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@TheDude2k sorry your post vanished.. this site has a 'disappearing posts' problem on some threads

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Most of the top 500 companies are corrupt in one way or another, and heavily involved with the government and buying out Senators. McDonald's is a top company and only produces garbage.

I just gave you the example of the 'national champion" TSMC which is eating Intel's lunch. I have never seen an arbitrary definition of whether a government owns 10% of the shares makes it a communist organization lol.

It's pretty much required for global dominance, especially against countries in East Asia that do like China etc. Private capital will not incubate complex R & D for 20 years and run at a loss etc. if you look at the state of American 'high tech'/'industry' today (and also publically traded corporate america as whole) it has been screwed up for about 4 decades due to obsession with short-term profits and quarterly profits, and corruption by the stock market which is not the real economy. Extreme De-industrialization happened fundamentally because the US was not cost-competitive. In a way humanity as a whole has been severely damaged- "High tech" merely means information tech or AI while other technologies that benefit human life/flourish have been neglected because it was 'not profitable' especially in the short term.

Wrong again: In certain industries, especially in high tech/complex manufacturing they cannot survive/naturally developed without government involvement. Private Equity funds/Oligarch angel investor funds can only invest so much, often taking considerable financial risk. Overall Tesla/Boeing and other 'strategic' companies are heavily state-funded/state infiltrated. By the definition of ideological purists they are socialist enterprises. TBH government contracts are hardly market competitive (basically legalized corruption if you think about it). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor)[5][6] is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is one of the world's most valuable semiconductor companies,[7] the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play") semiconductor foundry,[8] and Taiwan's largest company,[9][10] with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Although the government of Taiwan is the largest individual shareholder,[11] the majority of TSMC is owned by foreign investors.

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Also complex high technology and manufacturing or anything that requires a lot of basic scientific/engineering research is very difficult for private-sector finance to incubate naturally (free market fundamentalist/fraud political ideology has it wrong) because finance seeks to maximize profits. It would end up speculating in crypto or high profit industries/scams instead. Also American info-tech's origins is in the cold war and the defense industry- public funding. A replacement for a company like Intel is hard to incubate naturally.

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Both cases would be 'socialism' under the definition of nonsensical American political propaganda. So basically not correct. 'Normal industrial policy' is essentially making the company hybrid public/private which is what both administrations did. This is what happened to the national champions in the East Asian countries. Also Tesla is one of the biggest welfare queens if not the biggest in the US. Something like a Soviet State owned enterprise is different, for instance it is not publicly traded on the global financial markets.

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Biden supported Intel through the CHIPS act so what is he complaining about? China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (Taiwan semiconductor which is beating Intel) have their governments heavily involved in promoting their strategic industries. Without public help those industries would not be at their current level right now and out-competing western corporations.

looks like the outlast game. I bet that there is a shooting side to this game with Leon or somebody else. tbh the monster is kind of goofy to me, like something from japanese cartoons

'Metal Gear Solid' Producers Are Training New Devs to Continue the Series It looks like it's highly likely that there will be more remakes- I hope they remake MGS2 next. 4 benefited from already being on the PS3. Overall MGS3 remake is just a re-skin of the old game. The cutscenes and speaking/facial expressions look wooden/awkward.

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