President Biden on China: "They have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world and the most powerful country in the world. That's not going to happen on my watch." pic.twitter.com/GAZUqnpY9G— USA TODAY Politics (@usatodayDC) March 25, 2021
The US is truly out of ideas. The basic reality is that China is a rapidly developing nation with immense productive capacity, and four times the US population. As development reaches parity with the US, that means China will be doing four times as much production, four times as much research, four times as much culture. The only way to stop the rise of China is to embark in a futile apocalyptic conflict. The best shit the ghouls can come up with is "what if we had one billion Americans," or what if we work the plebians even harder so we can have an even bigger pile of pointy sticks.
The rational conclusion is acceptance. The Great Satan has had a good run as far as empires and world systems go, but its shortsightedness and its reluctance to reform has doomed it. You cannot intentionally keep masses of people impoverished domestically and under the boot globally and expect to be more productive than a social system which aims to lift as many people as possible to self-actualization. No amount of prisons or guns will be able to build what a society of empowered people can build.
And no, China isn't perfect. They aren't the fully automated luxury gay space communist utopia we're dreaming of, but at this stage of history they appear to be much less hindered by a recalcitrant dogma which discards the notion of socialism outright - and that's all it will take to blow this house of cards over.
In the past year we ignored the pandemic while printing 10+ trillion dollars, 1/4th all circulating USD, just to prop the stock market back up. China spent that year continuing the largest infrastructure expansion in human history while also managing a pandemic.
China has built tens of thousands of kilometers of high speed rail, we're still screwing around with a 170 mile test track in California that is billions overbudget.
The US spent more on the failed F-35 jet than China did on the entire Belt and Road program.
I could go on for a long time, but I think those three comparisons are all you need to make up your mind about which of these two countries has a future. The US is going nowhere good anytime soon.
The US is truly out of ideas. The basic reality is that China is a rapidly developing nation with immense productive capacity, and four times the US population. As development reaches parity with the US, that means China will be doing four times as much production, four times as much research, four times as much culture. The only way to stop the rise of China is to embark in a futile apocalyptic conflict. The best shit the ghouls can come up with is "what if we had one billion Americans," or what if we work the plebians even harder so we can have an even bigger pile of pointy sticks.
The rational conclusion is acceptance. The Great Satan has had a good run as far as empires and world systems go, but its shortsightedness and its reluctance to reform has doomed it. You cannot intentionally keep masses of people impoverished domestically and under the boot globally and expect to be more productive than a social system which aims to lift as many people as possible to self-actualization. No amount of prisons or guns will be able to build what a society of empowered people can build.
And no, China isn't perfect. They aren't the fully automated luxury gay space communist utopia we're dreaming of, but at this stage of history they appear to be much less hindered by a recalcitrant dogma which discards the notion of socialism outright - and that's all it will take to blow this house of cards over.
In the past year we ignored the pandemic while printing 10+ trillion dollars, 1/4th all circulating USD, just to prop the stock market back up. China spent that year continuing the largest infrastructure expansion in human history while also managing a pandemic.
China has built tens of thousands of kilometers of high speed rail, we're still screwing around with a 170 mile test track in California that is billions overbudget.
The US spent more on the failed F-35 jet than China did on the entire Belt and Road program.
I could go on for a long time, but I think those three comparisons are all you need to make up your mind about which of these two countries has a future. The US is going nowhere good anytime soon.
Aside from the prospect of World War Three, it is so fun watching the blob people try to cope with this reality.
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Yeah don't forget the golden rule of "nothing good can ever happen"