• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Maybe but also factor in that people have been predicting the downfall of the USA since the 1960s.

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      Absolutely. In the video, he comments on that . Downfalls can take decades or even centuries of bad decisions.

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        That is why I doubt there will be a catastrophic fall for decades to come.

        The USSR ended in 1991 and the russian federation, while still in a downward spiral, has not fallen yet. If not for the Ukraine was it would likely have continued for a long time.

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      Yes and those people were right. Speaking frankly, it’s falling apart. People don’t really think of it that way because the Colts are still playing, Taco Bell is open and Taylor Swift is touring. The circus is ever going, but the bread is starting to mold.

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      Jesus’s return tour has been delayed since the year 1000. I don’t listen to the doomsayers. While I see the traditional American lifestyle ending there won’t be a hard collapse. Cities are already evolving and the rural areas whose conservative values helped cause this mess are dying.

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    For sure! That dumb shit loser George WMD Bush kicked that shit off into high gear after Reagan, Daddy Bush, and Weirdo Clinton ruined our global standing.

    Fuck the elites and their shitshow.

    Edit: BTW what we have isn’t capitalism it’s psycho capitalism. Basically the wrong people are in charge. ELITES. Shit bags. Losers. Black sheep fucks. Communism has that too. The reality is nothing works if it’s corrupt so arguing that capitalism vs communism are the problem is myopic as fuck. Shut up. It’s not either or. It’s corruption and shit bag elites who DIDNT EARN THEIR PLACES.

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          Say all the bad things you like about China. For a long while they were pumping out greenhouse gases and pollutants at a rate unseen before. Toxic Hazes descended on the cities. And people had to stay inside for their health.

          Suddenly though in recent years. A lot of that has started to change. They’re adopting renewable energy, far more readily than even the United States and making drastic progress. While we waffle on dancing for capitalist and fascist. I have no desire to implement the sort of political structure China has. Nor is China communist in any meaningful sense. But your comment is wildly uneducated.

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            7 months ago

            They’re building 6 new coal plants… please show me how they’re the bastion of green energy again.

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              How does that negate any of what I said? Hell it’s possible to be more environmentally friendly by replacing old polluting coal plants with slightly cleaner newer ones. Regardless, it doesn’t change the fact that they are actually investing it heavily in renewables as well. Whereas in America we’ve got a bunch of dumbasses arguing that windmills give you cancer etc etc etc.

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                Lol what the fuck…and Chinas standard for building stuff has almost 0 of the safety and environmental standards the rest of the developed world has.

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            7 months ago

            Ah yes dirty capitalist… it’s all their fault…I remember WWII vs Russia and China and how we won…

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      The problem is billionaires will squeeze every last drop out of everything before the inevitable kaboom