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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.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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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.
So they are accusing China that they successfully did typical capitalist competition approaches, just like Western countries were doing for centuries?
Yeah, but in a perfidious Asian way.
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.
uses a New Deal style government to win a war and pull itself out of a depression
subsidizes 
[...]
OK, no more subsidizing anything!
Sure thing, boss!
continues to subsidize sectors of its economy
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.
Capitalist indulgences...
:posting:
The way these people talk out their ass is something I will never miss about reddit. Just pure drivel with so much confidence
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|making shit up Reddit repeating the same joke}
The world we live in would be so much more beautiful if all advertising disappeared.
I'm still convinced that the reason people think photos of DPRK look uncanny is the lack of advertising or branding.
There are other cities besides the ones in the DPRK that have banned advertising, and they all look so pleasant. Here's Sao Paulo, Brazil:
Ads should be limited to modestly-sized signs attached to your storefront so people know what your shop is when they walk past, nothing more than that.
I really gotta go visit this place and experience the ad ban
Looking at this, it feels like my mind can rest. Like it's been clenching without my realizing for as long as I can remember
Just people living in the moment
There's also the general lack of non-advertising signage that you don't really see anywhere else
My parents went on holiday in democratic Germany sometimes in the late 1970's/early 1980's and although my dad is a classical anti-communist cold war boomer who makes smug comments about almost everything he experienced on the trip, he noted how pleasant it was to be in a city without advertising everywhere. He says it reminded him of his childhood.
Shit I've never thought about it that way but you might be on to something there
When you've been living in diffuse spectacle for long enough, anything else feels weird. It's insidious because people can't necessarily immediately notice what it is that's missing, but they feel like there's something missing and in the case of the DPRK that means they believe everything is fake since the public spaces aren't plastered with ads.
vandalism is pure and just, do vandalism. its so freeing. coat billboards with paintballs. smash lcd ads with ball bearings shot from an air rifle or sufficiently strong paintball gun
this is my therapy for not having communism and it works great
I use spam callers as practice for being mean. Shit like "Stop talking. It's my turn to talk." or a hostile "why won't you answer my question?" and the famous "shut the fuck up. I don't care what you have to say."
I don't actually recommend it, but that's neither here nor there. The point is the only way to win against a salesperson is to disengage.
This shit has got to be botted, right? Literally almost all the comments in that thread are verbatim repeating the same ridiculous ass "capitalism created everything good in this world" point but worded slightly different each time. No way these are all actual people, right?
It's one of the main subs, so its probably equal parts bots and 
USAian, suburbanite freaks
tbh theses days a subreddit like r/pics wouldn’t be surprising to be 80% bots
I don't watch wrestling much anymore, modern that is, I still peek in occasionally, but I know exactly what the OP of that post means.
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I really don't understand how pasting ads all over everything is appealing in anyway. Massive corporations like TKO don't need to "offset costs" lmfao. Especially not with Saudi blood money or after owning WWE and UFC.
Plastering ads on every conceivable surface is why I stopped watching the NHL, literally every opportunity they have there's a shitty ad shoved in your face. I switched to watching KHL and while they largely do the same my Russian is really bad so it's not as distracting
reminds me of wondering about the meaning of the nice hiragana on the back of the jackets of the guys sweeping the sumo ring, and it turning out to be a brand of instant noodles
I'm going to get "Фонбет" tattooed on my bicep and tell people it means "good fortune" lmao
“Umm….just make your OWN [whatever!]” 
If housing can be banned because rich homeowners think it would be an eyesore, then I have free reign to want ads on hot air balloons banned because THAT’S an eyesore.
Honestly I don't get it, these ads look ugly as fuck and if anything lower the brand value. If you're gonna put your ad on a huge flying thing, make it look nice at least!
Especially since the height most hot air balloons fly at, they wouldn't even be visible from the ground anyway, only during landing and takeoff. So they are spending (however much a hot air balloon costs) in order to advertise to the...80 or so hot air balloon enthusiasts hanging around?
Or just don't put an ad on the balloon and instead put like a little plaque in your store bragging about how you sponsored it
The only way anything can exist is if someone uses funds from exploited workers to make it exist!
