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If China is smart, they will impose Chinese as the new lingua franca. They’re not that smart however.
Chinese is difficult to pick up and English already has a massive headstart as the prime trade language due to it's wide use and adaptability, not to mention the world's leading consumer countries are English speaking.

Besides that how is China going to impose it? The airline industry for example requires pilots and ATC operators to speak and understand English around the world. You think American ATCs are going to learn Chinese or is America going to flex it's influence to keep it English?
 
Is Donald Trump Jr. coming to South Korea? A friend in South Korea just sent me this picture:
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He also told me that the people there were singing to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, but (I'm guessing, he told me he couldn't hear them very well) Korean lyrics instead. Looks like this happened in Seoul (since that is where my friend said he took the picture, on the bus).
 
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Back to governor Pritzker, there's a good rant about it.

April 28, 2025

Illinois Governor Pritzker’s not-very-subtle encouragement of political violence​

By Andrea Widburg


Honest people understand that what happened on January 6, 2021, was not an “insurrection,” but was, instead, a protest that got out of hand (and, perhaps, was helped to get out of hand by shadowy activists whom the FBI never pursued). Now, though, it appears that the Democrats really do want a genuine, violent, deadly revolution against Donald Trump. How else can one explain Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s call for mass, in-your-face protests against Trump and Republicans, generally, whom he calls “tyrants,” to prove his bona fides to be America’s next president?

Pritzker is an interesting man because he’s like the “Bad Trump.” You know, he’s what Trump would be if he were in Superman’s Bizarro World, where evil is elevated and good destroyed. Like Trump, he’s a billionaire who was born to wealth (much greater wealth than Trump’s) and then augmented that wealth through his own efforts. Both were elected as populists, Trump going to the White House and Pritzker going to Illinois’s governor’s office.

However, the similarities end there. Trump is a genuine populist because his policies appeal to America’s beleaguered working and middle classes. He promises that he will end job competition from illegal immigrants and unfair trade practices (especially from China), clean up criminally overrun cities, tamp down on a bloated and corrupt federal government, stop focusing obsessively on race, and protect children from perverted sexual predations.
 
Where are they going to move abroad to?

Like Europe is being shit up, America for now is okayish but still not out of the woods and Australia is being shit up.

Unless they planning to move to Africa or countries that fall under BRICS or the Middle East.
Quoting this again because my edit was eaten, but the Canadian Elites have the same plan as the rest of the other Western Elites: New Zealand. They're disarmed, not enough immigrants to risk their shit, and they're isolated enough and white enough for their comfort. There's also the point that when shit hits the fan that they'll be far away from 99% of the people they fucked everything else up for.
You know I used to think that the biggest threats facing the future of western nations where the insane college libs that ran Yale and other big colleges. While they are still the factor I think this graph really opened my eyes to just how much the older White generations fucking don't give a shit about leaving anything of value behind. They want their brown man servants doing everything for them, and by God if it means flooding Canadas with Rapists that will clog their cities like fat to an artery than what else is there to care about. Unless someone else want's to take control of N. Americas borders then we have a problem.
The older generations intentionally made sure that the younger ones wouldn't have anything like what they had. Hell, half of Gen X will be lucky to even have Social Security and the system is designed to ensure that even the boomers that want to pass something on can't do that without a whole lot of hardship.
 
Like Europe is being shit up, America for now is okayish
I am pretty recent in this country on both sides of my family, my father's side is from Canada and my mother's side, on one half of it, mostly lives in Spain and France. I've been to all 3 of those many times. America is a little worse than "okayish", the thing about Europe is the population density makes it seem worse than it is but overall it's still got way less shitskins than the U.S. does. America needs to buckle down and save itself NOW, time is running out. If shit keeps going south here I'm moving to Jaca, hahaha.
 
Quoting this again because my edit was eaten, but the Canadian Elites have the same plan as the rest of the other Western Elites: New Zealand. They're disarmed, not enough immigrants to risk their shit, and they're isolated enough and white enough for their comfort.
The elites aren't secret racists. They have no secret plan to escape to a white utopia. There is no white country they'll exempt from their plans. They believe they are gods with infallible plans to mold a new humanity, and once the political and cultural resistance of white people is dissolved in a flood of Third World immigration, they can build a world that resembles Star Trek: The Next Generation. They aren't pretending to be retarded.

All trump had to do was not fucking joke around about invading canada and starting trade wars with them because those are actually really insane statements to make, and all it does it give the previously massively unpopular Canadian libs a victory from the jaws of defeat.
It's not Trump's job to make Canadian voters not be retarded. If they want to destroy their country to own the orange man, that's their problem.
 
If China is smart, they will impose Chinese as the new lingua franca. They’re not that smart however.
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We need to update the term to “English language”

In America-hating, America-envying, tariff-blaming China, even deserted mall department stores write their name in English

As far as Canada, cutting a one mile DMZ along the border should yield approximately 106 billion board feet of lumber
 
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We went drifting the Harry S. Truman to avoid a Houthi munition of some kind and lost an F-18 (60 million) into the drink for our trouble.

We are over 40 days into operation Roughrider BTW with its only stated goal to stop the attacks on commercial shipping witch havent occurred in over 4 months

we are dangerously close to an new Afghanistan because nothing short of a full effort ground invasion will stop long term future attacks
While I understand your point, it's impossible to permanently end piracy so that the seas are safe without an escort, combating piracy is directly defending our tangible interests (rather than being some kind of proxy war over ideology), and protecting merchants in perpetuity was always one of the main purposes of the US Navy. Houthi ships are an acceptable target of our weaponry
 
We are over 40 days into operation Roughrider BTW with its only stated goal to stop the attacks on commercial shipping witch havent occurred in over 4 months

we are dangerously close to an new Afghanistan because nothing short of a full effort ground invasion will stop long term future attacks
Just because Trump is in the whitehouse again, doesn't mean America's identity crisis is solved. We literally have no idea how to act if there isn't some brown people wearing dresses in the desert to bomb. We get all antsy n shit. Like a crackhead who hasn't had a puff in a few hours.
 
We are over 40 days into operation Roughrider BTW with its only stated goal to stop the attacks on commercial shipping witch havent occurred in over 4 months
Sounds like it's working
we are dangerously close to an new Afghanistan because nothing short of a full effort ground invasion will stop long term future attacks
Good thing the legitimate yemen government is preparing to invade Houthi controlled areas


Yemen's government is reportedly preparing to launch a massive assault to recapture Hodeidah Port in western Yemen from the Houthis, according to a Friday report in Emirati state media.

Yemen's internationally recognized government is preparing to mass nearly 80,000 troops for what would be the largest offensive of the civil war, according to statements by Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of the Gulf Research Center based in Saudi Arabia, on Friday "To my best knowledge, there is a preparation of almost 80,000 soldiers from the legitimate Yemeni government in different locations in order to take over [Hodeidah]," Dr. Sager said.

80,000 soldiers would represent a majority of all non-Houthi forces in Yemen. This would constitute the largest offensive of the civil war and would also set the stage for an assault on the capital city Sana'a, which has been under Houthi control since 2014.

The US has blown up important Houthi infrastructure in preparation. The Houthi also can't rely on Iranian support this time.
 
Holy shit did the elderly fuck them all over. That's insanely lopsided.
I'm telling you it's the same here. Look at the last few years of protests, seas of gray. DU is always going about turning 70 and stuff, the left's base has aged with time and it's now the boomers mostly.
I call it the "parting gift" vote. They really hate their grandkids.
 
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