Wow, SpacePony, that sounds shockingly similar to what white supremacy groups put out.

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

The USA is in a stage like the last century of the Romans.

Ok, so I don't know if this was mentioned already, but I didn't feel like reading through 8 pages of posts before replying. What it boild down to is this:

China may surpass the US Economical (along with several other countries) but the bottom line is that THEY ARE NOT FREE. The people have no say in the government. We, as Americans, at least have some say in which way our country goes. If we are in a recession, it is our own fault.

In the case that China does become number 1, which it won't, living conditions still woulnd't be as good as the US because no matter if they are 1st or 50th, the living conditions are worse.

That's two of the most stupid things I've ever read.

Regards the US economy being in a bad way... Just turn on the news! How about a bank going bankrupt and being bought for a pittance. Banks claiming back money at records rates, record mounts of losses, record amounts of repossessions, people aren't spending their money. WAKE UP!!

The problem with DDT, is not through handling it, it's through ingesting it! And the effect that it has on creatures going up through the food chain. There are small amounts on an apple, but you if you eat 10 apples, the DDT builds up in your body (and it doesn't get flushed out). It's even worse if you feed the apples to an animal as feed, then eat the animal, you get a much bigger dose. This has already been proved harmful, and that's why most countries ban DDT and have controls on the pesticides that can be used.

why would you people be randomly talking about this on a video game website?

yoadjla, wait for your testicles to drop and THEN come back to this post

Why post topics like this you just get loads of americans posting and no one listens to any one else. Also america will not always be a super power 100 years ago the brittish empire was the largest in the world and i am sure that they thought that it would never fall. we just don't know what is going to happen but all things end.

The British empire was never a superpower until WW2 wiped out the rest of europe and left them as the only one standing. It was just marginally more powerful than France, hence all the lengthy wars between them. Top dog yes, but not capable of walking all over everyone else, if they'd been a super power, WW2 would have been a flash in the pan. Of course, they also dissolved their empire right after attaining the status.

The term superpower came about more because other countries were exterminated on a large scale than by other countries rising in power. With Germany, Spain, France and the Ottoman empire crushed by war and massive devastation in Asia, there simply wasn't any other competition for the three powers that came out on top.

Recession, buzz word status achieved. Sort of like "It's the economy stupid" was the rallying cry of that other fucktard Clinton. Never mind that the business cycle of a capitalist economy has natural, healthy downturns that weed out the weak entities and renew the strength of the over all economy. Never mind that the downturn had already finished and the economy was buzzing along despite claims of doom and gloom. It's a myth, a self fulfilling one if it lasts long enough, but to date, still a myth. A recession is two quarters of negative growth. We've not even had one quarter of negative growth, thus we are not in a recession.

Perhaps we could believe politicians running for office a little less? Lawyers turned politicians, the scum of the earth, immortalized as habitual liars in jokes older than dirt, tell us the sky is green, and we fall for it every time. It's brilliant.

Chinese babies taking over the world. Sorry, got one of those as a relative. Somehow I doubt a couple years of hell in a Chinese orphanage as an unwanted female waste of perfectly good offspring is going to make her sympathetic towards the Chinese way of life. Her parents, that spent over a year trying to get her so they'd have a little girl to go with their three boys, are probably going to be damned influential in her cultural leanings. Besides, China is an old and sick country right now. Massive pollution in their cities and malnutrition every where else is not conducive to a long working life, the reproduction laws aren't going to help there.

Please dont get to aggresive shibfilet, yoadjia can say what he wants. But let me remind yoadjia that is a
off topic forum. And as long as we do not do something to offend star dock we can say what we want.

My apologies, spacepony, there is supposed to be a new paragraph after the word 'truth'. I didn't mean that you had said that, I just meant that you were right, and then I went on to voice my opinion. Once again, my apologies...

Nequa,
People liken the Roman Empire to the US because Rome was the beginning of the Democracy. It is not implying that we enjoy conquering, have slaves, build huge walls (although the Mexican Border could be argued), or have a society completely run by men. It is only an analogy; a way to prove a point.

really, well nice to see they are not saying that america is Rome. May have been a great empire but it sure left a huge trail of bodies in its wake.