Culture Clash in Arizona Semiconductor Facility, China Threatened With Sanctions by USA, "Authoritarian" Ireland, "The Zoomerwaffen", Indian-Americans and Caste
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Razib is one of the better commentators about India/Hindus and diaspora in the west. This space is otherwise dominated by leftists academics/journos /activist types who suffer from a severe case of Modi Derangement Syndrome.
Almost everything I read about India and Indian history and politics heavily slanted to the degree to being outright false. That is initially what made me question the default liberal mainstream narrative in other areas. Glad I escaped that plantation.
Back to Razib, there is a lot to learn for western right wing movements from RSS/BJP in in its fight against the entrenched Indian Socialist Marxist state which ruled India for almost all of its post independence.
The only reason the zoomerWaffen has any effect is because we're giving them attention. Ignore them and they'll implode in a sea of tears and 'why me?'
They aren’t going anywhere because they have an umbilical cord attached to Ivy League endowments while they gestate. Eventually they will spring forth like the creature from Alien and get on with their high paying jobs among our ruling class.
It's a shame that the understanding of the necessity of having a home-grown and sustainable semiconductor manufacturing industry has taken so long for the US to realize. It's also been met with the double-whammy of Intel fumbling their most important weapon in the chip wars: being the world leader in process tech.
And if they haven't, what the fuck are they doing?
Intel's last two CEOs totally didn't understand that the process tech was everything that made Intel and that the whole company's existence and competitive advantage lay in the fact. Pat Gelsinger is now at the helm and has bet the whole company on process nodes. It's the correct move to get the company back on track but at this point it's also a massive gamble. I'd say the biggest hurdle is in making sure that the company revolves around this rather than their products, which have always come second to process tech, not first.
"Meanwhile, chip manufacturing collapsed in the U.S. and Europe, and migrated to East Asia, drawn by government incentives. Hutcheson said the high costs of building new facilities prevented new companies from joining the competition and eventually solidified TSMC’s dominance."
I watched the hostility of Western environments vs. East Asian ones develop in realtime. Suddenly, somewhere around 2005, even Gulf Arabs were giving better deals to AMD and others than any Western nation. This problem has been a long time in the making. At the time, we gave AMD shit for going fabless but in retrospect it all makes perfect sense now given their performance and Intel's process tech faltering in part due to a lack of western gov't support.
It's all downstream fruit from the poison tree, namely the false and deceptive ideology of "Economic Efficiency ™️", which completely screwed American (and western) industry in the first place. The whole idea of running a country based on only the enrichment of shareholders at the cost of all other concerns inevitably leads to the mess we have.
When whites were hated, Jews were being hated too. Ta-Nehisi Coates's book Between the World and Me (which I've become convinced was a massive troll job directed at his white fans, only nobody got the joke) went out if its way to say Jews are white.
A good watch re: migration is the Geronimo episode of We Shall Remain, a PBS documentary series about American Indians from like 2009. A mine for silver or something would open, a bunch of "military-aged" white dudes would show up, they'd brutalize the local natives, and the Indians would go HAM.
To put things in context, in some parts of the former Soviet bloc a Zionist was simply someone with a single Jewish grandparent or anyone known to have relatives, however distant, in Israel. As America takes on Soviet and Maoist characteristics, it is not surprising that it is becoming hostile to Jews.
Are the Jews who are welcome required to bowdlerize the OT....which contains plenty of fairly explicitly proto-Zionist exhortation?
And what of Christian Zionists? Do they get forced out too? Or just suppressed and called bad names?
A Zionist is a supporter of Israel and its policies.
The Old Testament? None of my business, I'm an atheist. Jewish Americans have the right to practice their religion. They don't have a right to behave as foreign agents.
Christian Zionists are welcome to go home too, but under current policy they have to convert to Judaism before claiming their Israeli citizenship.
Reasonable positions but the quid pro quo would surely have to involve an end to US interference in Israeli politics and an end to the Wilsonian initiatives on behalf of the Palestinians. An America purged of Zionists might well require resettlement on a grand scale. The West Bank would become New Brooklyn and Gaza the Greater Borscht Belt.
Interesting this article touches upon the Irish population’s increasing anger to mass migration it opposes but that is being forced upon them. Can you think of a similar situation?
The Palestinians have been let down by their leaders and most likely always will be. The British Mandate was a golden opportunity for Jews and Arabs alike. The former got their state, the Arabs were stupid, refused to compromise and they mostly lost out. The Hashemites got the eastern half of Palestine (Jordan) which was given to them by Churchill. The Western half remains contested. I doubt that Palestinians really want a state at all. They just want to destroy Israel, which is a standing affront to the deeply held belief that territory incorporated in the dar al-Islam (House of Islam or Islamic world) must remain under Muslim control in perpetuity and that the subdued non-Muslim minorities (dhimmis) must remain exploited and powerless and easily victimised.
The Palestinians lost out in the late 40s because they had backed the wrong horse in WW2. European states that had been under occupation in WW2 were not keen on doing favours for the Arabs of Palestine, whose cause had been championed by the Axis.
The Palestinians came close to losing out after the Cold War, but Clinton came to the rescue. Obama was really keen on helping them.
Re Ireland, I think that there are plenty of Western countries where opinion is turning against immigration but Ireland certainly appears to be sui generis (one of a kind) in that consensus of the elite is belong openly contested by a population that seems on the verge of open unrest. It is a curious situation but I do not know anywhere near enough to comment.
I have long believed that the Europeans and some Atlantacsts in the US have ambitions for international intervention in the ME.
Such a move would be a bonanza for the diplomats and politicians. Jobs aplenty in managing an endless dispute. It would be the ultimate make-work scheme for the UN. It would provide cover for the Europeans to reestablish themselves as quasi-imperial players under the guise of 'peace-keeping'. It would also enable the more malicious players to constrain, cripple, or even destroy Israel. There is no conceivable way that the UN would protect Israelis or guarantee its borders.
I can't see the Russians or Chinese throwing themselves into such a mess, but you never really know.
Supporting Israel so that it can be destroyed, clearing the way for Jesus to return, is a cynical ploy. Why wouldn't patriotic Americans want them gone?
I have no issue with citizens making private donations to Israel. Just keep your foreign sympathies and allegiances out of policy-making.
If they think they have it bad now the Chinese-Taiwanese are in for a big surprise. I would think there's bound to be DEI lawsuits at the their US fabs sooner or later. That's when they will really have to decide who they are – gwai lo or oriental, and I think I know the answer.
On the other hand, one would imagine they have legal advisors warning them of this already, so maybe they've decided to abandon these projects, take a loss and save face.
Can anyone explain how despite the so called Ukrainian war going on, Ukraine still allows Russian gas to transit their pipelines? "We were always at war with EastAsia"
As for the college push back on the genocide, I'm glad that we are seeing the "end of woke" as Kurt Metzger says happened on October 7.
I'm still surprised that the right despite being against wasting money in Ukraine are very pro Israel. Perhaps they still believe in empire bullshit and this China and Russia thing is the crap used to keep them loyal to the empire of Oceania?
(Same with Russian oil going through India into Western markets. Sanctions are bullshit used to screw over the people.)
"Can anyone explain how despite the so called Ukrainian war going on, Ukraine still allows Russian gas to transit their pipelines?"
European countries need (Russian) gas to keep their economies running. If Ukraine stops the flow of Russian gas to its western neighbors, its western neighbors might decide to stop the flow of arms and cash to Ukraine.
Because they steal the gas as it goes through, and they always did. Because the tarrifs they take for the gas transiting through their country = money they desperately need.
The Israelis are very different than the Woody Allen brats we get here, and right wing Americans know all too well when decent people are getting screwed, backstabbed and betrayed by DC and the American elites.
TSMC: If you can't be bothered to even have your documentation translated, you don't actually want a native workforce and you absolutely don't want any skill transfer to happen.
Given the absolute dreck masquerading as human capital in the west "omg how dare you have a bikini model wallpaper I can't work under these conditions", can you blame them? All our national test scores for math and science are evidence enough, but then you add our absurd politics into it?
Sure, but I don't cry about it. It's not affecting that woman and her work, so who cares? And you are treating this as if it's some isolated incident and not a standard pattern of behaviour.
It's funny to read Jewish subreddits. They are more left wing than Stalin on every issue except for Israel where their right "wingness" could make Hitler blush. Like I get it, you are acting in your own self-interest which is fine, but why do they you expect non-Jews to fall for it. Lol.
