But China's just got much, much deeper resources.
600,000,000 screaming Chinese!
I thought it was a billion Chinese.
It WAS.
WOLVERINES!!!!!
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
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Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2007 6:12:11 am PST #65 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Laga - Jan 06, 2007 1:09:53 pm PST #66 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I thought it was the death cloud peril.
esse - Jan 06, 2007 1:21:31 pm PST #67 of 5059
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Fascinating stuff, guys. MM, I don't think you're offbase with your suggestion--now that you've suggested it, I'm put to mind of "Red Son" and the implications that held, like Watchmen, for having one major superhero standing between you and your enemies.
But while I recognize the power the States holds, I don't think I've ever thought of it as a lone superpower. There are too many variables to the idea of a contemporary superpower for that to be true, if it ever really was. Like David says, financially we rely on other countries, but there's also our food and our oil and our production, all of which has increasingly, if not originally, moved to other countries. In many ways, the States is as vulnerable as it ever was.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 06, 2007 2:45:40 pm PST #68 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I thought we produce far, far more food than we consume and generally import luxury foodstuffs that people could easily do without if the imports dried up?
Oil and everything that's manufactured (other than Chryslers) I can see crippling foreign dependence on, though.
DavidS - Jan 07, 2007 11:59:40 am PST #69 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Venture Brothers fans will appreciate the conversation Emmett and I had over breakfast at a sidewalk table.
Emmett: "I licked a doorknob once."
Me: "Yeuch! Don't do that. Not only is it covered with germs, but you're leaving spit on the doorknob. That's gross."
Emmett: "Dogs lick everything."
Me: "Including each others butts."
Emmett: "They don't lick each others butts. They
sniff
each others butts. They lick their own genitals. It's...a conundrum."
DavidS - Jan 07, 2007 12:04:08 pm PST #70 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 07, 2007 12:06:18 pm PST #71 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I used to watch that religiously.
Tom Scola - Jan 07, 2007 12:11:10 pm PST #72 of 5059
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
DavidS - Jan 07, 2007 12:21:42 pm PST #73 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Badass puppet smackdown!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 07, 2007 12:25:46 pm PST #74 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
There are a number of contenders to the title.