Author doesn’t say ignore copyrights. He says ignore the “broad IP” clause in USMCA. Right to repair, right to have your own app store, right to enhance products you own.

Overall good points, but:

The most potent political lesson of the past four years is that politicians who preside over rising prices – regardless of their role in causing them – will swiftly feel the wrath of their voters. The public is furious about inflation, whether it comes from transient covid supply chain shocks, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or cartels using “inflation” as cover for illegal, collusive price-gouging.

GOP complaining about inflation and deficits is them finding something to complain about a strong economy. PP/canada conservatives complaining about carbon tax is supporting Ukrainian nazis while global diesel/home heating fuel refining was at maximum capacity. The Ukrainian support was common to all parties. They had to make up complaints.

Some other things Canada can do is export taxes on resources and energy. The US can’t replace Canada where it is needed in short term.

The big policy change is opening up FDI to China. Can put restrictions on natural resources to also invest in manufacturing using those resources, but treating the US as the only permissible option for investment is bad for Canadian companies and jobs. While Canadians are firmly programed in US foreign policy propaganda, if Trump/US adopts a “coercion until you accept being a territorial posession”, Canada needs to take a friendlier stance towards Russia, North Korea, China, and deprogram itself from US empire bs. It should continue advertising secession and provincehood to US states.

U.S. sponsored and sponsors many movements around the globe as long as their goals align. That money alone can’t invalidate the cause.

USSC declares money is speech. You not only agree, but go further that money is truth. Naziism and Islamist fascism is truth. Democracy, and political power, is much cheaper in smaller countries made less stable with US extortion and war. Navalny caught on video soliciting MI6 for funding to destabilize Russia. Hong Kong media mogul fomenting protests because of Americas values.

The US empire’s values are extortion, control, puppetry, and war whitewashed/described with a facade of liberal freedom. Every country is to be a pawn for the empire to the detriment of their population. The political establishment’s disdain for Americans provides no valid expectation for the empire to promote humanism elsewhere. Just propaganda.

Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

Then when you get the power you tell the plebs to make more money. “This is America. If you don’t make more money (for me), you’re a douchebag”.

https://medium.com/@RichieBrownShow/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560

The most intriguing of these is Ukraine with 2nd highest “communist notalgia” fondness. The survey was done in 2013. You may be aware of a drama thread against you posted yesterday where US nazi empire sympathizing simps circle jerk around denying basic history and current events in Ukraine. Possibly as a result of this survey, CIA/State department invested so much in NGOs to “westernize” youth with agenda of delivering them to the small diehard nazi cohort as rulership class after 2014 black flag operations and coup.

I wonder how much of the nostalgia is that the 60s and 70s provided an easier job environment without pressure for new skills. USA would probably also have a preferred nostalgia for that period, despite draft and Israel related submission pushback. Throughout first and second world, a steep rise in inequality and oligarchy resulted from 1980s afterwards, though Yeltsin corruption was especially bad.

In terms of annecdotes, I do know Yougoslavian friends whose parents could afford cars and summer cottages. But then affording a car in western europe was also easy, and homes in the west, fairly easy. I would say the very strong corruption in elections and media mind control serving oligarchy and empire was the defining moment in manufacturing modern misery.

For the actual policy details not paywalled:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-and-sia-fire-back-at-u-s-govs-new-export-restrictions-on-ai-gpus-to-china

Nvidia:

“It makes no sense for the Biden White House to control everyday data center computers and technology already in gaming PCs worldwide, disguised as an anti-China move,” Finkle wrote. “The extreme ‘country cap’ policy will affect mainstream computers in countries around the world, doing nothing to promote national security but pushing the world to alternative technologies.”

the 50000 GPUs over 3 years per tier 2 country would seem to include consumer gamers from that country, perhaps buying older generation rtx30? gpus. 0 GPUs to China/others. Seems to make tier 2 worse than current China policies, while also “forcing Nvidia” to also only sell $2000 Blackwells in tier 2 countries.

Maybe a backdoor that is opened is to build all datacenters in Tier 1 countries, and then use the 25% allowance to expand to tier 2.

China’s “delete America” program is justified over this, and its not that far behind in single GPU performance, and ahead of rtx30. Just drivers and interconnection that need to catch up. Which doesn’t seem like an impossible task, especially in controlled hardware environments. National resources increasing/doubling for that goal is a likely response.

The whole national security justification and warmongering bent is troublesome. AI must serve war and US supremacy, and must be used against American people to ensure the supremacy.

US military will pay Open AI for this. More than $200/month. Of course this gets shut down.

all the time, but the result just calls a pizza delivery chain.