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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US empire is an ongoing environmental and humanitarian disaster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 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.