Woke culture and political correctness are why China is eating our lunch. What a fantastic 10 minutes, thanks Bill Maher!
Kinda terrifying that the libs and the chuds are gonna learn all the wrong lessons from China. Next they gonna be like “China successful cuz cONfUCiAn tRAdITiONaL FaMiLY vAluEs aND oRIeNTaL wORK eTHiCs”
They never learn. We've seen it throughout the pandemic, libs and chuds alike going "well yeah, when you're an authoritarian dictatorship with total disregard for human rights, you can enact an effective lockdown", never noticing that the only "authoritarian dictatorships" that didn't royally fuck up their pandemic response were the PRC, the DPRK, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos. I wonder what these states have in common that other states don't have, because having a ton of cops and a giant surveilance aparatus is obviously not useful in itself or the US wouldn't have to put their corpse overflow into cooling trucks.
Haha. High Speed Rail goes Vroom.
Like, Maher's right about one thing. Americans don't do anything anymore. They point at a problem, shout about it, blame each other, fight like rabid wombats over the top spot, and then settle in to simply defend the degraded status quo. But Maher's also a symptom of that do-nothing-ness. His entire career is predicated on finding flamboyant conservative peacocks to argue with in between trying to get Cancelled into his next multi-million dollar media gig.
Say what you will about Jon Stewart, but the man finds a passion and then throws his heart into it. Even if he's a naive lib-brained baby, at times, his heart is in the right place. But Maher's a mercenary who just wants to be on a winning team. He's mad that China is coming out ahead, but he won't actually use his platform to seriously push for any of the shit he says we're supposed to care about. I'm not sure he even knows how to anymore. All he can do is "Grind My Gears" bits every week, as the country crumbles around him.
It's one thing to be ignorant but these boomer libs just want America #1. Nothing tangible, just America to be "the best." Moderate Rebels did an episode interviewing a Canadian Chinese citizen who said something great, that no Chinese people give a shit about America, in favor or against. Their media does not report bad things about America all the time even though there are things they could complain about.
I think that the impulse that drives it is the same as the one that makes racists terrified of becoming a minority. They know that all the shit about rising tides and helping is bullshit, these libs lived through the height of the cold war. They are afraid that the US is going to be treated like they've been treating others.
I’ve been reading loads of Quora answers from Chinese citizens about living in their country or opinions on their government. They dont have a hate boner for their government or America at all.
these boomer libs just want America #1. Nothing tangible, just America to be “the best.”
That's all American media seems to be, anymore. A bunch of stuffed suits doing dick-measuring contests, while alternately trying to agitate or appease the masses with "We're Losing!" and "We're Winning!" headlines.
Earlier in the same show he said the worst crony capitalism is better than communism
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I'd like someone to ask Bill to define communism and then buckle myself in for the cringe.
communism is when talk show hosts have to pay higher taxes
Ah, so you too hatewatch Bill Maher. :cheeto-man: :thicc-trump: We are in good company.
Seriously though I should stop, it really is self harm at this point.
Better for Maher, an entrenched crony, sure.
Like asking the fox about his ideal hen house.
Nice try, I'll never watch another second of this smug loser
New Rule
Do you know who the real smug losers are?
The Republicans.
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Libs literally can't believe China before their very eyes because the concept of proletarian control of the government (to any degree) is outside their framework of understanding. That's why we had thirty years of business editorials saying "China's rise isn't real; it can't hurt me".
That’s why we had thirty years of business editorials saying “China’s rise isn’t real; it can’t hurt me”.
"It's not real, but if it is, it's because the CCP were actually capitalists all along."
What's hilarious is that he bitched earlier in the show about young people liking communism while claiming we can't understand communism because the USSR was before our time.
As if his ignorant ass has ever been to the USSR himself. As if he isn't just mindlessly regurgitating all the Cold War propaganda he was raised on.
Meanwhile I'm laughing my ass off at how he's legit so terrified of that scene from Joker that the only people under the age of 40 he has on as guests anymore are all lab grown CIA boy wonder Pete Butigei-howeverthefuckyouspellit motherfuckers.
That's how scared he is of ordinary young people and how narcissistic he is, he actually thinks he's important enough to be anyone's target.
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he’s legit so terrified of that scene from Joker that the only people under the age of 40 he has on as guests anymore are [...]
Did he for real express a fear of that?
As if he isn’t just mindlessly regurgitating all the Cold War propaganda he was raised on.
USSR fall down, go boom. America remains standing. Therefore, America is best.
It's right here in this History of America: The Reagan Years written by Newt Gingrich's second wife, you stupid leftist. What do you don't understand?
why China is eating our lunch.
Please season your food more. Thanks.
I truly don’t understand libs/neolibs who think China becoming a major player on the world stage is a bad thing even if they “overtake the US” which seems to mean a bunch of different things. Aren’t the libs globalists? China and every other country for that matter getting to America’s level of wealth is the goal I thought. Maybe it’s because they worry Chinese people won’t buy as much useless bullshit that comprises such a huge % of the US economy. And obviously racism/Cold War mindset... but I’d imagine the major players in American capital like a Bezos or Charles Koch (or David, whichever one isn’t dead yet 😂) are extremely psyched about China’s economic rise. That’s another billion-plus customers for them to sell shit to
-Soulja
They're globalists, but with the unspoken precondition that the globe must be dominated by white people.
Thats why there was a bipartisan consensus on kicking Japan down in the 1980s despite Japan being neoliberal and a client state.
Capitalism destroys anyone that isn't in first place. Imagine the shitshow that the American economy will be once Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix are getting their shit kicked in and Hollywood is reduced to exporting the 48th season of big brother and nothing else.
Just look how irrelevant British culture is on the world stage and how useless white American libs will feel when they're reading captions and the white guy is killed in the first 15 minutes of every movie. Imagine Hollywood except it's Chinese, the shit they make is good and it's all massively Communist.
Losing to China over and over again will splinter the American project as much as Gorbachev's secret speech tore the Soviet Union in half. It will destroy morale and exhaust the country. Exhaustion is what killed the Soviet Union and exhaustion is what will kill the American Empire.
Agreed but I think the real American ballers will be okay with making $50 billion off the Chinese and only $25 billion off America in the near future. The culture and average Americans will get tired of losing though, whatever that means
-Soulja
Why shouldn't the most populous country be the most powerful country? Isn't that just representative democracy?
Aren’t the libs globalists?
Globalism is when my empire spans the entire globe.
China's only a problem for the US because we want to make them a problem. They'll do business with us or they'll do business with Europe or with India or Indonesia or whomever. They don't really care.
If you want to talk about a real challenge to US hegemony, look to South America. Losing control down there means crippling our access to a whole host of natural resources that form the basis of our domestic wealth and trade dominance. Those states have a serious reason to beef with the US. And any kind of Iraq-style invasion threatens violence spilling over into the US in a manner that really could change how we exist as an empire.
OP, you missed out on Maher's bad take of this week where he said he believed that the Atlanta Spa Shootings were not racially motivated.
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Insecure chronically horny incel fetishizes Asian women
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Lashes out at Asian sex workers
Conclusion:
- These attacks couldn't have been racially motivated because the perpetrator was horny
Glenn Greenwald was pushing the same lib-tier shit on his Substack. The need to "But Aktuly" the conversation is strong among white men for some crazy reason.
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