Hey yall remember when the US imported a bunch of rocket scientists from this country in Europe when their gumming got taken over by drug-addled nationalists?
That was great
wait, why is trump doing this? it is THE tech china is behind on and could have been used strategically to keep them down. isnt that what both republicans and democrats want?
sometimes trump gives me hope the empire is gonna die, but i wanted to understand wtf they are thinking.
Because Biden did it. That’s it. It’s a huge thing and it doesn’t have Trump’s name on it, therefore it’s bad and needs to go away.
i struggle to believe that politicians, especially the sitting president on the biggest empire in the world, won’t ruin their go at power simply because of that. i dont think their followers are putting out good analysis either.
Trump is a narcissist. Fascism is historically a direct result of narcissists getting into power.
I was married to a narcissist for 11 years. I could come up with any idea, but unless she thought of it first, she hated it. And then she’d have the exact same idea a week later and love it. I had to use that against her during our divorce to get the kids out of the house and into a proper routine somewhere safe (my parents’ place a state away) while we worked out the details of the divorce. If I had pushed for it more and not let her think it was her idea, she would have vetoed it on the spot.
As my therapist says: if you understood them, you’d be just like them.
i don’t think his personality traits are that relevant beyond how he rallies his supporters.
fascism tends to put narcissists and other specific types of people in power, but they are put there by capitalism (or: the powers that be) when they need such a leader. fascism is not an organic and normal thing to happen to people, and its definetly not exclusively trumps merit here.
looking back, historically, that happens whenever the US invades you to
pacifybring democracy or when crisis that shakes the very core of the system looms.
I’ve got mixed feelings on the CHIPS act.
It was basically born out of a panic over a short term shortage. Like many industry observers accurately stated that the shortages will subside long before any of the CHIPS spending could even possibly make a difference. Then the tech companies will point to this as a reason not to spend the money they were given.
That largely came to pass, with the potential exception of GPUs in the wake of the LLM craze.
Of course, if you wanted to give the economy any hope for viable electronics while also massively screwing over imports, this would have been your shot. So it seems strategically at odds with the whole “make domestic manufucating happen” rhetoric.
Like many industry observers accurately stated that the shortages will subside long before any of the CHIPS spending could even possibly make a difference.
If you consider advanced microprocessors a strategic asset, the immediate short-term pinch in supply isn’t the problem. Its the long-term overseas outsourcing of production to regions we consider at high risk of foreign conflicts (Taiwan and South Korea). Simply moving finished chips across the Pacific Ocean is its own strategic problem.
One could easily argue that our steadily ratcheted hostilities toward China, Russia, and Iran is the actual root cause of our problems. And we’d do well to in-source production for supply flow reasons, but our real panacea might be to simply stop fucking around at the periphery of a rival imperial power.
But if you consider the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian peoples as inherently adversarial to the American way of life (on account of them hating us for our freedoms), then relying on Samsung and TMSC as your primary supply of chipsets seems imprudent.
Of course, if you wanted to give the economy any hope for viable electronics while also massively screwing over imports, this would have been your shot. So it seems strategically at odds with the whole “make domestic manufucating happen” rhetoric.
A big central problem of the US chips strategy is that we’re not building capacity, we’re building investment incentives. The goal is to make local manufacturing profitable rather than productive. But that’s at the root of the ideological divide between American and the BRICS we’re positioning ourselves in opposition to.
We wouldn’t be threatening war with these countries if we had a strong global socio-economic consensus.
Europe, Oceania, and Canada should also be doing this.
Never thought I’d live to see the day that we’re getting brain drained
Been happening for a lot longer than we like to admit. Students coming to the US for education and then returning home to work have been the norm since the early '00s, on account of the US higher education system being highly subsidized by the States and Feds. This made US education relatively cheap for its quality, especially at the state university level.
But that was good, actually, because we became a nexus of research and development. Lots of students came, got education, and left. Lots more stayed around, lured by the high paying jobs at domestic firms. A few even joined the education staff of the universities themselves. A bit of brain drain was fine, so long as we produced far more than we lost.
Now we’re just hemorrhaging talent and expertise because we no longer value the work product of the professional classes. We’re pricing people out of public universities and imposing strict ideological tests on the students we do let in. We’re going full eugenics mode on senior staff and administration. And we’re turning education more and more into a means of profiting off credentialing than accruing working knowledge or performing independent research.
America is dismantling all of its socialist institutions.
Brain drain will eventually lead to a rightward shift, since more educated people tend to lean left.
