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> if you're an American think carefully about whom you want defining the economic & strategic reality your children will inherit.

This is such an astonishing statement. US tech and industry have been enormous, outrageously successful at bringing wealth to the US. They have been welcomed with open arms worldwide, and have funnelled trillions into the US coffers. While Intel become a company of middle managers and suits, companies like TSMC filled the void and allowed Apple and nvidia, Qualcomm and Broadcom to become goliaths. Boo hoo.

For someone to do this crybaby routine about how maligned it is...good god. The total and complete lack of self-awarenesss is extraordinary.

The US has a monumental amount to fall, and idiotic, Stalinist actions like this are precisely how it can be rapidly sped up.

> The USA competes against countries and companies that are state owned and/or state infiltrated

Not only do US intelligence do economic espionage on behalf of US companies, the US government's enormous debt spend is a collosal socialist regime for US corporations. The US military has a $1T budget largely to dump into US firms (see the laughable recent billion dollars handed over to AI companies, though it's just a tiny sliver of the spend).

Regardless, it's pretty astonishing seeing the same people who forever called everything socialist/communist suddenly the biggest advocates of a Stalinist/Maoist Trump and his central planned economy. Utterly bizarre. Almost like all of their words were just partisan rhetoric of zero substance or value.



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