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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

Is that why they want s/ironleft on the front page, to recruit new nazis with memes? I never see any nazis in s/gardening or s/cooking. Maybe they just want to talk about nazi things.

Seems Un-American. Richard Nixon would never have stood for it.

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    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

    Naw, they just wan'o be li'le shits. The whole Nazbol thing they have going on is just to offend people.

    Nixon was literally the guy who sold us to China. He may have been on the HUAC, but his anti-Communism was but a red mirage.

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

    China was a developing nation still. Nixon opened the doors to what we have now, but there were a lot of steps along that road. And many of them benefited America or at least were a pro/con of thing. China making the world's cheap plastic junk, dirtying up their country doing it, fantastic. That we can't manufacture the tech we use... Big con.

    Strategically we should have domestic production capacity on certain necessities that include microchips, phones, PPE, and certain chemicals.

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    we should have domestic production capacity on certain necessities that include microchips, phones, PPE, and certain chemicals.

    We should have total autarky, only important products we want, not need.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Yes!!!

    [–]Chipit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Nixon's idea was a good one. But that eneded in 1989 when the CPC opened fire on its people rather than fall with the rest of the communist countries. After that, we never should have traded with them again. But, Bill Clinton was going to lose the 1996 presidential election and he needed money bad. China gave it to him, and in return he took the lead in admitting them to the WTO.

    This really happened, there were articles in the NYT, convictions, everything. All of it forgotten today.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Good point. Don't forget "China is one of the five nuclear weapons states (NWS) recognized by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which China ratified in 1992." They had been a nuclear power for a while but they ramped things up in the 90s. I'm sure that affected foreign relations quite a bit.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    We became dependent on external manufacturing. Never become dependent.