He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
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He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
People are going to be reading about this guy's story in a book titled "The Rise and Fall of the American Empire".
Admittedly, Americans won't be able to appreciate it, because we're pulling the public education system out by the roots. Also, possibly, because the book will be written in Spain or German or Chinese.
Hardly. Because -believe it or not- the USA are not the legitimate and god given successor of the Roman Empire. Imitation is not succession, a replica is never equivalent to an original and 1400 years are not a gap to close by illusions de grandeur.
Eh. In another two or three hundred years? I'm sure the history books will fold the US into the "Colonial Era" as this capstone to European domination of the globe. We're functionally a projection of English/Spanish/French naval power and Wall Street/London/Zurich financial power dating back to the 15th century.
That's not really a Roman successor so much as a new thing born out of sea-born navigation and industrial engineering. But it is absolutely an Empire at its core.
500 years and change is a solid run, regardless. What the Europeans lacked in staying power, they more than made up for in scale and sophistication. The Romans never mastered internal combustion or telecommunication or the logistics necessary to put boots on the ground in Antarctica, much less the Moon.
The last skyscrappers and the great steel mills of the Industrial Age will be marveled at as least as long as the Aqueducts or the Colosseum.