Just have the poors consume less, that should fix inflation, right?

Maybe the current bourgeoisie also became anti-vax and they needed to remind them how things work for class solidarity?

That focusing on fringe topics that don’t fix the issue at hand let alone the root, and scapegoating minorities and creating artificial identities to square off against each other are great ways to keep the population both divided and mentally occupied enough that they won’t develop political consciousness and progress beyond infighting?

TBF This isn’t HOI4, natural rubber isn’t vital and thr current market (mostly tires) can be replaced with synthetic albeit at higher costs.

They’ll likely scrap it for parts and reassign people to whatever new anti-China media channels they come up with.

It’s very telling that this got dropped after Trump’s case.

Great. Another factoid I can throw at people

And then they get demoted, right? Right?!

Such news is only leaked because it creates public sentiment for more public spending towards war. All of you are revelling in the “Haha, those krauts guns don’t work” and miss the bigger picture as to why this is reported in a major publication.

If you don’t enjoy doing your hobby unless you’re producing something of substance that can help you receive praise from others. Is it really a hobby you do for the sake of personal enjoyment and growth or just something you think society views as a worthwhile past time you’ve latched onto just to get validation?

Drag the war long enough and those children will grow up to be next in line as cannon fodder and the issue will solve itself.

credit-card delinquency rates

I keep forgetting that not paying one’s debt is viewed as a crime in the USA regardless of the reason as to why you can’t pay.

Most of these countries pretend that they were the ones that helped the South Africans fight against apartheid from behind the scenes. These same countries also adhere to the opinion that Israel isn’t an apartheid state. So are we really surprised that they defend the genocide that is going on?

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Remind me again, which part of the world are most semiconductor devices made?

Seeing as your’re going by your gut feeling as opposed to doing a quick 1 min google search:

1. Taiwan
2. South Korea
3. Japan/China
4. USA (Overtaken in 2019/20)

for as long as I’ve been alive China has been the international manufacturing hub for that stuff

The trend is that China will get around 25-30% of the market share in a decade. In that trend, with no changes permitted, China might need a few more decades before they produce more than 50% of the market share, so unless you have yet to be born and you’re about to come clean about us inventing time travel in the future; you’re mistaken.

Solar cells were developed in the US, but China is where they were mass produced.

You’re using to “were”, trying to make it sound like these periods overlapped. Americans started producing and selling the first practical solar cells more than half a century (1950s) before China even made a single one (2000s). Heck, and the first patents were half a century before that.

If China was already dominant in the field, then what is the whole commotion about China retaking Taiwan and them ordering chip fabs from the Netherlands? Stop reading headlines.

“Always”. First proper mass-scale photovoltaic factories were from the 1980s onwards, and both the relative cost and efficiency has been at a stand still ever since the Reagan era up till the 2010s. Saying China has “always” been the main producer is a gross innacuracy and does a lot to overlook the West’s unwillingness to take on the same responsibilities. Renewable energy has always been a grift to the West, just look at how the market collapsed after 2008 due to the solar panels becoming “too cheap” and government cronies no longer getting that government subsidy money, and instead of making less profit just decided to close the factories.