We always heard that this would be China’s century, and for the most part I assumed “maayybe. We’ll see. It’d take a while for the US to decline.”

Little did I know the US would very quickly shoot both its feet off on its own.

I thought that if China were to become the dominant country it’d be through years and years of steady growth while the US was doing the same. They’d just end up overtaking in the long run — not that the US would actively sabotage itself via bigotry and stupidity and greed.

Complete self own. And everyone in charge is a giant coward. We could start righting the ship today, but all the elected gop (and some dem) officials are greedy cowards.

Seems like a perfect video for Peertube.

What I’m saying is that last year without all the illegal, bullshit, ICE shit, without all the money that was wasted this year building up that garbage - more people were deported last year. The system that already existed last year did more in this area than this year. And without grabbing up US citizens and deporting them illegally, and without terrorizing cities for no reason.

Unless I missed it, this article doesn’t mention that last year — so without all this ICE bullshit and wasted money — the Biden admin deported more people than the Trump admin this year.

The Brenden Carr is a Dumny segment on the next Vergecast is going to be wild.