r/WayOfTheBern

They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her.

They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him.

They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her.

They made fun of Biden for nodding off ("Sleepy Joe), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep.

They put "I Did That" Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher.

They bragged about Trump being the no wars President, now they support war.

They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel.

They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files.

To be a MAGA is to be a slave.

Not physically, but mentally.

They stand for nothing.

We're up against people who stand for nothing.

And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us whats-what.

We shouldn't even acknowledge these people.

The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone.

I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

https://x.com/JohnnyAGI/status/2056525452643102878

• Gregory Timm, a 33-year-old veteran, confronted 68-year-old disabled Navy veteran Harold Powell in a wheelchair on Seattle's waterfront in July 2025, accused him of stolen valor, snatched his service patch, then shot him in the chest after Powell drew a knife and realistic replica handgun.
• Timm was convicted of second-degree assault with a firearm and third-degree theft; he received a 42-month prison sentence in April 2026, which aligned with state guidelines, while Powell survived with a bullet still lodged in his chest and forgave the shooter at sentencing.
• The X post from an anti-GOP account labels the shooting as unprovoked by a "Republican gun owner," but news reports provide no confirmation of party affiliation and detail the escalation involving the victim's actions during the public confrontation.

Chinese founders are usually:

- engineers

- party members

- capitalists

In that order.

So when they build or acquire a company, maximizing shareholder value is not the first objective. The first objective is acquiring know-how and industrial capability.

The mindset is: "we should know how to build this thing in China for the simple reason that my civilization needs to learn this sooner or later and i don't care about consequences or optics - if it looks like stealing IP so be it, I don't have to explain..."

The only people judging you are in your local party HQ.

If you’re a credible founder in China, you can go to a local party chief and say: "I need x engineers, land, and some starter funds to build this widget company"

And if the state thinks the industry matters, you’ll get the best resources in the province, industrial land and enough support to get going. The rest is up to you.

Many, many fail. Like most people think they would be successful with capital - go to China and see. You get everything - land, capital, people and even then the success ratio is like 1-5%...

OG American founders were also engineer-first. Bill Hewlett and David Packard built HP as engineers. Same with a lot of old American industrial giants. But over time those founders exited and the boards got taken over by pure financial operators focused entirely on maximizing quarterly shareholder value.

A single generation of this mentality hollowed out the entire American industry. Product-first founders like Elon Musk exist today because there was a generational demand for good engineering lead founders.

Indian boomer founders meanwhile were always capitalist-first from day one. Not even saying that negatively. Many come from communities that are insanely optimized around capital survival and allocation. That’s a real skill developed over centuries.

But the downside of that mindset is that they were rarely engineer-first or product-first EVEN if they were engineers by training. They were always capitalist first.

And that's very reasonable. They're on their own. Nobody has their back. They need to perform or die.

So when an Indian conglomerate acquires something like Jaguar, the instinct becomes:

- optimize margins

- reduce costs

- extract shareholder value

But if you don’t deeply understand first principles of car manufacturing, how much value can you really compound long term ? So companies get handed to hired professionals and MBA operators. The exact same class of people that helped hollow out American industry.

Now America is slowly realizing pure financial capitalism can become self-destructive because eventually the spreadsheet people cannibalize the actual industrial base in pursuit of EPS.

India already lives in that reality. Infosys is a good example. A company effectively consuming itself to maintain quarter-on-quarter performance without aggressively building the future.

And as I said they’re not even wrong. Anyone would do the same unless the system is realigned for long term incentives.

Who in India actually has your back if you miss numbers for 2-3 yrs while investing heavily into long-term capability ? Tesla survived because retail investors and the American public effectively backed Elon Musk through a decade of chaos and losses.

Toyota delivers 6-7x of Tesla's profit EVERY QUARTER but Tesla wins because try posting and see Tesla retail investors explaining you the future of automobiles.

Indian scarcity markets can't and won't tolerate that kind of long-duration industrial gamble. Its a 3k gdp/capita country nobody has time for long term nonsense plus who know who's grfiting vs being serious...people talk about nationalism then take your money and run.

China solved this by

- serve the party

- align with state goals

- stay below the radar and build

the system will protect you while you build.

In India you are on your own.

- manage the regulators

- manage capital - which is very expensive

- manage your own power/infra

- deal with corruption

- manage untrained talent

All of that becomes a massive tax on operations.

Nobody has the time to do any long-term thinking. Any anyone who does that would be eaten alive by those who optimize for survival.

It seems that there is a lot of money being mobilized against Massie.

>Small, locally run custom slaughterhouses are all over the place in the United States. USDA slaughterhouses are vanishingly rare and often at great distances away from farmers. The custom slaughterhouses are used by homesteaders and hunters who eat their own meat. The PRIME Act would allow them to be used by small farmers who sell their meat to the public, provided that they comply with local health regulations and don’t sell their meat across state lines.

That would mean that all the meat is going to come from the big slaughterhouses and further concentrate power into Tyson.