There's important lessons for the right too though. The GOP will move heaven and earth to mobilize on behalf of AIPAC (including Trump), and Elon retweeting Netanyahu's rant about antisemitism is a pretty good indicator that he's talking out of both sides of his mouth with "fRee spEeCh"
It's important to have a grasp on reality.
Beautiful day here as well, I think I'll literally touch grass by putting some seed down.
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It's a gorgeous day outside, so I am gonna go step out for a bit. Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
Razib is one of the better commentators about India/Hindus and diaspora in the west. This space is otherwise dominated by leftists academics/journos /activist types who suffer from a severe case of Modi Derangement Syndrome.
Almost everything I read about India and Indian history and politics heavily slanted to the degree to being outright false. That is initially what made me question the default liberal mainstream narrative in other areas. Glad I escaped that plantation.
Back to Razib, there is a lot to learn for western right wing movements from RSS/BJP in in its fight against the entrenched Indian Socialist Marxist state which ruled India for almost all of its post independence.
NS Lyons recently made a similar point here: https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-rights-future-must-be-parallel?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Razib made this same point a few years ago and both are worth reading and sharing.
"Why the West lost India’s culture wars"
https://archive.is/K3Rgq
The only reason the zoomerWaffen has any effect is because we're giving them attention. Ignore them and they'll implode in a sea of tears and 'why me?'
They aren’t going anywhere because they have an umbilical cord attached to Ivy League endowments while they gestate. Eventually they will spring forth like the creature from Alien and get on with their high paying jobs among our ruling class.
Er, yes and no. The Zoomerwaffen have a Daddy, but not a Rabbi.
👀©️ as in IC 🕵🏼♀️
As in Faggy Bottoms.
Foggy Bottom is our actual government. You know.
So no, they’re not going away, anymore than BLM did, unless they are told.
Mind you yes protesting is a gig job on the way up in the activist, NGO ecosystem.
Ask the Irish.
Edited sub-header from "superconductor" to "semiconductor".
mea culpa
A superconducting semiconductor sounds like a quantum dream.
Cousin Nic, there was an email notification, but nothing in my Substack feed for this post.
Thanks for letting me know. This is not the first time. I will reach out to support.
It's a shame that the understanding of the necessity of having a home-grown and sustainable semiconductor manufacturing industry has taken so long for the US to realize. It's also been met with the double-whammy of Intel fumbling their most important weapon in the chip wars: being the world leader in process tech.
Now they have to bring in TSMC and we're faced with another real-life sequel of Gung Ho https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/
They need to give the TSMC managers all a copy of Andy Grove's High Output Management to round the square peg if they haven't already https://www.amazon.ca/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884
And if they haven't, what the fuck are they doing?
Intel's last two CEOs totally didn't understand that the process tech was everything that made Intel and that the whole company's existence and competitive advantage lay in the fact. Pat Gelsinger is now at the helm and has bet the whole company on process nodes. It's the correct move to get the company back on track but at this point it's also a massive gamble. I'd say the biggest hurdle is in making sure that the company revolves around this rather than their products, which have always come second to process tech, not first.
"Meanwhile, chip manufacturing collapsed in the U.S. and Europe, and migrated to East Asia, drawn by government incentives. Hutcheson said the high costs of building new facilities prevented new companies from joining the competition and eventually solidified TSMC’s dominance."
I watched the hostility of Western environments vs. East Asian ones develop in realtime. Suddenly, somewhere around 2005, even Gulf Arabs were giving better deals to AMD and others than any Western nation. This problem has been a long time in the making. At the time, we gave AMD shit for going fabless but in retrospect it all makes perfect sense now given their performance and Intel's process tech faltering in part due to a lack of western gov't support.
It's all downstream fruit from the poison tree, namely the false and deceptive ideology of "Economic Efficiency ™️", which completely screwed American (and western) industry in the first place. The whole idea of running a country based on only the enrichment of shareholders at the cost of all other concerns inevitably leads to the mess we have.
Zing! Concise and correct! 10/10 Comment.
Fuck the shareholders.
As if that were ever real, long story short shareholder value was a lie.
The stock market as it currently exists should be illegal. It's all about speculation and gambling. It has no productive value.
I would just not like it to be hiding $695T in the Derivatives that’s called “notional.”
That’s really “Debt” you know.
Here.
https://data.bis.org/topics/OTC_DER/tables-and-dashboards/BIS,DER_D5_1,1.0
When whites were hated, Jews were being hated too. Ta-Nehisi Coates's book Between the World and Me (which I've become convinced was a massive troll job directed at his white fans, only nobody got the joke) went out if its way to say Jews are white.
