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Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

  • Yes, the United States will remain on top with no real challenges to it's position.

    Votes: 16 23.9%
  • The US will still be a superpower, but will share it with other countries.

    Votes: 24 35.8%
  • The United States will recede from it's status as a superpower and be replaced by another country.

    Votes: 12 17.9%
  • The US will recede as a superpower, but no other country will be able to fill that spot.

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Other (Please Explain)

    Votes: 5 7.5%
  • I really want some eggs, bacon, hashbrown, butter toast, waffles, syrup, and some OJ.

    Votes: 7 10.4%

  • Total voters
    67
One of the reasons the Western Roman Empire collapsed was growing economic inequality. Family farmers could not compete with large estates worked by slaves. When family farmers lost their farms they moved to the cities and became a propertyless and largely unskilled proletariat. (The word "proletariat" was originated by the Romans.) When the Western Roman Empire was invaded by German tribes the proletarians had nothing to fight for and little incentive to defend the Empire.

By contrast, in the Eastern Roman Empire the government intervened in the economy in order to preserve the family farms in return for military service by the farmers' sons. The Eastern Roman Empire, which became known as the Byzantine Empire, survived for a thousand years after the Western Roman Empire fell.

America's national debt only became a national problem during the Reagan administration, when the GOP adopted the dogma that it is always a good idea to cut taxes for the rich, and never a good idea to raise them. Now Republican politicians are using the rise in the national debt, for which they are responsible, as an excuse to cut domestic spending programs they have never liked, but which they know are popular with the voters.

Don't forget rampant corruption and self-dealing which was largely the root of that; the same stuff that's going on today.
 
I'm not inclined to believe that the US will lose its superpower status anytime soon. However, it may gradually lose its relative dominance as the living standards of developing countries catch up with the US and Western Europe.
 
How do you know, "Chinese believe only other Chinese?"

If you must know, I am a Judeoplhilic white Gentile who also admires Orientals. I have known a lot of Chinese Americans. Two were my best friends in high school. They never indicated that they did not trust me.

Chinese in China born and raised in China. Having lived in China only with only some possible exception.

Try living and working in the CCP-PRC and interacting with Chinese in all kind of settings over a dozen years or so. Chinese in China are taught from birth not to believe foreigners. Many of 'em get it at home, they all get it in school and they get it in mass media and from friends who get it from adults.

The Party-Government cannot risk Chinese people believing foreign devils and what they/we say about China and about the world outside of China. It's a strict rule which a Chinese in China violates at his great social standing, to include political standing whether one has a political stance or not. A Chinese accepting what a foreigner says about China, his own country and the world cannot be tolerated by the Party-Government. It undermines the authority and the legitimacy of the ruling clique.

Contemporary Chinese are more likely to be curious about what the foreigner has to say about these things. Yet even the most daring of Chinese need to be very cautious about accepting or passing on what a foreign devil has to say about anything, China and the Chinese especially, in China.

Neither do we or others speak much any more about "Orientals." It's like referring to the "Far East." That is, the Far East to whom and from what geographic perspective. We refer rather to East Asia and east Asians. It respects their locality, not their far away and remote existence out there as viewed from over here. To say Far East is as if I were to refer to your admitted odd views as alien. Although your views may be in fact alien, we'd more likely refer to 'em as antiquated. After all, antiquated also can mean cute. Rustic also.
 
You do not seem to have attended college. Chinese Americans dominate science and mathematics departments, especially at the best universities.

That's cute.

There is no reason on earth I'd need to want to present to you a CV or a personal bio.

So we'll just leave it at that for the time being.
 
Neither do we or others speak much any more about "Orientals." It's like referring to the "Far East." That is, the Far East to whom and from what geographic perspective. We refer rather to East Asia and east Asians. It respects their locality, not their far away and remote existence out there as viewed from over here. To say Far East is as if I were to refer to your admitted odd views as alien. Although your views may be in fact alien, we'd more likely refer to 'em as antiquated. After all, antiquated also can mean cute. Rustic also.

When I told an Oriental woman I was dating, "I prefer Oriental women," she did not get angry at me.

She smiled, and said, "You think we are much more wonderful."
 
Neither do we or others speak much any more about "Orientals." It's like referring to the "Far East." That is, the Far East to whom and from what geographic perspective. We refer rather to East Asia and east Asians. It respects their locality, not their far away and remote existence out there as viewed from over here. To say Far East is as if I were to refer to your admitted odd views as alien. Although your views may be in fact alien, we'd more likely refer to 'em as antiquated. After all, antiquated also can mean cute. Rustic also.

The Los Angeles Times

The term ‘Oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?

By JAYNE TSUCHIYAMA JUN 01, 2016

It is now politically incorrect to use the word “Oriental,” and the admonition has the force of law: President Obama recently signed a bill prohibiting use of the term in all federal documents. Rep. Grace Meng, the New York congresswoman who sponsored the legislation, exulted that “at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good.”

