• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      This whole “it’s cheating to subsidize industry!” Thing is hilarious when that’s literally just how it works everywhere.

      The US subsidizes the meat, grain, and dairy industries then kill the agriculture industries of other countries and make them dependant on the US for food.

      They also subsidized Tesla, a policy that was basically directly copied by China but now it’s bad.

      The only reason the US can’t compete is the addiction to spending every penny on the MIC and weapons. Which hilariously, isn’t even panning out because they don’t have government operatives on the company boards that can prevent them from just pocketing that money.

      • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        amerikkka uses a New Deal style government to win a war and pull itself out of a depression

        amerikkka subsidizes eu-cool

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        amerikkka OK, no more subsidizing anything!

        eu-cool Sure thing, boss!

        amerikkka continues to subsidize sectors of its economy

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        They also subsidized Tesla, a policy that was basically directly copied by China but now it’s bad.

        They did it more sensibly at least, the way they subsidised Tesla was by making other car manufacturers pay them a tithe so they could keep selling huge gas guzzlers based off the premise that Tesla would make electric cars in the future.