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> (WW2 in Europe started due to US isolationism. Both Germany and Japan thought of the US as country bumpkins in 1940. Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent a

> (WW2 in Europe started due to US isolationism. Both Germany and Japan thought of the US as country bumpkins in 1940. Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa.) Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education. </sarcasm>

Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
It is hypocritical for China or Russia to care about us inequality without considering their own.. Likewise, both countries stances on sexuality, identity, and race/heritage are quite a bit worse than domestic US policy.
tlear 5y ago
It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, CHAZ. Optics are very bad. For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. I am not even sure they are wrong. If they had naval lift capacity they could probably land on Taiwan and US government would do nothing. We will see what happens in US as weather warms up.
- bigbillheck 5y ago
  > It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, [...] For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. Have we already forgotten Hong Kong?
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simonsarris 5y ago
> complete lack of social security net or poor access to education I don't know what leads Americans to be consistently misinformed other than memetic doomsaying but the USA is 5th for education expenditure per capita, and 10th in per capita social welfare spending, both far ahead of OECD average and ahead of Japan, Switzerland, AUS, NL, UK, etc.
- robert_foss 5y ago
  Amount of money spent is a poor indicator of services received. Can anyone go to University? Are down on luck individuals more likely to receive housing or being sent to prison? Can old folks live off of their pension or do they have to work as greeters?
- brokenmachine 5y ago
  Lol, lets create expensive private healthcare that only the privileged 0.01% can afford, then claim we're better because the only metric we're measuring is per capita spending! Brilliant!
redis_mlc 5y ago
> Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education. Yes it does give the appearance of weakness, especially when foreign newspapers feature photos of our burning downtowns. When people from other countries mention it to me, they're not congratulating us for being woke, they're asking what's wrong with us. Maybe somebody indoctrinated you that achieving cultural Marxism is our #1 goal, but that's just navel-gazing. BTW, you're not sarcastic, you're just ignorant. After the Detroit riots in the 60s, the burned areas weren't rebuilt, hurting the very people who torched them, and that was over 50 years ago.
brokenmachine 5y ago
>Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa. I seem to have a distant memory of a grotesque orange trust fund baby that I think could be described as decadent and divisive, is it possible that he had something to do with this?

Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago

It is hypocritical for China or Russia to care about us inequality without considering their own.. Likewise, both countries stances on sexuality, identity, and race/heritage are quite a bit worse than domestic US policy.

tlear 5y ago

It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, CHAZ. Optics are very bad. For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. I am not even sure they are wrong. If they had naval lift capacity they could probably land on Taiwan and US government would do nothing. We will see what happens in US as weather warms up.

bigbillheck 5y ago
> It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, [...] For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. Have we already forgotten Hong Kong?
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simonsarris 5y ago

> complete lack of social security net or poor access to education I don't know what leads Americans to be consistently misinformed other than memetic doomsaying but the USA is 5th for education expenditure per capita, and 10th in per capita social welfare spending, both far ahead of OECD average and ahead of Japan, Switzerland, AUS, NL, UK, etc.

robert_foss 5y ago
Amount of money spent is a poor indicator of services received. Can anyone go to University? Are down on luck individuals more likely to receive housing or being sent to prison? Can old folks live off of their pension or do they have to work as greeters?
brokenmachine 5y ago
Lol, lets create expensive private healthcare that only the privileged 0.01% can afford, then claim we're better because the only metric we're measuring is per capita spending! Brilliant!

redis_mlc 5y ago

> Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education. Yes it does give the appearance of weakness, especially when foreign newspapers feature photos of our burning downtowns. When people from other countries mention it to me, they're not congratulating us for being woke, they're asking what's wrong with us. Maybe somebody indoctrinated you that achieving cultural Marxism is our #1 goal, but that's just navel-gazing. BTW, you're not sarcastic, you're just ignorant. After the Detroit riots in the 60s, the burned areas weren't rebuilt, hurting the very people who torched them, and that was over 50 years ago.

brokenmachine 5y ago

>Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa. I seem to have a distant memory of a grotesque orange trust fund baby that I think could be described as decadent and divisive, is it possible that he had something to do with this?