I don't know what has more hot air
Those balloons or those commenters
Commenters because their smaller size is offset by the fact that balloons land sometimes.
Farmers Insurance Group
Revenue US$ 11.65 billion (2019)
Phew! How would they operate if they didn't offset the costs
"Capitalism is when hot air balloons" is tagline material imo
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Phileas Fogg: So I say to this most esteemed club; I take your wager and shall prove myself to be the victor. Set your timepieces gentlemen and watch, as I circumnavigate the globe in just 80 Days! Starting promptly by hot air balloon from this most esteemed city of London!
[Passepartout coughs politely and leans in to whisper something tactfully to his enthusiastic employer. Phileas' brow begins to wrinkle]
Phileas Fogg: [quietly, to Passepartout] Well surely some enterprising business concern would leap at such an opportunity to pioneer in the promotional arts.
[Passepartout murmers tactfully again]
Phileas Fogg: Yes, I suppose finding the right sponsor is rather important. One would hate to accomplish such a feat under the banner of a foot powder or some such.
[Passpartout nods sagely, uttering more apparent detail in an uncatchable French accent]
Phileas Fogg: [enthusiasm somewhat subdued] Yes, I suppose a proper bidding process would be required to ensure everything is above board. I'd hate for a legal technicality to invalidate our triumpharance. Yes, indeed.
Phileas Fogg: [to the Reform Club, trying to maintain his previous spirit] For the sake of promotion, let's call the wager around the world in 120 days!
[Passepartout leans in again, looking slightly sheepish beneath his bowler hat]
Phileas Fogg: [with dampened agreement] True, I suppose they will want to build excitement and awareness for their promotion amongst the populace. Advertorials and whatnot to get the word out. A campaign of sorts.
[There are more, somewhat apologetic, French murmurings]
Phileas Fogg: [nodding but deflated, thoughtful] That's true. I suppose without a planned route our sponsors can hardly be expected to localise the language of their promotion to every possible people and nation we might pass through. And what good is a promotion that people cannot read?
[Passepartout whispers at length, making gestures with his gloved hands as though explaining a multi step process of some kind]
Phileas Fogg: [leadened by detail, but trying to remain agreeable] And how long does such a process usually take before the designs are approved, localisation complete, and the whole lot can be sent to whatever talented fellows make such custom balloonary?
[Phileas listens to Passepartout's surprisingly long answer, crossing his arms as his smile fades and wrinkles appear around his eyes as he considers the realities of such an operation]
Phileas Fogg: [to the Reform Club, feigning even a lesser level of enthusiasm] I have still taken your wager, but for the sake of sensible business practice, let us be realistic and travel around the world in 200 days!
[Passepartout coughs again, politely, almost ashamedly as he pulls his boss back from the most recent pronouncement once more. Phileas looks slightly perturbed now, but still listens to the Frenchman's latest murmurs of consequence intently, nodding occasionally despite a despondent look]
Phileas Fogg: [to Passepartout, mulling whether he is still invested in this idea as he fiddles with his moustache] Yes, yes, I suppose our sponsors would wish us to finish this most astonishing of feats during or just before their busiest sales quarter. They, like anybody, want to feel they've gotten their money's worth I suppose. Hmmm, that would mean doing a considerable portion of the trip across Siberia in October, but I suppose you can pack us some extra winter attire, my good man.
Phileas Fogg: [to the Reform Club, his demeanor more formal, enthusiasm replaced with burdened pragmatism] I'm sure the achievement will carry just as much weight in the press and in people's hearts if we announce that I will circumnavigate the globe in time to return to the finish line here, in foggy London, sometime in the Holiday Season of 1873.
[There are murmers of begrudging agreement from the gentlemen of the Reform Club, but the moment feels like it has passed and the enjoyment brought forth by the idea has long since passed into the ether along with so much tobacco smoke]
Phileas Fogg: [resigned, the prospective task now weighing heavily on him] Now gentleman, if you'll excuse me, I better get started. Passepartout, be sure to pick up my new lettercrest seal from the shop. It seems we have much correspondence to author before the year is out.