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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by troosevelt on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:43PM (#49501554)
I've heard the term imperialism used in context with the US plenty. It is very, very common online.
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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by diego_moita on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:48PM (#49501606)
> It is very, very common online.

Because there are a lot of non-Americans in the internet, including me.

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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by wredcoll on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:00PM (#49501714)
America literally delayed joining both world wars because of how strong the desire not to be involved with other countries was.
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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by sakjur on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:30PM (#49501961)
Such is the version of history the US wrote, yes.
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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by wredcoll on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:32PM (#49501978)
You can literally read the campaign speeches, senate debates, newspaper articles. It wasn't that long ago.
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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by troosevelt on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:51PM (#49501631)
Do you imagine that people in the US aren't familiar with the concept? We've been debating it since the time of Teddy Roosevelt.
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Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire? by ajkjk on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:47PM (#49503592)
you're completely wrong, (intelligent) Americans are completely aware of the concept and more-or-less think in those terms regularly.

You won't find the term in speeches but that's because in America speeches are essentially slop. Or at least, they are basically not written as a dialogue with well-informed/intelligent people.

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