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Seems they really want to revert everything that made the US a world leader. - Reduce science - Reduce collected data - Reduce immigration - Reduce infrastr
by vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago
Seems they really want to revert everything that made the US a world leader.
- Reduce science
- Reduce collected data
- Reduce immigration
- Reduce infrastructure
- Reduce adoption of EVs
- jart 1y ago[flagged]
- ivape 1y ago[flagged]
- giantg2 1y agoWhat did EVs make us a leader in? If I remember right, other countries have much higher adoption.
- aaomidi 1y agoTechnically Tesla was the first major company globally starting a trend. Aka leading.
- giantg2 1y agoBy that definition, we haven't been leading for years since the Chinese are cranking them out much faster than Tesla. What if we want to be a world leader in satellite internet coverage? Is that a goal you support? Because that's part of what these changes are about.
- Bluestein 1y ago[flagged]
- mjamesaustin 1y agoThis is exactly what the US did to Britain. One empire rises, another falls.
- Bluestein 1y agoGranted, totally.- PS. See the down votes. Hi, 61398!
- testbjjl 1y ago[flagged]
- datahack 1y agoThat’s the kind of unkind and rather toxic comment I would expect on Reddit, not HN. Unimpressed.
- aaomidi 1y agoThis website is worse than Reddit. Lower your expectations.
- testbjjl 1y agoDo you think I wanted to impress you or anyone really? GP was beating a dead horse so I said something. Somehow you ended up caring. I’m almost certain there are better uses of your time. Certainly has no influence on my opinion. Honestly people who hold Hacker News like it’s sacred are exhausting. Your opinions and mine need not mix, just use your thumb to move on?
- mattgrice 1y agoBy any definition has China not been leading? Socialism with chinese characteristics/ Xi Jinpeng thought is the most successful ideology currently. Free speech/free markets power has decayed since people found ways to exploit them and more powerful people found ways to aid the exploiters. The US is apparently powerless to exploit our own rare earth resources and fund/subsidize them or lithium production or photovoltaic production, nuclear reactors, or even semiconductor production. By any measure that is weak.
- ethbr1 1y ago> The US is apparently powerless to exploit our own rare earth resources The DOD took a direct stake in a US rare earth miner / refiner, in addition to a long term purchase agreement at set prices. Apple also piled on last week (no doubt after some backroom conversations). https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/pentagon-to-become-largest-shareholder-in-rare-earth-magnet-maker-mp-materials.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/pentagon-to-become-largest-s...
- stingraycharles 1y agoYeah agreed, Tesla showed the world it was possible, but they seem to be failing to maintain their leadership position.
- bigbuppo 1y agoCut their CEO some some slack. He's a thought leader/rocket mogul/ISP guy/social media but wants to make it a bank for some reason dude/former government sort-of-official/professional gamer/full time twitter shitposter that's also starting a political party and who is responsible for fathering over a dozen children. On second thought, I think I see the problem.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Technically Tesla was the first major company globally starting a trend And China’s dominance in LFP is based on its acquisition of A123’s IP out of bankruptcy [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130131031501/http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/AONEQ.PK/key-developments/article/2682498 https://web.archive.org/web/20130131031501/http://www.reuter...
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- GoblinSlayer 1y agoThat's pioneer.
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- wnevets 1y agoIf an adversarial nation had control of the white house would anyone be able to tell the difference
- smt88 1y agoI think an adversarial nation would reduce military activity far more than the current regime has. That might be the only difference, though.
- Mistletoe 1y agoIf you reduce all those other things you don’t need to reduce their military. You already won, without a battle or any casualties on your side. The decay and rot from the inside will take care of the rest.
- reactordev 1y agoIn which case turn the military on the people and expedite the process. /s
- actionfromafar 1y agoIt will come, eventually. That usually doesn't need any outside tinkering, it follows naturally in dictatorships.
