NobleSavage
Veteran Member
Dinesh D' Souza is a tool. I'm SURE this movie sucks. However, it's a good question. Is the world better off because of the USA?
Perhaps a better question is, given that we DO have the USA dominating the modern world, what would happen if suddenly she was gone? If you like this kind of speculative stuff, I would recommend John Birmingham's Without Warning. Whether or not the USA was necessary to get the world to where we are today, it seems likely that her sudden disappearance or collapse (now that she is here, and has risen to such military and economic dominance) would be catastrophic.
In January 2014, D'Souza was indicted on charges of making illegal political contributions to a 2012 United States Senate campaign.[12] On May 20, 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to a charge of using "straw donors" to make illegal political campaign donations. On September 23, D'Souza avoided prison time and was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center, five years parole, and a $30,000 fine.[13][14]
I thought Dinesh got sent to jail? Did he get out already?
ETA (from his Wikipedia page):
In January 2014, D'Souza was indicted on charges of making illegal political contributions to a 2012 United States Senate campaign.[12] On May 20, 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to a charge of using "straw donors" to make illegal political campaign donations. On September 23, D'Souza avoided prison time and was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center, five years parole, and a $30,000 fine.[13][14]
So, he's in a "community confinement center", whatever the fuck that is.
He is supposed to be teaching ESL classes
He vows to turn all immigrants republican.
At the moment, the US is a destination of choice for investment world-wide. People from all over the world move their money, their businesses, their ideas or even themselves, to the States. Are we assuming that disappears, or that it gets relocated?
Would some other power become a bully in its stead?
Would some other power become a bully in its stead?
I think you'd get a larger number of regional bullies. It takes a lot of resources to extend one's reach across the whole globe and bullies would probably just stay in their own neighbourhoods.