I look at the Suez Crisis more as a symbol of the shift in power. Maybe there is an example out there, but I can’t think of a similar humiliation that the UK had to deal with regarding having to pull out of a diplomatic crisis by the threat of a single ally/power since the Concert of Europe was implemented.

There is a lot to talk about regarding imperial powers in the Middle East, but I’m focusing more on the idea where power shifted from the UK to the USA.

Why would I want to prove that it is real. I’d go full Connecticut Yankee and build a modern empire with me at the head.

cementing the US as Israel’s main backer, and destroying what good will remained for France and Britain in the Middle East.

I’m going to quibble with this line.

It isn’t like the Suez Crisis made the USA Israel’s main backer, but that Israel realized it needed the USA rather than the UK or France. Israel had to invest a lot in shaping American foreign policy to benefit it.

Second, it isn’t like the UK and France had goodwill in the Middle East. Instead, this was the major rejection of the two imperial powers which diminished their role in the Middle East since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. From that point on, other nations and political groups in the Middle East knew that the USA had a credible veto on British and French imperial action in the area.

We’re seeing the beginnings of further European integration. Who knows, there may even be an EU military in the future.

While everyone is talking about World War II, it is kind of important to discuss what led the USA to become capable of taking over.

First, the USA was a giant as a successor nation to American colonization. It had significant natural resources, a relatively easily navigable interior, and a budding industrial sector. Unlike Spanish colonies, the USA had pretty good national institutions where wealth could be created.

After the War of 1812, the UK had already shifted its strategic approach to the USA. The UK would allow the USA to be a local hegemon as long as the USA respected existing British colonial claims. This led to the Monroe Doctrine, partially enforced by the UK. There were also a lot of cases where the UK chose not to press claims to antagonize the USA. This included a peaceful solution to the Oregon Territory crisis and not participating in the French invasion of Mexico.

The USA was considered to be a rising great power by the end of the 19th century, including destroying the remnants of the Spanish Empire. Many nations recognized that the USA benefited from the same geographical features that the UK did, with the homeland being far removed from any other competing power.

The USA could have credibly become the leading great power after World War I had the USA not chosen to go into isolation after the war. By then, it was apparent that the USA had a military and economy to be a major international player, but the US Republican Party didn’t want to agree to the international commitments.

So, by the end of World War II, the USA was already the preminent economic power for at least a generation. The USA was then able to build a military capable of fighting a two front war while supplying many of its allies in the war. Meanwhile, the UK was seeing its empire fall apart and knew it couldn’t afford to be the international leader. Choosing between the USA and USSR, the UK chose the USA.

I have the perfect hands to be a surgeon.

Well, people aren’t expecting salsa holandesa.

A lot of the importance of family and clan in previous generations was due, in part, to the economic need of banding together. It turns out the need for family diminishes when there are other economic alternatives.

There is nowhere near enough information to answer this.

Well There’s Your Problem has a lot of personality while discussing historic disasters.

I’ve worked with some who worked well after they had to.

They enjoyed their job, found it mentally stimulating, and enjoyed the people they worked with.

We’re also seeing cases of soft retirement, where managers step down from their roles but maintain a technical position that implicitly includes teaching future generations at the company.

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The closest thing I can think of is violence or loot boxes, but not all video games.

Goldmember…

A lot of print media is dead. Magazines have shriveled up. Newspapers are dying.

I don’t think the Internet provided an equivalent replacement.

For some reason, monogamy was the default in Europe, and that default goes back thousands of years. There were times when men could have second or more partners, but they were never on the same level as wife and any children born from these unions weren’t entitled to inherit anything from the father. It is just a cultural signifier that goes back before Christianity; Romans were monogamous.

To add to this, Western peoples have slowly redefined marriage over the past century to go from a man and his wife to the union of two people. This has given women more power in marriage while also allowing for same gender marriages, since gender is no longer a defining characteristic of marriage in a Western society. I would see same gender marriages being harder in a polygamous society as gender is hard coded into the rules.

As for the Western aversion to polygamy, you’ve seen a lot of people here describe polygamy as “less civilized”. That belief has been around for centuries, so it isn’t tied to marriage equality For instance, the statehood of Utah was delayed until the Mormon church gave up polygamy.

The idea may be to get mods up to speed on moderation so they can take over with time.

Also, given than .ml is the developers’ instance, they are likely more focused on Lemmy than most mods are. So, the admins may be more protective because they are on Lemmy more than the mods.

Even worse, there isn’t a next generation near the size of millennials. Part of the reason that millennials took over while Gen X didn’t was because of the size of the relative generations.

You’re also running into the issue that culture has become a lot more fragmented due to the Internet. You can present a millennial culture where most people may be aware of other subcultures even if they weren’t a part of them. I don’t know if that is going to happen for Gen Z or Alpha.

Still enjoy the culture that I have while accepting that I’m old as fuck.

Sadly, I expect millennials to be more annoying than boomers when this transition happens.

Turn it off and touch grass.