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The same can be said of much of the US, yet I doubt you're going to be questioning whether the US nuclear arsenal is functional.

This is a "One swift kick will send the whole rotten structure crashing down" level of bad take. Assuming you're enemy is completely incapable of accomplishing anything generally doesn't end well.

It also rests on the bizarre assumption that China would just sit there doing nothing while being attacked and completely brushes off the possibility of China launching nuclear weapons which apparently wouldn't affect the US at all.

The tweet isn't saying the US is at the bottom with Germany, it's saying the US had negative industrial growth, which the chart indeed shows. Can't comment on the accuracy of the chart itself.

Not to mention building new missile bases (plenty have been decomissioned and come under private ownership, ignoring whether they'd meet modern standards even if they were available), etc. Not sure what the point of building new nukes would be. We have more than enough already, it would just be...

Being a mistake and being irrational are not the same thing. A decision can be a rational decision to make and still be the wrong decision to make.

And yet they're still the number one steel producer in the world, producing over half the world's steel. #2 is India, with a tenth of China's production.

Raising interest rates is a standard response to high inflation, and the Fed is already being very cautious in waiting this long with high inflation before raising interest rates.

I very much question the idea that its harder to start a family these days than it was, say, a hundred years ago. But even assuming that was true, why then is fertility rate inversely proportional to income in developed countries? Surely the wealthy who have more ability to start a family should...

Both of you are wrong, hence why birthrates are low in developed nations regardless of whether or not their taxes are high or low, have many regulations or few regulations, have generous maternity leave and child benefits or not, etc. Heck, just look at the US. Birthrates go down as income goes...

Indeed. Were feudal Europe, the Muslim Caliphates, medieval China, etc. capitalist? If yes, then capitalism is not going anywhere (and capitalism also does not need growth). If however we're getting into more specific requirements, such that capitalism is a modern phenomenon, than it could...