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Chinese bridge, designed by Chinese engineers, built by Chinese workers, captured with (we assume) a Chinese drone.

What a spectacular scene.

I am proud on behalf of all the people who worked together to achieve this.

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China is like a modern Roman empire. Masters of civil engineering.

Yup, similar number of slaves too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...

That website has the US at 3.3 slaves per thousand people compared to China's 4.0.

You're catching on.

A confident, unified people under competent leadership can accomplish great things. I wish the Chinese continued success and hope their example eventually spurs the development of a new ruling class in the West.

Especially when dissent is ruthlessly crushed and any record of it is erased.

Also coming to other parts of the world, but without any new bridges.

Honestly, I would give up my right to vote or to speak against the government in exchange for free healthcare and cheap housing.

Or you could exercise your right to vote and speak against the government to get healthcare and cheap housing.

Yeah, that's been so effective!

The West also crushes dissent: try to organize a pro-Palestinian protest on a university campus and tell us how it goes. Crushing dissent is simply what governments do.

In the meantime I would like to see more Hoover Dams and Apollo programs here, with fewer tent cities and high-speed rail boondoggles. This will require a ruling class that 1) is competent and 2) cares for the people it governs.

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