pls move along

I don’t think you even understand what this precipitates

You don't go polite and understanding mode to the representatives of a different civilization

there is no common language of symbols to use

I don't even know what's going on.

so it's pure power

Yeah, I'm still a bit steamed about that particular idiocy.

Ah, the Youtube Union thing.

Ergo why I throw in for the bull-in-the-china-shop President Trump.

The most important thing is to avoid isolationism

isolationism would be BAD

and you have a strong drive to it in the grass roots

like you had in the 20s

in the 20s it was ok

because you were not a great power

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49523239

now it would be ruinous

This is something I tend to agree, even if I'd rather it not be so.

@Goodwood of Dank™ he looks handsome in that photo, and I'm the kinda man who can never tell, so this is pretty impressive...

reality does not care about your feelings, bucko

D A B

That is, the US - for the sake of our species- can't go back into the isolationism of the years of yore.

I mean it's not just species

you'd also lose out massivley

as the polity

you get chep shit from around the world for a reason

you'd have to RESTRUCTURE you ENTIRE monetary system

you'd lose huge amounts of power

it's not ever possible to predict, I don;t think, the problems you would cause to yourselves

because a lot of what you get and are accustomed to

is a direct or indirect result of your Empire status

it's not just a matter of there being wars abroad. It;s also about internal wealth

Generally Empires that stop being Empires don;t get *richer* in that process...

Right, the thing is that the world economy is a particularly vulnerable beastie.

white letter on white background

I expected more of you, Mikey

IKR

I didn't make it

I got it from Sargon

explains the boomerism