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Subject: Is The United States An Empire?

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Poll: Is The United States An Empire?  [closed]
Yes:  30%
(37 Votes)
No:  39%
(47 Votes)
Definitely Not:  31%
(38 Votes)
Total Votes: 122

Is the US an empire?

  • 12.29.2012 3:08 PM PDT

Of course.

  • 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PDT

''Hell is other people.''

Yes, and we're gonna conquer all your sexy foriegn wimminz.

[Edited on 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PST]

  • 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PDT

HA !


no

  • 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PDT
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Tom
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Nope, hegemonic power. Not an empire.

  • 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PDT

I see no emperor in the US

  • 12.29.2012 3:09 PM PDT

Key

Anyone who says no has no idea what an empire is.

  • 12.29.2012 3:10 PM PDT
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It doesn't have a Monarch or Emperor for staters and the only expansion it has done is Hawaii.

America probably wishes it is an Empire but its not.

  • 12.29.2012 3:10 PM PDT

No

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  • 12.29.2012 3:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Anyone who says no has no idea what an empire is.
I know what an empire is and I still say "no".

Come at me.

  • 12.29.2012 3:10 PM PDT

It's the world superpower, and socially and culturally it is an empire as it is the head of the West.

So technically, Yes.

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Anyone who says yes has no idea what an empire is.


Fix'd for accuracy.

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Anyone who says no has no idea what an empire is.
I don't see a Monarch or Emperor in the USA which you need to have an Empire.

  • 12.29.2012 3:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Android Spartan
It doesn't have a Monarch or Emperor for staters and the only expansion it has done is Hawaii.

America probably wishes it is an Empire but its not.


You mean the Mexican American War didn't count as expansionist?

  • 12.29.2012 3:11 PM PDT

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An empire requires an emperor. The US has a separation of powers. The senate, the house of representatives, the president. As well as the citizens.

  • 12.29.2012 3:11 PM PDT
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Of course.

  • 12.29.2012 3:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Powershadows
It's the world superpower, and socially and culturally it is an empire as it is the head of the West.

So technically, Yes.
No and it's only "head" of the west because of its size and military might and that's it.

  • 12.29.2012 3:12 PM PDT

Key


Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Anyone who says no has no idea what an empire is.
I don't see a Monarch or Emperor in the USA which you need to have an Empire.
em-pire
Noun
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, FORMERLY esp. an emperor or empress.
K.

  • 12.29.2012 3:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist

Posted by: Android Spartan
It doesn't have a Monarch or Emperor for staters and the only expansion it has done is Hawaii.

America probably wishes it is an Empire but its not.


You mean the Mexican American War didn't count as expansionist?
I don't see Mexico under American rule, Texas joined on its own which pissed off Mexico and the war was to set the borders of texas.

Empires colonise countries not extend a border slightly.

  • 12.29.2012 3:13 PM PDT


Posted by: Powershadows
It's the world superpower, and socially and culturally it is an empire as it is the head of the West.

So technically, Yes.
No it's not. You can just bs like that. An empire is the result of conquering land to expand a nation or its power. And the US is not as invincible as some make it out to be. Also superpower =/= an empire

  • 12.29.2012 3:13 PM PDT

Key

The US is in control of an "extensive group of states or countries" and its government acts as the supreme authority over those states or countries, hence it is an empire. /thread

  • 12.29.2012 3:16 PM PDT

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Not so much today. The USA has definitely had imperial ambitions though.

  • 12.29.2012 3:16 PM PDT