President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are clashing over a major budget bill Trump wants passed, which the Tesla CEO says will blow out federal deficits.
I can keep going too. How many Internets, flying vehicles, automobiles, and solid-state electronics have your countries invented before the brains of the USA did?
If you want to call all Americans stupid you’re going to have to ignore a huge amount of contributions to the world’s status quo.
Sure, and if we’re dragging out historical wins to score points, we can sit here all day trading inventions like baseball cards.
Automobiles? Germany. Jet engines and the WWW? UK. Radio? Italy (and yes, Tesla gets a nod too). Satellites and the first man in space? Soviet Union. Solid-state theory that made electronics possible? Mostly European physics.
China gave us the compass, paper, and gunpowder. India gave us the number zero and early surgery. Japan revolutionized consumer electronics and manufacturing efficiency. France had photography and hot air balloons before the Wright brothers ever left the ground.
Point is: past contributions are global. No one country owns progress. So unless you’re planning to live off 1950s prestige, maybe let’s not pretend history is a scoreboard that settles today’s reality.
Past glory doesn’t pay for today’s bill. If you want to compare what other countries have done in the past we can be sitting here for a long time.
I can keep going too. How many Internets, flying vehicles, automobiles, and solid-state electronics have your countries invented before the brains of the USA did?
If you want to call all Americans stupid you’re going to have to ignore a huge amount of contributions to the world’s status quo.
Sure, and if we’re dragging out historical wins to score points, we can sit here all day trading inventions like baseball cards.
Automobiles? Germany. Jet engines and the WWW? UK. Radio? Italy (and yes, Tesla gets a nod too). Satellites and the first man in space? Soviet Union. Solid-state theory that made electronics possible? Mostly European physics.
China gave us the compass, paper, and gunpowder. India gave us the number zero and early surgery. Japan revolutionized consumer electronics and manufacturing efficiency. France had photography and hot air balloons before the Wright brothers ever left the ground.
Point is: past contributions are global. No one country owns progress. So unless you’re planning to live off 1950s prestige, maybe let’s not pretend history is a scoreboard that settles today’s reality.