chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP

American companies sell the ip to China in exchange for access to capital and labor, then claim they’ve been robbed when the Chinese firms innovate and expand on the patents they’ve acquired.

The end result is a car company that produces better vehicles than anything an American or Japanese or German company can manage.

Curiously, these superior vehicles are “stolen” while the Teslas keep exploding under home grown technology.

No one should vote for the Dems.

Found the Eric Adams diehard

It’s so crazy to see the British auction off the last bits of their country for drinking money. This, from the Labour Government. Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron couldn’t privatize British public television, but Keir Starmer might.

And the fact that they won’t say which company will be

One of the big US technology companies could be involved as potential partners for the outsourced services.

suggests its the worst one you can think of. No, not that one, the even worse one. That’s right. They’re selling the BBC to 2channel.

Mormons Were Right

Holy shit, are we still on Grey’s Anatomy?

The difference between “believable” and “logical” is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

Mamdani’s Jihadist plan to open municipally run grocery stores will destroy NYC with Shari Onions.

NASDAQ is up 6.8% ytd and 12.7% yoy. This “drop” didn’t even bring it below the 5D low.

Very possible some HFT was in the know and did a bunch of day-trader shenanigans in the ten minutes before the announcement. Possible this was just speculation on the eve of the announcement because “Trump opens his mouth” is typically bad for the markets for a day or two. But this is a 0.59% drop that you’ve got zoomed in. It’s nothing, in the context of the 3 year Bull Run that’s doubled the NASDAQ’s valuation since the '22 low.

I mean, unironically, this is what polygraphs exist to accomplish. They aren’t reliable instruments and a lot of the “results” boil down to a technician trying to figure out if your heart rate increase or sweaty palms are a result of you lying or the AC in the room not running properly.

By the time someone’s decided to strap you into a ploygraph machine, you’re already “guilty” in their eyes. They’re just looking for an excuse to slam the book on you.

I’ve yet to see evidence to this effect

being against authoritarians

Big Government Authoritarianism is when you administer a message board incorrectly.

A lot of these subsidies (both in the US and China) are implicit. Chinese state rail networks operate at cost, allowing cheap transportation of materials and labor. American borrowing is heavily subsidized through the Fed Credit Window, which keeps rates in the low single digits while corporate bonds and consumer loans can be 2x-30x as high. Both countries cut corners on environmental enforcement and subsidize waste management. Both countries subsidize education and incentive R&D through their university systems.

The real benefit BYD enjoys - even above its Chinese peers - is vertical integration. They own everything from mining interests to technology patents to dealerships. This is a deliberate consequence of Chinese trade policy, which requires foreign investors to partner with Chinese nationals in order to own and operate capital. Consequently, Berkshire Hathaway - a large early investor in BYD - cannot dictate Chinese vehicle manufacturing policy from a private office in Omaha. Chinese locals benefit from the innovation, the domestic capital, the experienced labor force (which can migrate to local competitors), and the increased economic activity it produces.

China is insourcing it’s wealth aggregation, which has a cyclical compound benefit over time.

Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.

You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto “logical”.

obstinate immaturity

My guy you have chained yourself to the front door of a community that won’t let you in.

You are the Laura Loomer of Lemmy communities.

Prosecuted him for what?

Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones, just for starters. The illegal military strikes into Iraq in '93 and Sudan in '98 and the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in '99 which killed three journalists. Their involvement in the Arkansas Prisoner Blood Sales scandal, having appointed and defended a number of people involved.

Then there’s the more obscure stuff. The Clinton/Epstein connection, for instance. US support for the Yeltsin government’s Rule By Decree following a bad electoral turn and the subsequent cannibalization of Russian democracy. The assorted corporate kickbacks and money laundering scandals that came out of the Clinton/Walmart relationship. Yadda yadda yadda.

Bush Jr wasn’t going to touch any of that because he was up to the gills in corrupt practices himself. But maybe if the GOP didn’t suck shit…

they are being boycotted

They’re not. You’re having a temper tantrum, but it’s having no impact on traffic.

people forget Hamas was backed by Israel. Doesn’t mean Hamas is an Israel asset

It’s the age old “backing moderate rebels” strategy. Divide and conquer. Netanyahu armed Hamas to undermine The Palestinian Authority, then turned them into a Boogeyman the moment they had an electoral win.

Hamas was an “asset” in the sense that it gave Israelis an excuse to continue ethically cleansing Gaza.

Just like they did with the Taliban originally to fight the Soviets.

So easy for westerners to ignore how the fundamental local appeal of the Taliban was to break the hold of the opium cartels (which the CIA/MI6 loved).

As soon as the US toppled Mullah Omar’s government, their allies in the drug trade rushed back in to rebuild the old opium trade. When they were finally pushed out 20 years later, the opium traffickers were pushed out with them.

this whole community is to highlight the bs of tankie

You’re doing a bang up job. Very convincing.

The joke of F&F was that it was Bush’s DOJ that initiated it, back under Operation Wide Receiver, and the only reason it became a scandal under Obama was that all the Bush Era ATF agents hated their new boss.