# The "Empire"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 19, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816 "2015-12-19T00:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![geological](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@geological](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geological)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816/1 "2015-12-19T00:06:18Z")

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[http://www.prisonplanet.com/10-reasons-america-will-be-judged-as-the-most-brutal-empire-in-history.html](http://www.prisonplanet.com/10-reasons-america-will-be-judged-as-the-most-brutal-empire-in-history.html)

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816/2 "2015-12-19T00:07:51Z")

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When come back bring own argument.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816/3 "2015-12-19T00:28:57Z")

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I question the premise of some of those. The headline is “Ten Reasons the American Empire Will be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History”, but most of those are pretty hohum… Support for dictators, preemptive wars of aggression, torture, assassination of ones’ own citizens, suppression of dissent, elimination of habeus corpus…most empires have historically done that stuff, right?

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-empire/740816/4 "2015-12-19T00:38:55Z")

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