America is done, stick a fork in her

serendipity said:
The Chinese are in serious shit

Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it

China’s economic rocket ride appears to be ending – or slowing, at least. Growth has declined from 8.4% in 2021 to 4.5% today, youth unemployment has climbed to 16.9%, and cities are filled with unfinished buildings after the collapse of property developer Evergrande in 2024.

For a while now, a phrase has been buzzing on Chinese social media sites Weibo and RedNote to describe what’s happening: “garbage time”.

Borrowed from basketball slang, it refers to the final minutes of a game whose outcome is already decided. The best players sit out. The bench players take over. No one tries as hard because there’s less at stake.

The term caught on last year and seems to capture a mixture of sadness and dark humour. Basically, people now seem to expect less. It’s not so much an economic crash as a slow decline of hope.

For those born in the 1980s and 1990s, who grew up during China’s four decades of fast growth, this is a major shift. Wages aren’t climbing, houses are losing value and jobs in tech and finance are harder to find.

But “garbage time” is also making room for younger and middle-class Chinese to redefine success and contentment. With good jobs, luxury goods and home ownership now harder to attain, a generation is questioning what matters most in a changing socioeconomic landscape

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Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it

China’s vast middle class is now changing its values, aspirations and consumption habits in an era of much slower economic growth – dubbed ‘garbage time’.
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Meanwhile, they have free healthcare, free gov housing and is the most advance nation on the planet....go cry some place else
 
They don't have free healthcare in China and definitely don't have free housing. As often as not the government will force children to provide shelter for them, on the basis that they cared for you when young so now the children must do the same.
 
tigerred59 said:
Meanwhile, they have free healthcare, free gov housing and is the most advance nation on the planet....go cry some place else
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They don't have free healthcare in China and definitely don't have free housing. As often as not the government will force children to provide shelter for them, on the basis that they cared for you when young so now the children must do the same.
 
serendipity said:
They don't have free healthcare in China and definitely don't have free housing. As often as not the government will force children to provide shelter for them, on the basis that they cared for you when young so now the children must do the same.
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So what's the story about the 3rd world shit hole you live in
 
China= Paper tiger. This is why they wont attack Taiwan. If they do the Chinese military will receive the first of many death blows to come. And they KNOW IT,.....so instead they sit back and saber rattle. The thing with saber rattling is if you do it for too long of a period without actually backing it up the intended target eventually just hears back round noise and tunes it out as meaningless talk. If China makes a move they will BURN.
 
Kurmugeon said:
Well, since you believe America is dead, why don't you leave?


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Do assholes get any more stupid than you, K?

Anybody is free to leave America,
but that doesn't mean that they're free to live someplace else.

Also, anybody too stupid to understand this
really needs to be humanely put down
both for his/her own good and for the nation's as well.

Nothing identifies a braindead asshole quicker than the "love it or leave it" comment.
Does it physically hurt to be that fucking stupid?
 
Libhater said:
The Chinese have been eating us alive for a long time now, especially during biden's overlooking the Chinese spy balloon etc. Now
we have Trump in office ready to put the trading screws to China, and also take them off the two ends of the Panama Canal so that
our ships can run smoothly through there to do their business. China has risen far above America with its ship building, but Trump
is already putting our shipbuilding skills to work to help offset China's dominance in that field.
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Question....what if Trump and all these tariffs work and suddenly all these jobs start coming back to this country...WHO WE GONNA SELL THE SHIT WE MAKE HERE TOO? CHINA IS OPENING UP MARKETS ALL OVER ASIA. CANADA IS DONE WITH US, THEY'RE MAKING FREE MARKET DEALS WITH ALL OF EUROPE AND ASIA. MEXICO IS DAMN NEAR ALL IN THE COUNTRY, SO WHO IN THE FUCK GONNA BY THIS OVER PRICED LABOR DRIVING SHIT WE MAKING? AND THIS I'M GONNA WAIT ON YOUR DUMB ASS TO REPLY.
 
There is a new world order forming and the United states is not gonna be apart of it. The future of this country, just like Russia will be dark, cold and isolated. Its not gonna happen 2mar, but down the road, the global economic world is gonna leave this country with its stock market, its fuckin dollar bill and MAGA.
 
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