Everything boils down to "do you have the bomb?" if you have the bomb, you're in a different club.
Cool. Some evil we can't fix, doesn't mean we should do nothing about that which we can.
Also, I wonder what were you saying back when euroleftists were doing similar thing to Gaddafi? Oh, except of course when Trump wants someone deposed he ends up humanely treated in prison, when euroleftists do, he ends up sodomized with a bayonet and shot.
How does that justify invading a country and kidnapping someone?
Just look up the arguments the euroleftists made to justify killing of Gaddafi. Those ones, yes. Speak them in front of a mirror now.
At least Maduro ended up in humane prison, unlike Gaddafi, sodomized with a bayonet then shot. Oh yes it was totally not euroleftists that did that, they were just all too happy to look the other way while their totally-not-affiliated-with-Al-Queida arab allies on the ground did the messy work.
A completely unanticipated thing, that. Who could have predicted it?
Why do Americans need to self-own how dim some of their citizens may well be?
LOL, Yurupians thinking using analog clocks is some sort of a flex. What's next, you gonna go and impress the girls with your mad abacus skillz, or maybe even *gasp* the slide rule? Newsflash, civilized world has gone digital!
One of the time-honored lies: "Join our scam and you are fighting for freedumb! Stick it to the man right here for this small fee of xxx."
What other propaganda slogans do you have? Is "besides, if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" next, or "only a criminal would have a problem with Big Brother vetting their every transaction"? Oh, I know, "by using money alternatives that Big Brother can't control, you're supporting child trafficking, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!"
Yes, we do already know that "people who do not want totalitarianism" does not include you.
That just does mean you are completely clueless as to my stance or you are directly lying.
Yeah, here's a hint: people who actually oppose totalitarianism don't think freedom is dumb, you do. But I guess it doesn't count as totalitarianism if the boot on humanity's face is on your guy's foot, eh? Stamp down those deplorables!
The only real thing in that space is money-laundering and crime-financing. Ransomware would not be a thing without it. Time to shut it all down, or even better, put full financial regulation on it.
Everyone who does not want totalitarianism does. You know, with Big Brother being able to just debank you at a click of a button, like they did to Canadian truckers, Wikileaks, sci-hub, Assange's legal fund, various adult sites and so on.
Yes, we do already know that "people who do not want totalitarianism" does not include you.
The EU has more controls on personal data than the US. It's been that way for a very long time. The US has no GDPR.
I'm not talking about corporations showing you a (gasp!!!) targeted ad (OMG OMG OMG!!!), which is the only thing GDPR stops, I'm taking about EU bureaucrat snooping through your emails to check whether you engage in wrongthink. Much easier if they are stored on EU server.
"Letting them get near" is not exactly putting it in correct terms. Yes such a talking point was part of the sales pitch, but one should by now know the difference between the words and actions in politics.
Western elites sent all their jobs and factories to China, and the Chinese were smart enough to accept it on the condition of technology transfer.
The West itself taught China everything it knows about manufacturing. Everything was delivered to them on a silver platter. There is no other way to put it but treason on a civilizational scale, but it made some of our elites insanely rich, so they made it happen.
It wasn't "elites" that made it happen, it was greentards, with their "we'll tax you to hell and back for every gram of CO2 you emit, unless you move everything to China, where you can pollute to your heart's content" policies.
The result is we already live in a Chinese world, but it will be years before the dust settles and the West wakes up to look around, and the people at fault will be long dead by then.
Coming back to the OP, yes there still was an actual letting them get near strategy available, even after all the outsourcing had happened. The West still had tech lead in three key areas - semiconductors, aerospace, and biotech. All the West had to do was to keep the lead and not fuck it up. The Chinese were happy to buy this stuff from us.
LOL, how brainwashed you have to be to think that they "oh just caught up in timespan of 6 months, from ZERO to independence, just like that, CUS TRUUUUMP". No, they have been steadily building their independence over more than a decade, it's only now that the leftists finally found an excuse to blame it on they just stopped pretending it's not happening.
And why wouldn't they build independence? Trump or no Trump, depending on your rival on anything always weakens your position. And they know they'll get shit embargoed out of them when they invade Taiwan, even if there's a Democrat at the helm when they do it, and they're preparing for that.
Because in the end, they also want to sell to us, and trade needs to be mostly balanced out, otherwise someone is giving away their stuff for free. Money you earn but never spend is not worth the paper it's printed on.
