Sure, to the ignorant. That explains your comment neatly. Most of the divide is due to growth in Chinese manufacturing, not contraction of American manufacturing. While we sent our unprofitable cheap electronics goods manufacturing overseas, we not only kept but expanded the heavy equipment manufacturing. However, China expanded theirs a lot more.

What's going to really harm our manufacturing in a way that reduces our need for machinists is Cheeto Benito fucking up our relationship with the rest of the world, which is going to cause more boycotting of American manufacturers, and more nations will have nowhere to turn for their heavy equipment but China.

Too bad they don't extend to not being executed in a van for cheating on your taxes.

Only until US cars are no longer aspirational to anyone because China makes better ones in every category, which is coming quickly.

That was for economic reasons, ID10T.

You're a fucking idiot. The court system is part of the process of that conviction you respect so much because you're a douchebag cuck.

But it is broke.

This robot is that, only with a lot more latency and cost.

You're wrong because it's not supposed to save the world, only to save us from having to half-ass update to IPv8 in a few years.

Wonder if I was modded down by a Nazi, an animal abuser, or both

We are second in manufacturing only to China, so the idea that we stopped manufacturing is ignorant. On brand though.

"and one must have been duly convicted of a crime to have the second imposed upon them."

So you think our courts are fair? Ok noob.

Do you want a list of ways in which America is evil or what? Because it's fucking long.

Please keep in mind that competent automakers are a critical part of military readiness. Can you imagine Stellantis trying to come up with a replacement for the Abrams today? It makes me ill just thinking about it.

You really thought you had a mic drop moment there, didn't you? Holy fuck. STOP THE PRESS, BATTERIES HAVE TO BE CHARGED!

While you're in fact not entirely wrong regardless of winking, as I have personally encountered those people in passenger rail debates and they are irritating fucking idiots at best (literally nobody on the planet is more ableist or dismissive than bike nazis) I think the leftiest leftists want transport systems that work for everyone.

Destroy the death vans, for a start.

America is shit in many ways, yes, and some of them are the same as China. That doesn't make China not shitty. It just means there's no good guy.

Yep. A whole lot of Americans haven't read the 13th amendment, or didn't understand it (which is somehow even sadder.)