As an Oriental, I am bemused. Apparently Asians are supposed to feel demeaned if someone refers to us as Orientals. But good luck finding a single Asian American who has ever had the word spat at them in anger. Most Asian Americans have had racist epithets hurled at them at one time or another: Chink, slant eye, gook, Nip, zipperhead. But Oriental isn’t in the canon...

I see self-righteous, fragile egos eager to find offense where none is intended. A wave of anti-Oriental discrimination is not sweeping the country. Besides, the term has been steadily falling out of circulation since the 1950s, and it’s mainly used today by older Asians and the proprietors of hundreds if not thousands of restaurants, hotels, shops and organizations with Oriental in their name. The well-intentioned meddlers will create trouble for exactly the population they want to defend.

My profession, Oriental medicine, is among those on the receiving end of the identity-politics outbreak. A funny thing I noticed is that my Caucasian (dare I say Occidental?) colleagues, not my Asian colleagues, are most eager to remove Oriental from public discourse...

In my field, the word “Oriental” appears in the title of 17 of the 58 accredited graduate-level schools, 21 of the 33 state associations and eight of the 24 national associations...

Are we really going to waste time, energy and millions of dollars to rebrand our entire discipline — rename our schools and boards, redesign corporate identities, websites and publications and send out thousands of revised diplomas — all to wipe away an insult that doesn’t exist?

We have more important things to worry about. Big pharma is busy patenting the active compounds in the herbal formulas that Orientals have been prescribing for millenniums.

The term ‘Oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist? - Los Angeles Times
 
...As an Oriental, I am bemused. Apparently Asians are supposed to feel

The author of that is a moron.

It's not about how anyone feels. It's about the word oriental referring to objects. Referring to people as objects is racist.

It doesn't matter how anyone feels about it.
 
Don't forget rampant corruption and self-dealing which was largely the root of that; the same stuff that's going on today.

Surprising first that one would so capsulize the fall of the Roman Empire(pre-Constantine), more surprising still that another would seek to amplify the errant conclusion. If one is to address the genesis of the decline of the Roman Empire, it goes back much further. The split of the Empire into East and West, wouldn't be the place to start. That too was a snapshot of the decline. The true decline began with Julius Caesar. He killed the Republic when he crossed the Rubicon. There followed many events that could be pointed at as the beginning of the Roman misery, but none more important than that single act.
Regards,
CP
 
Surprising first that one would so capsulize the fall of the Roman Empire(pre-Constantine), more surprising still that another would seek to amplify the errant conclusion. If one is to address the genesis of the decline of the Roman Empire, it goes back much further. The split of the Empire into East and West, wouldn't be the place to start. That too was a snapshot of the decline. The true decline began with Julius Caesar. He killed the Republic when he crossed the Rubicon. There followed many events that could be pointed at as the beginning of the Roman misery, but none more important than that single act.
Regards,
CP

I would consider that an act of corruption; perhaps the single most notable and extreme act of corruption to ever disgrace the Roman Empire.
 
The Los Angeles Times

The term ‘Oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?

By JAYNE TSUCHIYAMA JUN 01, 2016

It is now politically incorrect to use the word “Oriental,” and the admonition has the force of law: President Obama recently signed a bill prohibiting use of the term in all federal documents. Rep. Grace Meng, the New York congresswoman who sponsored the legislation, exulted that “at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good.”

As an Oriental, I am bemused. Apparently Asians are supposed to feel demeaned if someone refers to us as Orientals. But good luck finding a single Asian American who has ever had the word spat at them in anger. Most Asian Americans have had racist epithets hurled at them at one time or another: Chink, slant eye, gook, Nip, zipperhead. But Oriental isn’t in the canon...

I see self-righteous, fragile egos eager to find offense where none is intended. A wave of anti-Oriental discrimination is not sweeping the country. Besides, the term has been steadily falling out of circulation since the 1950s, and it’s mainly used today by older Asians and the proprietors of hundreds if not thousands of restaurants, hotels, shops and organizations with Oriental in their name. The well-intentioned meddlers will create trouble for exactly the population they want to defend.

My profession, Oriental medicine, is among those on the receiving end of the identity-politics outbreak. A funny thing I noticed is that my Caucasian (dare I say Occidental?) colleagues, not my Asian colleagues, are most eager to remove Oriental from public discourse...

In my field, the word “Oriental” appears in the title of 17 of the 58 accredited graduate-level schools, 21 of the 33 state associations and eight of the 24 national associations...

Are we really going to waste time, energy and millions of dollars to rebrand our entire discipline — rename our schools and boards, redesign corporate identities, websites and publications and send out thousands of revised diplomas — all to wipe away an insult that doesn’t exist?

