Why I love the United States

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by JU_88

....at face value and without any explaination, it looks like something much more sinister is going on there
Im thinking, The Vampire Turbo Tit Drinker tap?

I'd suck on that tap even without the the wine rack :p

[Castout]

I'm totally amazed how the heck did you guys win the cold war.

Better rhetoric?

[Castout]

I'm totally amazed how the heck did you guys win the cold war.

Better rhetoric?

Most Americans now are no longer passionate about freedom. Many of them I would consider a typical cowed people. Large proportion of the society are lacking simple common sense. Fundamentalism is rampant, some of which are religious, others are not. This shows in the lack of tolerance between beliefs. Wisdom you hate, foolish words you love to death. Large portion of the society want the US to go back to isolationism never realizing the place that the superpower state has in the global community.

If you guys are going downhill certainly you guys deserve it imo. It would just make perfect sense. No offense, this is my own personal observation.

As for China being a superpower I wouldn't count on it being a greater superpower than US even down 15-20 years from now. At most it will be a major regional power in terms of military. But politically speaking it will never command as much political and social influence as United States has in the past 50 years. Chinese movies anyone? Chinese law study anyone? China just doesn't have the social infrastructure and freedom its society needs to grow and develop as an advance society. A superpower needs a super society. China will need to reinvent its society and that will be impossible without reinventing and reforming its politics. China will never be willing to reform its politics. Thus China impediment to become a great nation will come from its politics. China will always have one of its foot in the bucket. It will be an awkward major power.

With global economic crisis China will be hit hard too. It still doesn't have a domestic market big and strong enough to dampen a slowing economic growth. This is simply due to the fact that the middle classes are still not the majority and those middle class households too depend on strong global economic growth. So China's long term fate is inevitably intertwined with the global economy outlook. One cannot become one of world's largest economy by solely depending on domestic market. You simply can't defeat global demand of manufactured goods. But still China huge population may help a lot but only if the majority of the population are middle income households. In other words how do you grow prosperity of the population without strong global demands? You need to grow local entrepreneurs and local businesses of medium to large size companies which rely heavily on domestic market. Tough job without strong global export demands to grow the middle classes. It's more like a long term goal than anything achievable in a short time. Having superior education too is a prerequisite. In short words, China needs to reinvent its people and their mindset.

[CCIP]

...really?

Seriously Castout, what are you going on about? I appreciate the passion about freedom, but this has nothing to do with this thread and honestly rants like this really diminish your cause rather than help it - this isn't the place for it, and given what the discussion is about here, it makes what you say look silly and out of place. It's a thread about drinking beer from hooters. That's as deep as it's gonna get here, and I'd rather it stay that way. We need a bit of that in GT.

Sometimes you just need to relax and let people gloat in the joy of living in a country where people can still laugh at drinking booze from boobs, you know? It ain't a big political issue, just something to sit down to after a long day and have a good chuckle + a cold one. You should try it sometime.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Castout

If you guys are going downhill certainly you guys deserve it imo.

Thank you. Coasting is fun.

Seriously, this was a light-hearted tongue in cheek thread about questionable inventions that I think you read waaaayyy too much into. Save the "you're all doomed" dirges for the heavy threads.

[Castout]

Ah this thread is a jest huh.

Never mind me then.

I need to write more on my blog but I'm so lazy so I guess I need to write it off somewhere

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Castout

Ah this thread is a jest huh.

Sometimes it doesn't translate well. I have had a few Ukrainian immigrant co-workers in the past. Often I had to explain to them what on the office talk radio was sarcasm, a bluff or somebody actually being serious for once. Eventually they started to figure it out by the context.

[CCIP]

Yeah, no worries, I just thought it'd be obvious! I've made that mistake before

Save good points for somewhere that they'll be taken seriously though. Shame wasting a good argument on a silly thread


Now back to our regularly scheduled beer boinkers!

Seriously, this was a light-hearted tongue in cheek thread about questionable inventions

Questionable?
Nothing questionable there, apart from quality of taste from plastic containers.