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And as His Orangeness has said, Ghina is expensive.
China: “Wow they’re a lot less tough than we thought”
The US is basically a “this is good for bitcoin”, but as a country.
Its slow, humiliating, public suicide is even more pathetic than great britain’s.
How can people be so delusional?
“When their salary depends on it” is a decent first answer.
hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they’re the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they’re building tons of housing to handle population growth. they’re financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?
no? just wars again? okay.
Chinese people own their homes too
Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don’t want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.
Tell that to the farmhouse in the middle of the M62.
tbh living there in the middle of a highway would be hell
it is disappointing how despite how ahead china is in terms of public transit, they still build car-centric infrastructure like this. at least, unlike north america, shitty car-centric infrastructure is not all there is lol
I’ve never had to use the term ‘Passive-Aggressive Infrastructure’ before but I’m here for it and loving it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house
Spite houses, but I like yours, too
Fascinating as it may be, that’s a pretty horrible picture.
Imagine living that house. It’s a pretty stark demonstration of the state gets what it wants, one way or another.
It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, “We had to show them we were the boss”.
From AI to A-bombs, there’s nothing you can’t get away with by insisting “China Bad! This will stop them!”
It’s a very convenient go-to excuse. And as long as the American public keeps lapping it up, those in power will keep counting on it.
We are operating from a position of strength!
They can’t admit the only reason has been “Money!”
And not even the country’s, just that of a few old pedophiles trying to rape some life out of children in a vain attempt to feel youth again before the grave takes them
I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place
I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they’re only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.
Oh no, debate clubs are actually very good at teaching kids how to discern good information from bad, and how to make proper arguments with supporting evidence. Right wing media teaches gish gallop and never be wrong, it’s these two ideas that have taken over discourse.
Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.
I’d put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there’s been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don’t know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.
Buddy, I could tell you that based on the fact that they’ve lost every single war they’ve been in since WWII.
Tell that to Saddam and Gaddafi.
An open conflict between the US and china would probably end with exactly zero winners and an uninhabitable glowing piece of rock orbiting the sun. Maybe the cockroaches can then find a better path to communism.
I feel like nukes are more just showpieces than item that anyone actually considers using.
probably depends on whose soil it’s on and whether or not it’s a proxy war and/or world war.
China and Iran are allies.
If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.
I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.
I think your last point is pretty accurate. The US side has done a bunch of war games for a Taiwan invasion situation. In these games, the US side barely wins. To me, that’s evidence the US probably loses. All of the Chinese decision making is done by US military people that think like the US military. If the PLA acts differently, they could easily be in a better position. Also, the Chinese capabilities will be based on US intelligence. Unless the Pentagon knows everything about missile ranges, warhead sizes, magazine depth, aircraft speeds and ranges, etc, they won’t be able to anticipate a capability they didn’t know about.
Probably most importantly, China has a vast industrial base and would be much closer to the fighting. All they really have to do is use up the US missile stockpiles and shoot down a few planes (probably while they’re just parked in Okinawa). Once the war becomes about who can manufacture more missiles and planes to replace losses, there’s no way the US will be able to keep up. If it becomes a protracted war, the US loses by default.
Edit: also, I’m not so sure Iran would close the straight. But I don’t think it would matter because part of the US plans involve closing the Malaca straight to starve the Chinese of oil. They’ll do it themselves.
Literally the equivalent of a homeless libertarian laughing at well to do, middle class Chinese people because he thinks he’s better off
demonstrating that the US is willing
Yes, because America is famous for the ambiguity around whether or not we’d go to war with global South nations
and able
No
In that sense, it was already won
The government can behave like a rabid dog, but China would Old Yeller America
Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal
So you’re saying distracting Americans from the Epstein files had nothing to do with it? LOLOL
Americans famously can’t hold more than one idea at time, if Trump shit his pants tomorrow the entire investigation of Epstein is gone.
Please president, hold your shit!!!
Americans famously can’t hold more than one idea at time
This but unironically.
liberals are perpetually born-yesterday.
Show china youre the boss by taking hong kong back and making it independent
And protecting them and taiwan
by taking hong kong back
And returning it to British imperial rule?
Hong Kong, the city that Britain commandeered from the Chinese?
Yeah, sometimes I feel like we should just get it over with and start global thermonuclear war for no reason too. Just end it all, you know?
We had a good run, it’s time for the mole people to have a chance.
We’ve got enough C.H.U.D’s on the surface already, lol
Drop the cheese is not doing you well.
Rhodesia is that way → …oops, too soon?
This plan is around 100 years out of date
