"A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within" -Historian Edward Gibbon
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You don't go back, only forward. Empires fall.
*Only 3% of the American population is made up of the #EmployerClass
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Well, the roman empire did not fall because of lead poisoning, neither will this be the cause for the fall of the US empire, but it will certainly be a symptom…
...this is the mood 4me as we watch the empires die...
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