Emphasis mine:
Some readers were skeptical when I pointed out Monday that China's economy is, in real terms, already substantially larger than ours.
Libs are seriously living in an alternate reality.
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Furthermore, America had allies — which, as Phillips O’Brien emphasizes, are a vastly underrated source of national power. China may sometimes make alliances of convenience, but no more than that. The U.S. could and did build a powerful alliance system, because America was more than a nation: It was an idea and a set of values, values we shared with the rest of the democratic world. And you should always bear in mind that Europe, in particular, while it sometimes acts weak, is an economic superpower in the same league as China and America.
OK, you know what’s coming: Since taking office, Trump and his minions have been systematically demolishing each of these pillars of U.S. strength.
has he been reading the news the last 25 years? look at the difference between allies america brought in to operation desert storm against iraq in the 90s vs the coalition of the willing against iraq in 2003 vs operation amazon prime against yemen/ansarallah in 2024. the idea that trump specifically has eroded these allies is ridiculous.
biden is the one that deindustrialized europe by destroying their infinite energy hack
totally, and obama continued many wars and started several new ones, and bush was a fucking monster before him, as was clinton. trump is american continuity in material terms, he's only a break in the system in aesthetic terms
The U.S. could and did build a powerful alliance system, because America was more than a nation: It was an idea and a set of values, values we shared with the rest of the democratic world
No, the US was able to build a powerful alliance system because after WWII there was no one else standing (even the USSR was extremely bruised) and we were the world’s manufacturer. I mean, I guess there were some shared values with Europe too, namely white supremacy and continued domination of the global south.
I swear to god, liberals just say shit about “values” and “democracy” without even a moment of further reflection.
They are perpetually about 5 years late to the party.
There's an account that spews almost entirely China bad stuff who keeps saying all of this is just pr by China. Ignoring that it's major companies freaking out about how behind they are. Gonna be just like when Japanese cars hit the market in the 70s. We'll even worse since they're already working to prevent them from getting on the market to show how behind the usa is
i dunno what difference he imagines would happen if democrats took over in 2028
being a lib he thinks that Trump is the source of all the problems
they would press the "make america great again" button that trump refuses to hit!
The comments below that blog are laughable. There's literally a person saying how bad the Proud boys will look when they beat up singing grannies at the No Kings march as if that would be a decisive victory for the "resistance". There is another saying that there is not enough singing and dancing at these marches. Contrast this to the actual resistance against Imperial Japan in China by the communists. Can you imagine anything on the scale of the 100 regiments offensive by these deluded liberals?
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
They genuinely believe the Civil Rights Movement ended when MLK gave a nice speech that convinced all the racists racism is wrong before making racism illegal and the racists embedded institutionally made those institutions not racist. They do not know about MLK applying for a concealed carry permit after his house got firebombed or how terrified the white power structure became of the NoI and BPP.
Black History Month was created by Ronald Reagan in an attempt to control how history depicts the voices of the leaders of the movement, and it worked.
Supremacists solely motivated by maintaining american supremacism are surprised that when they've maintained the number 1 position for so long complacency has settled in along with a complete denial that they could be anything other than number 1.
There is no motivation to change because there is still no real belief among them that the position of american supremacy could ever change.
This is what nationalism does to you. This is what happens when your entire motivation for improving anything is national supremacy.
If they were motivated by anything else, like simply improving things for the sake of improving things, or god-forbid improving lives! Things would be different. Resources would be allocated wholly differently towards making improvements instead of maximising exploitation.
Who knew one billion people could beat a bunch of hillbilliez who needed slavery and constant warfare to build their country
It’s okay, I have a solution! One. Billion. Americans.
Mandatory breeding incomin
Unironically probably what the billionaires are getting at when they start fretting about birth rates. There's no reasonable world in which 0.5% of the population accounts for 10% of the global economy, and they see their slice of the pie shrinking.
US will never catch up because the US is exactly where it wants to be. we’re all poor and overworked and the lazy worthless pigs at the top are richer than any king could have ever imagined and with way more power. the ruling class will only acknowledge these problems when they want to misdirect people’s anger at immigrants or trans people. “everything in america is amazing but whatever isnt is because of illegals and trans women playing sports”
china wants to lift its people out of poverty
the US operates under a system that necessitates the existence of poverty and only wants to exacerbate the problem because that means more money and more people who are easily exploited
Vic 3 is a shitty simulation but I feel like a single playthrough should be enough to illustrate to most people how fucking cooked the u.s. is and how china's going to just keep taking off
they haven't even fully finished de-peasanting and meanwhile the U.S. is actively anti immigrant and ruled by an ideology which by its nature requires a large portion of the population to be unemployed to scare the rest into working harder
the only reason we haven't seen the american GDP decline year over year is because it's propped up by fake bullshit financialism that isn't really backed by real goods or services and which, itself, represents a massive drain against its own economy, meanwhile Chinese GDP growth is really only just getting started
I had listened to an American professor from University of Chicago talking about the manner and magnitude of which the US government is currently outright undermining entire research of American universities in a podcast. It really sounded grim and unprecedented, for narrowest of ideological brain rot too about wokeness and Israel mainly. It is especially funny and ironic in light of all the fearmongering about how "The Left" is preventing science too.
an American professor from University of Chicago talking about the manner and magnitude of which the US government is currently outright undermining entire research of American universities in a podcast.
Can you be slightly more specific? :)
Sure! I didn't because it was not a podcast about this topic specifically but just that episode. It was specifically this episode and it is available on spotify. Gist of it is that they are cutting grants, disallowing student mobility and weaponizing funding to force particular ideologies in the curriculum.
Thanks!
did you mean to include a link?
oops, fixed