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China today is not a communist nation despite the name of the ruling party.
Really? Change the name then. Or change the party. How else do you expect me to read the situation when it's in the fucking name and the regime itself explicitly states a commitment to socialist ideology?
Taiwan is not a vassal of the US. That's pure projection because you want to make it a vassal of Beijing, which they don't want.
The US is abandoning its support for Taiwan
You wish. I know Trump and I can see what he's doing. Taiwan is a red line. If the government didn't support Taiwan then they'd have to be replaced immediately, then you really would be dealing with a rogue state and one that would be far more likely to abuse nuclear weapons than Trump. You're not getting Taiwan.
Uh huh, racial resentment. I get it. I can relate.
What does that have to with your attempts at turning Taiwan communist? We don't care that you're better at math. That's not the reason we're going to war. We're going to war because you're the antagonistic dictatorial rogue state, not us.
What about ICE in USA today?
The anecdote is even dumber than I expected. Yes, in order to avoid becoming Europe, and during wartime, the US adopted some of the tactics traditionally used by dictatorships, such as deporting people that came here illegally.
Ultimately US power is a mix of soft and hard power and you are squandering the soft power under Trump, alienating those who were formerly closely aligned to your values- because your values has changed to that of a global bully and authoritarian despot.
Nonsense. We were hated long before Trump started defending the border. The things you're calling "values" are patterns that were literally killing us. No country can survive the toxic combination of mass immigration and a nanny state. You would not tolerate mass immigration from Japan to your country.
In what sick world is Trump a despot and the IRGC are freedom fighters?
NZ authorities are warning NZers not to travel to the US as the new visa rules mean you are required to show all social media posts for the last 5 years and can face immediate ban and forced removal from US with zero right of appeal. The USA is becoming a police state.
They should tell you to migrate to California and start planning arson and assassinations with the other leftists. You won't get deported from here.
You don't actually believe Trump is a dictator. You're literally just butthurt that you lost the election because you wanted us to sell out Taiwan, because you have some kind of ethnic grudge and you're convinced that stomping on the best of Asia militarily is actually a way to stick it to the white man, even though the half-white US is a minority of the anti-communist coalition.
Don't worry, the US will be balkanized and irrelevant soon enough. It doesn't matter. Support from a third of the US is more than enough to topple the PRC. Again, the communists' fight is with God, not the US. They're doomed.
China is showing a new model where you develop your economy on your terms- you do not dictate to trade partners what they should do and certainly do not invade them, assassinate their leaders or kidnap and threaten them with being bombed back to the stone ages.
Oh boo-hoo. Poor "ser rico es malo" Maduro got kidnapped when he was just minding his own business not hurting anyone, trying to lift Venezuela out of poverty. Who is this argument for? There's no way you actually believe this.
As an observer I would suggest most Chinese have accepted economic advancement is a priority over the supposed 'freedoms' of the western citizen.
It doesn't matter if it's a majority. We're not talking about the freedom to smoke pot. We're talking about not having to worry about getting sent to a concentration camp with no due process because your pastor committed a wrongthink. (Cue some retarded comparison to something the US did 100 years ago to one or two people under a Democrat presidency.)
Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea were not free, sovereign countries simply by virtue of not hosting a US military base. It doesn't look like the totalitarian dictorship is only a means to an end of opposing US influence. Rather, it seems they oppose the US only because they want to maintain their totalitarian dictorship.
And they gave up their freedom for nothing, because the US is still able to overpower them and the PRC militarily.
In any case, Taiwan hasn't accepted the argument and doesn't want to become a puppet state of the communist party. The communists have absolutely nothing of value to offer them. So if (when) the reds insist that "self-determination" means taking more clay, the US will make sure they end up in a new Nuremberg Trial.
Hard to keep refining rare earths when your citizens would rather drive a car into a playground than keep working for your hellhole of a socialist utopia. The communists are essentially in insurrection-supression mode all the time because everyone has a personalized reason to hate them and no one has an outlet for change. Whatever tactical advantage you think you possess is dead in the water if your society revolves around constant coercion for the greater good. People don't like being told to die for someone else's right to command them to die. The most patriotic members of society are living in a bubble where for some reason communism worked out for them. It's not working in the eyes of God.
The bottom line is you can't use GDP growth to justify tyranny. Besides being untrue, God doesn't like it. The interceptors aren't the issue.
What do we need interceptors for if your missiles can't reach us? Oh yeah it's the commies' own "compatriots" who deal with all the risks of getting shot at. Apparently we love China more than you do, if you'd sooner kill them than allow them to not be communist.
I wish I could find the meme, but I'm thinking of the one where the ancoms are digging a ditch, and an ancap asks why they're using shovels instead of machines. They claim they're creating jobs. Ancap asks, "In that case, why not use spoons?"
The final outcome is as yet undecided.
It's decided. If the PRC isn't protecting the IRGC then it's over. Iran either gets regime change and starts to recover and become a rich country and a US ally, or they just get bombed every time they try to rebuild their military. Either way, the result for the PRC is unsustainably high oil prices.
what creates wealth is producing more than you consume and USA has not done that for over 50 years
There's a lot to unpack here. I think you're employing a degree of envious commie brainrot logic, where working in a greasy factory with your hands is somehow inherently more productive or deserving of income than sending emails from a desk. More difficult and less pleasant doesn't mean more productive. I do agree the people of China work harder and it counts for something, but that's not what makes a society wealthy. You need a system that protects property rights so that work is actually meaningful on an individual level. Otherwise why would any person with self-esteem voluntarily participate in your society? The best you can hope for is support from people with some ethnic grudge, and even they would rather live in the West.
