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by mantas 2y ago
There’s no local industry to protect if you ain’t self-sufficiency. And it’s damn hard to protect self-sufficiency long term without protectionism if possible at all.
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by mantas 2y ago
„It works when implemented correctly“ might not be the lesson you want others to learn. But looking at China, boy did it work for them. Once you start dealing with bad actors, you'd have to kick out pretty much anybody. Did western eur
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by mantas 2y ago
Many Chinese local companies took advantage of west technology they acquired in joint companies and Chinese government kicked off western companies. Preventing a good part of western big tech from entering the market was protectionism too.
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by mantas 2y ago
Protectionism and self-sufficiency is the same thing. And so agree it’s a good thing.
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by mantas 2y ago
There are some protectionist-like tendencies in europe and that’s fine. Both laws trying to push for as much local parts as possible and buying agencies preference for local providers by tweaking purchasing terms here and there.
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by mantas 2y ago
Yes. And it works when implemented correctly. See China.
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by mantas 2y ago
Aggression is like nuclear weapons. If nobody has it, all is good. But if somebody acquires it… playing field is tilted badly and everybody else needs it too. Fight or flight still has many uses. People still bump into legit critical situat
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by mantas 2y ago
Even Apple had the right idea in the beginning…
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by mantas 2y ago
Skin color is most visible proxy of a foreign color. Let’s not pretend that those people blend in local cultures very well. Nor do people with white skin, to be fair. Scandinavians are even more against central Europe migrants. While racism
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by mantas 2y ago
Yep. But it was a mess either way. On the other hand, if there was some sort of Central Europe superpower building, Poland would probably have abused that. As it did anyway eventually occupying lands of 3 of its neighbors before being taken
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by mantas 2y ago
What’s the problem with nationalism? Coming from Central Europe, here nationalism is anti-imperialist and about nations self governing themselves to promote native cultures. And as far as I know Scandinavian nationalism is pretty similar wi
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by mantas 2y ago
If there are even more historical details known… The more precise it is, the better.
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by mantas 2y ago
And the other problem is many people call anybody interested in native culture and its preservation a nazi. Which is bullshit especially since original nazis didn’t give a damn fuck about preservation of anything, but tried to build a new s
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by mantas 2y ago
Modern Sweden was only a part of origins of vikings. If it is known that those people are specifically Swedish vikings, then it makes sense to highlight that.
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by mantas 2y ago
Fun topic reading from afar. Here very few olympic athletes get sponsors. And even sponsored ones frequently still have to work for a living. But then still compete with sponsored athletes from US and sometimes even win. Sponsorship ain’t
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by mantas 2y ago
Basketball stopped enforcing it for 1992 olympics. Then NBA ban was lifted and US dream team became a thing. Basketball professionals ban was a bit weird too. NBA was banned, yet all the euro pro leagues were fine.
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by mantas 2y ago
Looks like some people ain’t aware how Soviets took German scientists as POVs and forced them to work for them. Americans did pretty much the same thing playing Nuremberg card.
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by mantas 2y ago
Wilson policies were more about dealing with Europe after dissolution of Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires.
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by mantas 2y ago
There’s another important bit. Wilson policies played a big role in creating fractured Central Europe in interwar. I’m personally torn on this. On one hand, this gave my country a chance for independence. On the other hand, this made a bunc
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by mantas 2y ago
Brain drain or taking hostages?
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by mantas 2y ago
Self-inflicted is a tad questionable. US played a big role in industrializing USSR. US also played a role in post-WWI peace deals which eventually lead to world war part II.
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by mantas 2y ago
Yes. Although my argument would be slightly different. Subsidizing public transit in many cases is cheaper than upgrading roads. There is also social element. Elders & kids, disabled, DUI crowd… Public transit helps a lot to engage them
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by mantas 2y ago
Pretty much any public transit is operated at a loss very few exceptions usually make money off real estate, namely stations in prime locations.
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by mantas 2y ago
Up here in Lithuania we used to make fun of your billboards 20 years ago. But now it's getting worse and worse here too. While you seem to have rebounded from the lowest point.
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by mantas 2y ago
No matter what ecological requirements would EU impose on local businesses, the rest of the world would happily pollute to cover its part. And eu itself would by that stuff. Point in case - fertilizers. EU regulations for fertilizer plants
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by mantas 2y ago
EU is on the same path. Actually even worse with over-the-top ecological requirements. Making it harded for local businesses, while making trade deals with iffy countries left and right. For now it's rolling on selling assets to China
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by mantas 2y ago
He probably tried to say that taking care of toddlers is a bigger positive impact on society than writing some crappy code that will be discarded a year later. Yes, some software is important to the world and makes it a much better place. V
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by mantas 2y ago
Just like computing device with washing machine peripherals.
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by mantas 2y ago
Then iPhone is a phone capable of computing.
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by mantas 2y ago
Don't worry, newer developments in eastern europe suck at tree coverage too.

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