China to drop presidential term limits

Noboru said:
Nothing New in the West. We have a quite well-known Candidate for whom a Term Limit would be desirable.

J_LEE_C said:


If you're in the US right now, impeachment is the most desirable.

Noboru said:
At the very least, your Candidate will be gone at latest within 8 Years. Also, our Candidate is more likely to last your Candidate's full theoretical Time in Office than your Candidate fulfilling it.

J_LEE_C said:


Where are you from?

Noboru said:
From the Place on Earth formerly known as the "Land of Poets and Thinkers".

Noboru said:
From the Place on Earth formerly known as the "Land of Poets and Thinkers".

Neane93 said:
Intellectuals in the PRC are using people like Trump as an argument for why Liberalism and Democracy are bad and that it's a just fancy idea that the West needs to keep their politicians at bay and it's completely unnecessary because look at how great Xi is and how much better everything is getting which is done in China by the politburo who keeps him in check.

They also have the most cynical vision of the West you can possibly imagine, saying all the advancements of the 20th and 21st century in the West are merely power grabs designed to ensure American global authority.

They aren't the only ones, people think that all the stuff that Russia does in places like the West is to make people they like in power. It isn't. They keep their power to places that actually want them. Like Syria, Eastern Ukraine, and other places like in Georgia.

They do stuff in the West that's only done to trigger endless REEEEing no matter what the results are to discredit Liberal Democracy as chaotic and inefficient (which is true, it's purposely made to be chaotic and inefficient to stop someone from taking power) .

When this spreads across the globe, for however long as they and Russian can avoid bursting its massive bubbles and have a strong and favorable image, people might start to think Liberal Democracy isn't worth it.

isekai said:

are you saying there is a better way besides checks and balances or separation of powers? i like to hear this alternative

isekai said:
@Soverign

you did not quote his quote that i quoted

>Liberal Democracy as chaotic and inefficient (which is true, it's purposely made to be chaotic and inefficient to stop someone from taking power)
>Liberal Democracy isn't worth it.

@Neane93

ye i know and you said this system is inefficient and chaotic right? so whats the better alternative then? dictatorship?

Soverign said:

So I did. You know what I was responding to though. Democracy isn't anything other than normies voting on which normie to eat for lunch next.

I am glad Putin and Xi decided to get you out of the way and unshackle us. Thank you sooooooooo much. Trump is the best President we have ever had. Simply because he just stays the fuck out of the way. He doesn't even want to hear about it.

isekai said:


so you think democracy is not worth it too? dictatorship is the better alternative? if so just why

Soverign said:


Obviously a population of highly educated and rational prostitutes, meth heads, crack heads, wife beaters are simply the best candidates for selecting other meth heads and crackheads (you get the point) to run their country. You already know a AI is the best choice to run things, you already accept that. Why not accept twenty or thirty close enough Technocracts or something until then?

J_LEE_C said:
I'd vote for Merkel over Trump. If I'm not mistaken, she's the longest tenured there since Hitler correct?

Noboru said:
Nope, Helmut Kohl is (16 Years), followed by Konrad Adenauer (14 Years) and Angela Merkel (13 Years). Bismarck btw. had 19 Years:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-chancellors-of-Germany-2066807


@isekai: Our Government is prospected to have a Deficit of over 20 Billions Euros in 2022. I've only found one German Newssite write elaborately about it. In any Case, at latest, in a few Decades, we will be economically screwed.

J_LEE_C said:


I'm not trying to make light of the situation..but did you mean trillion? you said billions. 20 billion isn't very much in a nation-state scale. I understand the exchange difference between euro and usd, but even converted to my dollars its still only $25 billion.

The current US National debt is nearing $21 trillion (17 trillion euros) and we have over $1 trillion (over the past 13 years on average) per year deficits every single year.

Compare these:

United States:
https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Germany:
https://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/germany
https://www.ft.com/content/e4ec4bce-f099-11e7-b220-857e26d1aca4

The financial times article notes that for the first time in 2 decades Germany's debt clock is reversing (as of Jan. 2018), in other words the debt is being reduced/paid off. Overall, you're down 2 trillion euros (appx $2.5 trillion USD). I'm not saying its great financial/economic situation, you're still in the red instead of the black. But you're better than the US for sure (and unlike the US you're not bubbling up the housing market (again, guess we learned nothing from 2008) nor inflating the stock market to the point where it is destined to drastically tumble in adjusting itself to the mean/real line.

I attended an economic summit back in 2013, and a renowned economist had accurately predicted every stock market fluctuation since the early 90s - including the post-9/11 effect - with an incredible 98% accuracy. At the time he warned of a 2019 economic crisis caused by the US, and now that we're on its doorstep 5 years later, sources are indicating he was likely correct.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/us-headed-for-recession-in-2019-as-fed-raises-rates-economist-warns.html

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/900611/global-stock-market-overpriced-US-UK-Managing-Partners-Group