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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Even while (begrudgingly) admitting that China has surpassed the US everywhere that matters they just can't help but squeeze in just enough sinophobia to make the whole thing reek of desperate nationalism.

This isn't that deep. The US only looks as far ahead as the next fiscal quarter while China plans decades ahead. We were always going to lose this. The competence of our leadership never mattered. China has and will continue to leave the US behind. That is and will continue to happen. Trump just accelerated the timetable.

There is no grand plan. Just an old con man who rode a wave of engineered cultural grievance to power in a Hail Mary attempt to avoid going to prison. Now he's ripping the copper out of the walls before the ship sinks and he flees to a non-extradition treaty nation.

P.S. : I as a southerner will never forgive my fellow southerners for getting hoodwinked by that carpetbagger.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're gonna have a great leap forward, folks. "The Greatest Leap Forward", people are calling it. Now that I've liberated our economy we're gonna make everything here at home, some of you literally making things at home. Backyard steel mills, backyard chip fabricators.

We're gonna get rid of the pests, too. We're getting ahead of this bird flu, Bobby Kennedy, RFK, he tells me he's gonna Smash the Sparrows. We're not gonna have another flu like we did under Sleepy Joe.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

Context for those who dont know it:

The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

All he has ever done is try to emulate people that were successful at something, and has always failed miserably at it. This time, rather than trump steaks spoiling, it's our democracy. Such a shame