As a christian.

[kloudie]

magnetaress you aren't being oppressed. you are just dumb.

[Elizondo]

alt accounts crawling out the woodwork to embarrass themselves in this thread

[Seducio]

Things that America regrets. Talk to your neighbors. Also those not in Texas.

[Patriam1066]

Don’t get too comfortable. We’ll be in Taiwan soon enough, doing God’s work for the cause of freedom. Amen

[Seducio]

Doubt it. Arizona will come online and our interests will change. But hey you could be right if we're slow to build and we are.

Taiwan is a long way from Istanbul though.

[Patriam1066]

You’ll have to look up “limes” to know why the physical borders of either have little to do with the metaphysical concept that both represent. We are Rome, we always will be

But ok, sure, I hope we do take back our chip superiority that was first established in Dallas Fort Worth by engineers at Texas Instruments who graduated primarily from the University of Texas at Austin

[Seducio]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You’ll have to look up “limes” to know why the physical borders of either have little to do with the metaphysical concept that both represent. We are Rome, we always will be

But ok, sure, I hope we do take back our chip superiority that was first established in Dallas Fort Worth by engineers at Texas Instruments who graduated primarily from the University of Texas at Austin

Some claim Rome is the closest thing to what we might be but it doesn't take into account the different stages of what Rome was., I actually don't think there is a comparable country/empire/replublic/democracy or whatever you want to call us. We're a new thing historically. Applying Rome logic to America will cause mistakes.

History doesn't repeat it rhymes.

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Seducio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some claim Rome is the closest thing to what we might be but it doesn't take into account the different stages of what Rome was., I actually don't think there is a comparable country/empire/replublic/democracy or whatever you want to call us. We're a new thing historically. Applying Rome logic to America will cause mistakes.

History doesn't repeat it rhymes.

Read the storm before the storm by the dude who made the history of Rome podcast. It’s an interesting one and actually well written. It’s about the period between gaius marius and Julius Caesar, when the stage was being set for political instability and the establishment of the principate

[Seducio]

Much more likely that Ukraine situation devolves and NATO has to enter. We're much closer to a weird accidental crappy Nuclear moment than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis but you wouldn't know it by watching the news. All it takes is for Russia to get trigger happy and for us to go Ham. That is more likely than Taiwan currently. Still not a good situation though. WW3 breaks out world changes forever.

[Patriam1066]

Taiwan is very likely because Xi is different than the last few patient leaders China has had. He cares less about building an economic juggernaut and more about ascendancy as it secures his throne. He cut his teeth in the age of Putin and Iran’s supreme leader. Belligerence has helped these guys stay in power. China’s economic rise only allowed previous heads of the communist party 10 years in leadership. We’re past that and in uncharted waters. It’s critical that deterrence is established now

I don’t think Intel and TSMC save us. I think the global south needs to be goaded to be more vocal in pushing back against Russia and China. As for the Russia stuff, I can’t imagine them using a nuke, but who knows. Like I said, uncharted waters