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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can figure out how to make our own laptops and chips.  Probably better anyway.

No hot war for foreign countries.  Not one American life.

Now that said - if you get a Hitler esque, trying to take over a whole continent, trying to exterminate millions - yes we did the right thing, even at the cost of American lives.  But not willing for my kids to die for Taiwan or the Ukraine.[/quote]

$23M people live in Taiwan. Why should the rest of the world stand by and watch them get slaughtered and lose their freedom. We have seen over history how well appeasement works. What is happening in Hong Kong is bad enough. The world shouldn’t just sit and watch while the Russians and Chinese slaughter innocent countries. [/quote]

Are you willing to send YOUR child to war?  Are you willing to go yourself?[/quote]

Leftists afterwards: Why can’t I get a new iPhone? Where are the supplies for my remodel? Where is my ADD drug?[/quote]

Oh so now iPhones, housing and medicating mental health are exclusively liberal? You have a really weird world view.[/quote]

The lack of knowledge about how much we’ve sold out to China and how hard it would now be to even get the parts/supplies to manufacture our own stuff without China is a liberal thing. [/quote]

Hmm.  No.  Not accurate.  First, it depends on when you're referring to.  The shift to Taiwan was actually a counter-reaction result of the 70's-80's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the US-Japan semiconductor wars?

https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1406&context=mjil

https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=mjil

Then came the "free willy" approach to mass outsourcing and "sell out" by many U.S. manufacturers, probably around the 2002 amendment to the Trade Agreements Act (TAA) as well as NAFTA; then went out of control from there.

https://gsa.federalschedules.com/resources/taa-designated-countries/

"In both the House and the Senate, more Democrats voted against NAFTA than for it"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/09/history-lesson-more-republicans-than-democrats-supported-nafta/

So, if you want to point a finger, it's towards corruption and greed on both sides of the aisle, as well as corporate America? [/quote]

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