surph_ninja
@surph_ninja@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is unfair! 1 day ago:
Does this sound like a man who had all he could eat?!
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 days ago:
Well I came here to chew bubblegum and talk shit, and I’m all out of bubblegum.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 days ago:
Does it need to be exposed to the internet? Putting it behind a vpn would be best.
Besides that, just make sure only the users you need to have access to ssh logins, and use keys for extra hardening. Keep your system updated. Limit that system’s access to other systems on your network, so if it is compromised, they can’t use it as a pivot point for the rest of your setup.
- Comment on 1993 Russia could never 2 days ago:
Dem bots always gotta find a way to cram in Russophobia on every post. Apparently including shaming the people who suffered from the west collapsing their government.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
I’m not saying people didn’t have them at all. Majority of families absolutely did not until the very late 90s. Many more people use AI now than had computers back then.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
Most people in the early 90’s didn’t have or think they needed a computer.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
We still pay for subsidies. Those don’t come out of thin air. Better to nationalize, and much more efficient.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Neither do. Import bans and nationalization do.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
We’re not talking about zero trade. We’re talking about nationalizing industries that are critical for economic or national security. There are plenty of countries who have done that, and the neoliberal west tends to retaliate against them for it.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
For one, every country in the world controls which countries and outside parties their corporations can do business with.
Secondly, you obviously have no idea how business works in China, and the amount of control the central government exercises over them.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
That’s a lot of failed policies to avoid direct control and regulation of industries.
And that chips act was also paired with a chipmaker’s visa to import indentured labor from Taiwan. So while it was intended to bring back manufacturing, it was never going to deliver on the empty promises of jobs.
- Comment on If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be agast at how quiet it is. 4 days ago:
I guarantee the opposite would be the opposite of what you expect. The disinformation maintains the consensus. The voices speaking against the norm are the ones being drowned out by the bots and astroturfers.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Wow. That was a wildly inaccurate and naïve statement.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
What other means?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
If it’s an industry the nation needs to survive, economically or otherwise, that’s an industry that needs to be nationalized.
And this is the opposite of imperialism. Imperialism is what we have now.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Their intent is to bring back manufacturing. I agree, it’s a bad plan.
The point with Taiwan is that both Dems & the GOP want to escalate to a potential hot war with China over control of Taiwan. But I see a lot of crossover between people who oppose drastic measures to bring back manufacturing stateside, while also supporting increased escalation with China.
So I’m asking people how they reconcile the two. How do they support war with our chief manufacturing partner, without supporting immediate measures to bring back manufacturing? As things stand, China could defeat us within a month by cutting off exports to the US.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
As I stated, yes, the implementation is a clusterfuck. But unless we’re moving to a planned economy, aren’t widespread tariffs and increased costs necessary to force manufacturing to come back to the states?
It sounds like the warhawks in the Dems and GOP want war with China sometime this decade. How do you go to war with your manufacturing partner, and not crash the economy?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Yeah, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
I’d don’t miss anything. I just don’t think any domestic industry required for economic & national security should hinge on something as precarious as incentivizing. If they’re that critical, it needs to be nationalized, with strict import bans. Fuck the profitability or buttering up capitalists in hopes they’ll do the right thing for us.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Personally I’m ready to try communism, nationalization, and a planned economy.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
I agree that a centrally planned economy controlled by the elites would be tyranny. It needs to be controlled by local worker councils.
But that’s communism, and a dealbreaker for many people, regardless of whether it’s better.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
It’s not just a “media statement.” This is what they’re saying to their shareholders, who they are legally required to divulge the facts to.
I think you’re not appreciating the number of years it would take to move manufacturing bases and train up the local skillset. It’s not a ‘they can’t ever do it.’ It’s that it would take at least a decade, and at the rate tensions are escalating, they cannot get to the point of moving that production in time.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
I didn’t choose to ignore anything. I simply don’t agree with the status quo of finding exploitable populations to outsource to, and I don’t agree that shifting problems to a different part of the globe eliminates the problem.
One of the main reasons for mass immigration from Mexico is the exploitation in NAFTA that has had the opposite effect of what you claim, and eliminated upward mobility in Mexico.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
That’s not correct. Almost every single manufacturing industry that was outsourced was plenty profitable here in the states. They were outsourced because it was more profitable to do it overseas. It’s a race to the bottom.
I agree tariffs aren’t the right move. Personally, I would support nationalization and import bans on certain industries.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
The problem is, they will leave the moment you cut off the incentive. So it becomes a permanent subsidy.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
Your positions do not seem to be supported by the facts. I don’t understand how you have maintained this perspective of interruptions and shipping affecting the US more than China. That certainly wasn’t the case during the pandemic.
And now with the tariff threats that we’re seeing, aerospace and military manufacturers are saying there are certain components they simply can’t manufacture here without importing from China. If tariffs are impeding that in anyway, I don’t see how they would survive a complete cut off. Especially without the raw resources we get from China, we couldn’t even set up independent manufacturing here if we wanted to.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
We’ve been trying the incentive method for decades now. It hasn’t worked.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
I agree that requiring certain industries to be based domestically is the best route, but both the GOP & Dems opposed that type of planned economy. They prefer to manipulate market influences to incentivize what they want, rather than direct regulation.
If you don’t tariff everyone, how does that bring manufacturing back? They’ll just move to the next cheapest country, and then you’re playing whack-a-mole.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
The difference is China is expanding their trade partnerships across Asia and Africa. They can sell to someone else. I don’t know how we survive a sudden cut off from the global manufacturing base.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 4 days ago:
But this issue predates Trump. Trump is starting a trade war, but Biden was escalating militarily with China. Both seem like very, very bad ideas.
