• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    in a century or 3 from now – assuming that the epstein oligarchy hadn’t triggered a nuclear holocaust before then – a diminished but still powerful us empire will use its antiquated navy to blockade the bering strait to extort a protection fee for using this passage.

    the sailors will sing songs to each other about being patriotic defenders of freedom and democracy for the world to bouy their spirits whenever they have to sure up their energy through soylent green and hollywood will leverage ai to create & release movies & games depicting their heroism and keep the cradle-to-cannon-fodder pipeline going.

    and the people decrying this system will still be labled as tankies even though no tanks have been built in centuries. lol