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Our politics here in the UK is a bit shit...but the US, WOW! A shit show if there ever was one
China number 1 by 2028.In economic terms. Probably the only thing surprising is how quickly they’re scheduled to overtake the US.
Good. The USofA is just one big human centipede. We deserve to be shit on.
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I do NOT want to eat no ones shit, so I'm either at the front or you and your metaphor can go to hell.
Yeah, what could go wrong handing over the keys as the sole superpower to China?
Handing over the keys? They practically own the building at this point. Nearly every country is rotten to the core I'm afraid. I just hope the next five or six generations have more humanity and less greed. Western democracies need to get their shit in order and quick.
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Nope, you're behind the 400lb dude with excessive gooch grease.
How surprising! While China has been planning ahead, the US built a system that favors the rich and doesn't care for the remaining and decided to spend the rest of the time in talking about identity politics. Who would have thought that it will come to this.
China as the main super power will be way worse than USA.
Ask any Chinese citizen and they will tell you that their system only favours the rich as well. The reason they are going to be number one economy is down to planning and bigger work force. India at one point will cross the USA as well. The work force advantage is too big
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Why do you think that?
Because they are an entirely authoritarian state dictatorship with a hatred of democracy and freedom.
But luckily they won't be the sole superpower, regardless of supposed GDP projections. For a start, the Chinese economic figures cannot be trusted. And secondly, they are still way behind when it comes to technology, despite what they would have you believe.
Let's not forget, for example, that the USA landed people on the moon over 50 years ago. Something that China still has not been able to do.
What’s all this ‘sole superpower’ nonsense anyway? China are becoming a superpower, it’s not a single role that only one country can hold. By the end of this century there could be 3 or 4 superpowers.
China’s middle class has increased significantly while in most other countries, including the US, it’s been shrinking. Their middle class alone is as big as the whole US population. That’s a significant number of its population that has disposable income to buy cars, iPhones, property, take vacations, send their kids to universities in America or Europe, and just being a competitor in the global market. The sleeping giant has awoken.
and i don’t think they’re a completely authoritarian state today are they? Not that it matters because it doesn’t mean they won’t become an even bigger economic superpower in the near future.
and i don’t think they’re a completely authoritarian state today are they? Not that it matters because it doesn’t mean they won’t become an even bigger economic superpower in the near future.
Assuming this is correct, why will it automatically make Chinese power in the world “way worse” than American power? How will it impact beyond China’s borders in such a way?
It's already impacted Hong Kong, with any pretence of "One Country Two Systems" being swept away.
China has expansionist ambitions. It annexed Tibet in the 1950s. It represents a major threat to the democracy and freedom of Taiwan. It claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, which threatens freedom of navigation in that area and causes maritime disputes with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It is disputing Ladahk with India. It has occupied the Himalayan plateau of Doklam, which one of the world’s smallest countries, Bhutan, claims as its territory. It is in dispute with Japan over the East China sea. The list goes on.
America as a superpower - NATO involvement aside - has made a mess of its role for a long time, witness the Vietnam war, propping up far-right governments in South and Central America, and more. But China, if it attains similar world-wide influence, would be much worse: see (for example) its long-time support for N.Korea, see its mass concentration camps for the Uighurs.
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Fantastic use a photoshop found on FB.
Republicans on red dit feel this is an own goal by Turtle. Voters dont want to hear about Section 230 at the moment.
The reason the US must be supported in a new cold war against Red China and reactionary Russia is its robust liberal democracy, which is reflected outside its borders in its worldwide fight against authoritarianism, and, most important, its commitment to a rules-based international order that has allowed business to lift billions from poverty.
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After GOP repeatedly blocked vote on $2,000 checks, 41 Democrats joined McConnell to advance $740 billion Pentagon bill
https://www.rawstory.com/after-gop-...billion-pentagon-bill/#comments_section_start
https://www.rawstory.com/after-gop-...billion-pentagon-bill/#comments_section_start
The Democrats do not have your best interests at heart. It's time progressives wake up to this reality.
The two bills aren't related to one another so why hold up the other strictly for political reasons ?
Because we're in the middle of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?
Also, think about the fact that you're asking why politicians should look to hold up a bill for political reasons.
They're not related though, so why hold up one area of governance to sulk about why another you support isn't moving forward.
Corporate Democrats are beholden to the MIC, and it's donors. How else can they make money from endless, pointless wars. They know where their priorities lie, and it is not with the average worker.
And start voting. Let's not beat round the bush. The reason why they don't give a shit is because at the moment, their votes don't count for shit. Unseat these guys and you will maybe see changes.
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Because leverage over Mitch McConnell is the single rarest substance in the universe, quickly followed by a split Senate Republican caucus, and both were present in this case. Note that the 41 Democrats were crucial, because 5 Republicans voted against the motion, and more than a dozen abstained or were absent. Without the Mitch-Democrat bipartisan success, the 2000 bill would still be up there.
Holding up the defense bill isn't leverage though, since it would cost the Dems far more political capital to do that than to just let it go through.
Let’s not pretend that the American public has a very long memory. Holding up the defense bill was absolutely the right thing to do, considering the leverage it was putting on Mitch (risk not having a defense bill as he wants if Dems win the senate, and Dems campaigning on Georgia ‘vote Republican if you don’t want to get 2000 dollars’). Trump (out of spite cause Mitch ‘betrayed’ him by accepting Biden as president-elect) gave to the Dems a penalty, and somehow they managed to score an own goal. fecking pathetic the lots of them.
It evidently didn't cost almost 20 members of the GOP caucus any capital.
The NDAA is far to complicated to go back and redo, and frankly so that's not likely, especially since Biden doesn't seem to have any issues with it.
https://brandonmagner.substack.com/p/the-best-labor-law-book-i-read-in?
A former NLRB lawyer and New Deal superstar recounts his time enforcing the Wagner Act.
A former NLRB lawyer and New Deal superstar recounts his time enforcing the Wagner Act.
I might have to pick this up. Political history is always interesting to me. Thanks!
Not sure China is a good alternative.. Can't Canada take over? They seem nice.
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