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minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·15 hours agoThe US is, what, 40% farmland and another 13% wilderness. Add to that the 13th amendment and the most imprisoned populace per capita? The US is absolutely an agrarian slave economy.
minus-squareInitiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-27 hours ago<Both? Both. It’s both.jpg> It’s three failing historical empires in a trenchcoat. It’s wild how you can vaguely gesture to almost any terrible moment in history and find strong parallels to modern problems in the US and the world.
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours ago“yes, we’re here to, uh… See a movie” “Psst, ask if they have any slaves” “Shut up, Rome! You’re gonna get us busted! Ask if they have any tea!”
The US is, what, 40% farmland and another 13% wilderness. Add to that the 13th amendment and the most imprisoned populace per capita?
The US is absolutely an agrarian slave economy.
<Both? Both. It’s both.jpg>
It’s three failing historical empires in a trenchcoat. It’s wild how you can vaguely gesture to almost any terrible moment in history and find strong parallels to modern problems in the US and the world.
“yes, we’re here to, uh… See a movie”
“Psst, ask if they have any slaves”
“Shut up, Rome! You’re gonna get us busted! Ask if they have any tea!”