What technology secrets do we have that isn’t made in their factories? What space or weapons or semiconductor programs do we have?
I couldn't tell you about what secrets they haven't stolen yet, they copy everything and make it out of the same tinfoil they wrap those chicken pieces in. However, the overwhelming majority of semiconductors are produced by Taiwan, our ally/vassal just off their coast, which is why we have such a vested interest in keeping Taiwan independent of CCP control.
And have you been to Shenzhen or Shanghai lately? You can’t call them second world any more. We’re second world now.
I understand what you're trying to say, because I too begrudgingly think America is an empire in decline, but I want to make sure everyone's on the same page. First/Second/Third world, while could generally be used as a ranking system for how shitty your country is, is actually a holdover of Cold War groupings. First world is Western/NATO aligned, Second world is USSR/CCP/Warsaw Pact aligned, Third world is neutral. While I do consider China to be an overpopulated
second rate shithole that replicated Soviet designs (and now NATO designs) out of cheap potmetal and makes their bigger cities look fancy with empty highrise apartments and bright LEDs, the designation "Second world" strictly refers to their alignment in the contrast of communism/capitalism.
>YER MA’S AN IMMIGRANT
WE’RE ALL MIGRANTS
Is he lost? That’s the shit they say over here in Canada/US, the fuck did he immigrate from? Are the white people in Ireland aliens?
don’t @ me with any stupid sperging about Irish being white or not lol
He's probably an Ulster Scot, which I have learned from this thread were Scottish immigrants planted by Britain a few hundred years back, that may or may not have came from Ireland initially. His point misses the bigger picture of the migrant problem being recent arrivals of the brown persuasion, but he might actually consider himself the descendent of immigrants similar to a white American that knows his ancestry back to 19th century Ellis Island.