Patina Lake

“These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.” —At the Normandy American Cemetery

@RebelCartoon 纳粹=国家社会主义，因强调国家主义往往称之为右。马列社会主义=国际社会主义共产主义，因强调国际主义往往称之为左。 你认为当今哪一个国家最像纳粹？

@shangguanluan 你举出的几个领导当然不是偶然选出来的。是这些国家的选民终于醒悟中国制度也影响到他们，威胁他们的民主他们选择的生活方式才选出这些领导。一旦他们醒悟了，下次即使换其他人，世界仍然已经变了，不再被中共蒙骗麻木不仁了。

我发现很多人有个逻辑双标，就是提到中国的问题时，就是制度决定论，一切都是注定的，迟早会崩溃，根子里就烂了…… 一旦民主国家出问题，一旦挨了民主铁拳，就是偶然的，就是暂时的挫折。 美国是因为偶然出现了川普，日本是因为偶然出现了高市，台湾是因为偶然出现了赖清德……只要把他们换下去，世界就会重回曙光…… 凭什么就不是选举政治本就容易造就民粹？凭什么就不是这些国家本身的结构性问题和制度缺角出现耦合？ 希特勒不是选出来的吗？

@CanadianCoffey U.S. would take a defeatist attitude. We would tell ourselves: Americans are too fat and lazy so let’s just sit back and buy Chinese cheap goods. We can sell our assets to pay for them until nothing left. Do not believe me? Watch Obama’s movie American Factory.

How much better would all our lives be if Obama was president right now? Imagine how well these two world class leaders would work together.

@xiaochuan8688 用旧闻加上自己想象写一篇毫无意义的推文。亚利桑那TSMC 的4nm良率高于台湾厂4个百分点。亚利桑那厂今年已转向盈利。读点可靠信息吧

TSMC 亚利桑那厂已经悄悄失败——400 亿美元烧完，良率不到日本厂的一半 主流叙事是"美国半导体回流成功了"。但真实数据完全相反——TSMC 亚利桑那 3 年投了 400 亿美元，2026 Q1 良率仅 52%，对比日本熊本厂 95%、台湾本土 98%，差距大到不能称作工厂。 问题 1：人才训练根本没完成。 TSMC 从台湾调了 1500 名工程师轮班支援，但当地招聘的 6000 名本地员工平均培训周期需要 4-6 年——美国大学根本没有"半导体产线工程师"这个专业方向。 问题 2：供应链没跟上。 高纯度光刻胶、特种气体、超净化学品——80% 在日本、20% 在台湾。亚利桑那厂每片晶圆的综合成本，是台南厂的 1.6 倍。 问题 3：客户开始用脚投票。 苹果、AMD 原本承诺把高端订单转到亚利桑那，2026 Q2 实际只下了 15% 的计划订单——其余全部还在台湾生产。"政治正确"敌不过经济账。 TSMC 内部怎么说？ 张忠谋早在 2023 年就警告："亚利桑那是个浪费。"现任 CEO 魏哲家最近第一次承认"美国厂进展不如预期"——这是台积电高管 30 年来最直白的自我否定。 半导体回流不是美国想做就能做的，这是 50 年产业积累的结果，不是 4000 亿补贴能买到的。

@MarkJCarney If you really value freedom, you would work with US on North American strategic critical product supply chain. Because only by having critical supply chain in North America, we can protect our freedom. No, you action tells us you do not care about freedom.

Canada and Europe share the values of freedom, rule of law, democracy, and pluralism. These values are the foundation of what we are building, together.

@McFaul Why is that begging? You think China is not suffering from close of Hormuz? Why not point out China benefits from opening of Hormuz, benefit from an Iran without nuclear power, not a threat to surrounding gulf countries ( China is a big energy buyer of the gulf countries).

Begging Xi to negotiate an end to a war you started is not a good look. In doing so, America looks weak and makes China look strong. But Xi actually doesn’t have the will or capacity to deliver. So we “great powers” will look weak together. Hope I’m wrong.

@TaoRay 原协议（2016年）有10 至15年终止期。原协议对联合国核检查要求不严格。原协议对伊朗支持各恐怖主义活动毫无限制。 不去了解内核就不要信口开河了吧。

我几乎可以肯定，这个deal和奥巴马那个差不多！不信走着瞧！今天中国的表态很有玄机，说伊朗有发展民用核设施的权利。现在伊朗外长就在中国，如果伊朗愿意长期完全放弃浓缩铀的话，没必要现在劳烦中国给她撑腰。随后川普就说协议接近了，也没说不可接受。奥巴马协议后伊朗的浓缩铀浓度一直是3%多点的民用标准，美国退出协议后，伊朗浓缩铀的浓度骤升到60%多。美国本来想靠战争彻底让伊朗放弃一切浓缩铀的。之前刚开战时说，除了彻底投降以外不接受任何条件，现在看来不可能了。当然这个deal出来以后，伊朗和美国肯定各自赢麻，都会回家大吹特吹，但实质和奥巴马那个一定差不多。

@ianbremmer Without manufacturing the country is standing on the shaky ground. You lose national security, know how, production side innovations.

despite what your local politicians tell you, the path to higher income for large populations is the services sector, not manufacturing. v useful dataviz on the long term labor market

@GuyRochford @TodayinHistory The difference is that Marco is sincere, Obama is not.

