It is now five years later and the disparity between the US and China in this respect has only gotten worse. But hey, that’s a good thing right?

  • erik_houdini
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    3 months ago

    If I was a politician, I would probably approach this something like this, imagine I’m in a seersucker suit, standing on a pine box.

    Whatever happened to American gumption, man? Whatever happened to wanting to be number one, fucking winning something, right? Whatever happened to getting on the damn gridiron and wanting to be the damn best, wanting to pull through and win the damn trophy? Whatever happened to that? It seems like in America, we’ve convinced ourselves, like an off-season player, that we’re number one, we’re the best there ever was, so we don’t need to practice, we don’t need to work.

    Meanwhile… Meanwhile… They got high-speed rail that moves 350 miles per hour. Meanwhile, they got the first fourth-generation nuclear reactor. The first fifth-generation microchip facility. What do we got? KFC in parking lots. It’s a cope. It is pathetic. Whatever happened to wanting to be the best, whatever happened to wanting to see America on top? Nah, the only thing we can do is bomb people. We can’t build anything, we just blow it up. That’s the problem with this country. I’m sick and I’m tired. I’m tired of people talking about, well, they’re China, they can just do it better. They got more people. Oh, well, they’re communists, so, you know, they’re more efficient than us. Hogwash. Ridiculous. Shows me a lack of fucking gumption. It’s a cope. It’s a fucking cope. Makes me feel pathetic. I don’t want to feel pathetic, I want to feel like a patriot.