When you factor in Strategy the US owns five times as much Bitcoin as China. God knows what the disparity looks like if we consider individual and state accumulation, not to mention US allies. Bitcoin is a serious logistical weapon that you, being a dumb commie, still think is only a subplot in this war, because you want a petroyuan as revenge for the petrodollar. That's not how it works. The old system is dead for everyone. You're celebrating a seizure of muskets when we've already moved on to rifles.
By the way, when we talk American living standards declining, that's all relative to ourselves in the 90's and earlier. Relative to the majority of the world, US wealth is literally unbelievable. The US can be fighting multiple wars at once and the price of gasoline stays less than half what it is in the UK. Could the PRC have stationed multiple bases on every continent while fighting in the Middle East for decades over nothing? And still get overnight delivery on cherry flavored popcorn anywhere in the country? No. And that's while the US is a mixed economy. If we adopt real capitalism and shut down the socialists then world domination is all but inevitable.
Even if I'm starting to like the Libertarianism concepts and understand the importance of the full sovereignty of people, I'm still doubtful on if a society like this would even work; if it's just utopia or ome degree of centralization/delegation to the public State is needed at the end.
If it resembles other radically ideological mass movements then it probably ends with the most opportunistic and violent elements coopting it into something even more tyrannical than the old state but with new rationalizations, as those tend to be the most politically involved and influential.
You know how you can tell who the bad guys are? They'll offer you free healthcare. The guy who says fuck off and pay for it yourself, he's the person who will leave you alone and isn't trying to use you as cannon fodder.
Over the last 40 years the US got more socialist and the PRC got more capitalist. Socialism can't exist without leeching off capitalism. Eventually the parasite runs out of host blood.
You think average people would recognize a superman if they saw one? They don't. Stupid doesn't see genius.
“The War Powers Resolution is a sideshow. The real element here is that under Nuremberg International law principles adopted by Congress, we are engaged in a criminal war of aggression,”
God has a different definition. The IRGC is formally committed to agression against civilians and is therefore not entitled to protection from the NAP.
If congress really wants to take the PRC's side then Trump or myself have a duty to declare war on congress. You'd best lobby the New Zealand government to start blockading the US because petitioning the UN isn't going to do anything.
Praise be to Allah.
I think there's infiltrators and spies on both sides, but not enough to make the categories meaningless.
If there were a grand, Dionysian bitcoiner taking over the world, he would be noticed, so he does not yet exist.
No he wouldn't. 99% of the population would think he's a bumbling moron and a solid majority of Bitcoiners would agree. To be a genius means to be misunderstood and hated most of the time.
You can't make a better pitch for Bitcoin because the use case doesn't align with what everyone wants. Not everyone wants to make more money for less work. Not everyone values their own life.
China is now a mixed economy- a pragmatic and powerful hybrid economy - led by state capitalism and with extensive free enterprise underneath that.
That you can't recognize that both the US and the PRC are mixed economies, that you actually believe the propaganda claiming that the communists did something special, is how I can tell that you're too retarded to win a full-scale hot war. They accomplished absolutely nothing that the Republic couldn't have done decades sooner with far fewer civilian casualties. The only reason the Chinese leftists managed to make it this far at all is because of American leftists, who now have zero influence on our foreign policy and military for the next two years and have no power to stage a coup because God hates them.
Get this through your silky-smooth brain. Socialism is when the government does stuff. The government cannot manage an economy. It does not lift people out poverty. Literally all it does is harrass working people for extortion fees and then waste their money. Socialism is the same across every culture and ethnicity. It's gang rule. It fails everywhere. What you're describing in China is essentially FDR's New Deal and it failed here just as badly.
They do not have a cohesive strategy for the nation, only their own short sighted greed driven profit targets- and so the masses in the west see their centuries old global domination fading
Forget the masses. What rational individuals of the West see is that the West's decline is entirely a choice and adherents of leftist ideology are the ones at fault. The US private sector managed to wrest control of the military away from inept government officials and now Laissez-Faire capitalism is free to conquer East and West. The UK, New Zealand, and Canada don't matter. France and Germany don't matter. Those countries can go ahead and kill themselves if they insist.
As long as Japan, Taiwan, and the US want to keep Taiwan free, then it will be free. How many communists have to die is entirely up to Xi Jinping. We want peace. The US is the most peaceful country on earth.
Marxists are not in power in China.
The party itself disagrees with you. The entire legal system is built around state-worship, outdated economic theories, and trampling individual rights for some fanciful vision of opposing "Western Imperialism." It's Marxist through and through.
Politicians are accountable- arguably more so than in the west, as in China failure to deliver results is likely to lead to removal if not death.
Yeah. They are failing to deliver results and they will be held accountable.
China has demonstrated superior economic development capability to the crony capitalist west and looks like it could topple the centuries old Zionist debt slavery model of global hegemony.
The communists haven't even conquered China. They're not going to win the war with the US. Cuba and Venezuela are out of commission, you're cut off from Iranian oil, Russia is busy. Japan, Taiwan, and the US all voted resoundingly against national suicide. It's over.
You have everything backwards. The USA is the tribute state to the Republic of China. Whatever we do with our military is entirely up to them.