Do Americans seriously believe that their country is the best in the world? As to live in?

[Mjolnir]

So you’re saying it.. is tribal?? America is a hollow nation state with every group in the world tightly packed in like sardines, a rapidly dying culture and a dying majority demographic. If you think it’s just splendid, you’re a dumbass or you’ve never been here.


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Where do YOU live?

What you’ve described does not describe where I currently live or where I have lived or visited.


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[Wanderer]

So you’re saying it.. is tribal?? America is a hollow nation state with every group in the world tightly packed in like sardines, a rapidly dying culture and a dying majority demographic. If you think it’s just splendid, you’re a dumbass or you’ve never been here.


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I was contemplating the phraseology of your post and the notion that "hellhole" follows from being "non tribal."

But I was a white nationalist too at one point in my life and I could have said the exact same thing. In my case, the issue was quite simply that I did not have God in my life, so I was inclined to worship other things in His place. I worshipped my race, my heritage, and pagan gods whose existence I disbelieved. I know the emptiness and discontent that these forms of idolatry cause. Of course, there are many other forms of idolatry that are equally vacuous, but these are the ones I am more personally familiar with. There's a God-shaped void in the human heart, but few actually find the only way to fill it, which is through the love of God that is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

[jingorex]

America reached the top of the food chain and became more powerful than any nation in history - in record time - and people don't understand why we feel like we're the best. Not only do you not understand it, but it actually bothers you as well. It's so comical.

TESTIFY!

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Yes, Just increase investment in universities and technology research.

This was an Israeli fighter that it was impracticable for Israel to produce:



China bought the prototype (operational) Today they have 300 units.

It wasn't impractiable.

By 1987 IAI had built two flying two-seat Lavi prototypes which demonstrated excellent performance in eighty-two test flights. Three more were under construction. It had also tested the PW1120 turbofans on an F-4 ‘Super Phantom’ which demonstrated such extraordinary performance it even flew a demo at the Paris Air Show and was briefly considered for export.

However, the extraordinary financial commitments the Lavi entailed made it extremely politically divisive. On August 30, in an 11-12 vote, the Israeli cabinet canceled the Lavi. Ninety additional F-16s were procured instead.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...s-israel-52502

It was shut down because many in the Israeli government weren't keen on paying for it.

So what have you shown other than what I said was correct in that innovation isn't coming from China?

I'd rather not believe in conspiracy theory, but China fits in, already realized that every immigrant is a man and single?! In the future, it is easier to negotiate with a country that has part of the population of Chinese origin.

It's well known there is significant gender imbalance for the future of China because of the past one child policy and that such an imbalance is socially destructive. That is not a conspiracy theory. It's a major problem that has to be addressed.

That you think China will simply export single men and that this won't cause problems in foreign nations reveals your lack of knowledge of large Chinese immigrant communties in other Asian (and African) nations and how they are perceived by locals. There are many Chinese communities in other Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia. There is a great deal of strife among the local communities and the Chinese to the point where in Malaysia they have affirmative action in their universities because Chinese are over represented in higher education. There have been serious ethnic riots.

To think local men will allow foreign Chinese men to take their women to create a new mixed society that will be open to China while ignoring - or not even being aware - of the current conflicts in nations that have large Chinese immigrant groups makes me wonder how long you thought about this idea.

Who controls the world is money, brands and patents, industrial products. At the moment the West uses china as factory floor, but but this has increased the GDP remains to know what they are going to do.

Yes, it has increased. It has increased for many nations and for poor nations it looks more impressive than it is because the jump from little to better than little appears to be a bigger jump than where the economic gulf is minimal.

[rhiannon]

With candidates who hate the USA, except Gabbard maybe. The typical leftist really does hate the USA.

They don't hate the USA, but they do hate being stereotyped as anti-American for not subscribing to right-winged "Christian Values"

This is not a 'Christian Country' as we are a nation defined by freedom of religion. It doesn't matter if there is or isn't a Christian majority and they should expect no special privileges either.

I am left of center but wouldn't call myself far left or SJW.

The world is made up of many belief systems and there is inherent value in all of them.

As for our 2020 candidates, none of them are standing out to me as of yet. I like some candidates a little more than others but my rule of thumb is simply going to be to vote for whoever the hell runs against Trump, because he cannot be trusted with our nuclear codes or with actually leading this country.

Granted, I've hated Trump since before a lot of posters on this board were even born

[KMack]

They don't hate the USA, but they do hate being stereotyped as anti-American for not subscribing to right-winged "Christian Values"

This is not a 'Christian Country' as we are a nation defined by freedom of religion. It doesn't matter if there is or isn't a Christian majority and they should expect no special privileges either.

I am left of center but wouldn't call myself far left or SJW.

The world is made up of many belief systems and there is inherent value in all of them.

As for our 2020 candidates, none of them are standing out to me as of yet. I like some candidates a little more than others but my rule of thumb is simply going to be to vote for whoever the hell runs against Trump, because he cannot be trusted with our nuclear codes or with actually leading this country.

Granted, I've hated Trump since before a lot of posters on this board were even born

LOL you have TDS seek help.

[luc2112]

It wasn't impractiable.



It was shut down because many in the Israeli government weren't keen on paying for it.

So what have you shown other than what I said was correct in that innovation isn't coming from China?

I will give another example, although Japan is different from China.

This is the first Yamaha motorcycle (Ya-1)



This is the German motorcycle (DKW RT 125)



Today yamaha has independent projects, copying (legally) was just an initial strategy to have a product.

It's well known there is significant gender imbalance for the future of China because of the past one child policy and that such an imbalance is socially destructive. That is not a conspiracy theory. It's a major problem that has to be addressed.

That you think China will simply export single men and that this won't cause problems in foreign nations reveals your lack of knowledge of large Chinese immigrant communties in other Asian (and African) nations and how they are perceived by locals. There are many Chinese communities in other Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia. There is a great deal of strife among the local communities and the Chinese to the point where in Malaysia they have affirmative action in their universities because Chinese are over represented in higher education. There have been serious ethnic riots.

To think local men will allow foreign Chinese men to take their women to create a new mixed society that will be open to China while ignoring - or not even being aware - of the current conflicts in nations that have large Chinese immigrant groups makes me wonder how long you thought about this idea.

China is a communist (in practice the government keeps money) country, they sacrifice part of the population.
The strategy of sending immigrants was used by the Soviet Union, removed part of the population of the annexed countries by sending them to Siberia, put Russian citizens in the country. When I talked about conspiracy theory, there are Chinese immigrants everywhere.

[Richmondbread]

They don't hate the USA, but they do hate being stereotyped as anti-American for not subscribing to right-winged "Christian Values"

This is not a 'Christian Country' as we are a nation defined by freedom of religion. It doesn't matter if there is or isn't a Christian majority and they should expect no special privileges either.

I am left of center but wouldn't call myself far left or SJW.

The world is made up of many belief systems and there is inherent value in all of them.

As for our 2020 candidates, none of them are standing out to me as of yet. I like some candidates a little more than others but my rule of thumb is simply going to be to vote for whoever the hell runs against Trump, because he cannot be trusted with our nuclear codes or with actually leading this country.

Granted, I've hated Trump since before a lot of posters on this board were even born

yes we are a Christian nation and that part is undeniable.