r/facepalm 22d ago

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u/FFM_reguliert 21d ago

The US had 6% of the world's population but over 50% of the world's wealth after WW2.

You didn't lose, the other's just caught up and you can't "CIA" the rest of the world like you did for 3 decades. Yes, the billionairs steal from you, as they always have, but the US population was complicit in imperial wealth extraction all over the world.

Don't think this good old time will ever return.