36 Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling

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You know your empire's crumbling--
when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start
blowing up satellites in space.
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when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across
Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your
arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.
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when "the little brown ones" (thank you George H.W. Bush - certainly
not me - for that lovely expression) in country after country of
"your backyard" blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist
leftist governments.
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when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun
of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling
sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody
laughs.

"when "the little brown ones" (thank you George H.W. Bush - certainly
not me - for that lovely expression) in country after country of
"your backyard" blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist
leftist governments."

I think it's quite true. Now that Stupid has us bogged down in two ruinous and unwinnable wars across the planet, the rest of the hemisphere is free to do what it's wanted to for a very, very long time: elect reform governments that threaten the colonial European oligarchies.

I hope they succeed.

n/t

You know your empire's crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around