We have more important things to worry about. Big pharma is busy patenting the active compounds in the herbal formulas that Orientals have been prescribing for millenniums.

The term ‘Oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist? - Los Angeles Times

Good on you, that is exactly the right attitude you should have. And I applaud you for it. People are so soft these days makes me wonder if they even have a spine.
 
Good on you, that is exactly the right attitude you should have. And I applaud you for it. People are so soft these days makes me wonder if they even have a spine.

Brandy is spot on! Your wisdom far exceeds the intelligence of any who would use your race specific characteristics as, of all things, an insult. It is hard to imagine there are still those who would act that way. My good American brother/sister and friend, you are one of all of us. We are all with you!
Regards,
CP
 
Chinese are not supermen. CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing are running an economy built around a shadow banking system that is outside the already screwball state banking schemes. You don't hear bad stuff because the Boyz don't allow it to come out. So you authoritarians sound as if you believe China is gliding along awesomely when it is not. The negatives exist and they are massive, you're just not going to get 'em on a platter -- except in this post yet only somewhat as there's a word limit.

Now that Huawei has been blacklisted by US Department of Commerce and a Potus Executive Order issued the Boyz standard Chinese grandiose fantasies about IT have been stopped cold. Their 5G technology scheme of control that is anyway based largely on stolen technology is now offset by US opposition.

The standard Chinese grandiose fantasy of the Belt and Road is nowhere. The one place that agreed to start construction, Pakistan, shut it down. Pakistan served to demonstrate why no country across Asia wants Chinese swarming all over their territory building highways, airports, railways, ports, digging canals, housing, commercial centers etc etc. The Belt and Road is predicated on Chinese money lent to each country that they can't pay back in a classic and blatantly obvious debt trap by Beijing. Color the grandiose BRI inert. DoA.


Global markets are awaiting the inevitable "major economic adjustment" the Boyz in Beijing keep sweeping under the proverbial rug. The Boyz have a lot of clout so they have a big broom that buys a lot of time which only makes the inevitable crash all the more devastating to their economy and financial systems that are anyway built on quicksand.

As with every new and grandiose Chinese dynasty the CCP is a young and nervous dynasty as they rack up the current 300 percent debt to GDP ratio. China is a succession of failed dynasties and nothing but because every dynasty's answer to every problem and challenge is to increase the authority of the emperor. Xi Jinpingpong as we know just got made emperor for life. Rinse and Repeat.

China is the classic house of cards. The Chinese are eternally grandiose fools.

You know not the MINUTE NOR THE HOUR
 
I voted the third option, I just hope it won't be replaced by Russia (Putin is Trump x1000). It would be awesome if it will be replaced by China.
 
When I told an Oriental woman I was dating, "I prefer Oriental women," she did not get angry at me.

She smiled, and said, "You think we are much more wonderful."

The hits just keep on coming from over there thx.

Methinks it's cute your koolkat continues to confuse its posts with its box. (I'd bet she smiled wryly btw.)

The valid point has been made 'oriental' refers to inanimate objects. For example, I bought an oriental rug. It's never legitimately referred to a person or to people. Not, "The koolkat bought an oriental woman." That's cause we don't buy people any more do we -- nor should we.

Orient and oriental originally referred to areas east of the Roman Empire. Not to people although some barbarian types applied it in that way. By the time 'oriental' came to roost in the USA it commonly appeared in restaurant signs. Probably somewhere near a laundry eh. Y'know, inanimate thingys.

So do pardon me but I wanted to ask whether you and your 'date' might have been anywhere near a Chinatown. I ask because in China where I am presently the past weekend was the annual Dragonboat Festival. I didn't see any 'orientals' though which cheerfully is the norm over there. That's okay too because the Chinese still call Western people "foreign devils." That never changes. They don't trust you any farther than they can throw you.



Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.


It's Chinatown - Chinatown (9/9) Movie CLIP (1974) No 'orientals' here either.
 
You know not the MINUTE NOR THE HOUR

PRC is GMT+8 and that's in all of the land mass of China since the CCP seized power (1949). It's decreed in the Law of the Party that all Chinese live in a single identical timeframe.

That is, everyone in China lives by the same unitary time. The national time standard in the PRC is Beijing Time. When it's 8 a.m. in Beijing it's 8 a.m. everywhere in the PRC. Only Tibet and Xinjiang several hours west of Beijing are excepted.

This is true despite there being five official time zones across China by the standards of the World Clock in Greenwich England. So when for example it's 8 a.m. in Beijing it's also 8 a.m. in Sichuan province a thousand kilometers west where, by the World Time Clock, it's a couple of hours earlier (GMT cuts through Sichuan province). The World Time Clock has been an atomic clock for some considerable time now.

