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I dunno, sanctioning the International Criminal Court doesn't seem to help anyone but the worst swamp monsters that deprive people of human rights on either sid

I dunno, sanctioning the International Criminal Court doesn't seem to help anyone but the worst swamp monsters that deprive people of human rights on either side of the aisle. America should be integrating itself better into the global context instead of ripping itself out to exploit our allies. Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy and telcos, exports propaganda and fentanyl, and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball with these countries doesn't seem to be working anymore.

robomartin 2y ago
> Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy, exports propaganda and fentanyl and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball doesn't seem to be working anymore. You are confusing political campaigns with reality. In the real world, moving a large mass takes force, direction, effort and time. He has been in office THREE WEEKS. It is irrational and nonsensical to expect the entire world and the direction of rotation of the planet to change overnight. Let's put it in different terms: The last four years set the US back so far that we might not understand how much damage was done for many years. It was terrible. If we don't focus our collective energies on entrepreneurship, efficiency, progress and an industrial renaissance, things are going to be unimaginably bad in a decade or a few. Put differently yet: Nothing done in the last few years plotted a path towards better results. That needs to change and it needs to change immediately. We have dug such a hole that the only way to do it now is to be uncomfortably aggressive about all of it. Again, to use the business analogy, anyone who has come into a failing or troubled business fully understands what needs to happen. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but it is the only way. That's where we are now. If $36 trillion, a multi-trillion dollar annual deficit and a decimation of industries and industrial capacity isn't enough to get everyone on the same page... How much? Where is that threshold? At what point does everyone say "Yeah, we have to fix this"? As someone involved in manufacturing for four decades, I can tell you that moment should have happened at least twenty years ago. I am done. I am not manufacturing shit in this country any more. Why? Because my governments during that time have proven so clueless and incompetent that there is no point in killing yourself swimming against those forces. From my perspective, this moment is historical. Either we stop with the bullshit and get behind a solid national effort to survive, or we will all suffer for it.
- robomartin 2y ago
  If anyone thinks things are OK, I have a challenge for you. It's simple. Try to manufacture one of these in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Aluminum/dp/B084RF63FK?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Alu... Not a rocket. Not a humanoid. Not a complex machine. It's a simple fucking monitor arm. I just bought a few of these. The quality and finish are excellent. Guess where they are made? Your challenge is to deliver THE SAME quality and finish at TWICE the price (max). Try, and see just how far you get. Let me save you some time: You cannot. Maybe at 5x to 10x the price. Maybe. And the NRE and manufacturing costs will kill you. The screws alone will cost you 10x. Time to get real folks. Stop being part of the problem.

robomartin 2y ago

> Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy, exports propaganda and fentanyl and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball doesn't seem to be working anymore. You are confusing political campaigns with reality. In the real world, moving a large mass takes force, direction, effort and time. He has been in office THREE WEEKS. It is irrational and nonsensical to expect the entire world and the direction of rotation of the planet to change overnight. Let's put it in different terms: The last four years set the US back so far that we might not understand how much damage was done for many years. It was terrible. If we don't focus our collective energies on entrepreneurship, efficiency, progress and an industrial renaissance, things are going to be unimaginably bad in a decade or a few. Put differently yet: Nothing done in the last few years plotted a path towards better results. That needs to change and it needs to change immediately. We have dug such a hole that the only way to do it now is to be uncomfortably aggressive about all of it. Again, to use the business analogy, anyone who has come into a failing or troubled business fully understands what needs to happen. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but it is the only way. That's where we are now. If $36 trillion, a multi-trillion dollar annual deficit and a decimation of industries and industrial capacity isn't enough to get everyone on the same page... How much? Where is that threshold? At what point does everyone say "Yeah, we have to fix this"? As someone involved in manufacturing for four decades, I can tell you that moment should have happened at least twenty years ago. I am done. I am not manufacturing shit in this country any more. Why? Because my governments during that time have proven so clueless and incompetent that there is no point in killing yourself swimming against those forces. From my perspective, this moment is historical. Either we stop with the bullshit and get behind a solid national effort to survive, or we will all suffer for it.

robomartin 2y ago
If anyone thinks things are OK, I have a challenge for you. It's simple. Try to manufacture one of these in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Aluminum/dp/B084RF63FK?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Alu... Not a rocket. Not a humanoid. Not a complex machine. It's a simple fucking monitor arm. I just bought a few of these. The quality and finish are excellent. Guess where they are made? Your challenge is to deliver THE SAME quality and finish at TWICE the price (max). Try, and see just how far you get. Let me save you some time: You cannot. Maybe at 5x to 10x the price. Maybe. And the NRE and manufacturing costs will kill you. The screws alone will cost you 10x. Time to get real folks. Stop being part of the problem.