No kiddo, people that have more knowledge than you are not tankies. I understand you guys love your thought terminating cliches like all right-wingers, but do try to open your mind a bit before the leopards you’re supporting eat your face.

And yes, thank you for proving my point. Click through the ‘citations,’ that all link back to the same three organizations, none of which have ever operated in China nor have any knowledge of China. There are no first hand sources of knowledge on this, because there is no Chinese language coverage of this supposed ban. Anywhere. From any point in time.

That never actually happened btw. At all. Ever. In any part of China.

It was a story wholesale made up by NED-linked organizations, repeated by US media linking to those organizations, without any first-party evidence to the claim.

Because it is more electrically conductive than tarnished copper or silver, so electronics prefer gold since it can’t tarnish and will never degrade. If silver was chosen for CPUs, for instance, pretty much all devices would have to be hermetically sealed or be replaced within 18 months. Copper is only used in electronics when it will be relatively sealed in place (like in PCBs)

Yes that is the point of the propaganda being pointed out in the meme. To get the perception incongruent with reality. Good job!

Piefed users once again proving they have no actual problem with reddit, they were just slightly inconvenienced once and felt the need to invade every alternative.

Introducing the Shahed Drone system, featuring a mass produced 1.3L gasoline engine usually used on mopeds and coming in at an average cost of $30k USD to produce including munitions package, it’s the solution for all imperialists and traitors in your life.

Got a $1 billion USD pipeline coming in at statistically $3 million USD per mile to construct that needs to have a rapid unplanned deconstruction happen? Think Shahed Drone.

At that price to cost ratio you can send 100 Shahed drones per mile and still come out massively on top in terms of resource performance!

The Shahed drone, for when your enemies say ‘well it would be too expensive to target this.’

Hahahaha… no. It is the lowest quality highest expense piece of shit from a company that spent most of its money during the bid bribing those running the bid. Sorry not ‘bribing,’ simply giving gifts, dinners, and event invites.

Every single Harbor Freight tool is the same quality, and in many cases come from the exact same production line, as tools sold to the military that have a 100x mark up. This isn’t even a controversial fact. This is something every single service member that was a mechanic knows. The military pays $115 for a single hammer that will break exactly as fast as a $5 special. But the $115 hammer was made by a company that was made in Congressman Fuckwitzberg’s district and paid off the board members reviewing their app more than other brands.

…Who said any of that? Yes, Taiwan is a province of China. Because they are the old imperialist, fascist government of China that was beaten in the civil war.

Give any source for forced sterilization that isn’t a front for the NED and I will personally send you $1,000 USD.

…absolutely zero people that have been in the US military agree with your assessment. Doesn’t matter the branch or MOS.

Hey not all of us watch Space Trek.

Shh you’ll ruin the entire neoliberal western narrative that has caused the populations of the US and Europe to constantly disparage the single most advanced form of government proven so far. If they cannot fear monger about China being evil bloodthristy imperialists wanting to take Taiwan or propagandize Taiwan as being brave independent freedom fighters then all the other hundreds of billions of dollars in propaganda through hundreds of outlets in more than two dozen countries including extensive terror campaigns, the wholesale creation of several cults, and the world’s most extensive propaganda NGO in world history would all be for nothing.

They really don’t understand they’re the bad guys and not China, and it’d break their little hearts to find out China got that big without doing all the evil shit they did.

No, there’s just no point in painting a burning car or swapping the door hinges during a house fire or putting lipstick on a pig post slaughter.

You have to fix the core of the problem before you start worrying about the minor details that cannot meaningfully exist without the initial problem being solved. Creating this currency would not solve any problems whatsoever with the current state of the world. It would not improve anything.

You know how I know that? Bitcoin was the thing you are describing. How’d that work out? The same way literally any digital currency will work out while the concept of capital is allowed to exist. It will be bought, hoarded, and narrowly metered out in the absolute best case scenario. And all possible frameworks that could possibly avoid that fate are just the concept of socialism dressed up in increasingly silly and decreasingly useful abstractions.

If you want to have a nice sailboat you don’t start with the deck trimming. You don’t even start with the sails. You start building the framework of the hull and then possibly get to the finer parts later, when what you have won’t just be dunked in the ocean because you think you don’t need the entire rest of the boat to have a boat.

What state? Because it cannot be any european state. It can’t be any state in the Americas. It can’t be most asian countries. It absolutely cannot be Australia.

There is no state that is both already uncaptured by capital and palatable enough to avoid sanctions in the west. Since that’s the actual only reason sanctions exist, to punish those not currently fully captured by capital holders.

So it cannot be state backed.

Can it be insured without a state? Maybe, but then whoever insures it sets the rules for it. This is the problem with the Federal Reserve owning USD versus the US government. Can it be physically backed without a state? No.

If this magically came into existence in a state and was even slightly effective, that state would magically be developing nuclear weapons the next day and invaded. Just a reminder Gaddafi was doing what you’re proposing… and global capital was so mad he was allegedly anally penetrated by machetes while the entirety of the country was effectively destroyed.

Any solution that gains traction developed by a state would get that state eliminated.

And any solution not made by a state will either be a scam, be monopolized by capital as its an asset and someone will be willing to sell it, or will simply not catch on since businesses would find no incentive to use it in large enough numbers to function. You’d need half of a country’s economy, at minimum, to switch to that new currency for people to effectively circulate it. Which is why bitcoin never took off as a currency. Which is why no crypto will ever really be used as a currency outside spot transactions. Your employees need to be able to pay their taxes with it. Which in any country means the government approves of it, which means its not a threat to them, which for 150 countries means it is not in any way a threat to capital and can be fully controlled by it.

It’s a good solution for global socialism. And socialist countries wanting to make that transition away from the last vestiges of capitalism might find utility in a state-issued digital currency… as long as capitalism does not exist anywhere at any point at that time. Because it just takes one economy where you can buy this digital currency like any other commodity in exchange for USD or other currency that can buy goods; just one to ruin everything.

Unfortunately what you’re suggesting is crypto. Which as we’ve seen isn’t really compatible with any world where capitalism still exists; as capitalists will just monopolize it.

The alternative to corporatism isn’t fascism, in fact they’re the same thing at different stages. Accepting the fascists because they are an ‘alternative’ to corporations is like accepting castration because it is an alternative dentistry.

This isn’t native fetishization, this is literally fighting climate change. Most native plants have survived far worse fluxations than anything that will happen in our lifetime (and I am a believer we’ll have a BOE by 2030), additionally this reduces water use, fertilization use, with the addition of the obvious less fuel use.

Yes, you will have to give up your almonds, which are killing California, and avacados, which are devastating communities across South America. Too bad. Native plants are literally designed over the last 200k years or more to be where they are. That includes more than one ice age.

The most common issue for BYDs specifically is tires that need to be replaced more often than non-EV drivers expect and optional safety features usually missing from the lower end models.

Most EVs are dead simple compared to ICE cars; when you have literally 100x fewer parts there is a lot less to go wrong. This is especially true when you’re not trying to introduce FSD or other superfluous features because you want to be a 1980s cyberpunk villain industrialist.

Got any source on that? The EV lines are nearly 100% automated.

The foundation of capitalism is Profit is King.

The free market, aka competition, is the least profitable method of production for a company. It’s terrible for your bottom line. Profit is the only thing that matters, and specifically Profit by the Metric evaluated by those with the purse-strings; i.e. in the US this is profit per quarter.

‘Free Market’ economics is not only not limited to capitalism, capitalism is inherently antithetical to competition and the free market and will always seek to eliminate it entirely.