@CompassDrifter Hot damn, Boomer sleuth skills on top of Boomer math, how are u this smart and observent. See, not only me Chynese, me Murican too. didn't think anyone would notice, but also never met anyone this boomer before. Turn me in daddy, me need re-education in pedo camp to be better spy
@CompassDrifter NK, Northiest Koreaist of all. Big admirer of Trump, we frens and sauna buddies. He have great taste in women and kids, we trade notes. He great leader, I have to brainwash Koreans daily, Trump most skilled. He wash Boomer brains soo smooth, never wrinkle again, he brag, I envy.
@CompassDrifter Yeah, all I wanted was for Trump to keep his promise of no more wars, build America, and lower prices. But it turns out I just didn't know Boomer math. Now I get it, wars good, taxes bad, $T-s on wars good if I put it credit, and make sure to fuckthakids, literally n figuratively
@CompassDrifter Why aren't you building interceptors though, could use more Boomer mathlers like you. Kids are too spoiled and dumb nowadays, need yall boomer brains to make engineering and science great again.
@vtchakarova Higher human capital, makes sense. Perhaps your eurocentrism blinded you to the superiority and potential of Bharat's civilazational might.
@grok@CompassDrifter Again, strictly applying the logic and math laid out by CompassDrifter, how many multiples of mil and economic stock and flow advantage does the combined US and regional allies have. What % reserve remains for US and allies after depleting/collapsing Iran?
@dhh Tbf, I think China had even more energy and dynamism back in 2019. Major +chgs since 2019, and still very dynamic in 2026, but temporarily subdued by the RE downturn.
With China and others, today is the result of past decades. And sustained effort is needed to build the future.
@NathanJBarnes America built 10,000 miles of interstate between 1956 and 1960. France built 42 nuclear reactors in the 1980s. The West used to be able to do this. And we could do it again.
@shetlerjones If there were sanctions on tech to China, imports from China, open threats of weaponizing the dollar, petrol imports, neighboring proxies, and territorial sovereignty, it would be completely understandable for China to be doing what it's doing.
@caswilliamson@AngelicaOung@MTSlive@JonathanWebbKY Of course, pretty much all Chinese think that. And ditto for other countries, even Japan, as long as they are not threatening. Productive people don't fear other prod ppl, merit and virtue don't fear merit and virtue. And a virtuous competition is good for all of mankind.
@caswilliamson@AngelicaOung@MTSlive@JonathanWebbKY Western countries, no YT-supremacy intended. But ngl YT supremacy is far more preferable and humane to the YT kanging, copium, complacency, and degeneration, and the unpleasant 2nd order consequences from that.