how would you oppose both Dems and GOPs without just handing control over to the Right?
Hold on a second, what do you mean here? The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both right-wing parties. The US has always been a far-right country. When, exactly, was it not?
It's immaterial which party is in power, they are all funded by the capitalist class and the work of the capitalist class is carried on regardless.
Thank you for the provided resources. Many of the things I've been concerned about were addressed.
However, there's something I want to clear up here.
Carbrain from a hexbear, for shame.
I'd like to know what your thought process was that caused you to start off with this, so I can address it.
I'm not the type that particularly likes car-centric planning and car-centric infrastructure. I've understood that walkable communities were much easier and less stressful, less expensive, and more efficient in saving on fuel costs and environmental impact for quite some time.
I simply have concerns, which should be understandable, and I want to resolve those concerns in good faith.
Damn these are good prices. Definitely want!
I noticed that the Colorful gpus are available in some places here, including ebay, and they're CHEAP.
This is pretty cool. Definitely something to keep an eye on, since I want to upgrade.
I just expect that when 100% indigenous Chinese technologies fully surpass Western equivalents from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, that the West will go full Gandalf and not allow easy access for their populations.
Well, not that those aren't useful in some capacity, there's the question of hauling groceries and such home, not to mention we need protection from the elements with increasingly brutal summers, and also violent thunderstorms. There's the question of these things being able to trek through deep snow too, to consider.
I guess you could just fit it with baskets and wear a big backpack... but honestly, how far down the hole do we have to go here?
Right, exactly, thanks for this detailed explanation.
Of course.
I wrote the first point specifically because I saw how that contradicted the situation at hand, but it is what I previously believed about protectionism.
Yep, just wanted to reinforce your second thoughts on the matter as being valid.
Also thank you for the video, really captivating explanation there.
Is there some good material on protectionism from a Marxian perspective?
Unsure of this, but would also like to know if anyone does happen to have something.
If only the US was using protectionism as a measure to maintain high wages in its factories of internationally overpriced commodities, that'd be a pretty good thing, right?
It wouldn't work long-term. They'd cut the workforce down to the minimum skeleton crew needed to run production and overwork those people. Plus, with China being more competitive in both quality and price, they'd be overtaking US equivalents regardless. US industry itself is dying, and it's irreversible. The falling rate of profit demands lower quality for higher price tags, and the US hasn't been investing into R&D on a level anywhere close to the Chinese, so they have no future in this race.
China's Great Firewall functions as a digital protectionist measure to foster a domestic tech industry that isn't dominated by FAANG like how the internet developed in the rest of the periphery.
Well, here's the thing about the Great Firewall: Yes, indeed it was so they could foster a domestic tech industry, but it was also a strategic move to attain sovereignty in their information space and protect them from Western manipulation in China's internal affairs. See this relatively short video here. It's not so similar in that with EVs, people need reliable transportation to survive in the West as they have no high-speed rail networks. With the price of gas, auto repairs and maintenance always going up, these EVs could liberate working class people from dependence on much of the US' fossil fuel and automaker giants, which the US absolutely will not tolerate.
The US demands a population as desperate as possible to reduce worker bargaining power, increase employer leverage, and maintain their monopolies.
But it seems like there's a lot of nuances here, like how the West uses protectionism to maintain hegemony.
That's entirely and always what this is about.
Beyond predictable. This is simply protectionism designed to artificially stifle competition since the US and EU cannot compete.
Not only that, they will fight to the death before they let anyone benefit from Chinese liberation from the oppressive tyranny of Western companies.
Expect to see this with phones, CPUs and GPUs and virtually every other relevant breakthrough technologies coming out of China that have the potential to somewhat alleviate the struggle of poverty.
As always, it's just class war playing itself out. They will always try and cancel the future.
Thanks for all the free advertising.
Excellent, thank you.
More like a space chase, since the US has only ever chased after AES states once they start making serious progress.
China also has far larger ambitions for space than just landing on a rock. They want to utilize asteroids and, perhaps also the moon, for mining and possibly more, since that type of activity wouldn't harm our ecosystems back home.