Taiwan is the largest chip maker in the world. One of the reasons that China doesn’t invade is because they’re also dependent on Taiwan chips. Forcing china to double down on their local industry hinders Taiwan’s security. The US knows this. They’re escalating things in a very tense geopolitical area

This is a pretty stupid thing to do. They’re guaranteeing chinese chip making.

She’s friends with bush… Don’t assume anything

My thought is that this is a way to hone the north Korean military. They don’t know what’s wrong until they try and use it.

Conspiracy time! Epstein was an Israeli plant to get information to blackmail politicians with. His career doesn’t make any sense unless there’s outside influence. Maxwell has some ties to mossad, but it’s shaky at best, and Israel is really small. It’s fairly easy to have relationships with people employed by any organization because of how small it is

BYD is also a battery company that makes cars. They can afford to lose a little on the car, when they make money overall.

Political ideology is independent of where you live. Educate yourself

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That’s what I’m seeing as well. I thought this was largely a propaganda move to show Russia isn’t as strong as thought to the Russian people. It’s an attack on Putin more than anything else.

This argument makes most sense if you’re arguing in favor of revolution

These NA car companies always get bailed out. They should’ve been making kei trucks, and small electric cars for ages, but they don’t need to because they’ll just get bailed out if they fail.

These tariffs are another form of a bailout. Maybe instead of bailing these guys out we should nationalize them.

Please look up ‘embrace, extend, extinguish’ Meta should be met with open hostility in the fediverse. Mastodon losing nonprofit status in Germany, moving to the states and then appointing this guy leads me to think that mastodon has been compromised

People can change their minds.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/episodes/voter-vibe-check-why-trump-has-more-support-black-voters-ever

That might be worth a listen for you. There’s lots of reason for a lot of people to dislike biden. If your choice is between Trump and a guy that’s actively supporting genocide, I can’t blame you for not voting.

To be clear, I’d vote biden, but I can’t blame people for not voting.

So we’ve settled on the numbers are comparable, but some stuff in China might be more severe?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-still-have-slavery

800 000 isn’t the total count of slaves in the US

The US has roughly 0.3% of it’s population as slave labor. China has 0.4%. That looks pretty comparable to me

I’m going to jump in here. I’ve watched 3 episodes.

Some of the dialogue does feel bad, but in my experience it’s from the vault dwellers. I think it’s intentional.

Goggins playing a smooth af character delivers everything with a smooth confidence. He’s a joy to watch.

The other actors do well. The sets and costumes are great. The plot feels very paint by numbers, but that’s the era we live in.

Are you referring to prison labor?