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Dragon of War

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T&P is a grifting clout following idiot.

There is no shortage of volunteers in the PLA let alone possibility of conscription.

You wanna know a Place where real decline in quality service members happens? US Navy, and the whole Bundeswehr.

He's usually not too bad compared to other western propaganda pushers, at least he strews away from absurd/dehumanizing methods. T&P usually tends to keep things unbias, although as he has mentioned he is obviously with Team Western Collective and has served in the US Army. It's important even for commanders to have an understanding from both sides of the coin to come to better conclusions and T&P is one of the more tolerable promoters of this.
 

no_name

Colonel
bad tiding for US space endeavors

Let's make sure to remember that Western political movements like BLM or liberal feminism are often co-opted for white supremacy / imperialistic purposes, and in fact often are guided to worsen conditions for the ostensibly championed.
neoLiberal ideology is how rich and powerful men can prey on women, then make them think it was their own "progressive" choice. Make them sell to the rich guys then turn around to blame their problems on the poor guys.

When you cannot have real scientific, technological and social development progress, you fill people's minds up with "progressive ideology" bullcrap.

Ultimately they still have a zero-sum mentality.

They tested the waters with the Crazy horse incident involving Lisa and Angela baby not long ago. They've always wanted to try open up the virgin markets in China regarding gambling, prostitution and drugs. Once you do that mafia and human trafficking business, government bribing/involvement is next.
 
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manqiangrexue

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No: US commute times are among the shortest in the OECD (
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That's not a useful, or even stable metric due to a myriad of reasons.
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and roads are better paved than they ever have been (see pg. 6,
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You data stops at 2008. These are from last year.
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the U.S. also has the busiest airports (
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That's also a funny metric to use. "Busiest" is not the most "modern." Indian roads are super busy and they're not even paved.
incredibly safe (
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That's a pretty low standard LOL
and the safest and most on time freight rail network (
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Dude, your source is Union Pacific, the people praising themselves. I wouldn't talk about that if I were you, especially after the East Palestine Derailment... and then the derailment of the train carrying the clean up debris from the first derailment... And although the numbers are fairly pretty stable recently, it does seem that US train derailments and causualties have risen every year since 2019.
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it’s even trivial stuff such as the fact that it’s rare to need to boil water before drinking in most geographies or
That's what the government tells you because they want you to think they're doing a great job. Independent investigation finds:
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I filter my water no matter what country I'm in.
that air conditioning and indoor plumbing are far more common than they’ve ever been (
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As a developed nation, these things shouldn't even be mentioned. They are basically available to everyone who wants them. Failing infrastructure doesn't mean people can no longer air conditioners or that new buildings are built without plumbing; it means that the cities are getting older, roads bumpier, train tracks breaking down, construction taking weeks-months instead of days, etc... Even airports like JFK or subway systems like the NYC metro looking like total crap factor in.
and of course; public infrastructure spending is currently increasing at a very rapid clip (
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merica's the king of spending, but it's far from the top in getting results from that spending. There's high infrastructure spending Chinese style, as in building new things and keeping the city modern, then there's American style, which is rising maintenance costs from very old systems being patched up everywhere and forced to work for longer than they should.
Median real wages are increasing, even as labor force participation is growing (adding more low wage workers which would bias the statistic downward):
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And yet people find it much much harder to afford a home:
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No: crime has dramatically decreased
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Violent crime only?? Why so specific? You mean you don't want to include all insane amounts of retail theft, burglary, muggings without a fight, etc...?
Total crime has increased significantly since COVID:
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19% year on year increase in 2023 in shoplifting:
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manqiangrexue

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No, adolescent (focused on this age since it’s where data is most readily available and when most addictions start) addiction rates are down (
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Here's more recent data showing increases across the board:
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in fact, teenage risky behavior is down across the board - from premature sex to crime (
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Nobody said anything about sex. Sex is natural; drugs are not.
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They've moved on to harder stuff as seen above LOL
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Arrests, not actual crime rate, which is reported and has been demonstrated to be increasing above. Reduction in arrests with a rise in crime means an inadequate police response, and that is most likely because of new laws in America making petty theft basically not a crime.
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however those with drug addictions just much more severe addictions (
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Yeah things get more severe in the US, I get that.
No, it’s actually decreasing -
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What's with the selective year and age group? Did I say child povety only??
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"The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to
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, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty also more than doubled last year to 12.4% from 5.2% the year before."
Better. The U.S. is doing substantially better than before in nearly every aspect. Americans are wealthier than they ever have been and deal daily with (US-originated) technology that even 30 years ago would’ve been considered black magic.
This is why I said that you need to consider things relative to the world and to your main rival(s). It is an incredibly low standard to say that you are, in raw wealth (aside from the house, of course, which is most people's most expensive and important possession), stronger than you were 30 years ago, or even a few years ago. The whole world, minus only a few incredibly incompetent countries, sees a rising standard of living and of wealth with time. The point is whether you are moving faster or slower than the rest, or if you are a competitive country like China, USA, Russia, the standard is even higher; you have to consider your progress in relation to the top of the world, not just some average. Failing to do this would be considered a relative decline, and although you're ok with it, the majority of Americans are not. They want to compete with China, and compared to China's rise in wealth and technology, the US is just moving backwards every day.

Once again, if you set your standards to an incredibly low threshold of absolute progress rather than relative progress and you want to say that the US just wants to be left alone and not to compete with China, your points are fine. But the context of this entire forum, and the desires of the majority of the US population (or at least its elite), is to compete with China. So your personal lense is basically inapplicable.
Correct. China is a reasonably well managed poor country experiencing catch-up growth.
No, not correct. China was that, but after the initial teething issues, management basically shot up to the top of the world. Now, it has taken the leading positions in the world in many fields and it is moving faster in all parameters regardless of whether they be lagging or leading and this is due to it being the best-managed country in the world.
Correct. I think it simply doesn’t matter for the United States which direction its foreign policy takes since the U.S. is so wealthy and so large that both serve to be prophylactic for the U.S. in the event of any foreign shock (exogenous or endogenous)
Are you an American? Do you live in America? Or are you just some cheerleader from abroad?

You're basically the first person I've spoken to who thinks that America should just step aside to China and try to do well in its own bubble. An American politician would be lynched for saying it. Polls in the US show hostility and hatred towards China. Unfortunately, your opinion just doesn't apply to America's goals, no matter how great it would be if they did.
 
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