the chinese are definitely going to pull ahead, but we're definitely not going to see US fall like that.

it's too easy to assassinate world leaders for a state sponsored government so you have to beg the question: why has nobody done it? the relative peace we have is built on top of mutual destruction and realistically US won't fall without taking most of the world with it.

the reason I believe it's easy because US SS seemingly lost their edge as there haven't been many real threats against the president to begin with. I just can't imagine that there is much any government could do against a 400-500km/h drone specialized for a 20 second mission from being to accomplish the goal, the world leader would be dead by the time anyone even registered that there is a threat.

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JCattheATM 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> but we're definitely not going to see US fall like that.

We're already seeing that. You probably live in a coastal city, and so might be unaware of how just undeveloped so much of the country is. Look at things like literacy levels and political unrest as well.

The US is absolutely falling, it can be saved but not with the way half the country seems to vote.

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kachapopopow 2 days ago | parent [-]

wow, you're way off the mark - I am sitting in a soviet building enjoying life for less than the minimum wage at times just because I can and I am very well aware of large parts of the US since I am friends with at least one person from every state.

but to get to the actual point: US is big, like very big and dominated by the strongest propaganda machine in the world: https://youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ

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JCattheATM 2 days ago | parent [-]

I don't really understand the relevance of what you've said except that you think I'm off the mark.

You really don't think the US has had a steep decline over the last 2 decades in quality of life for most people? I'm not talking about people with six figure tech jobs in big cities.

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kachapopopow 2 days ago | parent [-]

ah I guess I should have been clearer: I am friends with a lot of people - sure it's pretty bad in some states, but america is huge and nothing really changed for them within the decade.

I can't really speak for decades, none of us have been alive that long to live that difference - people generally live wealthier lives than 2 decades ago, at the cost of losing the ability to repair your own shit, being locked into buying new things when old ones work fine. but that's the failure of capitalism and legislation to subdue these issues.

What I am really trying to say is that I believe in time everything will be okay as long as we manage to survive the hardest challenge we have right now: AI causing major distruption in every single business causing further imbalance between people and coorperations.

	▲	JCattheATM 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> america is huge and nothing really changed for them within the decade. People don't necessarily notice gradual changes. We have objective measures to show things have changed. > I can't really speak for decades, none of us have been alive that long to live that difference There's plenty of 50 and 60, even 70 year olds on this site... > people generally live wealthier lives than 2 decades ago Some people do. One of the biggest changes has been the continued erosion of the middle class. > What I am really trying to say is that I believe in time everything will be okay as long as we manage to survive the hardest challenge we have right now: AI causing major distruption in every single business causing further imbalance between people and coorperations. AI is nothing but a distraction. The problem is the ignorance of half the voting population who continually votes against their own interests out fear fueled by misinformation.

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dnautics 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> the chinese are definitely going to pull ahead

Are they? Please don't forget at least 50M Chinese in abject poverty and a demographic crisis barreling towards them that is not avoidable unless they develop cloning vats that can rapidly age a clone to productive adulthood in a compressed timeframe.

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kachapopopow 2 days ago | parent [-]

the heartbreaking truth is that those 50m people do not matter or at the very least the government is not interested in them.

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dnautics 2 days ago | parent [-]

"do not matter". I mean idk, some of them burn down factories when they don't get paid.

	▲	kachapopopow 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		nothing a genocide or two can't solve (based on a real story) the governments have grown too powerful to be overthrown by people, and yes I do realize that the military itself is made out of people (for now), but in a way they are brainwashed? to follow orders from above.