the “Obama is a great Orator” was always a misstatement. He was skilled at reading scripts written for him. The longer he was in the public eye though, the more they they rang hollow as actions and deeds never aligned with rhetoric. He could never answer questions with the skill you see displayed by Rubio here. It’s simple..Rubio IS a gifted orator because, besides being brilliant, he is speaking from core belief and experiences that have shaped him personally, not some script writer’s sales pitch. That’s why our lizard brain process this as pleasing

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

@whyyoutouzhele 这么小，就学会了说假话。

5月5日报道，成都一名高一学生说：我最大的兴趣就是学习马克思主义理论，目前正自学《马克思主义工程系列教材》 我的梦想是考上公务员，全心全意为人民服务。 一名博主评价：“这位同学：只要有一颗为人民服务的真心，不做公务员也是可以的。譬如：有城市美容师之称，不论酷暑寒冬，披星戴月清扫马路的环卫工们”

@ianbremmer @gzeromedia It is not perfect. But they are doing a whole lot better than Obama-Kerry did.

the “least worst” option is ending this war. not clear washington is ready to take it. @gzeromedia

@K6Kfy9vUS8NhGeV @Anpo_Star 连玩笑都听不出来。

@Anpo_Star 一切為有錢人和自己牟利，華川粉一毛都拿不到但還是最愛這種人

川普：“我先给你们减税，我自己等下台后再慢慢享受”😂 川普当时在白宫跟小企业主们聊天，推他的新税改方案（包括各种税务扣除、减税政策，比如无税小费、无税加班费等）。他突然笑着说： “等我8或9年后离开办公室，我就能用上这些我自己推出的税务扣除了！”

@Desert2Dragon @hyperphonk Sure, especially the Chinese government owns the tobacco industry, the profit and value added tax they collect(1.5 trillion yuan, 7 to 10% of all central government revenue)~spending on its military (1.9 trillion yuan). Any question why there are cigarette smokes everywhere?

@LakePatina @hyperphonk Chinas state owned enterprises make up 4% of businesses in China. They employ millions of people and make up about 30% of the GDP though.

"China is socialist" is such a cope. It's a hypercapitalist state obsessed with money, money, business, business, capital, stocks, investors. Social welfare is minimum. Workers rights are abused. VAT, IIT and Corporate tax are on average lower than in developed European countries

@tianzige4 因为他刚刚听过一位叫王旦的华人讲话。王旦是“Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future” 的作者，并到处在给讲话。这句话出自该书。而王旦,加籍华人，17至23年在上海北京香港。他的话可以说是贩卖中共话语。 这个出口再贴牌重新出口的圈子转得有趣不有趣？

德国前总理朔尔茨：中国是工程师的国家，我们成了律师的国家。 为什么西方国家领导人，在位时傻乎乎的，一下台就变聪明了？这绝对是政治体制、制度的问题！

@gabseunagal You think a woke politician is a serious candidate?

The demise of America started when the general population there decided being "anti woke," "based," and "owning the libs" was more important than electing serious candidates, raising the literacy rates, and embracing intellectualism.

@marlene4719 Then why Alberta province already reached a deal of energy corridor with US? Why Quebec premier completed her talk with US and appointed a special envoy continuing? Provinces are going around Carney.

PM Carney: “A lot of countries rushed into deals with the US—they weren’t really worth the paper they were written on.” I love the way Mark Carney calls out Trump’s performative bullshit. This is what I voted for.

@McFaul It was nothing wrong for US to ask all allied countries to share burdens.

@McFaul Really? So U.S. shouldered the burden: $187billion, Canada $18.7 billion. By population: $547/person, US, $468/person Canada. How U.S. is not sharing the burden? Btw, EU shared burden $496/person. Checking facts first may be a good idea.

Just shameful that the US is not sharing the burden in the greatest fight for freedom of our lifetimes. Canada is now a more consequential leader of the free world than the US. Hope this changes in the future.

@Hombrelmparable Communists do not pay drinks. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" They order Martini, cocktail and beer according to their needs. Bar tender serves drinks according to his ability. Noone protest. Protesters are all dead.

Tres comunistas entran en un bar: uno pide un cóctel mixto de $15, otro un Martini de $10, y el tercero un cerveza de $6. Cuando llega la cuenta, basados en su mantra, se ven obligados a dividirla equitativamente. La semana siguiente, los tres regresan al bar una vez más, pero esta vez piden cuentas separadas, por lo que el barman les pregunta por qué no están dividiendo la cuenta equitativamente, ya que en el comunismo, todos pagan la misma parte justa. Los tres comunistas acceden de mala gana, y una vez más dividen la cuenta en tres partes iguales. La semana siguiente, los tres comunistas regresan, pero con una turba de devotos seguidores, y protestan contra el barman para que cambie los precios de todas sus bebidas al precio de la bebida más barata del menú. Por miedo a que su negocio sea vandalizado o quemado, el barman accede. Así que la semana siguiente, todos los comunistas entran y disfrutan de sus bebidas a $6 con precios igualados, y celebran los éxitos del comunismo. Los comunistas continúan con esto durante varias semanas más, hasta que un viernes regresan al bar y lo encuentran cerrado, con un cartel afuera que dice que el bar ha cerrado por quiebra. Y eso, camaradas, es como funciona el comunismo.