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I mean, in the end, USA is still better than the alternative.
by StefanBatory 2y ago
I mean, in the end, USA is still better than the alternative.
- tuyguntn 2y agoUSA is still better for whom? Can't remember which countries where bombed by China in last 50 years, but I can give you plenty of examples for the USA
- rcarmo 2y agoThe civilizational alternative is Europe. The economic alternative, that we can debate...
- slaw 2y agoEurope, especially UK, France and Germany degraded so much it is no longer any alternative.
- HeadInTheClouds 2y agoWith respect this is a fairly daft comment
- rcarmo 2y agoEconomically, perhaps. Brexit certainly didn't help Europe as a whole, and German, French and Italian politics have been off-kilter for years, but it's still, by and large, an ethical and civilized place to live in. I will freely grant that Euro money goes to completely obsolete heavy industries and luxury items rather than technology innovation (and blame all politicians for missing out on technology), but there are outliers like ASML that almost make up for the whole thing...
- slaw 2y agoUK, German and French cities are no longer civilized places to live in.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoI was in Berlin three weeks ago, what are you even talking about?
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoHow so?
- StefanBatory 2y agoWe are not alternative to anything. We are so hopelessly behind USA, and it doesn't seem it can be changed. Choice is - USA or China. And I certainly know in which world I'd rather live.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoU.S. and Chinese hegemony are just different kinds of bad. We could put the pros and cons up and debate it endlessly, but in the end ranking them is pointless, humanity should just be trying to make a better alternative
- krapp 2y agoI don't know. Living in a country where being able to shoot people is an absolute, immutable, inalienable right granted by God himself (more so than anything else in the Bill of Rights) but where access to food, shelter, healthcare and education are all expensive privileges subject to the whims of the free market, and where half of the population doesn't even believe viruses are real, and where you don't even need the popular vote to elect a President (it's just nice to have) because the electoral system is a series of 18th century compromises to keep slavers happy... doesn't seem like the best of all possible worlds to me.
- rcarmo 2y agoIt does if you're quickly converging into the Handmaid's Tale universe. May the odds be ever in their favor - I'm quite happy we don't carry guns to make it through the day...
- MiiMe19 2y agoYou do not have a right to other people's work. I should not be forced to give you food because you are too lazy to do it yourself. If you do not work, you do not eat, just like Jamestown.
- krapp 2y agoYes, all the poor are simply lazy, and you yourself have never ever benefited from the collective labor of society.
- MiiMe19 2y agoYou do not deserve to eat just by existing (unless you are disabled or medically cannot work). Saying this is true implies that you have a right to other people's labor, which you do not.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoLand, water, air and light used to produce food are not owned by any particular human either. The monopolization of that land (at the point of a gun most often) is the beginning of the issue. The overuse of that land, often subsidized heavily by taxpayers, in order to generate exorbitant profit for the few is a rot in human society. Those owners are the actual ones who don't work and expect a reward for it