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So the US wants to become dead last in technology by allowing monopolies that have no reason to innovate and blocking any cooperation with nations who spend money on innovation and tech.
Good luck in the future, it's like Obama said about shortsightedness.
The entire world is going to have Fusion power and the US will still be burning coal.
That’s pretty much it. Trump—really, the folks who control him—is going to wall us off from the rest of the world, while the rest of the world continues moving forward. In power. In technology. In medicine.
Trump is Enver Hoxha with bronzer and a bad haircut.
The US is well behind in medicine already. Because of the for-profit health system hospitals aren't encouraged to try procedures that aren't covered by insurance companies, and insurance companies aren't incentivized to add new procedures to their coverage because they can't be bothered to review them.
It's the same issue with off-label prescription drugs, It's the drug isn't explicitly designed to treat a condition, it won't be prescribed even if it could help e.g. using antibiotics to treat cancer has proven to be surprisingly effective, but no hospital in the US will do it.
But the US has no need for fusion, all it needs is cheap coal through deregulation and prayers to god to put back the burnt coal! /s
48.8% of us understand the damage that is being done and oppose it but are powerless to stop it because 49.8% of us are too dumb to know what is real and what is fake on the internet…
Plus our elected Democrats in Congress are cooperating with this bullshit for some reason.
Also, Korean EVs meet US safety standards and have a Tesla-killing build quality and price.
This actually makes sense.
Donald Trump is on the same side as Vladimir Putin, who is friends with Kim Jong Un.
Therefore, the enemies of North Korea are enemies of Donald Trump.
Is it because their coup failed to take while the US is meekly capitulating to the stupids?
Democracy in South Korea > Democracy in USA.
The number of countries that don't fit on the left is decreasing every day.
Idk, have you heard of chaebols? They basically run Korea.
Unlike the US, which isn't run by gigantic monopolies at all
The situation in the US isn't great, but at least antitrust law enforcement usually fixes the worst of it... eventually.
at least antitrust law enforcement usually fixes the worst of it... eventually.
I'll agree when they finally break up Google. They've been saying this for years and as far as I'm aware they have made zero progress towards doing so.
Yup. They've actually laid out what they're threatening, but we'll see if the hammer actually falls this decade...
There have been no major successful antitrust actions in the US since the 1980s breakup of Bell. Biden's admin started a few, only for Elon to fire most of the people in the FTC, causing e.g. the case against Amazon to stall out
And S. Korea has mostly been threats, or attacks on foreign companies. There haven't been any meaningful anti-trust actions in S. Korea either.
At least the US is sort of fumbling along w/ anti-trust against Google. We'll see how that plays out though.
At least the US is sort of fumbling along w/ anti-trust against Google.
There's no way Trump will allow that to continue. The EU's cases against Google, on the other hand, just keep coming.
Why? Wasn't their CEO kind of late to the "bribe the president" party? Or maybe that was another tech giant, I get them confused.
Just as zaibatsu run Japan.
Yeah, Japan is pretty messed up too.
Trump felt nervous that South Korea showed a way to force down a terrible president.
That and if you remember he's been on calls with Putin for the last few weeks. Putin hired North Koreans to help invade Ukraine. NK and Russia were worried South Korea might assist in defending Ukraine. So naturally. Trump has to start scrutinizing Korea more
I remember reading that the NK troops were so poorly trained and so malnourished that most immediately died at the front lines, and the remaining few were moved away from the front to logistics support roles (unloading boxes of cabbages from trucks) because they were worthless.
There goes another ally we could possibly lose because of this idiot.
It's obviously purposely done for that reason.
I assume this is because the current administration can’t tell the Koreas apart on the map.
No, this administration just prefers the northern one.
Yep. Donnie wants to curry favour with his old buddy Kim Jong Un.
Which is really weird because I can't imagine he has anything to offer Trump.
NK is a world-class center for money-laundering and crypto fraud.
He needs there to be at least one world leader whose clothing and hairstyle are as clownish as his own.
I can see Trump going full fanboy on North Korea next. And punishing South Korea for no reason but to please Putin
And punishing South Korea for no reason but to please Putin
It'll also please Musk. Hyundai and Kia EVs make Teslas look like the shoddy trash they are.
Looks like Trump is sparking off a huge wave of nuclear proliferation. South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Ukraine, and Poland all looking like they might proliferate. DoE can't reverse the damage Trump already did.
Not that it's really needed, but if you ever needed even more evidence that Putin is in charge of the US, this is it.
Analysts read the decision as the US government sending a stern warning to counter the calls for independent nuclear armament that have recently been surfacing in South Korea.
Here's the real reason.
This makes no sense. Aren't there like a billion us millitary bases there.
What
This is just so, so dumb.
Does anyone know what other nations fall into this "sensitive" classification?
Edit: I did some googling myself and here's the list below. (The short version is: Russia and their allies, China and their allies, and broadly the middle east. Weirdly, also Taiwan)
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbajan
Belarus
China (PRC)
Cuba
Georgia
Hong Kong
India
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Kazakhstan
Korea (North)
Kyrgyzstan
Libya
Macau
Moldova
Pakistan
Russia
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
I realize that's a long list, I don't know, should I put that in a or code block or spoiler tag?
Israel is an even stranger member of the post than Taiwan IMO.