I think a decent measure is GDP growth rate divided by GDP per capita. I don’t have the numbers on hand but China is above average in both absolute and PPP.

Yeah for sure, almost all of the US’ most impressive accomplishments were state funded. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

This might be a hot take here, but for all of Elon’s overhyped flops like the Hyperloop and car tunnels, the Falcon 9 does have the lowest launch cost per kg out of any rocket and is the only family of orbital rockets with a demonstrated reusable propulsive landing system. That’s not to say they’ll have the lead forever since there’s a fundamental limitation of private enterprise, but currently they’re ahead in several important ways.

They achieved their goals of debt trapping Ukraine and cucking Germany. Who cares about victory?

The green represents freedom and the orange represents liberty

Brobdingnagian if veritable

It probably didn’t send the message he was thinking of

The US forced Europe to de-industrialize so that they can scoop up their industry. Still working on the second part. Any day now, trust me bro.

Communism no ifon

TIL there are 113,000 people in the US

The thing is Vietnam doesn’t even have a particularly poor relationship with China. Yet it seems like bashing China is a national pastime. There are border disputes, yes, but they have those all over the world, like for instance between the US and Canada.

I’m a little concerned about how badly China is losing the optics war on this conflict. As far as I know, you can’t really pin the blame on either side here. But if you go to the comments of any YouTube videos on this such as SCMP, seems everyone is supporting India and talking trash about China, especially commenters from Vietnam and the Philippines.

What would you call that? How about “omnibus” from Latin meaning “for all.” You could call it an “omni” or “nibu” for short.

Wouldn’t France be considered an empire?

In their minds, 94% of people must be rebelling against the ebil ccp or something

Loan’t

There’s no cognitive dissonance with the libs. They’ll say it’s okay when they do it because they’re “protecting freedom and democracy,” but if China and Russia are doing it it’s “authoritarian aggression.”

Now, I also think it’s good when our side does it and bad when the other does it, but I don’t pretend to be impartial.

I love Minecraft

It doesn’t matter if there’s a handful of low-ranking Dems who might want to do more for the working class. The system is set up in a way such that they’ll never be able to make any meaningful changes. If it were possible to vote in a better system, it would’ve happened already.