is that the right link ? I'm having trouble with it.
halfpipe
joined 4 years ago
China really is living in the future. Building new space stations, high speed rail and ever cheaper, cleaner energy.
Meanwhile , a single US state is approaching its third decade of trying to build a single line of high speed rail, and our federal politics consist of watching our most ancient boomers build a Gestapo while they are actively dying of old age.
This man is in his 50s, with hundreds of billions of dollars and dozens of kids, and this is what he's doing.
like 15 years of stories on how the US is going to Pivot to Asia and Contain China, and it all ends with Donald Trump blowing up the US economy and supply chains on a whim.
The Japanese stock market dropped so quickly at open that they had to flip the circuit breaker and pause trading in the first half hour.
It's amazing how neoliberalism was able to rot everything away so quickly , just the complete destruction of every state capacity.
Whatever happened to people asking their parents to record a few messages so they can hear their voice after they've died, or maybe asking for a lock of hair. Our culture is so terrified to talk about or acknowledge death.
Is there any historical parallel to something as large and complex as the United States trying to run on its own momentum while all the essential bureaucrats and government funding are being purged on a whim? Because that's the position we were in even before Trump decided to blow up the economy.
....is the JDPON Don meme real?
Like half of congress is 70+ at this point. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
How long until most of congress is required to go around in wheelchairs, accompanied by nurses, because the house and senate majorities are so thin that it just takes one or two dinosaurs falling over to reshuffle US politics.
The funniest part is the people saying they just want to put it directly under the state department. Even though this is the organization that funds NGO's and color revolutions.
I guess no one told them how plausible deniability works.
They desperately want to be a do nothing opposition party, it makes them a ton of money.
The Japanese government is currently trying to deal with food shortages from a stupid agricultural policy that has sent the price up rice up 300%. Meanwhile, the US is busy blowing up its own economy while China dog walks Trump over tariffs, and on the military side, the US inventory is so depleted from Israel and Ukraine that they would run out of munitions within the first week of any actual shooting war.