I’m not convinced we have any hand whatsoever. The world economy might be thrown into a bit of chaos, but more and more countries are starting to tell the US to go fuck itself. It’s not inconceivable to think of the US being completely irrelevant and ignored economically within the next decade.

Really mods, are you trying to turn this shit back into Reddit?

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My class today decided that the killer rabbit from Monty Python got the Pope because Pudgie Vance ate the holy hand grenade

Because craftsmen used to make things by hand and real care could be put into their creations. The better question is why we don’t do this stuff anymore, to which the answer is, as always, capitalism.