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It's not just simply a matter of suicidal empathy or that regressives are naturally bat-shit insane, well there's a bit of that but not to these extremes, it's that their virtues are systematically weaponized against them and their country...
In a relatively free society, foreign powers through their proxies and frontwork get a say in our domestic affairs, in the form of military-grade psychological operations. These goal of these operations is to exploit human weakness for statecraft.
Who benefits from US cities looking like a zombie apocalypse? Domestic greed plays a part in an acute way, but on the whole it's competing totalitarian regimes that can point to the failures of these free societies and say that such models have failed to deliver prosperity for their people, giving the hostile power a lever to keep their own citizens content with their iron-fisted one-party rule.
Hollowing out our industrial base, social propaganda, political infiltration, drug distribution... these are all tactics of unrestricted warfare by rival powers. The US as a relatively free society is not inoculated against these 5GW attacks.
Nationalists who see this can only fight back against it by becoming more like the enemy, fascist, which foments even more domestic divide since it goes against cultural principles.
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Nothing is random, EVERYTHING has meaning.
Great post. Appreciated!
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Hollowing out our industrial base
The industrial based isn't hollowed out.
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Yea sure, everyone in the rust belt, entirely offshored industries, shipyards, trade deficits, people working 3 part-time service jobs living below the poverty line, and the people deploying trillions in capex to stop the bleeding must have forgotten to consult with you first.
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Don't take my word for it.
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Council on Foreign Relations, literally the group that pushed most of it.
Yes less people should have to work on a given widget as technology increases efficiency, but it wasn't efficiency that got us from producing thousands of ship hulls per year to less than a dozen, and left us exporting less and importing more.
Efficiency doesn't make people underemployed either, it gives them MORE productive things to do.
I don't blame China, they're rational actors that found an exploit and we simply allowed it to go unpatched, fiat.
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China didn't send the manufacturing jobs overseas (those not displaced by technology). US corporations did.
US companies did. They went where the labor was cheap and the market was expanding (China) and they were extremely profitable.
Meanwhile 80% of the stocks and bonds in the US are owned by 10% of the population. They did great over 40 years as those companies (that outsourced) were profitable.
Everyone else? Stagnant wages, low growth, inflation, and lots of debt.
That's why people are so pissed off and nervous and divisive today.
Tariffs I believe make the problem worse. The answer is lots of education huge investments in it, as well as in infrastructure.
But Americans don't want to hear that, they want to hear that it's "someone else's fault" "blame them" so the US empire will keep declining until eventually it doesn't matter anymore.
Richard Wolf's explanation of what happened is the best I've found and the only one that makes sense.
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China has explicitly export oriented industrial policies that subsidizes the costs of their own companies using government funds. They also run protectionist policies by refusing to let US tech companies operate on their soil.
You can blame American companies for seeking out cheap labor and you can blame American consumers for seeking out cheap products. But don't pretend like this was simply "free market competition" that did all this.
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The US does the same thing. Try to find a BYD car in the United States.
You can't...
Good luck finding a Toyota Hilux (at least a new one) or even a small Japanese truck in the US....
Very difficult.
Or Huawei
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I just said I didn't blame China, it was Japan before that...
Doesn't change the fact that the industrial base has been hollowed out.
education huge investments
We've never spent more and gotten less, I'd expect you to say that since you can't read what I literally just wrote.
Tariffs I believe make the problem worse
Economically illiterate too I see.
Infrastructure
That's the industrial base, jfc.
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You guys should listen to @Solomonsatoshi more he knows what he's talking about.
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He's either a retard or Chinese propaganda AI bot, same picture
I don't outsource my thinking to Globalists and UFW like you seem to
Definitely a strong possibility. I know that many Chinese see drug addiction in the west as a vengeance for the opium wars
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Indeed, high ranking Chinese military have a book on this unrestricted warfare, and I understand there to be cultural strings pulled about the century of humilation. Our own NatSec apparatus is unambiguous that we're already in WW3, it's just not fully kinetic.
Not to victim blame, but there's an element of the west's sins coming back to haunt. Things the founders explicitly warned us against.
This isn't to blackpill, it's clear that western nationalists and the Chinese share a common enemy, the globalist deep state that's infiltrated the governments/banking systems of both... and that factions within each are well-aware of this and working together behind the scenes on a detente that will break both free.
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