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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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Primary what hot America ahead of the rest of the world after WW2 was superior industrial power. Russia was doing OK historically when pikemen and muskets were still relevant (as Throndor points out), but it wasn't until Stalin industrialized the country that we fell into what as referred to as a "Bi-Polar" international order.
Before that, Russia was mostly known for humiliating defeats around the WW1 era (no industrialization, a "sleeping giant"). Germany developed ahead not by copying the Anglo model (England/United States), but by authoritarian collectivism.
As far as I know America -- so far -- has had the edge on advanced industrial technology. They did a good job on capitalizing on their lead from WW2. The problem is that China might actually be better at producing hackers and "cybersecurity". IDK -- I just hear a lot about cyber security and Chinese/Russian hackers. It seems like they may have more per capita.
There was nothing anti-American per se in my post. I was just pointing out that we should be able to stop posturing and flag waving for 5 minutes to acknowledge authoritarian collectivism has its merits. Many of the posters hear are spouting a line of propaganda spread throughout this country to prevent well-born people from being taxed. it was invented by those people for those people.
And what exactly are we trying to do with all this power we keep accumulating/defending? From what I can tell, we want to allow a privileged few to "transcendend" humanity with genetic modifications, life extension and cyber implants. And rest of us are used as fodder for that goal. Maybe a little bit of collective organizing is a good idea before this becomes some kind of dystopia post-apocalyptic poverty zones with a few armored pleasure domes.
And all that "lifting people out of poverty" shit is mostly just accounting tricks to make philanthropists feel better about their shitty money-grubbing behavior. Yea lets count a McDonald's worker that barely feed themselves a "not poor" and feel good about ourselves...many of those motherfuckers were happier subsistence farming.
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Nah buddy, Africa and China owe 100% of their prosperity to the world trade organization
Hope that helps. Wave an American flag and have American Christian kids dude it’s very simple what part you should be playing and what needs to be done