Gruesome Newsom on quite the streak. Still, one has to wonder if these bills only ever made it to his desk on the condition he would veto them, to tease people into 
harder 
mentality.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it does seem awfully convenient to legitimize a system that a passive observer would consider "working, but just one person ruined it" (if one person can fuck the whole thing, how is that viable?)
Is there some good material on protectionism from a Marxian perspective?
Unsure of this, but would also like to know if anyone does happen to have something.
If only the US was using protectionism as a measure to maintain high wages in its factories of internationally overpriced commodities, that'd be a pretty good thing, right?
It wouldn't work long-term. They'd cut the workforce down to the minimum skeleton crew needed to run production and overwork those people. Plus, with China being more competitive in both quality and price, they'd be overtaking US equivalents regardless. US industry itself is dying, and it's irreversible. The falling rate of profit demands lower quality for higher price tags, and the US hasn't been investing into R&D on a level anywhere close to the Chinese, so they have no future in this race.
China's Great Firewall functions as a digital protectionist measure to foster a domestic tech industry that isn't dominated by FAANG like how the internet developed in the rest of the periphery.
Well, here's the thing about the Great Firewall: Yes, indeed it was so they could foster a domestic tech industry, but it was also a strategic move to attain sovereignty in their information space and protect them from Western manipulation in China's internal affairs. See this relatively short video here. It's not so similar in that with EVs, people need reliable transportation to survive in the West as they have no high-speed rail networks. With the price of gas, auto repairs and maintenance always going up, these EVs could liberate working class people from dependence on much of the US' fossil fuel and automaker giants, which the US absolutely will not tolerate.
The US demands a population as desperate as possible to reduce worker bargaining power, increase employer leverage, and maintain their monopolies.
But it seems like there's a lot of nuances here, like how the West uses protectionism to maintain hegemony.
That's entirely and always what this is about.
Critical support to Microsoft for making Windows more and more uninhabitable and Linux increasingly sexier for all 
Communism will win, even in cyberspace and software 
Hate clicks and hate traffic have pretty much always been a thing. You can see it pretty much anywhere you go. Silicon Valley platforms deliberately exploited this through algorithms designed to maximize engagement through hate and other negative emotional turmoil. Like a never ending car crash you can't look away from, so people would always be trapped for extended periods of time looking at stuff that made them miserable.
Very profitable for those platforms.
Another thing is people like to vent and be upset about shit, given their unfulfilling lives. It's just in this case, that energy is being funneled into bad faith engagement and counterproductive practices (misinformation).
An empire on its deathbed is perfectly represented by the halls of power being de-facto retirement homes.
I, for one, love empire security threats.
Continue to wither away 
Ukraine? We're not fighting in Ukraine ffs. Losing? The jury is still out on that. If Russia is "winning" it looks an awful lot like losing to me.
Ukraine's Western Sponsors Running Out of Ammo & Out of Time
British Challenger Tank Destroyed in Ukraine + Heavy Losses Amid Failing Offensive
US Considers ATACMS as Ukraine's Offensive Struggles + Problems to Come
The jury isn't out on anything. Ukraine is finished, and NATO is running on fumes to supply it.
What in the world are you on about here? Present your case on why "it looks an awful lot like losing to me".
Added. Good catch.
These fuckers live way too long, thanks to their access to the best healthcare money can buy.
Haven't been here long enough to have witnessed too much domestic discourse, but there's something I've found endlessly hilarious.
Seeing Hexbear's federation and mere presence become a forcing move (like in chess) for instances to make it clear where their political and class loyalties lie.
We've seen the cookie cutter, big tent, generic "all are welcome" type instances speedrun into fascism and straight into their own graves. This trend has followed suit with spaces that claim to be "safe" for the sexually divergent (most notably trans), yet act effectively, in practice, as a flytrap or honeypot to reel in the vulnerable population and facilitate their bullying and abuse at the hands of the intolerant (Blahaj or 196 as it's most widely recognized now).
This type of shit is speeding up and intensifying contradictions and forcing off masks while elevating class consciousness, and also making it clear that currently all roads point to Hexbear for actual refuge as a vulnerable demographic. It's a win-win-win as we stand to benefit the most from the brain drain liberal instances always experience due to anti-communism. It's an irrefutable fact and immutable future that anti-communism leads to an inevitable concentration of the worst society has to offer and thus, naturally, an exodus from those instances since those types of people are time tested proven to be the people nobody wants to be around on the internet. They (victims of the abuse) see how we operate here and often seek asylum, which we're more than happy to provide. From there, exposure to our ideas and theory takes care of the rest and solidifies the delivering to their final political destinations (most prominently Marxism-Leninism).
Looking forward to the next Big Tech controversy delivering the next spike in Fediverse traffic, because this shit never gets old seeing capitalism failing in real-time while also cultivating healthy spaces of the internet I actually want to participate in and be part of. The trend is irreversibly in our favor. Reactionaries will end up on islands isolated from the wider Fediverse (a fate most likely to befall Blahaj), and continents will show a steady upward trend in quality of discourse and solidarity. Liberalism can't compete with what we've got, and they're forced to grapple with it now. They will find the only options are to capitulate or perish, because the world's tired of the liberal internet facilitating hate.
I shall remember this going forward