Oh you think it’s costing Trump and his cohorts too much money to be worth it anymore?

I don’t think so - I think they’ve all massively increased their wealth whilst in office. So what cost are you talking about?

Gold isn’t a feasible world reserve currency. It might be handy to have, but most people don’t have it. Where as the number of US bills in global circulation (M0) is so large, that any country wishing to print/distribute enough of their currency to replace it - would automatically depreciate that currency many times over.

The world uses the US dollar as the reserve currency because it already got everywhere, it’s already out there in people’s hands in the strangest of places. Mostly where borders meet, and instability exist.

America’s hard power would have to decline far far far faster than it currently is… and I can’t think of what would make that happen. Maybe if Trump passes a law that all US military vehicles have to be dismantled and destroyed? Outside of that, the US dollar as the reserve currency will likely remain.

Also BRICS may not have enough gold in reserve to back their currencies, and it’s unlikely so many countries would all agree to risk that instability all at once. So I don’t agree with your idea that “it can happen fast”.

…all that said, America’s real problem is that it probably doesn’t have a democracy anymore. Like, unless participation and protest numbers go through roof - that part of America may be… damaged beyond repair. That’s what citizens should be focusing on.

I think the idea that America was always “On top of the world, world’s number 1 best at everything” has always been a joke. Different countries are “the best in the world” at different things. Like, look up any list on Wikipedia “by country” and maybe you’ll get that.

If you’re still spouting “But America was best in the world at everything” nonsense - you’re probably lost… and it’s probably all just about Americans losing their illusions about American greatness.

America is great, but lots of people wouldn’t want to live there, and it’s far from being the world’s number 1 at everything.

Russia is still on the map… before the USSR was the Tsar… but it was still Russia the whole time, and it’s still Russia today.

America ain’t going anywhere.

The narrative of being a corrupt “democracy” (that’s really a plutocracy), which lives mostly by having the largest military industrial complex in the world and invading smaller resource rich nations?

You think THAT narrative is about to fall apart? How so?

As far as empires go, it’s not even an original narrative. It’s how most Empires have acted.

I mean you guys have always been manifest destiny, America’s the best place on earth, gerrymandering, money is votes, corporations are people, donations are political free speech, loud, assholes. What are you saying is going to change?

Oh yeah, your democracy is fucked. But you asked about the “American Empire”, which has hardly been about having a strong democracy.

In fact, in many ways Empire and Democracy are opposing forces.

Plenty of Empires have been undemocratic (you won’t be the first). So is your question about Empire, or Democracy now?

Neither. The US dollar can’t readily be replaced as reserve currency.

The US Military sector will be fine.

You’ve done shitty things before, and had various states of psuedo fascism before.

US debt has always been meaningless (little more than a political buggaboo).

…and you’ve lost the world’s respect before by voting in idiots, stripping away rights, and destroying minorities.

Nothing particularly new is happening.

Country’s don’t disappear so easily.

Best I can do you is decades of hell in a virtual prison only you remember.

Springtime for Hitler

Some one should sue them for the maximum highest costs calculable for the travel time of having to return their products buying a new substitute brand, and going back home + legal fees.

Then that person should buy the product again to see if there’s still an agreement in place, and sue them again.

The media will once again over play the hand of leftwing politics.

Just like how they recently helped Trump woth his health problems by pointing out his swollen ankles.

They just never know when to just let a win ride.

Unless you have had three independent data recovery companies confirm the data can’t be recovered - I’m not buying it.

For the software erase it says:

Even if power is interrupted during the data wiping process, the drive will automatically resume clearing data the next time it gets power, says Team Group.

We aren’t sure of the wiping algorithm or tech, so we would assume there remains a chance of data recovery after this software-powered wipe, or partial wipe.

For the hardware erase, it says recovery might be more effort than it’s worth. So sounds like neither mode gets proven results.

It’s essentially a dangerous scam.

Wouldn’t want to upset the people who have the actual Epstein list/tapes.

Skant = the skirts some male looking crew members were seen wearing in the background of a few TNG episodes.

New meaning to the term “insider”.

Screwworms are currently in negotiations with the Trump administration.

You’ll often find discussions in the comments section (also your first comment to me asked me to explain my views).

You seem deaf to what I’m saying. There are cultural tensions involved. Yes people choose their ethical compliances but those choices are always constrained by cultural, educational, and structural bounds. The cultural messaging of the time.

Before this generation were the first school shooters, before them it was satanic panic related crimes, before them it was the first post WW2 street gangs.

These are all topics that insert violence into cultural frameworks without having the necessary discussions of causes and the messaging around these frameworks.

I’d call your user name “weird”, but I’m not one to use social pressures like that, and would rather have conversations where the actual issues and causes are discussed.

I’m trying to normalize that singles aren’t having sex…

… because the feeling that young men not having sex is abnormal causes a bad mindset.