A good watch re: migration is the Geronimo episode of We Shall Remain, a PBS documentary series about American Indians from like 2009. A mine for silver or something would open, a bunch of "military-aged" white dudes would show up, they'd brutalize the local natives, and the Indians would go HAM.
https://youtu.be/lX0J6ydnUN0?si=oZtKRg3svl-7rXiv
Words are my greatest joy in life. Words that combine to create simple clear meaning are nothing less than a gift, pennies from heaven.
To wit :
“ more than ever I am convinced that history has meaning and its meaning is terrifying”
Rene Girard
Succinct and considering the source an insight that probably should not be ignored.
I believe this is an apt description of this Substack; Fisted decodes the past in aid of the present and with an eye on the future.
Words:
Jews welcome. Zionists go home.
Woopsie
Define 'Zionist'.
To put things in context, in some parts of the former Soviet bloc a Zionist was simply someone with a single Jewish grandparent or anyone known to have relatives, however distant, in Israel. As America takes on Soviet and Maoist characteristics, it is not surprising that it is becoming hostile to Jews.
Are the Jews who are welcome required to bowdlerize the OT....which contains plenty of fairly explicitly proto-Zionist exhortation?
And what of Christian Zionists? Do they get forced out too? Or just suppressed and called bad names?
PS
A Zionist is a supporter of Israel and its policies.
The Old Testament? None of my business, I'm an atheist. Jewish Americans have the right to practice their religion. They don't have a right to behave as foreign agents.
Christian Zionists are welcome to go home too, but under current policy they have to convert to Judaism before claiming their Israeli citizenship.
Reasonable positions but the quid pro quo would surely have to involve an end to US interference in Israeli politics and an end to the Wilsonian initiatives on behalf of the Palestinians. An America purged of Zionists might well require resettlement on a grand scale. The West Bank would become New Brooklyn and Gaza the Greater Borscht Belt.
Why don’t Palestinians get their own state?
Interesting this article touches upon the Irish population’s increasing anger to mass migration it opposes but that is being forced upon them. Can you think of a similar situation?
The Palestinians have been let down by their leaders and most likely always will be. The British Mandate was a golden opportunity for Jews and Arabs alike. The former got their state, the Arabs were stupid, refused to compromise and they mostly lost out. The Hashemites got the eastern half of Palestine (Jordan) which was given to them by Churchill. The Western half remains contested. I doubt that Palestinians really want a state at all. They just want to destroy Israel, which is a standing affront to the deeply held belief that territory incorporated in the dar al-Islam (House of Islam or Islamic world) must remain under Muslim control in perpetuity and that the subdued non-Muslim minorities (dhimmis) must remain exploited and powerless and easily victimised.
The Palestinians lost out in the late 40s because they had backed the wrong horse in WW2. European states that had been under occupation in WW2 were not keen on doing favours for the Arabs of Palestine, whose cause had been championed by the Axis.
The Palestinians came close to losing out after the Cold War, but Clinton came to the rescue. Obama was really keen on helping them.
Re Ireland, I think that there are plenty of Western countries where opinion is turning against immigration but Ireland certainly appears to be sui generis (one of a kind) in that consensus of the elite is belong openly contested by a population that seems on the verge of open unrest. It is a curious situation but I do not know anywhere near enough to comment.
They don’t want one.
Could you imagine a world where the US, China and Russia agreed that UN intervention is required to settle the crisis in Palestine?
If not, then the crisis gets settled by ME players, while the rest of the world watches.
I have long believed that the Europeans and some Atlantacsts in the US have ambitions for international intervention in the ME.
Such a move would be a bonanza for the diplomats and politicians. Jobs aplenty in managing an endless dispute. It would be the ultimate make-work scheme for the UN. It would provide cover for the Europeans to reestablish themselves as quasi-imperial players under the guise of 'peace-keeping'. It would also enable the more malicious players to constrain, cripple, or even destroy Israel. There is no conceivable way that the UN would protect Israelis or guarantee its borders.
I can't see the Russians or Chinese throwing themselves into such a mess, but you never really know.
😂 does that include the Baptists? Who are probably more Zionist than most Jews.
You can lump a lot of Gentiles under Zionist.
