Giant targeted. Not a good situation...

[Gionnirocket]

Lever or not... it's ten fold better than turning a blind eye in order to maintain relations.
If we end up with a better semiconductor situation in the US and some poor bastard in Taiwan gets a better life in the process, God Bless.

 

[PedalUma]

Part of it is the Don Quixote chasing windmills thing. He hates anything that is green and sees bike culture as a threat to 'marikan values.

 

[Gionnirocket]

No one would like to introduce his medulla to an ice pick more than me.... but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Or even worse to pretend that a beloved bicycle manufacturer isn't guilty when the evidence is far beyond circumstantial.

 

[Chargeride]

I think to myself what did they get up to in the old days when they controlled the entirity of the news, so then I consider that they still do.
Alphabet owns Google who own youtube and the results of internet searches.

X is actually the only 'free' speech platform.
I base that assumption on the fact that constantly deride it as a festering pot of lies that needs shutting down and that I see crazy sxxt posted from both extreme ends of politics.

It may appear that youtube is free speech, but theres no freakin way google are not controling, banning, supressing and promoting content.

Oh yes, they just admitted they do.

Google Admits Censorship Under Biden; Promises to End Bans of YouTube Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, thanks to the oversight of Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Google commits to offer all creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations on topics such as COVID-19 and elections an opportunity to return to the platform.

judiciary.house.gov

 

[mschwett]

No one would like to introduce his medulla to an ice pick more than me.... but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Or even worse to pretend that a beloved bicycle manufacturer isn't guilty when the evidence is far beyond circumstantial.

even a broken clock is wrong twice a day

(unless it’s a 24 hour clock, then once)

((unless its still moving just slightly slow in which case it might only be right every few weeks, which is more likely our current situation)

 

[DaveMatthews]

I think people need to take a good long look at the things they buy and use before throwing stones...

Inside China’s mega iPhone factory: long hours, discrimination and delayed pay

Undercover investigation at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant shows tough conditions for seasonal staff building new Apple device

www.ft.com

 

[Gionnirocket]

I think to myself what did they get up to in the old days when they controlled the entirity of the news, so then I consider that they still do.
Alphabet owns Google who own youtube and the results of internet searches.

X is actually the only 'free' speech platform.
I base that assumption on the fact that constantly deride it as a festering pot of lies that needs shutting down and that I see crazy sxxt posted from both extreme ends of politics.

It may appear that youtube is free speech, but theres no freakin way google are not controling, banning, supressing and promoting content.

Oh yes, they just admitted they do.

Google Admits Censorship Under Biden; Promises to End Bans of YouTube Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, thanks to the oversight of Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Google commits to offer all creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations on topics such as COVID-19 and elections an opportunity to return to the platform.

judiciary.house.gov

I suggest you read the entire statement.
And if you get your information from YouTube or equivalent... then perhaps you need to be manipulated

 

[mschwett]

I suggest you read the entire statement.
And if you get your information from YouTube or equivalent... then perhaps you need to be manipulated

why would he bother reading it? the current administration and their stooges already told him what to think.