• NewDark@lemmings.world
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    5 hours ago

    So Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to reality

    I misread that, hold up.

    The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED.

    The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries.

    This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?