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So that link at the bottom redirects to an NPR interview (https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1213287201/how-chinas-weakened-economy-plays-into-talks-between-biden-and-xi) and it's just a bog standard interview? This exchange here is a little funny:

[ARI SHAPIRO, HOST]: How big an economic funk is China in right now? Is this a country in decline or just growing less quickly than it used to be?

[ROBERT DALY]: I think the latter. It's growing less quickly. It is in the midst of its biggest economic crisis since it began opening up in 1978, but I think that many in the West have been too quick and too triumphalist to declare that this is peak China and that China is done. There's - you know, they face structural difficulties, but they still have a lot of strengths.

The guy never makes any sort of numerical comparison between the US and China. The closest he gets is to say that this "economic funk" is nowhere near as bad as the 2008 recession. That "64%" seems to be imaginary.

BREAKING: Recent analysis shows that since Biden entered the Whitehouse, presidential dumps have registered a 5 point decrease on the Bristol stool chart.

BREAKING a hole buncha bullshit i just made up

I don't know man, on one hand you have a country with no structural homelessness, increasing standards of living, no legal sex industry, cheap cost of life, and massive new infrastructure

But on the other hand you have the country with a lot of dollars

He is making a lot of bombs to drop on defenseless Palestinian children, isn't he

I can totally believe that the US wastes enough money on bloated healthcare costs, bombs, financial scams and addictive apps that it bloats our GDP figure to exceed China's based-on-reality economy.

It's all in the defense industry.

USA, losing 40 times in a row:

USA, winning once: we are in a position of great strength

I dont doubt that those numbers are real but I think the numbers come from such a obtuse angle that it makes them seem impressive.

The only thing America knows how to do is look at a bad situation, naturally occuring or not, and ask how can we profit from it? The decline of education, the debt traps and the desire to bring manufacturing back to the US is no coincidence. They want to slowly take the country back to the early 20th century. US economy and society is dying and the powers that be are responding with what can we do to make this swing in our favor.

The future is more of the population with shitty bullshit jobs with no progression or pay and lots of unemployment. They intend to control us that way by keeping a small base of people who can live decent lives with real jobs or atleast ones that pay. Theyll try to leverage our suffering into joining the military to keep the only thing that props up the US economy, imperialism. Basically what we have now, but more of it.

Damn they even let Kamela out of her shed

Ok now compare industries. Or PPP. Or GDP without FIRE

The pic look like Olsen's Gang lol.