What China wants doesn't matter. What matters is that the US is a dying empire and it sees China as its major threat. History shows that the US Empire is likely to pick a war with China before it collapses.

Those countries can't compete with Chinese cars either.

Ford America has a long history of taking good cars that were developed by Ford Europe and making them crap for the US market.

Because empires typically go out with a war against the rising powers. The empire collapses when they lose that war.

Also because the Western 'elite' planned to ship all the West's wealth to China and then move in and take over. But Xi laughed in their face and told them to get lost.

They really want to get that stolen wealth back.

1. The US gets into a war with China.
2. China sends a kill signal to all Chinese vehicles in the US.
3. The US government says they'll rapidly build millions of new vehicles in the US to replace them.
4. Ooops, we don't have the factories and anyway we forgot how.

Even if the Chinese didn't kill the cars, parts would rapidly become unobtainable.

Because union benefits.

The unions vote and they don't want to have to compete against Chinese companies with non-union workers.

I guess they could tell the Chinese they have to hire union workers in America, but then they'd just forget about the US market because it's too expensive and too much hassle.

I'm old enough to remember the data before it was 'adjusted' to create warming trends that weren't in the actual data from actual thermometers. I also remember how "climate science" was the Special Ed branch of physics when I was at university, so all the kids who couldn't get a real job ended up there.

You can tell the post I'm replying to is a midwit post because:

1. Only midwits call others "smooth brains". Smart people recognize that the left end of the IQ curve generally agree with them, even if it's for different reasons.
2. Only midwits take this nonsense seriously any more. Both smart people and stupid people laugh at the weather scare stories.

Here's the reality. You were part of the Oligarchs' last campaign to make them rich and powerful by forcing others to give them money through "sicence" scare stories. They've now moved on to "AI", and no longer need you. "AI" needs masses of power so "climate change" is being thrown under the bus.

"Vaccines" are a midwit thing these days. Both the smart people and the dumb people I know want nothing to do with them, while midwits can't get enough of them.

Whereas the smart people are pretty excited about "AI" because it allows them to do a lot of the things they wanted to do but never had time for.

The only creatures for whom vaccines are mandatory are livestock. I don't intend to be livestock.

You remember that old "AI-targeted bombs, missiles and drones" thing?

That's us, it is.

These people think technology can make them gods, and they don't plan to keep us around.

Not likely. In about 20 million years all complex plant dies from lack of CO2. It would have been more like 2 million if we hadn't pumped a lot of stored CO2 back into the atmosphere.

Not a lot of time for anything else to evolve into a technological society before any kind of complex life dies.

Just another example of why everyone needs to start running LLMs locally and not have them refuse to do things at random on a 'cloud' service.

It's because the government threw vast amounts of cheap credit into the economy which turned a short-term crash into a long-term depression where kids can't afford houses and the cost of living is increasing by far more than the fake inflation figures economists churn out.

And it's also why we now have a Potemkin economy where nothing really works and we pretend to get rich by selling houses to each other at ever-increasing prices.

The 1930s depression was also caused by economists who refused to let things crash and wasn't resolved until their plans were scrapped after WWII.

"Economist" should be one of the easiest jobs to replace with AI. Ir's not as though they ever do much other than says whatever their employer wants them to say.

Why is it that "modernize" always seems to mean "do more to turn humans into bug-men"?

Probably due to Microsoft forcing a lot of people to buy new PCs to run Windows 11.