if you look at the data from the elections earlier this month, it seems like the real danger is that many labor voters have simply stopped voting

They're not voting for other parties. They've simply stopped showing up to polls at all.

like 15 years of stories on how the US is going to Pivot to Asia and Contain China, and it all ends with Donald Trump blowing up the US economy and supply chains on a whim.

The funniest part is the people saying they just want to put it directly under the state department. Even though this is the organization that funds NGO's and color revolutions.

I guess no one told them how plausible deniability works.

I was mostly looking to see if it would answer questions without huge HR style disclaimers , but yeah , it doesn't like to generate responses on current world leaders

Yeah , and because the ships are so old and badly maintained they had to constantly reboot the controls and find work arounds for them.

I hate the 21st century I hate the 21st century

There was a period around the 1600s where, relative to their neighbors , they could be described as a pretty well run and meritocratic state. Social mobility generally existed for men who had valuable skills and were willing to convert to Islam. There was a pretty effective administrative state , general internal stability, and the food supply was generally secure.

Your other options in the region at that time were ;

Europe - saw about twelve million dead in the 30 years war and the wars of religion. Widespread hunger as the falling temperatures of the little ice age lowered the crop yields. Glaciers started expanding again, and the altitude at which wheat could be grown decreased by about 200 to 300 meters. Also widespread religious hysteria and witch hunts as the black plague returns to Europe.

Russia - Absolutely wrecked by climate change. The combination of the little ice age , a bad volcanic winter and foreign invasion sees 30% of the population dead in the Time of Troubles, followed by regular famines afterwards. The general collapse of the old feudal relationships sees an increase in serfdom and more exploitation of the peasants.

Persia - Having problems from the rise of the Ottomans and the disruption of the silk road trade, and with some regions only just then recovering from seeing their cities, infrastructure and population almost annihilated by the Mongols 400 years previously. Though still a pretty ok place to live at this time , all things considered.

Kermit the Frog voice "You must slay the dragon of chaos by emptying your piss bottles."

No , but really, it's the depression that makes you not care about the garbage. You have to trick yourself into having motivation, try putting on some music or a tv show so you have something to focus on, and spend fifteen minutes forcing yourself to throw that stuff into a garbage bag. Even if you only clear out half , or a third, you'll feel better for having gotten up and done something.

It's way too late at this point. Two decades of insane US foreign policy have forced China, Russia and Iran into a partnership, so instead of taking on China they'd be taking on all of Asia, and that's just not possible.

lol, the post-collapse Zoomer warlords would cook and eat him

If they're trying to stop a high tech sector from forming in China than these sanctions are about 15 years too late, China already has domestic production of 7 nm chips.

It sounds good, but then the Canadian program also sounded good, before they amended it to allow the state to coerce disabled and indigent people into execution.