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[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • “let’s abandon our industrial base and move manufacturing overseas”
  • “we can’t use overseas products because of national security”
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Unfetted capitalism is ultimately a self-masticating ouroboros.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cry me a river, let me know when they're finished racing towards the bottom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We’ll know when we’re all homeless and bathing in said river.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

😂 that's a great prompt for AI

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Holy Misleading Headline, Batman...
The actual first sentence of the article:

Since 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense has been asking for a waiver from legislation barring it from doing business with companies reliant on telecommunications equipment manufactured by Huawei.

Emphasis added. This isn't the DoD saying "we need to use Huawei hardware", it's the DoD saying "a fuck-ton of companies we do business with use Huawei hardware." And that's because Huawei hardware is cheap and businesses like cheap. While I do think the DoD has some leverage in contracts to say, "welcome to the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), you cannot use anything manufactured by Huawei in infrastructure which is within scope". If the text of the law says that the DoD can't do business with companies who use Huawei hardware at all, then that's going to be very limiting.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Piss babies make the world operate off of "everything for the low no matter what" and are now pissed China has flooded the world with that cheap tech. Shouldn't have fucken stabbed us all in the back by moving everything overseas you leperous cocks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  1. Fucken is short for fuckeng, right?

  2. Huawei paid good money to the people who stole that tech from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

US should have bought out Nortel instead of letting them go bust.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute, went so far as to call the Defense Department lazy. He says the Pentagon should leverage the fact that “for companies in those areas, to have big business with the U.S. Department of the Defense is important.”

"I could've swore we had more influence than that. Amercia is still the world leader right? ...right!?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Tell me you're a bully without saying you're a bully

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Time to get them abother 20 or 30 billion in their budget for patriot 5g routers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's owned by Chinese company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well we know where you stand on the Taiwan/China question.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

Tracks for a Lemmy.ml account. That instance is like the reduced fat version of lemmygrad.ml.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nokia is finnish company https://www.nokia.com/about-us/investors/stock-information/biggest-shareholders/

Stop lying or provide sources for such claims.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nokia smartphone brand or nokia telecom hardware company?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I had the impression that we are talking about telecom in this post