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  • Nah, they got a point:

    , but the skills, and knowledge of how to make things.

    Apple spent billions training Chinese workers how to do highly skilled manufacturing work for pennies and shitty hours with huge turnover rates. Remember the days of suicide nets in factories where the workers lived?

    Apple viewed them as a disposible work force, they viewed it as job training.

    They wash out, then get jobs doing the same things “the Apple method” for more pay and better conditions for a Chinese company.

    Still not great pay, still not great conditions, but there’s an incentive there to work for a local company instead of Apple.

    Over decades this has led to today where even if we tank our manufacturing away, that just makes manufacturing Chinese competitors even cheaper.

    It has nothing to do with discoveries, it’s about a trained workforce with the infrastructure in place for them to work and a supply of the rare earth materials they need.












  • Central to the case was the use of the word, “haole,” a Hawaiian word with meanings that include foreigner and white person. Dennis Kunzelman testified that the men called him “haole” in a derogatory way.

    Attorneys for Aki and Alo-Kaonohi said it was not Kunzelman’s race that provoked them but his entitled and disrespectful attitude.

    Yeah. That’s not a hate crime.

    I’d get called a haole 5x walking two blocks to the beach. Especially in an area that’s still mostly native, they ain’t going to just jump to using the same words for you they use with lifelong members of the community.

    You’re literally an outsider and need to make an effort to be welcomed into the community. Until then, you’re going to be called the word for outsider. Well, technically it means “soulless” but it’s not as bad as it sounds.

    Edit:

    To clarify like a lot of Asian communities a lot of importance is put on family units.

    So amongst themselves, everyone is: auntie/uncle niece/nephew brother/sister/cuz

    If you’re not part of their family group, they ain’t going to call you that.

    You’re a “haole” and that’s all it means, one translation is just “not of the island”. It’s not automatically a bad thing, and rarely is.

    But lots of haoles are dicks too. So sometimes you get checked to make sure you’re cool.





  • The DNC chair congratulated him almost immediately and called for the party to unite behind Mamdani:

    “This is going to be a moment for the establishment, for a lot of the people who lined up behind Cuomo. It has to mean something to win the nomination,” she said.

    "Democrats have spoken, they made a selection, and I would really, really hope that if he is facing headwinds from different directions, that the party would come together the same way I’ve seen the party come together over and over again when progressives need to say: ‘All right, let’s make sure that people turn out and vote for [someone] who wouldn’t have been our first choice.’”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/zohran-mamdanis-rise-new-york-city-means-democratic-party-nationally-rcna214909

    So yes, Bernie and the DNC agree, it’s fucking weird.

    If there is another PUMA movement, this time it won’t have the backing of the DNC

    Edit:

    The original quote is proceeded by this:

    Rupert told NBC News that after years and years of progressive Democrats being told to unite around the nominee when the establishment’s choice wins a primary, she hopes the party will do the same now that the shoe is on the other foot. She was heartened to see Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin’s quick congratulations for Mamdani on Tuesday night.

    Yet the article doesn’t seem to mention what Ken had said, just her reference to his congratulations to Mamdani.

    It threw me off and I thought it was Martin’s quote following it