That’s basically the entire Republican platform right there.

Well it’s probably not his front, but yeah…

Great, now I’m gonna have nightmares.

Even in punctuated equilibrium, it’s over a long period. A certain specific mutation can be considered quick, but the overall evolution is still slow.

But it’s still not relevant to this situation.

China is not quickly becoming a successor, they are slowly edging their way there. Just because you’re only paying attention to it now doesn’t mean it was in any way quick.

Yeah, I know what your point was. I’m saying your point is coming from a place of misinterpretation of how reality works.

That’s how slow works. Lots of effort over a long period for something to come to full effect at a later date.

It’d be quick if they just plopped down a bunch of capital on becoming the worlds foremost everything within a short period of time, which is not what this is.

They’ve been building that portfolio for decades. Unless you’re speaking geologically, there’s been nothing quick about it.

But the ranchers! Won’t someone think of the ranchers?!

Trump’d probably jump at the chance to get rid of California. Should have gone for Florida or Texas.

Of course… then you’d have Florida or Texas. Euch.

I’d say the lack of stimulus is the scarier thing there. The world is a vast thing, and even if you could live long enough to experience everything that exists now… huge amounts of new things to experience would have been created in the mean time.

And that’s just our planet. There is a paralyzingly large amount of things to experience in the universe.

Outside sarcastic internet forums? Probably, yeah.