shhh that never happened. they were big meanies who did the warsaw pact for no reason and the USA made NATO in response to their aggression towards poor mr. hitler
Well knowing this won't happen just made me irrationally angry
Xi please, my country yearns for infrastructure! :traingang: :xi-clap:
Polical Economic murder suicide on a short geologic timeframe
China needs to frame it as the Trolley Problem Initiative. More trolleys means more opportunities for the philosophers to mow down the innocent
Damn, kinda unironically wish the US wasn't too petty and stupid to accept this. The rail system really needs help :/
Yeah, I live here, so does my wife, my son, my sister, my in laws- everyone I love.
I don't want a collapse here. But one is inevitable so I try to look on the bright side that we'll be less able to do evil abroad.
But man, if we could just calm down and peacefully work with China and the rest of the world that'd be pretty nice.
If the US collapses we outsource half of our enlisted as expats for merc and private security outfits. It will be bad either way.
Didn’t the US purposely torpedo the rail system to sell more cars?
Allegedly, GM did so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
I think certain cities have contracts with CRRC. If it was going to happen, it'd be done quietly with only local publicity at best. I doubt the US is going to publicly and proudly proclaim their entrance into the BRI.
President Xi, My name is Miguel Perez. I am 8 years old. I live in Queens. My government is killing my family, and the CDC is not giving us help even though COVID is getting worse. Please send CRH2 Hexie high-speed trains.
The shade of it all. We did some messy drama trying to get back with an ex and got curved. All our firends are avoiding us cause of it. And now an old fling just disrespect fully hit us with a booty call. Bonus, they are noce and it would be healthy but we are to messy to process it.
that new ed sheeran taylor swift song
no I haven't listened to it but i know I'm right
Nah, in terms of Taylor Swift song themes that one's more under the "love's a game, wanna play?" and "all the boys in their expensive cars never took me quite where you do" (though you're totally right for avoiding Ed Sheehan at all costs)
If you want a Taylor Swift song for the vibe comrade Cashflow posted, you're probably looking for like Long Story Short or Closure mixed with a campy one like either This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, or I Forgot That You Existed
What would happen if just California and Hawaii joined the BRI?
What the hell is wong with California anyway? The place seems like a neolib hell, but why the fuck does the non-libs in the State seem so extra unhinged? Like a lot of chuds think California is communist, because they have blacks and jews and gays, and doesn't seem particularly bothered by these peoples existence, but non of that is particularly unique to Cali, while the brand of chud from there seems pretty localized.
we have a very small welfare state (this place would be apocalyptic without it lmao) as compared to other states, along with shit like CARB and smog testing (for good reason) and comparitively high taxes and as much as 60%-70% non white populations in some areas drives people insane and convinces them they are under government tyranny
also a lot of our laws really are pretty dumb, they're the epitome of like progressive liberalism where you try to do something nice but it isn't compatible with capitalism as it exists so it winds up being completely pointless at best and borderline malicious at worst, like really lenient sentencing for crime (bad idea without anything to support it lol) and draconian gun laws
honestly though I feel like a lot of it boils down to insecurity and racism, this state used to be pretty conservative and almost completely white so seeing a lot of the city centers turn into extremely overcrowded (a lot of the Bay for example was farmland as recently as the late 70's) and frankly shitty places filled with a bunch of brown (who do your garden and stand outside of El Hon Depo) and yellow people (the yellow people who make more money than you) made a lot of people go fucking insane. Like the entire Bay Area used to be a stronghold of the KKK and shit, and so did LA county. The #1 complaint I see people make is about demographics. This place was basically an ethnostate at one point, the California natives were peaceful and were wiped out pretty much instantly by the different waves of settlers and Mexico/New Spain never really set up here as much as they did in Texas so it was pretty much all honkies at one point. The state is like close to being majority Mexican iirc, and most of that population is scattered in the farm towns where poverty and meth and gangs are nuts. There is not many left in the cities due to how expensive it is so it's all Chinese immigrants and wealthy Indians moving in who inspire homocidal rage in all of the "natives", white and nonwhite.
also the communist thing is just American brainrot, there's no real explanation for it. It doesn't make sense because it's not supposed to. I think it originally started as a joke but people here in the US are so unhinged that anything except the Congo Free state is full communism. If you really press people they will just say "nanny state, high taxes, sanctuary cities, illegal immigrants, too many rules/regulations = communism"
California is honestly kind of a fucked up place. It's like a beta test of the rest of the USA and by Allah this entire country will be Brazil but worse in the coming decades. The informal racial caste system forming in the Bay, the impossible rents, the tent cities, the ultra militarized and racist police, etc.
like SF is basically a treat factory/amusement park for the rich, it's fucking surreal and bizarre to see someone in rags puking their guts out from crack withdrawals next to a coffee shop that charges $20 for a tiny shot, this inspires revulsion in anyone sane and since liberals are so ineffectual/dumb the only people who really point out how terribly fucked it all is tend to be conservatives and since the social milieu of the state tends to shun open displays of conservatism they tend to cluster together into malignant circlejerks that leads to all the ultra conservatives to flee to their suburbs and small towns where they just get even crazier
it's like a lot of thing honestly, this state has so much shit going own it is borderline its own country
really lenient sentencing for crime (bad idea without anything to support it lol)
Lenient sentencing is not California's issue, holy shit, have you ever driven down I5?
yeah probably my fault for going off anecdotes again, since I know of a few people who have been release from prison/county multiple times despite having a very long criminal record...
It's essentially a geopolitical troll, they're forcing the US to explicitly reject the invitation to the future shared community of mankind. Relying on the US rejecting
:xi-lib-tears: hey america, want a piece of communism?
:xicko: what's that, you're too stubborn? that's too bad
:xi-lib-tears: Join your economic war? Lol. Not going to happen. But would you like to get in on some awesome infrastructure?
profit good :amerikkka-clap:
nationalism good:amerikkka-clap:
ethnocentrism good:amerikkka-clap:
unipolarity good:amerikkka-clap:
