Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
People are going to be reading about this guy’s story in a book titled “The Rise and Fall of the American Empire”.
Admittedly, Americans won’t be able to appreciate it, because we’re pulling the public education system out by the roots. Also, possibly, because the book will be written in Spain or German or Chinese.
Hardly. Because -believe it or not- the USA are not the legitimate and god given successor of the Roman Empire. Imitation is not succession, a replica is never equivalent to an original and 1400 years are not a gap to close by illusions de grandeur.
the USA are not the legitimate and god given successor of the Roman Empire.
Eh. In another two or three hundred years? I’m sure the history books will fold the US into the “Colonial Era” as this capstone to European domination of the globe. We’re functionally a projection of English/Spanish/French naval power and Wall Street/London/Zurich financial power dating back to the 15th century.
That’s not really a Roman successor so much as a new thing born out of sea-born navigation and industrial engineering. But it is absolutely an Empire at its core.
a replica is never equivalent to an original and 1400 years
500 years and change is a solid run, regardless. What the Europeans lacked in staying power, they more than made up for in scale and sophistication. The Romans never mastered internal combustion or telecommunication or the logistics necessary to put boots on the ground in Antarctica, much less the Moon.
The last skyscrappers and the great steel mills of the Industrial Age will be marveled at as least as long as the Aqueducts or the Colosseum.
You’re right. The Roman Empire was not a worthy predecessor for the American Empire. I just wasn’t looking at it from the right angle. What a shame that we can’t update history recursively to reflect the true facts.
According to the downvotes I begin to supect that you US crackpots really believe you’re legit successor to the Roman Empire. God-sent to rule the world, exceptional, superior and all that mythobrimborious Nazi crap. That, of course, changes my view on you in a very unfortunate way.
He’s got a tattoo, must be MS13!
Whoops that was a birthmark. Oh well.
Stop putting your real name on social media.
Thanks, that will solve everything 👍
It’s all fun and games until someone spends 5 seconds on google and gets your home address.
I don’t actively use any social media with real names either but if you do anything online from applying to jobs to signing up for services like hydro, your name is probably out there
It’s not about having your name out there it’s about having your name associated to TikTok content or other social media that is not job related.
If a state-actor doxxing you is in your threat model, using any social media should be verboten - even under a pseudonym.
If the US or another fascist government wants to kidnap you and send you to a concentration camp, it won’t matter if you posted your info online. Don’t put this blame on the individual.
I did not put the blame on the individual. I just said, if you don’t want things on social media being associated with your name don’t put your name on social media. Just as a general rule of thumb that everyone should know.
What is Gidostro?
Random characters with no meaning
Maybe that was good advice 10 years ago. Nowadays it’s practically impossible to stay anonymous. Most social media make it mandatory to provide your legal name and even if you don’t, the government has many ways to still track you down, because you leave all sorts of traces. The only way out of this is by political change.
