How Rapidly Imploding America Is Like Our Slowly Imploding Sun
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This is a long, extended metaphor comparing the sunsetting of American (re: White) Empire to the sunsetting of, well, the sun. Our sun, like America, is a violent superpower that will at some point implode. Before that point, however, it will expand in a toxic bubble of firepower; precisely what’s happening to America now.
The White Dwarf
Our sun, like any star, actually gets brighter as it’s dying. The balance between fusion (pushing out) and gravity (pushing in) means that more and more hydrogen gets cronched in the center even as there’s less and less of it. The sun gets brighter precisely as it’s burning out. In about 5 billion years, the inner core will run out of hydrogen and suck in H from the outer core, allowing it a penultimate gasp of growth. This great greedy gobble will toss Venus and probably Earth in the oven, though life life here would have been already been air-fried 4 billion years before. At this point, the Sun will be a red giant, and have the deserted Earth for dessert.
After another 2 billion years, this red giant will run out of H for reals, but switch it for the celestial equivalent of…
