Palma25/11/2017 00:00
I dashed into our local Chinese discount store to buy a US flag for our Thankgiving lunch earlier this week. Now, this shop usually has everything, but when I asked about a US flag, the lady assistant looked at me in horror with a stern no! I wasn't too alarmed because the Brits are not exactly the most popular people in the world either, but it got me thinking. We moan about Black Friday because it has come from the US but still we all got out for bargains. We complain about Halloween but we all mark it. And these events are growing every year. It could be said, and without being shown the door on the old continent, that what the US does today we do tomorrow.
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...I think China might claim to be a super power also....and lets not forget that Apple products are made in China, and rapidly losing market share to China's own brands....and China holds more US debt than anybody apart from the US itself. So every time Uncle Sam earns a dollar, a few cents go to China. America won the 20th Century, it's not going to win the 21st.
Don’t tell me, tell Jason !
@Richard P Just read the comments on this NYT piece today: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/us/politics/state-department-tillerson.html
@Richard P Additional signs the US are not a great country anymore: - "MAGA" meaning only the US counts, the rest of the world not - The USA now is the only country on this blue marble called earth, that is not in the Paris Climate Agreement, meaning they say "we don't care" for the world, and the rest of the world. - "Extreme vetting" border controls meaning to substantially reduce tourism - Extremely many deaths by shootings, every day. Much more people are killed by toddlers with firearms, than by terrorists. 30000 people killed by firearms, every year. This is 10 9/11s every year. This is more than 10 times as much than in any other country on earth. And the country does exactly ZERO to change that. It is so funny, one is so concerned about terrorists entering the country, but it is no problem for even mentally ill US natives to buy military assault weapons, and shoot all children inside a kindergarten (remember Sandy Hook?). Trump does not care the slightest about all this. - The great companies you mention have very often been built by brilliant immigrants. Trumpism is currently changing this. - Trump builds the image of the USA as a racist county. Black (and Chinese, and Mexican, and Indian,...) people not only have to bear many disadvantages, but they may not even protest against that by kneeling when the anthem plays. - Tillerson/Trump currently are destroying the diplomatic force (according to the NYT of today), by firing 100s of diplomats. - Natural Reserves are rezoned to allow exploitation and industry there - All consumer protection laws of the Obama era are reversedI could write 200 more points, but don't have the time. So what is so great about such a country?
Hobbes, not a very good argument as more US citizens actually voted for Clinton. Try another one.
A country that elects a Trump, a person with a very very low IQ, is not a great country.