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In Reply to: China's been off the coast for a long time posted by Story on November 4, 2021 at 03:05:54:
Assuming a foreign power really wants to take over a shambling ungovernable mess of a country with a heavily armed citizenry, what difference does it make to average Americans?
What are they going to do, put all of our electronic communications under surveillance? We already do that to ourselves.
They going to kill American citizens without any due process? Our own government already does it.
They going to put us in re-education camps? Hell, our own government already operates for-profit concentration camps.
All the political partisanship here, the reality is that nothing really changes no matter which party is running things. Pennsylvania, for example, is the same decade in and decade out, regardless of which party controls the state. Billionaires make the rules the rest of us live by and politicians from both parties dance to their tune. That's how it's always been and how it always will be. Doesn't matter if the US president's last name is Trump, Biden, or Xi.
If the Chinese took over tomorrow, little would change and few would even notice. Except maybe we'd have cheaper prescription drugs and free college.
BTW, that crooked machine pol in South Jersey is losing to a truck driver who spent $153 on his campaign.
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Follow Ups
- If that's true, what difference does it make? - ghost of olddude55 11/4/2103:19:07 11/4/21 (17)
- Did you read the article? - Steve O 06:04:59 11/4/21 (5)
- Profoundly naive is believing the US foreign policy establishment. - ghost of olddude55 06:16:20 11/4/21 (2)
- From what you write here... - Steve O 06:45:02 11/4/21 (1)
- I grew up hearing it. - ghost of olddude55 07:24:32 11/4/21 (0)
- it's an 'article' - Story 06:13:22 11/4/21 (1)
- It's an opinion piece, from a journal of opinion. nt - ghost of olddude55 06:21:27 11/4/21 (0)
- Red Dawn is just a movie - Dave_K 05:57:15 11/4/21 (2)
- Besides, if they are trying to teach us a lesson - ghost of olddude55 06:28:32 11/4/21 (1)
- A "lesson" might not be intended for just the US (nt) - Steve O 06:38:58 11/4/21 (0)
- "little would change" - Story 04:04:15 11/4/21 (7)
- Hell, I was born to be a middle class nobody. - ghost of olddude55 04:53:30 11/4/21 (6)
- I didn't think you were - Story 05:41:11 11/4/21 (5)
- Scripture is just ancient fake news - Jay Buridan 11:04:47 11/4/21 (4)
- That's your choice and welcome to USA where - Story 11:25:02 11/4/21 (3)
- RE: That's your choice and welcome to USA where - pictureguy 11:30:59 11/4/21 (2)
- figure that one out, gosh. I may have to run since it's actually viable - Story 11:43:26 11/4/21 (1)
- RE: figure that one out, gosh. I may have to run since it's actually viable - pictureguy 12:26:51 11/4/21 (0)