The never-ending battle against woke Hollywood and SJW infused entertainment media [trigger warning]

Admittedly, the Daily Mail is a very biased news source, and reports things selectively. But they don't write fiction.

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We might move to a scenario where there are NO super powers and USA and China are on equal footing.

But the CCP is not going to take over the world. I haven't posted much on L-O on my CCP thread but China has a lot of internal problems right now.

Dams, roads, bridges, and skyscrapers are falling down. Submarines are sinking. Their new aircraft carrier is decades behind US carriers. Their new rifle sucks compared to other countries weapons. Winnie the Pooh has been purging military leaders that HE appointed and he still has CCP officials from rival factions to worry about.

Trade shows are tanking, exports are declining, protests are becoming more common (despite the crackdowns), rich Chinese are expatriating themselves (or being arrested), young people are lying flat, the birthrate is dropping, the CCP overstated their population by about 100 million people, the overstated their GDP by a lot, ordinary Chinese people no longer believe the state media.

Vietnam, Japan, India, the Philippines are getting ballsier about standing up to the CCP. Australia is finally waking up to the CCP as being a threat and ousting CCP spies and puppets. New Zealand, will they have a DEI miliary so they don't matter.

Granted the CCP has made some diplomatic inroads in Africa but even that is starting to stall out.

BRICS hasn't really done anything more than symbolic gestures yet because they cannot agree on anything and South Africa and Russia are dragging the rest down.

China has their own problem with large portions of their own populations turning into whiny little wusses. They call this "The Little Emperor" problem. With the one-child policy, children are spoiled rotten and often grow into soft adults. If the PLA ever went to war, every single soldier lost represents a family line being extinguished which will give the CCP internal unrest to worry about.

On top of all that. Chinese agricultural sector is really hurting. Communist countries in general have a poor track record for feeding their populations and China is rapidly losing ground on this fight. The median age of a Chinese farmer is quite old because so many young rural people were pushed into cities, so their experienced farmers are dying. Pollution is weakening their soil and water, and natural disasters are wiping out crops too and the CCP doesn't manage floods and droughts very well. Note China has floods and droughts.

Ukraine is the breadbasket of large parts of the world and is very important to the food supply of the Middle East. As the Middle East has to import foodstuffs from other countries, this rises food prices everywhere and makes it harder for China to import food. A large portion of China's food comes from US exports. If US and the PLA really went to war, China's food crisis would get worse.

What happens if everyone declines at the same time? I think we will enter a period of history where isolationism becomes the norm as countries look out for themselves.

 

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A failed attempt to murder me could leave me grievously injured. I am concerned that the CCP will cause great suffering in their failed attempt at global domination. They already are causing great suffering but it's right now limited to the people within their own borders and their immediate neighbors.

You and I are above average intellect but it is probably beyond our ability to predict the course of ideologies in our rapidly changing world.

Normally I'd say capitalism is a shoe-in for victory but the declining birth rate has me concerned. Note, Communist and post-Communist countries alike have low birth rate.

As far as I can tell, the birth rate is dropping in every region of the world. It's just dropping faster in the so-called First and Second World countries. This might be a good thing. It makes funding social security difficult with lots of old people and few young workers but a population decline without war or plague means that there is theoretically more food, more land, more houses to go around.



I don't know what the global order will look like with the population tilted so strongly towards the Third World. They are projected to have a declining birth rate too...but a generation and a half after the rest of the world stops having babies. I think the global population is predicted to peak at 9 billion, then drop precipitously.

 

Celebrities threaten to leave the country after the election results didn't turn out the way they wanted

 

Lots and lots of world leaders, both democratic and autocratic are trying to encourage their population to have more babies.

No one has figured out the magic formula to do this yet. The first industrialized culture that pulls this off will be the next super power in a hundred years.

I have no idea how to convince people to have babies.

 

It's really hard in our capitalistic society.

women should chase career.
people should reach finantial stability before forming a family (...and that's because mortgages for houses are a debt for life, so of course you need it.)
men and women both must work, otherwise a single entry would not suffice.
our society slowly but surely increased the difficulties for any young couple, so people shift their project for a full family 'til it's late.
And if you have a couple of kids (so, just going on par) you are already lucky.