Social Remember this the next time you watch an American corporation bend the knee to China.

[Bald1]

I hate knock-off tools, no matter how much cheaper they are. The time spent acquiring them isn't free, nor is the time lost when a tool fails.

At the start of the pandemic my company dramatically ramped up production of units that required a lot of riveting. We had been using compression tools and hand riveters. I strongly recommended cordless pop rivet drivers, which were a bit pricey. The guy in charge chose to buy pop rivet extensions for our impact drills, and instead of buying the American ones rated 4/5 on Amazon he bought the Chinese ones rated 1/5 because they were 25% cheaper.

One by one they failed, and we had to buy new ones almost immediately. Again he bought the cheap ones, and now that we're past the rush we having no functional ones left. They failed in exactly the ways the comments said they would, and I have no reason to believe the comments in the 4/5 American ones that said they last forever were any less accurate.

Quality tools are a must if you depend on them to make your living. I have Ridgid hand tools that are over 20 years old and still work flawlessly. Sure, I could have bought $10 tubing cutters, but if they fail me on the job site it ends up costing me money. Lifetime warranties are irrelevant if efficiency is the name of the game.

That 25% saving ends up biting you in the ass long term. Sure, go the cheapest route possible on something inconsequential, but not when it comes to your money maker. Your "guy in charge" sounds very short sighted.

 

[ineverpost]

The left is a big critic of how China treats minorities. You can go all the way to the 1990s and see how the left was critical of China's treatment of Tibetans.

The left doesn't even acknowledge there is a country called China anymore. They seem to think FB and Twitter are responsible for all the problems in the world.

 

[SakurabasEar]

He's both a social conservative and an economic libertarian. The worst of both worlds.

According to him hes socially libertarian, idk anymore

 

[ElKarlo]

I know a lot of Canadians didn't fancy Harper due to his favoring of Alberta, but the guy has a Masters degree in economics and led us to the 2nd best recovery of the g7 countries during the recession. How these retards can claim Trudeau is more qualified to run an economy simply blows me away.

I haven’t seen a single JT economic policy that made sense. Guy is just lucky

 

[Rand M Arthur]

The British never "conquered" Palestine from the Ottomans. They inherited it after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after WW1.

They literally put troops there, and Egypt, and Arabia, because the Ottomans were unable to stop them. That is conquering. Infact, the reason the Saudis are aligned to the west is because Britain gave them control of Mecca and Medina, after the Ottomans withdrew. Britain and France had no interest in policing the Sunni/Shia sectarian lines there.

 

[Loiosh]

Quality tools are a must if you depend on them to make your living. I have Ridgid hand tools that are over 20 years old and still work flawlessly. Sure, I could have bought $10 tubing cutters, but if they fail me on the job site it ends up costing me money. Lifetime warranties are irrelevant if efficiency is the name of the game.

That 25% saving ends up biting you in the ass long term. Sure, go the cheapest route possible on something inconsequential, but not when it comes to your money maker. Your "guy in charge" sounds very short sighted.

I have a set of rigid drills. Fuller screwdrivers and nut drivers. I've had them since I started with this company seven years ago, and I'm in production, so one month in my hands is probably a lifetime of home use.

When I started, I stumbled across a sale on Mastercraft bits at Canadian Tire. I mentioned it to my boss who laughed and told me I'd burn through a bit a day, and it wasn't worth the screws I'd strip.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

The left is anti imperialism, anti colonial, anti cultural chauvinism. The CCP is all these things. The left typically supports the little guy and historically suppressed groups. In China the Han dominate the country and small groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans are under their jackboot.

I really don't know how these narrative started that the left supports China or doesn't care about the Uyghurs. Maybe people got the perception after Trump was tough on China , so people assumed the left must be for China since the left is opposed to Trump.

It's because conservatives think that dictatorship, communism, and socialism are all synonyms of one another.

So, since the left want an expansion of social programs that deal with health, infrastructure, and education, obviously, we are bloodthirsty imperialists that want to kill off all Europeans and take over the world or something.

 

[Oceanmachine]

I remember when Ben Shapiro had PM Stephen 'GOAT' Harper on, and he basically said, "We've made a fatal mistake with China. They are playing the long game and are going to beat us. At this point we have to figure out how to mitigate the loses". Shapiro basically just dismissed him and spouted some Randian pseudo-economic tripe about the 'freer the markets...' without any substance. It showed just how deluded both the left and right is when chasing quarterly profits over absolutely anything else.

Shapiro couldn't even bring himself to admit that the CCP might know what they are doing by building overcapicity in housing, with the famous ghost cities. Meanwhile, an entire generation of working class westerners are locked out of ever owning a home.

The hubris has still not sunk in. We were playing chess whilst they were playing go.

Wow much respect to Harper. Short of a hot war which destroys both but US losses less on its side, I dont see how China is stopped, US is trending towards balkanization by all metrics and will and China towards domination of eastern asia. Corona has hurt them though, the best now it seems is to try ajd contain and build up multipolarity institutions so that collectively they can all counter China (EU, South America block), Russian block even etc

 

[MRT]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-camps-prisons-xinjiang-muslims-size

Wow crazy stuff


Yeah.. I know the left barely if @ all care about these issues.

Discuss

The left-wingers here care about as much as the right-wingers do (i.e. superficially) and have taken similar steps as they have to do something about it (i.e. essentially nothing).

Enjoy your Chinese-produced goods as you feign outrage at their shitty domestic policies and behaviour...just like everyone else.

 

[AWilder]

The left doesn't even acknowledge there is a country called China anymore. They seem to think FB and Twitter are responsible for all the problems in the world.

Is this the same left that weaponizes FB and Twitter against the right wing?