cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50351339

The ‘yankification’ of British politics continues with Turning Point drawing attention to whatever the hell these people are supposed to be

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
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    20 hours ago

    I mean, this has been happening since Rome. This same pattern happens over and over, the empire rises, spreads, there’s a golden age, and the golden age ends when a small group ends up with too much of the pie. Then it all crashes down and we have a dark age

    We have so many stories about the danger of it because it keeps happening. We really need to break the cycle, I don’t think our species can survive another empire

    • sarmale@lemmy.zip
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      16 hours ago

      The differemce now is that the empires can completely destroy the world and make it unlivable if truly stupid people become leaders