literally yes. america fully sent its manufacturing away in a crucial period between the 80s and 2000s, the issue is that the capability to manufacture large scale manufacturing machines and produce them at a scale that is productive and functional is simply gone. we could start the initiate today and we would still not be able to compete with chinese products. china played american capitalists like a fiddle and utilized their strengths. america went full retard into globohomo tech capitalism and let the imperial core whither beneath people like musk. its hilarious how musk wants to be involved in politics so bad when it is precisely his ilk which has destroyed the american domestic economy and political institutions.
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