• Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    Right, the US wasn’t a superpower until around WWII, so we’re less than 100 years into it really being an empire. But it can also be said that in some ways it became an empire because it inherited the imperial tendrils of the British empire.