@mekkaokereke In Europe I haven't heard pretty much any talk about increasing ties with China to offset the USA. Japan, Canada, India, South America and ASEAN yes. But China?

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Western European nations, too, have plenty of delusions about their place in the world - what they imagine themselves to be and how they actually act, vs. how the many countries they have historically exploited actually see them.

I still support the #EuropeanUnion - it's been a tremendous boon to smaller European nations who have traditionally been on the receiving end of the Imperialism of the Great Powers.

But we are not the "shining beacon" of human rights and freedoms we imagine ourselves to be.

@mekkaokereke I was in China fall 2024 during a huge conference with African nations, and also saw amazing windmills from admirable train systems. Meanwhile...what you said...

"Trump derangement syndrome" is just the latest version of what y'all call it when Black Americans are right about something at least 5 or 10 years before white Americans.🤷🏿‍♂️

There's a fundamental inability to benefit from the amazingly accurate prediction machine that is Black folk in the US.
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Because if you truly believe yourself to be more clever than almost all Black people...

And almost all Black people are flagging concern about something that you don't think is that big of a deal...

Then you assume that it must be because Black people's reasoning is flawed or not rigorous enough.

It's hard to have the humility to say, "🤔If Black people are just as smart as white people, and Black folk almost uniformly see a danger that white folk don't see?

It might be because Black folk are basing their decision on facts and data that white folk don't have access to. What is that data?"