Comment by idiotsecant
2 days ago
It's popular to hate the US but I'd like to know what country you think would be better at the role of global hegemon. What country would you suggest would do a better job? Be specific.
2 days ago
It's popular to hate the US but I'd like to know what country you think would be better at the role of global hegemon. What country would you suggest would do a better job? Be specific.
That's not a hard question. Any country that invaded, plundered and destroyed democracies less than the US has in the last hundred years.
Oh good, I'm glad it's not hard. Which one is that?
It’s a flawed question.
The concept that living in a hegemony is acceptable is incoherent.
> The concept that living in a hegemony is acceptable is incoherent
Wishing upon a star that humans were better is not a solution.
Revoking the Pax Americana frees America to pursue more wars of conquest. Not fewer. It's a revocation of the rules-based international order that America (and the former Soviet Union) put in place following WWII.
It similarly frees every other wannabe global and regional hegemony to assert their spheres of influence.
Humans rejected that and now we’re headed into a global ochlocracy
Hope you folks are ready (you’re not)
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Oh, so you figured out a way to make people not be terrible. Awesome. How's that work?
Just need to make everyone have to look into the black mirror