Thanks to Donald, finally we know.

[Yagoda]

2 hours ago, JAG said:

As so often, you seize the wrong end of the stick and gallop off into the distance.

 

I make no criticism of Shirer, I have read much of his work, including "The Rise and Fall" I am pointing out the remarkable parallels between the events he documented so vividly ( whose authors boasted amounted to the creation of a new "World Order") and what is happening today. It was you who raised the spectre of creating and reshaping "World Orders".

No criticism of Shirer intended and your entirely and completely wrong about any parallels.  Start a topic and I'll go beat you up on it over there

[jimmybcool]

11 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

Manufacturing in the US depends on the product.  F-35 plants in Fort Worth TX are humming with lots of workers. New chip plants are in the plans for many US locations.  But clothing, shoes and consumer electronics are dead on arrival. I call this the "Wal Mart" effect.  Therefore, innovating or inventing products in the aforementioned categories are dead in the US.  Therefore, even 100% tariffs will not bring "home" manufacturing in these categories. 

 

Yes those industries are DOA.  But not innovation as the issue.  Production costs are too high in comparison to the sweat shops in Asia.  The cost to manufacture a Nike shoe in Massachusetts is massively higher than in Shanghai or Vietnam. 

 

Reality is some day this might not be true.  When robotics truly remove the unskilled labor force from the equation or when standard of living costs are on par. 

[jimmybcool]

6 hours ago, JAG said:

It's a bit of a conundrum really, isn't it? Who to believe "invented the internet"? I mean Berners-Lee who is widely thought, and well documented, internationally recognised as the man who started it, or some bloke who goes under a pseudonym on an expatriate forum in Thailand?

 

It isn't me to believe.  It is the massive quantity of evidence available on this very resource. 😃

[tomazbodner]

Interesting news for those who expected companies to get on their knees and bring manufacturing (back) to US..

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-schiff-says-nike-wont-180018691.html

 

 

 

Sorry folks, but global companies would rather keep 7.5 billion customers' market than drop all of that to please 400m... or rather 1 man.

[tomazbodner]

I am fully expecting MAGA crowd to now come and tell how nobody will miss Nike, that it's pile of 💩 they would never consider wearing, that Shiff is an i-diot who knows nothing, dig up some made up scandal, attack me as a lefty, in other words - do whatever they can to discredit the messenger and smear the brand which dares to resist their divine leader...

 

3, 2, 1,...

 

[FritsSikkink]

18 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The internet has given us social media, intellectual property theft, Musk and porn.

They should have restricted it to government agencies. We'd have been better for not having it.

It gave us the biggest up to date library. looks like you haven't been using it like that.

[steven100]

On 4/6/2025 at 12:42 AM, Keeps said:

but his recent exploits have cost many financially

you could say that about what Covid-19 did,   but nothing happened there,  not one Chinese was or ousted or punished.    just saying ....  

 

it'll be the same with Trump,    the markets will recover and it'll all blow over within a few weeks/ months. 

[beautifulthailand99]

That scared look you see on many of the faces of the newsreaders is the knot in their stomachs as they see their acquired wealth torched by the insane orange clown. The free MAGA ride troll is over and the crazy cost of voting this idiot into power is becoming starkly clear.