But then the West went and fucked it up. The US, having designated China their enemy number one, and starting all sorts of trade wars, proved to them beyond any doubt, already by Trump's last term, that they would have to be self-sufficient in everything. Now Trump is flailing around like a windmill, but the Chinese are prepared, and Trump has no leverage anymore. China is about to close the gap.
But once the gap has closed - what will the West have left to sell to China? To anyone? Because anything the West can make, the Chinese are about to make better and cheaper. But if you have nothing to sell, you have no money to buy anything, either. The West will end up poor, backwards, and isolated. Like it used to be.
Let me guess. You European? Because yes, EU is definitely sliding to "poor, backwards and isolated". Let me add "still completely full of hot air though" to that list. But the West isn't just Europe. Don't let your home bias blind you. US is still putting up a fight.
Speak for yourself mate. From where I'm sitting, the Chinese look pretty sane compared to you. But keep making shrill noises and telling us how everyone you don't like is evil, I'm sure it will just turn everyone against you.
They are a communist totalitarian regime, doing ethnic purges not only historically but also RIGHT NOW, openly preparing to invade their peaceful neighbour Taiwan, operating the Great Firewall, implementing some absurdly Orwellian schemes like their Social Score thing, not to mention stealing all western IP they can lay their hands on and abusing their trade dominance (rare earths anyone) in any way they can.
Yes, a perfectly reasonable country, let's be friends!
The old Twitter is dead. Almost everyone left. If you're still there, it's because you want to see what Elon posts, or your job requires it.
The big issue is social media as a whole is dying. No one uses Facebook anymore. Everyone left Twitter when Elon took over.
No, just you and your leftist friends, outraged that someone dared burst their information bubble with non-Marxist content.
I get the bank spying on customers for the government (and yes, that pisses me off), but other than those prying eyes, what are you talking about? I don't ever recall making a financial transaction that needed approval from the government.
Yes, I take it you never wanted to send money to Canadian truckers protesting lockdowns. Or never donated to Sci-Hub either. Or to Assange's legal defence fund. Or Wikileaks.
Until the war on cash is over the govt will pretend it doesn't have or want this power. Make no mistake, once cash and crypto is gone, they'll start swinging this club much more vigorously.
If musk was getting richer by pennies he earned himself, that'd be fine. However, musk is getting richer on government subsidies
Let's set something straight. If TEH GUBBERMINT (reverent bow) wants their stuff put into orbit, then TEH GUBBERMINT (reverent bow) gets to pay for it like everyone else, not just demand it for free "cus WE'RE TEH GUBBERMINT" (reverent bow), and it's earned money, not subsidies. Subsidies is money given for free, you know, like your food stamps, not money paid for services rendered, even if it's TEH GUBBERMINT (reverent bow) giving that out.
and, wait what? the money of the CHINESE INVESTORS, which basically means the CCP elite.
Are you okay with the CCP elite owning elon musk?
ZOMG OMG OMG, some Chinese people bought some shares in one of Elon's companies, quick, call the news! Hey, guess what, Elon doesn't get to control who can buy publicly traded shares, TEH GUBBERMINT (reverent bow) does. Sure, you can say "but but but it's TRUUUUUMP WAAAAAH!!!!", except I don't recall Bidet putting restrictions on Chinese ownership of US stock either, that'd be later rolled back by Trump.
Bingo.
I do not want to buy a game that is "AI" generated. That is slop and garbage not deserving of being paid for.
If you want to make a "free" game with AI shit. Be my guest. You throw microtransactions of more AI slop, I hope nobody is that dumb to pay for it.
If a development house uses AI to generate place holder assets, those assets must never make their way into the final product.
Any AI generated material is public domain.
Yes, this AI "slop" is so bad that you need warning tags, because otherwise you wouldn't know it's bad and you have to hate it.
Also, you forgot to use the word "regurgitated" at least twice.
Also, slop, slop, regurgitated, slop, regurgitated, regurgitated, slop.
This is not going to open up any markets for your produce in countries with much stricter food safety regulations. But those countries will probably be happy to ship even more of their safer food to you.
LOOOOL
And as for US exports to EU, the food meant for EU will just be produced w/o those, it's not like they're *mandating* their use.
"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."
Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.
Ah yes, I guess they weren't *true* Scotsmen either?
You scratch my tape, and I'll scratch yours.