Supporting Israel so that it can be destroyed, clearing the way for Jesus to return, is a cynical ploy. Why wouldn't patriotic Americans want them gone?
I have no issue with citizens making private donations to Israel. Just keep your foreign sympathies and allegiances out of policy-making.
If they think they have it bad now the Chinese-Taiwanese are in for a big surprise. I would think there's bound to be DEI lawsuits at the their US fabs sooner or later. That's when they will really have to decide who they are – gwai lo or oriental, and I think I know the answer.
On the other hand, one would imagine they have legal advisors warning them of this already, so maybe they've decided to abandon these projects, take a loss and save face.
Grab those subsidies and run.
This chip thing is just more 1984 esque crap.
Can anyone explain how despite the so called Ukrainian war going on, Ukraine still allows Russian gas to transit their pipelines? "We were always at war with EastAsia"
As for the college push back on the genocide, I'm glad that we are seeing the "end of woke" as Kurt Metzger says happened on October 7.
https://youtu.be/-ZGEqhyVVCI
I'm still surprised that the right despite being against wasting money in Ukraine are very pro Israel. Perhaps they still believe in empire bullshit and this China and Russia thing is the crap used to keep them loyal to the empire of Oceania?
(Same with Russian oil going through India into Western markets. Sanctions are bullshit used to screw over the people.)
"Can anyone explain how despite the so called Ukrainian war going on, Ukraine still allows Russian gas to transit their pipelines?"
European countries need (Russian) gas to keep their economies running. If Ukraine stops the flow of Russian gas to its western neighbors, its western neighbors might decide to stop the flow of arms and cash to Ukraine.
Because they steal the gas as it goes through, and they always did. Because the tarrifs they take for the gas transiting through their country = money they desperately need.
It just makes this whole sanctions thing look like bullshit. Same with Russian oil going through India into Western markets.
Do they actually send the oil to India?
I would guess not. Probably a financial scam, another middle man making money on nothing. End stage capitalism 😂
Because it IS all bullshit. Are you only just noticing?
The Israelis are very different than the Woody Allen brats we get here, and right wing Americans know all too well when decent people are getting screwed, backstabbed and betrayed by DC and the American elites.
TSMC: If you can't be bothered to even have your documentation translated, you don't actually want a native workforce and you absolutely don't want any skill transfer to happen.
Given the absolute dreck masquerading as human capital in the west "omg how dare you have a bikini model wallpaper I can't work under these conditions", can you blame them? All our national test scores for math and science are evidence enough, but then you add our absurd politics into it?
I'm going to be contrarian here and admit I don't mind certain standards of professionalism, ie keep your coombait to yourself.
Sure, but I don't cry about it. It's not affecting that woman and her work, so who cares? And you are treating this as if it's some isolated incident and not a standard pattern of behaviour.
They probably don’t.
They may well want to jump to China. Supposedly the KMT is now quietly pro-unification.
This makes sense.
We need to “negotiate” better.
As in - you may want to defect to China (yes) , we may want to leave a smoking rubble full of dead human capital to prevent that “skills transfer.”
For that skill we do have…
It's funny to read Jewish subreddits. They are more left wing than Stalin on every issue except for Israel where their right "wingness" could make Hitler blush. Like I get it, you are acting in your own self-interest which is fine, but why do they you expect non-Jews to fall for it. Lol.
SP I observe this in my daily life
Stalin was very based. Don't compare Stalinism with Talmudic chicanery.
Rules for thee and not for me.
Moral autism.
Hitler was not rightwing.
They should reboot that 1986 movie "Gung Ho" but this time it's Taiwan and the industry is microchips.
Thanks Niccolo!
So, what's the answer to the "obvious questiom"?
I'm enjoying the Schadenfreude as well.
There's important lessons for the right too though. The GOP will move heaven and earth to mobilize on behalf of AIPAC (including Trump), and Elon retweeting Netanyahu's rant about antisemitism is a pretty good indicator that he's talking out of both sides of his mouth with "fRee spEeCh"
It's important to have a grasp on reality.
Beautiful day here as well, I think I'll literally touch grass by putting some seed down.
Where? Rainy and cold in Toronto.
de_dust2
Hum?
de_dust2 is the most iconic map from the Counter-Strike video game series. Why he would reference it here? Not sure 😂
Because my name is Dusty lol. Best joke i could think of on the fly
Thank you , I am a Luddite, aged 60 years, so I am a no hoper