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person says capitalism ruined hot air balloons. all the comments are boot lickers crying about how capitalism is their lord and savior and how they would slit their own throat if a millionaire asked (hexbear.net)

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capitalism makes balloons possible LMFAO

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/8aYu0uWlcg link

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[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

China's dastardly choice to make cheap high-quality solar was designed to drive US companies out of business, and is why our economy sucks now, actually. Unbelievable.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

allowing China to destroy Western manufacturing

YOUR CAPITALISTS DID THAT, CHINA WAS LIKE, "WHY THE FUCK WOULDN'T WE TAKE YOUR MONEY?"

I hate liberals.

Also, reddit is far from "China good", it's filled with fascists like you.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

So they are accusing China that they successfully did typical capitalist competition approaches, just like Western countries were doing for centuries?

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but in a perfidious Asian way.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 25 points 5 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@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

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

amerikkka subsidizes eu-cool

[...]

amerikkka OK, no more subsidizing anything!

eu-cool Sure thing, boss!

amerikkka continues to subsidize sectors of its economy

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

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.