bread and circuses --> pacifism
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Sure, but you're moving the goalposts -- at first this was about utilitarian barbarians who could be paid off and who wanted to take things, not a culture driven by wrongs and insults to their honor, remember?
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No, no...you put the Chinese in Palo Alto based on money. IMO, if they're there, it's because they nursed their historical grudge about being colonized, Taiwan, etc., and decided to become global hegemons rather than just messing around with fake islands in the S. China Sea.
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? I am pretty sure if you look back in this thread you will find that the first instance of the word "Chinese" came from thee, not me.
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I picked the only realistic invader in the foreseeable future one can imagine. Realistically, I think it'll be generations before anyone can touch the US homeland, which is why I'm on team US (vs. team Europe) in terms of surviving the coming apocalypse.
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