Woke culture and political correctness are why China is eating our lunch. What a fantastic 10 minutes, thanks Bill Maher!

  • SadSoulja [love/loves]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • vccx [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • SadSoulja [love/loves]
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        4 years ago

        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

    • Uncle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Globalism is when America subjugates the entire globe.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Why shouldn't the most populous country be the most powerful country? Isn't that just representative democracy?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Aren’t the libs globalists?

      Globalism is when my empire spans the entire globe.