surph_ninja
@surph_ninja@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bingo 2 days ago:
Yes, the people are supposed to hold politicians accountable. This attitude of ‘I don’t want to have to pay attention to politics’ from liberals is fucking wild. This is exactly why they don’t know the Dems were supporting most of the same Trump policies, but quietly.
Just go back to brunch.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 week ago:
Sounds a little unhinged dude.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 week ago:
It’s not hard. Just state facts that are kept off the news, and they’ll come rolling in.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 week ago:
If you haven’t been called a “Russian bot,” you’re not really challenging western imperialism yet.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 week ago:
Good call. They couldn’t have been enforcing. Amnesia had a sanity meter, and it came out in 2010.
- Comment on Zuckerberg had a 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevance: Make everyone start from scratch 1 week ago:
That would be a quick way to clean house of all the users who are stuck out of habit or lock-in. What a dumb idea.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 week ago:
I don’t understand how they successfully patented this without challenge. Call of Cthulhu has a sanity system, and it came out in the 80’s.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Guess you haven’t been keeping up with the new document releases. Or you’re a hasbara bot.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe he’s a billionaire. I think that’s why he refused to release his tax returns, because it would reveal he’s wildly unsuccessful and destroy his billionaire image.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Many of us have been doing this from the beginning, but it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how gacha games work.
Most people do not pump loads of money into these. Many don’t pay anything at all. But those people are not the audience. These companies are going after the whales. Basically gambling addicts who will destroy their entire lives to pump everything they have into it.
Which is exactly why these games either need to be illegal, or the law needs to put caps on how much individuals are permitted to spend on these.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 weeks ago:
It’s true. Effeminate dudes are getting more pussy. Been trying to tell people for decades.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s pretty likely that Kennedy was assassinated by Israel. And Trump is infinitely loyal to Israel. So if it happens, it won’t be in the same way.
But if people really want to make the world a better place, they’ll start with the billionaires who are pulling the strings.
- Comment on This is unfair! 2 weeks ago:
Does this sound like a man who had all he could eat?!
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
We still pay for subsidies. Those don’t come out of thin air. Better to nationalize, and much more efficient.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
Neither do. Import bans and nationalization do.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about zero trade. We’re talking about nationalizing industries that are critical for economic or national security. There are plenty of countries who have done that, and the neoliberal west tends to retaliate against them for it.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
For one, every country in the world controls which countries and outside parties their corporations can do business with.
Secondly, you obviously have no idea how business works in China, and the amount of control the central government exercises over them.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of failed policies to avoid direct control and regulation of industries.
And that chips act was also paired with a chipmaker’s visa to import indentured labor from Taiwan. So while it was intended to bring back manufacturing, it was never going to deliver on the empty promises of jobs.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
Wow. That was a wildly inaccurate and naïve statement.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
What other means?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s an industry the nation needs to survive, economically or otherwise, that’s an industry that needs to be nationalized.
And this is the opposite of imperialism. Imperialism is what we have now.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
Their intent is to bring back manufacturing. I agree, it’s a bad plan.
The point with Taiwan is that both Dems & the GOP want to escalate to a potential hot war with China over control of Taiwan. But I see a lot of crossover between people who oppose drastic measures to bring back manufacturing stateside, while also supporting increased escalation with China.
So I’m asking people how they reconcile the two. How do they support war with our chief manufacturing partner, without supporting immediate measures to bring back manufacturing? As things stand, China could defeat us within a month by cutting off exports to the US.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
As I stated, yes, the implementation is a clusterfuck. But unless we’re moving to a planned economy, aren’t widespread tariffs and increased costs necessary to force manufacturing to come back to the states?
It sounds like the warhawks in the Dems and GOP want war with China sometime this decade. How do you go to war with your manufacturing partner, and not crash the economy?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
I’d don’t miss anything. I just don’t think any domestic industry required for economic & national security should hinge on something as precarious as incentivizing. If they’re that critical, it needs to be nationalized, with strict import bans. Fuck the profitability or buttering up capitalists in hopes they’ll do the right thing for us.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I’m ready to try communism, nationalization, and a planned economy.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
I agree that a centrally planned economy controlled by the elites would be tyranny. It needs to be controlled by local worker councils.
But that’s communism, and a dealbreaker for many people, regardless of whether it’s better.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just a “media statement.” This is what they’re saying to their shareholders, who they are legally required to divulge the facts to.
I think you’re not appreciating the number of years it would take to move manufacturing bases and train up the local skillset. It’s not a ‘they can’t ever do it.’ It’s that it would take at least a decade, and at the rate tensions are escalating, they cannot get to the point of moving that production in time.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t choose to ignore anything. I simply don’t agree with the status quo of finding exploitable populations to outsource to, and I don’t agree that shifting problems to a different part of the globe eliminates the problem.
One of the main reasons for mass immigration from Mexico is the exploitation in NAFTA that has had the opposite effect of what you claim, and eliminated upward mobility in Mexico.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not correct. Almost every single manufacturing industry that was outsourced was plenty profitable here in the states. They were outsourced because it was more profitable to do it overseas. It’s a race to the bottom.
I agree tariffs aren’t the right move. Personally, I would support nationalization and import bans on certain industries.
