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[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 201 points 1 year ago

There's something extremely funny about the president of the US looking at what's going on China and saying out loud, "Their economy is a ticking time bomb." This is almost an onion news story.

[-] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dem

Listen, Fat! The US economy is doing better than any economy has every done in history, Jack. I call it Bidenomics. Get with the program.

biden-nibble biden-rember biden-point DaBiden

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[-] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 156 points 1 year ago

Yeah yeah, I've heard that before. There's a whole cottage industry of "experts" that have predicted the imminent collapse of China going back decades. Call me when it actually happens.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 126 points 1 year ago

If you think China's economy is a time bomb wait til you hear about what it means when the dollar is no longer the reserve currency around the world.

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 113 points 1 year ago

By my estimates, China has only 70 more years until complete and utter collapse!

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[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 110 points 1 year ago

The country that leads the world in mass shootings shouldn't be labeling other countries as "ticking time bombs."

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[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man leading country with the largest homeless population in the world says country which eliminated extreme poverty within its borders is about to collapse, of course this is true and should be taken seriously very-intelligent

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 101 points 1 year ago

The old federation is dying, the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of unlimited China struggle sessions.

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[-] AkariMizunashi@hexbear.net 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It feels really remarkable how quickly in the late 2010s that top level people in the US government (as well as the media and society generally) pivoted to using annihilationist rhetoric as though China is some sort of anime arch-enemy they have to power up to defeat. I guess this is probably what the red scare years after 1945 felt like when the US and USSR quickly shifted from allies to rivals

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago

ANY DAY NOW

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 89 points 1 year ago

I don't know about China, but Biden is really throwing stones from glass houses here as the leader of a country which is teetering on the edge of civil war, had a full blown insurrection in the past few years, and not only has it failed to prosecute the leader and instigator, it has allowed him to run for election again and there is a possibility of him being elected.

And this is not mentioning that so many in the highest offices "on both sides" are so hilariously corrupt in a country with its national ethos being "the land of the free".

I'm not happy about this by the way, I don't think a world order built by China would be better than the shitty one we got from the US.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 105 points 1 year ago

I don't think a world order built by China would be better than the shitty one we got from the US

I do to be honest.

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 86 points 1 year ago

What troubles?

Can you describe the troubles?

Are the troubles in the room with us?

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're straight up gaslighting LMAO. This is an actual, recent headline from the wsj:

https://archive.is/SBNOE

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[-] btbt@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

biden-troll Don’t worry about having to work 30 hours a day at the sisyphean torture factory to be able to afford your ten square foot apartment Jack, look at what’s going on in China! A sexpat YouTuber who got kicked out of the country says their economy will collapse any minute now! Don’t trust any of the actual data on China’s economy, you can’t fall for those [REDACTED] and their tricks, Jack! They’re weak even though we say they’re strong! THEY’RE WEAK EVEN THOUGH WE SAY THEY’RE STRONG!

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[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago

Well ima call the US a ticking timebomb, how about that Jack biden-alert

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me upvoting a comment and when it refreshes, seeing it's been upvoted 8 times since I navigated to the page sicko-pog

[-] Tofu_Lewis@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago

CHINA COLLAPSING ANY DAY NOW

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago

He's gotta find someone to blame when the next recession starts.

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[-] puff@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago

Pot calls the kettle a pot.

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[-] booty@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago

man in glass house throws stones

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[-] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

Little weird actively wishing for the most populated country in the world and the second largest economy in the world to collapse. Hey yankee numb nuts, that's gonna have global repercussions, that will likely affect the US as bad as anyone else. Who do you think makes all your shit? Really trying to cut off your nose to spite your face here.

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