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> (WW2 in Europe started due to US isolationism. Both Germany and Japan thought of the US as country bumpkins in 1940. Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa.)

Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education.

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It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, CHAZ. Optics are very bad. For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. I am not even sure they are wrong. If they had naval lift capacity they could probably land on Taiwan and US government would do nothing.

We will see what happens in US as weather warms up.

> It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, [...] For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness.

Have we already forgotten Hong Kong?

>Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa.

I seem to have a distant memory of a grotesque orange trust fund baby that I think could be described as decadent and divisive, is it possible that he had something to do with this?

It is hypocritical for China or Russia to care about us inequality without considering their own.. Likewise, both countries stances on sexuality, identity, and race/heritage are quite a bit worse than domestic US policy.

> complete lack of social security net or poor access to education

I don't know what leads Americans to be consistently misinformed other than memetic doomsaying but the USA is 5th for education expenditure per capita, and 10th in per capita social welfare spending, both far ahead of OECD average and ahead of Japan, Switzerland, AUS, NL, UK, etc.

Amount of money spent is a poor indicator of services received.

Can anyone go to University? Are down on luck individuals more likely to receive housing or being sent to prison? Can old folks live off of their pension or do they have to work as greeters?

Lol, lets create expensive private healthcare that only the privileged 0.01% can afford, then claim we're better because the only metric we're measuring is per capita spending! Brilliant!

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