No, it’s not safe. Recent studies show the new vaccine booster is no more effective than the old one on currently circulating strains. People who are at higher risk should stay home. COVID is no joke. It’s a respiratory AND immune disease. Each infection increases your risk of many different longterm…

No, I made the claim I made: “The countries with the happiest citizens are more correlated to a robust welfare state and low income inequality than either of the two arbitrary features you chose.”

The government, those in the media who have themselves been endlessly propagandized against China. We’re awash in propaganda here.

Counterpoint: Countries with a robust private sector combined with a strong, democratically elected central government outsource most of the pain, suffering and misery to citizens of other countries with fewer environmental and labor regulations. The countries with the happiest citizens are more correlated to a robust…

Just doing my small part to balance out the unending anti-China propaganda in hopes we can avoid conflict with them. From everything I’ve seen and people I’ve known who have spent time there, it’s a lovely place. They’re not perfect, but we have to resist the ongoing and prolific attempts to sow division between the…

The US doesn’t actually care about spreading democracy, they care about spreading rulers who are friendly with the US and its business interests.

No.

Goes both ways.

The US is a little further along in the development track, yes. That’s why comparing the two today is an absurd idea undertaken solely for the purpose of disingenuously “winning” an argument.

I’d imagine this will have a negligible if any affect on vehicle purchases. It’s a drop in the ocean compared to the monthly cost to own and run giant SUVs. What’s another $500/year?

Fuel isn’t even taxed enough to pay for necessary infrastructure maintenance, not to mention environmental externalities. 

Different cultures have different sensitivities and values. It’s not weird, it’s just different. Cultural relativism my friend.

Yeah, lifting 800 million people out of poverty in 40 years is a pretty remarkable achievement. Central planning has a lot of benefits, like directing economic resources to things that actually benefit citizens instead of simply whatever amasses the greatest fortunes for the fewest people.

Amazingly repugnant how breezily you justify US war crimes all over the world! Then you jump right to demonstrating a total ignorance of China’s massively successful poverty reduction program. The greatest reduction of poverty in human history. Ignorance is at the heart of the myth of US exceptionalism and it needs…

“nothing the U.S. has ever done economically / militarily / politically has been even remotely close the the malevolent shit the CCP has done.”

Juxtaposing the cancelling of a screening of a superhero movie with the loss of “the most creative and dynamic movies in the world” is...odd.

LMAO, you folks always fall back on this childish retort when confronted with reality.

Grow up and read some world history, propagandized rube. The US gained its prominence in the world through a brutal colonial occupation and subjugation of the global south through military interventions and coups. Yeah, people want to move here because they’re usually escaping a country made worse by the US or they…

Not gonna happen. Truss got pushed out by finance capital. Get ready for even more austerity!

There’s no effort to create a fair playing field to give up. The US uses every tool at its disposal to be the dominant global economic hegemon. Including waging war all over the world and basing its soldiers in every corner and on every border. USians are so chaotically ignorant about our “adversaries”. “But I saw on…