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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

So the Chinese tech will still be cheaper.

Gee, maybe sending almost all our manufacturing to another country was a stupid fucking idea

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Man I've never seen anyone shift quite so many goalposts in such a short time.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What goalpost did I move? You said they’d be built with slave labor which means they’ll still be cheaper, right? And in the meantime we decarbonize huge segments of the global economy.

Don’t be mad just cause western countries wanted to take advantage of slave labor as usual and are getting bitten in the ass because of their greed, or that West Taiwan is doing it better.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

What goalpost did I move?

This one:

Thank you Xi Jinping for saving the climate 🙏

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I never wrote that.

But if a side effect of utterly dominating the west in decarbonizing has the side effect of saving the climate I’m not gonna complain.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I never wrote that.

No, but you did jump into that conversation. If you were trying to have some other argument, you were arguing with a strawman.

But if a side effect of utterly dominating the west in decarbonizing has the side effect of saving the climate I’m not gonna complain.

There is no "saving the climate". There is only China dominating the industry and then pricing them out of the hands of common people, because they have no competition.

Another effect is destroying the global economy and further diminishing the wages of workers in the US and around the world. But hey, maybe you like being poor.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good. I hate the global economy.

And maybe if the western countries had a lick of sense it wouldn’t end up this way. But we got addicted to cheap plastic crap and let the Chinese leapfrog us.

Because if we’d left decarbonization to the west it would never have happened.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Good. I hate the global economy.

I have no response to this.

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