Smitty-48 wrote:The idea that America is a nation of yeoman farmers defending their homesteads with their rifles, is a cartoon, America is an imperial hegemon ruling over its own people by a corptocracy as opressive and corrupt as the Chinese Communists, with more of its people imprisoned therein, but in Shanghai, you have the dynamism where the people can hustle to the top of the heap, as Americans used to in America's heyday, whereas now in America, most people have about the same economic mobility as a Chinese peasant, in fact, the Chinese peasant will hustle up a better play than the American now, Americans ain't the go getters they used to be, and they're not even encouraged to be anymore, rhetorically perhaps, but if they actually try to go out and hustle, suddenly they find the game is more rigged in America than it is even in Communist China.Hwen Hoshino wrote: Why does face culture even exist in China if they are such hustlers? Other countries got rid of their gun rights. No other country backs up it's freedom of speech with guns in civilian hands. The idea that other countries are more American than America is stupid. Outside of the giant debt in what way is China kicking USA ass? I am not worried about the Bulgars or China, i just said the Chinese way is way harder to spread than the American way.
Not true. I watched my parents rise from very lowly stations to quite high ones indeed. It is possible here to hustle but of course a lot of luck and genetic predisposition goes a long way unlike China where it is merely luck and your family's turn at the big shot. Here it was, and probably still is, possible to make your own way on your own innate merit should you choose to do so.
