^ Australia's heavy reliance on China is starting to hit us hard now.
Our economy needs to start diversifying away from China.
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China was first in, they'll be first out and they'll crank their economic machine into supercharge mode.
We can't have a mass manufacturing sector again, it's just not economically viable. Bespoke or niche manufacturing, different matter.
Trump is doing as well or better than any of the people wanting to compete with him for POTUS, sometimes people just let go your biases and see shit as it's real.
We can't have a mass manufacturing sector again, it's just not economically viable. Bespoke or niche manufacturing, different matter.
Trump is doing as well or better than any of the people wanting to compete with him for POTUS, sometimes people just let go your biases and see shit as it's real.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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i could not agree more - build a wall around them and forget they exist! but save the animals first!!Jezza wrote:^ Australia's heavy reliance on China is starting to hit us hard now.
Our economy needs to start diversifying away from China.
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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yup! and i actually cant wait for him to win again, just for the meltdowns, they make Chernobyl look like a holiday camp event!stui magpie wrote:China was first in, they'll be first out and they'll crank their economic machine into supercharge mode.
We can't have a mass manufacturing sector again, it's just not economically viable. Bespoke or niche manufacturing, different matter.
Trump is doing as well or better than any of the people wanting to compete with him for POTUS, sometimes people just let go your biases and see shit as it's real.
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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You're not wrong on the Chernobyl comparison, although perhaps for different reasons. Here's an outline of just how badly the Trump administration has handled the coronavirus outbreak so far:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opin ... virus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opin ... virus.html
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
How do we know when they aren't the ones making decisions.stui magpie wrote:Trump is doing as well or better than any of the people wanting to compete with him for POTUS, sometimes people just let go your biases and see shit as it's real.
What we do know is that his handling of this crisis is pretty bad.
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Outbreak a Wake-up Call About Need to Decouple from China
https://www.newgeography.com/content/00 ... uple-china
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There's no decoupling from China any more than the UK can decouple from the EU. But if you want to make strides, decouple from skill-sapping, capital-sapping, government corrupting mining.
As if it took Nostradamus to see that pandemics are potential threats; they've always been our biggest threat. We've even had multiple rehearsals this century.
Global economies are struggling because that idiot in the White House started a trade war which weighed on the globe long before the pandemic. He pissed the leverage of the superpower's central bank and international cooperation up against the wall with his tax cuts for billionaires, demolition of trust and stability, and puerile zero-sumism. He gave handouts to Saudi Arabia, who shat on the world economy as a thank you, and like the pathetic Aussie government, is owned by fossil fuels.
The bloke is a moron; people who believe you can trash the economies of the markets you trade with and fist wave the world into submission are living in comic books; the corrupt who put national capital into fossil fuels and tax cuts rather than productive infrastructure, skills and STEM should be fired.
And no, pining for a 1960s manufacturing sector won't fix it, particularly when those parasites in the mining sector will be lining up for handouts long before anyone even spells 'manufacturing'. You can't keep repeating things you were told as a teenager decades later as if nothing's changed since. We have to solve the problems of this world, not piss capital down the drain on yesterday. There's plenty to get done in the economy of today; it's all around us, from nursing and plumbing to teaching, environmental management, and HR. Stacks of viable fields and opportunities, but we have to prepare a bit for them.
In the Anglosphere it's one excuse after another for rubbish, self-entitled national decisions such as Brexit which only serve to destabilise and shrink the pie. When you've got competition you have to find a win and grow the pie, not moan about the old days when you used to control everything, and then vote recklessly out of spite.
And this applies whether markets drop further or rebound tomorrow.
As the saying goes: a rising Trump sinks all boats.
As if it took Nostradamus to see that pandemics are potential threats; they've always been our biggest threat. We've even had multiple rehearsals this century.
Global economies are struggling because that idiot in the White House started a trade war which weighed on the globe long before the pandemic. He pissed the leverage of the superpower's central bank and international cooperation up against the wall with his tax cuts for billionaires, demolition of trust and stability, and puerile zero-sumism. He gave handouts to Saudi Arabia, who shat on the world economy as a thank you, and like the pathetic Aussie government, is owned by fossil fuels.
The bloke is a moron; people who believe you can trash the economies of the markets you trade with and fist wave the world into submission are living in comic books; the corrupt who put national capital into fossil fuels and tax cuts rather than productive infrastructure, skills and STEM should be fired.
And no, pining for a 1960s manufacturing sector won't fix it, particularly when those parasites in the mining sector will be lining up for handouts long before anyone even spells 'manufacturing'. You can't keep repeating things you were told as a teenager decades later as if nothing's changed since. We have to solve the problems of this world, not piss capital down the drain on yesterday. There's plenty to get done in the economy of today; it's all around us, from nursing and plumbing to teaching, environmental management, and HR. Stacks of viable fields and opportunities, but we have to prepare a bit for them.
In the Anglosphere it's one excuse after another for rubbish, self-entitled national decisions such as Brexit which only serve to destabilise and shrink the pie. When you've got competition you have to find a win and grow the pie, not moan about the old days when you used to control everything, and then vote recklessly out of spite.
And this applies whether markets drop further or rebound tomorrow.
As the saying goes: a rising Trump sinks all boats.
In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/17/poli ... index.htmlThis version of Donald Trump will save lives.
The President offered Americans something they have rarely seen from him in his latest and most somber press conference yet on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday.
He dispensed unimpeachable information based on fact. He called for national unity and seemed like he meant to help forge it. And he ditched his normal habit of hyping the best possible outcome to a situation with improbable superlatives -- instead communicating the gravity of a fast-worsening crisis.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Yes this time he didn't:stui magpie wrote:https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/17/poli ... index.htmlThis version of Donald Trump will save lives.
The President offered Americans something they have rarely seen from him in his latest and most somber press conference yet on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday.
He dispensed unimpeachable information based on fact. He called for national unity and seemed like he meant to help forge it. And he ditched his normal habit of hyping the best possible outcome to a situation with improbable superlatives -- instead communicating the gravity of a fast-worsening crisis.
Make light of it;
Blame the democrats for it;
Blame to press for it;and,
Say it's all under control when in the same press conference (in the last few days) he is contradicted entirely by health experts
Shux Stui, what a guy.
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