Things like requesting for emotional value in a serious conversation is such an unsophisticated tactic in arguments, just hard to believe it’s planned by a long time blogger and book writer who should be good at words.

I think this gives this office too much credits.

The whole thing seems more spontaneous dysfunction than planned, Vance overplaying his troll role, and Rubio did not show up for job.

This is obviously aligned with their long term vision regardless, but I don’t think they were planning to hit the gas at that day.

Make a dent on us corp earning report, stock market is actually one of few sources Trump might listen.

The desire for keeping “good old times” of pax-America are exactly what Trump is leveraging to extract more juice out of Europe and others.

Time to get out of this abusive relationship, and face the challenges in real life.

not so much for America

Not necessarily, a more equal world and no-longer-exceptional America would give more common people an opportunity to better see the weakness in the political and redistribution system, and creating opportunities for fundamental change. That can be a painful process but for the long term good.

Thanks for sharing this experience.

One mistake of East Germany (and Russia and China) was that their basic education is not that bad so people are able to figure out things don’t add up. America might be immune to this issue as it’s advancing to authoritarian.

Plus there are ultra rich class to assist and fine tune the brainwash technology to micro targeting each individual ( the “self selected“ influencers are not selected by yourself after all)

One pattern I found on these Trump people is, he talks crazy shit when he can’t deliver meaningful work results.

Not a reason to celebrate, but still funny to see.

The waning influence of America is a positive development in the long run. Hopefully, they can find a solution to address the short-term challenges.

I can vaguely remember what eggs used to cost

If trump keep “creating history” for another 50 days like he has been doing for the first 50 days so far, I surely wont remember what an egg look like.

Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.

Plus 5% of how this would be worse under Harris or Biden.

I didn’t praise China. Sorry you felt that way.

If it’s up to me, I rather Gaza and Trump (and trumpified musk) never happened so there are less reasons non-US people prefer Chinese products.

Elon doesn’t care, as he assumes there are 10 visa workers waiting to take Tesla job with half of salary, which is true as of today, but will soon change.

I recently had trips to a few cities in Europe and Africa, hearing random people talking about how they like Chinese cars and even AI apps, not to mention TikTok. If China refrain from wars which they have been, the next decade is theirs.

They can sign a 50 year deal and stop payment 10 years from now, hopefully thing change for better then.

US export control should go further and forbid sales of GPU to China entirely.

Then we will all get much cheaper and better GPUs.

Agree. I think just like a lot of open ended things happened before, it can be one off, or can be a beginning for a new era. There’s no reason to conclude, but all reason to worry (if you don’t like monarch)

Across the globe, except in China. He’s only brave enough to speak up in counties with free speech apparently.

Unfortunately deal like this, not necessarily in this exact terms, is probably inevitable, and everyone except normal Ukraine people will have some incentive to keep the war going…

I appreciate your honesty. The fact you got many upvotes confirmed my previous guess that this type of insecurity, the fear of not being loved is quite popular among Americans. Been to many global south countries and Europe, I think that sentiment was very far from facts, so many people around the world just love the American culture, at least in Obama years, and even first year of Trump I.

Now with Trump, who himself apparently has this insecurity personally and remaking America in his own image, this insecurity is being established nationally and internalized and getting reinforced.

Xi and Putin will probably just say “You first”. If trump can just pretend that is reasonable and unilaterally does the cut, that will be one good thing for humanity (albeit make some Americans uncomfortable).

No, Tesla is a capitalist organization, raw and pure.