LOL at this guy not wanting to deal with facts.
At least you chose the right name.

Soooo, buy expensive Danish plastic?

Well you have Deepseek to prove it.
And while the US is turning their attention to them, harrassing and taunting them they can not start a war with them. They will lose as it is.
And China will only get stronger and widen the gap in tech and military advances. They have also increased their military expenses to 5% which is massive.
Same for Russia.
The US are a dying empire, losing parts of the global cake to both of them.
They play dangerous games and would welcome Europe and Russia or Taiwan get into an armed conflict that only benefits them.
I hope our vasal leaders realise that before it’s too late.
The US doesn’t have friends, only interests.

1 you didn’t provide any sources. 2 your book suggestion leads me to repeat my comment: ‘geopolitically motivated’.

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is a 2022 nonfiction book by Chris Miller, an economic historian and nonresident senior fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

(With mass murderer Dick Cheney on the board of directors)

I have a slight feeling he may not be totally objective.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/china-leading-us-in-technology-race-in-all-but-a-few-fields-thinktank-finds What do you think the logical outcome is? China has made phenomenal progress and all the bans and geopolitically motivated sabotage have only accelerated it.
They have plenty results in this field not ‘claims’. I don’t see how you can be dismissive of this.

After looking around it seems the .ml or .world is not really tolerant towards Lemmygrad of which they defederated.
The same attitude with Hexbear.

Example [email protected]:

Here are the things that get you banned: -saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account

Thanks again for the info.

Yes, not supporting NATO will get you viciously attacked.
Russian propaganda, Vlad, go suck Pootins dick, etc… All that is allowed but you can’t return the favor so you get banned.
Same for Mastodon, and I don’t want to come back to either of those.
I can find the same garbage and narrative like that on Reddit, not what I’m looking for.

**hexbear ** it was a post about “the boomers” and how they are everything what’s wrong with the world and evil Trumpers. I expected better from someone on Hexbear.
I tried to explain they are not a monolith, their generation have achieved a lot in the 60’s and did their share, sometimes at great cost.
Also it’s a divide and conquer tactic.
If blaming a certain age group is not ageism (a standard no no in most instances rules) someone should explain it to me. Anyway, OP tried to get out of it by saying “boomer is more of a mindset” which is nonsense.
But mostly he got very defensive with the same result as in the non-left instances.

Lemmygrad I had a disagreement about how I personally don’t see religion and communism as compatible. Not appreciated by my Muslim adversary.
And there we I went again.

These 2 subs I really like and visit and would go back to if it could be fixed. I don’t even know how, like I didn’t know about the 2 week lemm.ee ban. Suddenly you are logged out, can’t log in and that was it. Didn’t see an option to protest a ban anywhere.

What Mastodon instance did you get banned from, just out of curiosity? Couldn’t tell you, it was the very first Fediverse thing I tried and knew even less than now where I was.

Yes I need to tone it down IF I per sé want to stay.
I admit I get full on aggressive when attacked and I dislike having to do this (or the results) but having to self censor out of fear doesn’t sit right. There is enough censorship as it is. Opinions on politics can easily clash and I admit I can be very hard, confrontational and not diplomatic. It is fair for others to also not hold back, I don’t mind. Grown ups should be able to hold heated civil discussions. But they should do it without vulgar insults or baseless slander.
I think that is a reasonable request.
Thanks.

I’ve been in the Fediverse for a few weeks max and don’t even know what’s what.
Already got banned from Mastodon and Lemm.ee. Good riddance, might as well be on Reddit with the awful right wing attitude.
Unfortunately also Lemmygrad and Hexbear which I love.