Me rn at 3 AM local time:

Keep in mind that the autos optimize for units times profit so they don’t necessarily lose money from lower volumes. Ford’s net income for example have remained stable since 2023.

TIL

“But it would be very happy to see Europe tied up spending a lot of its GDP on defence against something that looks like a frozen conflict around Ukraine and Belarus,” he added.

That contradicts China’s economic interests in Europe. They make a ton of money from exports to Europe. More money towards defence means less money for buying Chinese exports. Also given the current state of affairs in defence production, it means significant spend going to the US, which doesn’t sound like something Xi would want.

urged Canada’s two major parties

The moment I heard that I was like, wait what? Then I came to my senses. After all our PM used to work for him in gov’t.

If we don’t win society back from capitalism we’d lose out on money anyways. What savings we have only has value in a functioning society that’s willing and able to exchange work for it.

Marx was right.

Looks pretty good!

A scientist.

Keep talking Alex.

Cowon D2 brigade

I see what you did there.

Can conserve power structures that give someone else the right to our surplus. 😅

Wouldn’t it be in the best interests of state sponsored hacking teams to hide or blame other states?

Of course. If I were leading an offencive team at CSIS, I’d do my best to procure machines and credentials in anorher country to launch the campaign from. Ideally a known adversary. That doesn’t mean that country isn’t executing their own attacks. In fact my charade wouldn’t work if I chose a country that has no track record of attacks.

Sit back and enjoy our collective triumph over capitalist technology.

"No one should be forced to pay for disinformation,” Siegmund thunders. He is the floor leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and he launches into a diatribe against a familiar target: Germany’s giant publicly funded broadcasters ARD and ZDF

This is the same shit Canada’s conservative party pushes. From their recent party convention:

The CBC/SRC, once intended to promote Canadian content, now receives over $1.2 billion annually while promoting increasingly politicized agendas. In an era of digital platforms and independent journalism, taxpayer-funded broadcasting is no longer justified

Debian is the love of Debbie and Ian. ☺️

By the time the US did any of this, they had already lost most of the manufacturing capacity and supply chains. I don’t think this can be brought back through small changes in the capitalist free market model that shipped it overseas. The US shipped manufacturing across border to other countries such as Taiwan and Mexico before China. Through a more holistic lens, I think what we’re observing is the Chinese mixed market model outcompeting the capitalist free market model. It’s able to spur competition where needed to develop new technology and manufacturing, as well as keep prices down to avoid rent-seeking in established, consolidated industries. We’re failing on both accounts and the result is consolidation and unmitigated rent-seeking in virtually every sector which makes competitive manufacturing impossible. This is why my bet is that countries with real independence ambitions that want to preserve democracy would begin adopting the Chinese mixed model to bring costs down and outputs up. We’d see more government-owned corporations that run as non-profits, providing cheap inputs for the rest of the economy, where competition would be created by policy-directed public capital along with ruthless anti-trust enforcement. Democracy would still control the government direction, with much stronger union power. In case this looks strange or unrealistic, this close to how the Canadian among other western economies worked prior to neoliberalisation. This is my positive, democracy-preserving scenario.

The other likely scenario I see for preserving independence is large private corporations taking over the government further, removing any remaining real democratic power of the citizenry, crushing labour rights and dispensing with any remaining competitive market forces acting on them, driving into some form of corporatocracy/authoritarian capitalism. This is what the US is driving towards.

There’s other scenarios for the non-independent states that depend on what China’s long-term strategy is.

Debian

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