It’s interesting how smart people can be so dumb. Go to 02:38:31 where Quentin Tarantino wannabe, Palmer Luckey, talks about China. He says because of DeepSeek, American technology companies have finally realized China ain’t their friend. Ain’t their friend because China shows it can do things without the US? Yes all countries that are true friends of the US would allow them to exploit your country and steal all your money by being dependent on the US. Because of DeepSeek Xi Jinping can no longer string US tech companies along with the promise of making money from 1.4 billion people. Now they’re all going to not go to China to exploit cheap labor to lower their costs for their products so people can’t buy them? No, US companies are not going to China because the US government has outlawed it. If there was no law, they would still be kissing Xi Jinping’s feet because not only do they need Chinese inexpensive innovative hardware but they need the Chinese market to sell to.
Why else did Palmer Badluckey have his Oculus Rift made in China? The US was smart enough to not move its manufacturing and technology prowess to Nazi Germany and Japan during WWII nor send it to the Soviet Union during the Cold War but still dumb to send it to China? Now because of China’s “misstep” over DeepSeek, US technology companies got wind of China’s plot to be independent and they can shut off the pipeline when the Western pundits are already saying China has surpassed the US on technology. Yeah the people whining about critical strategic supply chains from China and the rest of the world being denied from them think they have the upper hand over China now…?
First Alex Karp and now this guy. Right-wing/libertarian tech bros aren’t as smart as they think.