• dudeface@lemmy.world
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    The experiment was going well for a while

    So well in fact other countries adopted a lot from you, yet you never saw improvements on your systems to be emulated at all

    Weird suicide of a nation that never needed to happen

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      The experiment started with genocide, then slavery, and never really stopped doing either. They’ve been at war for all but roughly 20 years of their 250 year existence. Tens of millions of dead civilians around the world.

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        I would argue that’s a holdover from the Europeans and while they became more enlightened and peaceful the Americans took no lessons

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            Europe ain’t my rope to swing on

            Can’t learn a thing from it

            Yet we hang from it