- mattgrice 1y agoIt depends what adversary I guess. It seems like several middle eastern countries of very different religious bent are quite happy with our military activity. Though they are not usually named as adversaries they certainly are by any rational metric.
- AngryData 1y agoI don't think so if they are a nuclear armed nation. If the end result of a nuclear armed conflict is mutual destruction and collapse, the only path towards dominance is economic. And in a pure economic fight a massive overpowered military is just an economic anchor.
- gigatexal 1y ago[flagged]
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoThere is a LOT of data on Trump/Russia out now. I find it hard to believe anyone informed is still using that. It’s kind of an intellectual red flag my man. The smarter liberals have moved on to just hating Trump for being himself. Do the true believers here think that the I formation Gabbard is releasing is fake? We’ve had it for 9 years now about Ohrs and FusionGPS and FBI lying to FISA.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agohttps://x.com/nicksortor/status/1948007087151190074 https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1948007087151190074 I read 25 of the first documents 46 pages. Sure looks bad.
- thrance 1y agoTrump isn't neutered, he's doing almost exactly what he promised he would do. Russia certainly did help, what with all the online propaganda and stuff, but attributing his victory to them is a little too easy. America had this coming for a long time, right from Reagan's plan to unite Republicans behind Christian nationalism to its realization. This was all so predictable.
- red-iron-pine 1y agoThe Russians have been investing in Trump since the 80s and have been unleashing aggressive Soviet-style propaganda campaigns (minus the communism part) across social media for years now. They were spending as much as $400k a month on payments to bloggers -- just online stuff -- in the run-up to the first Trump election.
- aigen01 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation Your timelines are a little off but to add more details: Matt Christiansen, Tayler Hansen, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern are the subjects of the ongoing investigation. $400k/month was paid out just for Tim Pool for repeating Russian talking points on the Tenet Media youtube channel which should have raised eyebrows for all parties.
- penguin_booze 1y ago> Seems they really want to revert everything that made the US a world leader. Conservatives takes different names in different places. Calling the spade a spade, a more truthful name is 'Reggressives', no matter what the colour on the banner is. The signatures of regressivism is , among others, the yearning for the past, to bring back the old ways of life, the predisposition for worship (idolatry)--be that of imaginary creatures or very wealthy people. Some of us would find it really hard to imagine why some others would say, "yes please, more oil. I really would love to inhale more toxic fumes". Yet, such people exist. I can't explain why.
- hshdhdhj4444 1y agoI think it’s a stretch to call the current crop of Republican leaders conservatives. They’re radical reactionaries at best.
- ethbr1 1y agoI’d argue the current crop of Republican leaders are radical populists (for conservative voters). While many of their asks mirror traditional Republican social positions, they’re responsive to an economically disadvantaged class in the Republican Party that’s historically been ignored. And while there’s certainly a lot of backroom dealing to favor business interests, I think it’d be hard to argue that the poor Republican voter has had this much power in the party… ever. (See things like immigration policy, which agribusiness is scared shitless of) The previous Republican bargain was ‘We say we love god and guns, but let business get on with business, and we’re never going to harm the latter for the former.’
- toss1 1y agoYup At the core, it is Anti-Science. Why Anti-Science? Because the answers that come from science are independent of the authoritarian ruler's whims, and that cannot be tolerated, as key to authoritarian rule is that it must be entirely responsive to the whims of the regime. It is the same reason that completely freaked me out when I read that Lenin and Stalin had directed their death squads to target their most loyal party members first. Why the hell would they do that? It turns out it is because the most loyal party members would object to the dictator's schemes on grounds of ideological principle, and such objections or principled people could not be tolerated. Pure evil, but genius in the context of a dictator's needs. Thus, every authoritarian regime attacks the intelligent, academic, and scientific worlds. Both Mao and Pol Pot not only executed people with scientific and academic credentials, but merely for wearing glasses which signified people who likely read a lot. Consistent Anti-Science actions are one of the key signs you are not dealing with a mere political party, but something far worse — a full-on authoritarian takeover. Beware.