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@ Low Information Voter
2025-05-11 11:31:49
America cannot build the Saturn V any more.
Do you have any idea how many things Australia cannot build any more?
On the index of economic complexity, AU has dropped from 30-somethingth place in my childhood to 119th, now.
Burkina Faso now has a more developed economy than Australia. Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, and famous mostly for its red-bereted dictator.
If we piss off China, we'll be lucky to build steam trains. More likely horses, but only if some old guy still knows how to make saddles...