@JackedTechBro@jordanschneider Beijing is actually more like Washington DC, Dallas is more like some city in northwest China that got rich off coal and oil, there local Chinese ppl really do love fully loaded SUV and pickup trucks
@mitchpresnick It’s become a major problem in this country that smart Americans don’t want to work in government. You can’t expect a bunch of mediocre, or even stupid, people to run a superpower well:)
@morris_que14 the Roman and Han empires preferred using barbarian nobles who married local women, a barbarian woman who married into the empire didn't really have much of a presence
@JimMillward To the Romans and the Greeks, there was no rival more worthy of attention than each other—a relationship not unlike that between Americans and the Chinese today. To the freedom loving Greeks, Rome was a relentlessly disciplined engine of organized violence lol