obvious similarity of their "wall" platforms, including both the expense and the futility, as well as the fact that both are set in empires collapsing under their own weight. Is it so hard to see?
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Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009) by meri_dian on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:51PM (#16613557)
America isn't an empire, and is hardly collapsing under its own weight. It's actually doing incredibly well, aside from some annoying partisan bickering.
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Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009) by rdiddly on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#16621989)
That is, as they say, the naive view.
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