See, this is conspiracy theory. I know you understand what right wingers look like when they talk about crazy conspiracies. That's what you look like right now.
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Biden censored all of social media. Trump has at best attempted censoring on-air network TV that basically nobody watches.
Democracy Watchdog Says U.S. 'No Longer a Democracy,' Warns of Rapid 'Autocratization'
A leading global monitor of democratic governance says the United States, under the Trump administration, has lost its status as a liberal democracy and is undergoing a rapid process of "autocratization."
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You don't say.
Do you think I'd be a Republican because I believe in a robust and supportive welfare system and universal healthcare, taxing the rich to pay for it? Is it my belief in improved labour rights and greater corporate regulation? My support for environmental policy, women's right to abortion, transgender rights, immigration?
There's an evidence base that you've been reading and interacting with it for all these years. Somehow you haven't noticed my positions on major policy issues would make the Republican Party anathematic?
Instead you're making weird and indirect appeals to my political positions relative to the tiny population of an international computer game debate forum, as if it were representative of US society. In many ways, it's a perfect distillation of they way that, like many amateurs and bullshitters, you think your rationalisation takes precedence over evidence.
That tells us all we need to know about where you stand on "truth".
Remember that Tstorm's idea of "truth" is "you'd all admit I'm right about everything if you were just honest with yourselves".
No, but none of those are core to who you are, all of those things are downstream. You are a rational person, for the most part, and reasoned positions are consequential to the information you have and the circumstance you are in. I can see how you apply reason to your circumstances, and understand how that same sort of reasoning would apply if you were somewhere else. You are not dogmatic about a single one of those positions.
Before consent gets entirely manufactured (oh dear Chomsky you really fucked yourself over with that book title didn't you lol) some history contexts that aren't provided cos they're not geopolitically convenient for colonialsm.
If you a chump that still gets ads heh...
US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America
: Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink
So much for a free market. Ain't ain't that right Trump suckers?
Biden and Trump also did this with Chinese EVs, both parties want to have their cake, and eat it too by not allowing competition in, but not innovating enough/putting R&D into physical goods to make it worth it. Had we had these leaders in the Cold War the USSR would have lasted to 2021 if not longer.US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America
: Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlinkwww.theregister.com
So much for a free market. Ain't ain't that right Trump suckers?
Thank the UAW for that, and other unions for that. Also the lobbyist and the rich.
It's not really that.
The USA is incredibly R&D rich. Remember that it was the manufacturing it moved abroad, not the R&D and IP. China might be making a lot of these products, but they're still US-designed, although China will also benefit from synergistic links between the making and designing with the manufacturing.
The USA's problem is that it just doesn't have the population to support much more. The USA has what, 4% unemployment? It doesn't have enough spare workers without either sucking employment out of sectors the USA might need or want more, or mass immigration. The USA has about 330 million people who need to do a range of jobs, so as a society it can support a certain amount of scientists / engineers / factory workers. China has a population of around 1400 million people. That's a lot more people to invent and design stuff, and in the end that people power is going to count.
The USA can selectively try to force some industry to be done at home, but the inevitability is that this will be inefficient and wasteful. Industries tend to go to places with comparative advantage, where it's cheaper to get the job done. Forcing an industry into a place it's not suited is wasting money, whether through subsidies or increased consumer costs. Don't get me wrong, there are good reasons countries might want to force some R&D / manufacturing to occur in their country for national security reasons, but it needs to be carefully selective.
What the USA probably needs to do is prioritise areas where it has competitive advantage. In a sense, you can see this logic in it pursuing AI so hard: the USA is still the world leader in tech, and it does at least make sense to leverage that and keep that ball rolling. It's given up on renewable power, and it increasingly looks like it's car industry is about to be swept away.
And what, exactly, do you hope to achieve with the logic "If I imagine you as a different person, the imaginary you would be a different person"?
That's how hegemonic powers die. Every single empire has been a hybrid economic power who do many things well. Plus we could immigrate more people in from like everywhere. And you need physical industry like cars, semi-conductors, high quality composites materials, and etc.
The fact that the last four administrations didn't see this until somewhat now is borderline traitorous. Without American car companies the US wouldn't have won World War 2. Trump got rid of the EV subsidy, Biden loved non-dynamic companies that make stuff the world doesn't want to buy, Obama ax the F-22 and didn't subsidized battery, and solar production. George W Bush exists.
Edit: Furthermore lots of people in the US are working at like Starbucks, McDonald and Walmart. We need less people there, and more people who can design in say Auto-Cad or Solid-works or any 3D designer a part of a automated factories. Underemployment, and under-utilization of labor is massive in the US.
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Then you are severely not paying attention.
You're not clowning on me, you're clowning on reason itself, and thus all of your own positions.
There's a really good interview with a Cuban journalist in this episode, plus lot of talk about the current experience of living under American (intentional) economic strangling
Maybe soon YouTube will have the full audio upload, but for now it's just available in podcast format, such limitations for sharing undercut how compelling and sadly needed it is
Over 3 hours of Epstein's taste in movies but also connections and attempted connections to the industry (hey the guy is intimately tied to, and woven throughout the current president's life n personality, it still counts!)
Maybe soon YouTube will have the full audio upload, but for now it's just available in podcast format, such limitations for sharing undercut how compelling and sadly needed it is
Over 3 hours of Epstein's taste in movies but also connections and attempted connections to the industry (hey the guy is intimately tied to, and woven throughout the current president's life n personality, it still counts!)
Nazi being Nazis
Trump being angry biatch again and going after Cuba this time.
Trump being angry biatch again and going after Cuba this time.
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