So the CCP Boyz in Beijing ignore the standard GMT timezones across the world as they extend down and across China, which has a slightly larger land area than the USA. In USA of course we have and observe four continental timezones plus Alaska and Hawaii for a total of six of 'em.

PRC does not observe daylight saving time -- Chinese never have observed DST. Taiwan observes the standard timezones of the World Time Clock in Greenwich as the small island is nestled in a single GMT zone. No DST there either. So now you know. What you still don't know however is that the PRC is 21st century fascism -- with Chinese characteristics of course.



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PRC timezones by GMT which are superseded by Party Law as one single timezone.
 
The author of that is a moron.

It's not about how anyone feels. It's about the word oriental referring to objects. Referring to people as objects is racist.

It doesn't matter how anyone feels about it.

Why does your opinion matter?
 
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The author of that is a moron.

It's not about how anyone feels. It's about the word oriental referring to objects. Referring to people as objects is racist.

It doesn't matter how anyone feels about it.

You actually can locate people. Locating people is not racist at all.
 
Every person I've known that used the term 'oriental' has been Asian.
 
Every person I've known that used the term 'oriental' has been Asian.

Asia is in the East, something that is in the East is, by definition, oriental. So "Asian" and "Oriental" are interchangeable synonyms.

Since ancient times "Asia" is the name given to the region from Turkey to China.
 
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The worlds economic superpower? Well through the greed of corporations and the investor class we have certainly enabled China to challenge us there.

Worlds Military superpower? No challenges there as long as we can afford to spend 3 or 5 times as much on our military as any country in the world that might challenge us. Question is can we really afford to be the world's policemen.
 
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Feel free to explain your choice if you want.

The Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine the US. They appear to be part of a foreign global conspiracy. This will come out in the trials that will shortly begin. This conspiracy has a connection to the deep state of the new world order that the Democrats and world wide Progressives had envisioned, starting in Europe.

Open borders is like an open wound that can allow easier access to both good and bad bacteria. This is the Democrat position. Either way the infection requires a lot of resources, until the body can assimilate the mixture of good and bad pathogens.

Man made up climate change, requires structural changes to the US that can cripple the US economy. It is not easy to switch from gasoline and move to overpriced electric power, overnight. This extra financial burden on everyone will kill the middle class, even faster than the assumed 20 year future affect of climate change. They created a fake need to justify sand in the gears.

Fake news, which is part of the Democrat propaganda wing, is creating division and even some anarchy among its citizens, and a crippling of government activity. to solve national problems. This is a precursor step to justify the need for government control. If the old way cannot function, normally, you have to assume control to fix it. Then the criminal morons can really screw it up.

If it wasn't for Trump fighting back, the Democrats would have already crippled the US. This weakening would then justify the new world order that they envisioned, where the US becomes the world piggy bank, for left wing middle man skim. The Clintons made a fortune of skim, via pay to play, that favored foreign over domestic.

Luckily, the crimes and ambitions of the Democrats, have been exposed and a purge will soon occur. Their momentum has been stopped in its tracks and a reversal is underway. The border is being sealed with Mexico paying for it with actions, instead of by tariffs. The rats have no escape. The rats are cornered, and this is their last stand using fake news confusion and obstruction.
 
Civilization began independently in various parts of the world. From there is spread. Chinese civilization began during the 21th century BC along the Yellow River, in what is now China. From there Chinese civilization spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia and Tibet. When I use the word "Oriental" I refer to one or more of these six civilizations. That is how I learned to use the word Oriental. I will continue to use it that way, thank you very much.

Calling Orientals "Asians" ignores the fact that Asians can be Caucasian. Calling them "East Asian" feels like a concession to political correctness. I dislike political correctness.

By the way, I also use the word "Negro" a lot. I have been told that even though Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used that word fifteen times in his "I have a dream speech," the politically correct term has become "African American. I have never heard a Negro refer to himself, herself, or other Negros as "African American. "African American" is an awkward term. If American Negroes are African American, what should we call African Negroes? We can't really call them "African" because the people who live in north Africa are Caucasians. Must we call African Negroes "African Africans?

Finally, who makes up these rules? Why do we have to obey them? I was never consulted about the changes. People tell me, "You can't use that word anymore. Times have changed." Well guess what? I have not changed. What is more I am not going to change. Oriental, Oriental, Oriental. Negro, Negro, Negro. Get used to it.
 
Asians can be Caucasian.

No, they can't. Caucasians is a term to describe White Europeans. There are no Europeans in Asia (except in Occupied Palestine).


Finally, who makes up these rules? Why do we have to obey them? I was never consulted about the changes. People tell me, "You can't use that word anymore. Times have changed." Well guess what? I have not changed. What is more I am not going to change. Oriental, Oriental, Oriental. Negro, Negro, Negro. Get used to it.

I guess they will get used to it only when you will stop getting offended when someone calls you a honky.
 
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