I’m not going to pretend to be an expert in the history of every industry, so forgive me if the following doesn’t live up to your standards but...

I wasn’t alive and of voting age when “we” decided to offshore our entire manufacturing economy, and I can’t go back and change it.

I agree with you. The problem is, this is the world we live in now, we can’t change bad historical policy (and apparently we’ve decided we’re not interested in changing future policy either)

I never implied that. What I’m very strongly implying (which I shouldn’t need to explain to you) is that Chinese EV’s aren’t MASSIVELY cheaper simply because they are better at manufacturing.  

Cool Amber. $2B a year versus the $40B or so per year that China spends annually today and the conservative $200B that China has spent over the last 15 years. And point taken about the fossil fuel industry, but that’s a government problem.

It’s wild to me that it feels like everyone in the US has realized that we may have went a little too far when it comes to buying cheap shit from China (even though were still obsessed with it, I see you Shein and Temu shoppers).

Have our modern capitalists not done their homework, or is a genuinely free and fair market not in their interests?

You mention Greenland, but he very recently discussed annexing Canada as well.

It doesn’t HAVE to be this way.  We have plenty of ways to build dense cities so they aren’t concrete jungles, we just choose not to do it.

I’d move in.

Or denser urban areas and a significant reduction in suburban sprawl.  But the muh freedumbs crowd gets worked up about that idea.

That was my first thought.

It’s almost like being in the military isn’t necessarily great for your mental health.

It’s funny. Back when I had my first experience with therapy 12 ish years ago, one of the exercises I did with the therapist was the assign all my behaviors I didn’t like (basically all of my asshole tendencies) to a fictional character that I could separate in my head. When she asked what the name of this character…

We’ve been supporting him with tax dollars for years.

Trump ran for president to avoid jail time, so it only makes sense he’d bring along other people looking to avoid punishments.

The problem is, the city is filled with these “preservationists”.  There is constant pushback against changing any of the old buildings in the city and it’s getting old.  This proposal was an attempt as pacifying the preservationists because it keeps the skyline relatively intact.  I hope the government says no so the…

The key piece of info that this article doesn’t make clear is that Bedrock is the primary “funder” of this proposal, not GM. Bedrock (and Dan Gilbert) are almost solely responsible for the renaissance of modern Detroit. The city isn’t going to slap them in the face with a hostile takeover of a huge piece of riverside…

I don’t really think GM wants any leverage. The only reason this proposal was made is because people whined about how the skyline would change if the building was torn down. The proposal keeps the skyline relatively intact, but costs an absolute fortune to execute.

GM did not build the building.