Spring is in the air at Ritan Park in Beijing, as people enjoy a spectacular showcase of colorful blooms and stunning floral installations.

have y'all forgotten that mr. beast was just a roasting yt channel where he would pick on little kids youtube videos and laugh at them? i really want to know how this transformation happened.

A chinese video has made the rounds, mocking the idea of shifting global production from China back to the U.S.

This but unironically

the whole kkk everything meme was funny but now its been overtaken by literal anarcho-libs parroting it nonstop while getting radicalized by the price of the nintendo switch 2 and seeing no irony in that

"noooo you can't just say amerikkkan you're RUINING my super special words!!!!"

small barking dog above me ^

"Well," I replied, "I think there is another side to the question. You know that in coal, waterpower, iron, and other ores, cheap food, homegrown cotton, and other raw materials, America has resources and advantages unequalled by any European country; and that these resources cannot be fully developed except by America becoming a manufacturing country. You will admit, too, that nowadays a, great nation like the Americans' cannot exist on agriculture alone; that would be tantamount to a condemnation to permanent barbarism and inferiority; no great nation can live, in our age, without manufactures of her own. Well, then, if America must become a manufacturing country, and if she has every chance of not only succeeding but even outstripping her rivals, there are two ways open to her: either to carry on for, let us say, 50 years under Free Trade an extremely expensive competitive war against English manufactures that have got nearly a hundred years start; or else to shut out, by protective duties, English manufactures for, say, 25 years, with the almost absolute certainty that at the end of the 25 years she will be able to hold her own in the open market of the world. Which of the two will be the cheapest and the shortest? That is the question. If you want to go from Glasgow to London, you take the parliamentary train at a penny a mile and travel at the rate of 12 miles an hour. But you do not; your time is too valuable, you take the express, pay twopence a mile and do 40 miles an hour. Very well, the Americans prefer to pay express fare and to go express speed."