• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    It’s insane that a country whose economy is 1/8th that of California alone and whose population is 35x smaller has the US by the balls in this way.

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      54 minutes ago

      For some context, California has the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world when compared to nations.

      So seems a bit misleading to compare it to that particular state. Unless you were doing it for effect

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      10 hours ago

      Between Israel militarily, Russia politically, and China economically, it’s a wonder we are still even asked to vote.

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      19 hours ago

      Any country would if they had the US Military Industrial complex backing them up.