Isn't what hurt Intel was getting all this money from the government from the chips act but not being able to sell to China, which was their largest market, due to sanctions

I have more faith in a anti-H1b'er Jan 6th than a liberal one

Yea that's what I don't get a out his whole "I told Newsom to sweep the leaves from the forests" because I thought this fire started in the urban area

I actually think material reality can be just as compelling as the fake conspiracy theories, but lib media doesnt really do material analysis. Instead they try to soften the truth and hide certain facts so that in the end there is no satisfying solution. E.g. they won't come out and say we need to regulate these companies that create 80% of our fossil fuel emissions, instead we need to all individually do better and buy less treats

Hell I feel apart something bigger by being a leftist

So the solution is more deregulation? Amazing...

This is really sad. But we're also seeing what happens when you let corporations go unchecked and exacerbate climate change.

An entire city burning to the ground should be a radicalizing point, but I'm afraid the media is going to do everything they can to divert from the climate question to things like firefighter funding, DEI etc.

One of things I realized going back home is just how much of a bubble suburbanites are in. I mean I always knew this ever since I moved out of the suburbs, but it started to dawn on me how that warps your political conscious.

For example how am I supposed to convince a suburbanite that homeless is not just a natural outcome of laziness but a conscious choice by the capitalist system? These people see a homeless person maybe once in a year. They are just so far removed from how the capitalist system fails people. And it's so easy to get them to be hostile towards immigrants because they are in this bubble where the status quo must be preserved forever and anything that challenges that is bad.

I realized that you can't really reason with them because they are in this bubble and you are speaking a different language than them when you talk about reality.

I'd be interested if anyone has done any marxist analysis on suburban/urban/rural living conditions and what can be done about it, cause it just seems hopeless

The Antichrist is supposed to cure the blind?

So does that mean the Mahdi and Jesus are also alive and will kill him?

God he's dumb

Talked to a friend who actually seems quite radicalized by the LA fire. He keeps falling back to people should collectively make better climate conscious decisions (electric over gas cars etc.). I was trying to convince him it needs to be a systemic change for any hope of actual meaningful impact. He seemed to take it well.

I left out how we have already exceeded 1.5 degrees thing though. I'm not sure what the future will look like

I'm wondering what advantage, if any, does AI really give for a nation? All I've really seen is that it can make people in beauracratic jobs be a touch more productive, but these jobs are already bullshit to begin with and are not producing real value. All this is doing is reducing some of the costs so that companies can report a bit more profit for the quarter.

Then there's all the slop AI can produce which doesn't really mean anything for competitive advantage. And there's also "AI integration" in products that don't really need it. So yea unless some compelling use case for AI is discovered, I feel like it's another crypto.

Looking at some posts on libsky, they're coping hard and saying things like "it's fine, because on the inside Trump is really angry about being the only felon president, and it's gnawing at his insides". They're more delusional than MAGA