I agree the west is becoming less democratic and the quality of life in China greatly improved, but there is severe oppression in China and that you choose to mention the quality of life over the influence people have on their government says a lot about your loyalty to the Chinese rulers.

I know and from time to time I do, but I also know there is very likely someone here who can give context without it being any effort and since there probably is other people who don’t know anything about Pike’s peak the answers aren’t only for my eyes anyway. If this was a dead topic with nobody browsing these comments or if there was some kind of urgency I’d have chosen another way of getting an answer. Do you care about this long reply? Probably not.

As someone from outside US I prefer the metric answer though

Excuse my ignorance, I looked it up because I got confused: “an altitude of 14,115 feet above sea level” is basically 4,300m so yeah

The real battle is between the ruling classes.

European here, is pike’s peak high?

That’s mostly because the trustworthy news outlet from those countries don’t publish in English whereas the propaganda is. But you’re right people don’t think there is independent journalism in Russia and China. That is not so much an east/west axis but a capitalist democracy / Communist authoritarianism axis.

US agencies might not have much reason, but foreign ones on the other hand definitely do have plenty of reasons.

I don’t think they’d give him asylum from the goodness of their heart but this man has a lot to offer as long as he’s an enemy of the US government.

I can’t speak for all countries but of the people assuming Europe will be fine, most seem to be rifht wing voters. It’s a good thing not everyone is in panic mode, but I agree people should be more aware of the current direction the world is heading in but there are also a lot of people who actually like this direction.

We could also have given Ukraine so much they won the war 2 years ago, problem is we also want healthcare, education and decent pensions. I mean it’s good the German army feels we should help Ukraine win the war but let’s not act as if this is a simple feat that doesn’t require a lot of money. Without free American weapons it will be a lot harder to defend ourselves against Putins warmongering.

He’s proven that alright

BURN THE HATERS

I don’t disagree with your point, but except for electronics, and Italian marble America can make a lot of the materials themselves. The biggest problem is in many cases the price of labour in the US. And for complex things like cars you can’t even move the entire supply chain even if you wanted to.

There was this guy who had a theory that there was nobody on earth who could make a microwave oven, turns out he was right: there are people who can know how to make a certain part of it and other people who knew about it’s assembly nobody can create one start to finish. So imagine with more complex machines how difficult it’d be to bring all those skills and knowledge ‘home’ to America.

it’s almost like Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing damage he’s doing while stealing money or something*

I think it also shows they themselves know what they’re doing is wrong. They know their current bosses and political leaders agree, they don’t have to fear them in any way. They do it because it protects them from hysteric parents or angry mobs, but I think they most of all do it because theyvdont want there to be any evidence (= footage showing them doing this). This is not like people hiding their identity during a protest, this is like people hiding their identity when robbing a bank.

Makes most sense

If you’re thinking of giving a set, I’d like to suggest one of knives.

I’ve had a bunch of questionable Google ai answers already, not as weird as this but enough to make me believe this could also be not fake.

Might actually be only the Play Store cause I googled All Recovery (thinking it might be because all of Serbia could want to go sober) and it only returned results of an Android app.

Nobody can be as proud of themselves (because of this list I mean) as Lithuania: “LT72 is a website intended to prepare Lithuanian residents for emergencies. It allows residents to learn how to be be prepared for an accident, …”