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What benefit could come to China by starting WWII? Absolutely none, even if they won(which they wouldn't).

This is exactly the problem with this hopeless viewpoint. just like those wearing rose colored glasses, your shit colored glasses are preventing you from accurately understanding what is going on in the world.

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China will attempt to take Taiwan (they’ve even given their military a deadline for getting ready). US probably wants that not to happen and will probably try to stop it. Things will escalate rapidly and we’ll be lucky to live through it. Rand did a good study on the dangers of escalation during a conflict over Taiwan. It doesn’t look good.

Which is why the US is will leave Taiwan hanging. Taiwan sees what happened to Ukraine, the writing is on the wall. Hong Kong style gradual reunification will happen in the next 10 years.

US isn't going to start WWIII over Taiwan, even though they really don't want China to have it.

Everyone thought Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine until they did. Everyone thought two countries having a McDonalds meant peace between them until they didn't.

Denial and delusions are the most basic of mental health defense mechanisms, but society cannot work if everyone is in denial or experiencing delusions. It is better for the individuals, but not better for the whole.

I'm not a proponent of being hopeless, but if everyone is living in la la land thinking nothing bad can happen until it does... I don't think that is a good way to conduct society. We have very real unaddressed problems. I think wanting to escape from that is at least understandable if not rational.

I, personally, do not feel hopeless when there are problems, I feel hopeless when other people do not recognize those problems. I feel hopeless when problems are not being addressed.

Historians at ivy league colleges are saying that the forces that made Russia Russia (increasing wealth inequality and decline of rule of law), and the forces that put Hitler into power in Germany (rampant nationalism, stoking the public with a desire for quick solutions, and appealing to the German aristocracy's greed) are both active in America.

So you can moralize about my shit colored glasses, but what if there is actually shit on those glasses, wouldn't they be shit colored?

A ton of people thought Russia would or at least could invade Ukraine. Though I do recall when those people were made fun of by our President 2 years before the first stage of their invasion - "the 1980s called - they want their foreign policy back".

> but if everyone is living in la la land thinking nothing bad can happen until it does... I don't think that is a good way to conduct society

Except that is not at all where American society is at. People (especially those chronically online or in front of 24 hour news programs) are expressing some of the most negative views towards the future as they ever have.

Yes, if the world is actually shit then you aren't wearing shit colored glasses. I don't think it is, so I will just laugh at and feel sad for those people who are so down in the dumps. Obviously I might be wrong about this, I guess we will have to wait and see.

Oh yeah, everything's fantastic if you have nothing to compare it to.

Nothing to compare it to...besides for history, and basically the rest of the world.

>> I feel hopeless when problems are not being addressed.

So, start addressing them. Stop waiting around for everyone else.

Fun Fact: some problems require literally everyone's participation to resolve.

Actual Fact: such problems will obviously never be solved so don't worry about it.

Incorrect. Shit like global warming and collapsing marine fisheries will absolutely resolve one way or another. The question is do we brick the planet's ability to support our society before the resulting massive reduction in human population permits ecosystems to restabilize.

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