Yeah, and I think everyone has forgotten that even the cheap, easily broken stuff helps us save money. I'll happily buy the cheap 100 dollar Chinese tool to fumble with for an extra couple hours on a one-time car repair that saves me 500 dollars compared to the only American option, or 900 dollars going to a shop instead.

Things are just going to end up broken and unfixable in the non-industrial world too.

I never see more cops than when I go to Texas. It's insane

I'm honestly pretty surprised they're not favoring red states in matters such as this.

I wish they would just suck it up and commit to making these things into full-on hatchbacks, shooting brakes, and estate cars. They are way better designs than this weird slope-into-a-high-trunk they are doing. More functional too

An amazing insult, tbh

Good point. I wouldn't trust them not to simply shred your passport nowadays tbh

Is this actually true for full-on citizens tho?

The Repubs wanted to come in and strong-arm everybody into doing what they wanted. They didn't consider that the other guy could just walk away and avoid the interaction entirely tho. Gonna be seeing a lot more of this

You have two roads that need to get built and nobody wants to wait. Who gets their road first? There is no escaping the necessity of having a decision maker.

People have short memories. The reason the "government" exists in the first place was because everyone agreed that it was better with it, and it turns out people are shitty and they're going to abuse you to the maximum extent of their physical ability if nothing is there to stop them.

This "organization" you talk about is literally just government. Sorry you don't understand the system that was painstakingly set up for you over the last couple thousand years through bloody trial and error.

Agreed. All this shit is just a hop and a skip away from literally every other nation out there that's not already devolved into such bullshit.

Gonna be hilarious when China just throws 50% out ahead of time as a preemptive strike hahaha.

Even if he's right, all the more reason to get them set up off the streets in SOME SORT of reasonable living arrangement. One that's not prison, anyways.

AGREED. We need to be moving further away from tribalism and isolationism, not back toward it. This path we're on is the complete opposite of the Star Trek-esque utopia I always envisioned.

Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn't be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

And don't forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.

But they're not going to increase wages to account for us having to spend 55 dollars on something that used to cost 5. So the end result is just that people end up with less overall. I'm cool with limiting consumerism, but this isn't the way to do it imo. And it's not going to make us "richer" as a nation.

And we haven't even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It's so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally--and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald's. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

So I guess they're hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.

This will be hilarious, because Teslas don't even really work for the demographic that goes through vehicles the fastest: heavy duty company trucks, rental vehicle companies, and country-folk who commute 40 miles to work and 50 miles to the city for weekend leisure.

Is RFK Jr. sharing his alien mind control brain worms with all these other political candidates, or have they always been this garbage?

Giving your kid liver damage to own the libs lol