alcoholicorn @ alcoholicorn @lemmy.ml

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The government determines what illegal immigration is.

If you want to increase the pool of illegals to deport simply lower quotas or throw some extra road blocks in there (my buddy has paid over 20K in non-lawyer fees in the last decade to maintain his legal status, and even then has had lapses and had to leave the country once due to horse-shit that our immigration system is).

Remember, all the immigrants in Springfield, OH Trump said he would deport were legally in the country.

Antimony? That thing I gotta pay the ex-wife?

They also skipped how production of these metals occurs, for Gallium for example, it's a byproduct of aluminum production. China became the main gallium (and later, LED) producer because they mandated (and sourced relevant equipment) for bauxite refining operations to harvest it, despite being non-economical to do so at the time, as part of a project that was consuming ~5% of their national budget in the late 80s.

America produces 1/36th of the aluminum China produces so even if Trump took the same step (I'm sure he could use the Defense Production Act or something), the numbers don't add up.

Others require the blighting of huge swaths of land and a lot of future work to prevent contamination of ground water (see West Virginia).

I don't believe America has the capacity to build local production with its current political system.

That is correct, hence why it's dumb to accept the rightwing framing of "Oh, we only want to deport criminals" or "We like legal immigration".

The US should be looking into what? How to deal with getting sanctioned by the US?

With Biden ramping up the trade war and a second Trump presidency on the horizon, it would have been dumb not to study how to prepare for sanctions.

They wanted them to win last time at first too, hence why they gave them weapons and positive press coverage (as the "free syrian army").

Are they a US proxy or independent

Yes. Turkey does things the US doesn't like, such as bombing US proxies, namely the Kurds, but at the same time, the US hold's turkey's leash.

the Kurds are the ones benefiting from the oil production

This is correct in the same sense that the poor benefited from the trump tax cuts; the US is getting that oil for $16/barrel.

What about US-induced famine?

Grain has been transported out of the US occupied area into Iraq.

There's food scarcity and hunger-related disease across Syria, but it is significantly worse in the US-occupied areas.

To be clear Assad is not a good guy here, but stealing the country's resources and bombing forces fighting the former Al Nusra only makes things worse.

lmao

A strawman is when you attack arguments nobody made.

I said "the story received no promotion". I didn't see it in the national news section of my local paper, and the national online news didn't cover it for a month and aren't even putting it on the front page a month later.

That's borderline a blackout for something that should be a national shame.

Yes, because I, like most people don't dig past the front page of online news, and most people don't even do that much.

This is still a reflection on the relative lack of promotion such a visceral story should receive.

Good job destroying that strawman.

Repeating exactly what I said is moving the goalposts?

I didn't say nobody wrote an article about it, I said nobody promoted it, it's not on anyone's front page, nor was it included in the physical edition of my local paper over the last week.

It's telling that I haven't seen a single US-based news source promoting this story.

I'm certain they don't prefer the immiseration and famine that comes with the US and/or proxies literally stealing their harvests and oil.

The Kurds are more complicated; Turkey invades/bombs them whenever possible, sometimes the US takes measures against further Turkish aggression, sometimes they ignore it.

In 2019 the Kurds made a deal with Assad for protection and autonomy within Syria after Trump decreased support. For them, Turkey represents a far greater threat than the Syrian government.

Por que no los dos?

Americans

OK, legitimate is a strong term for any bourgeoisie democracy, but some amount of legitimacy comes from defending its people from HTS and all the other US armed terrorist factions, Israel, Turkey, and the US.

That will change once they're not in danger of being subjected to a worse fate by the US, but for now it's the only organization capable of resisting.

Having literally any understanding of geopolitics and history is just tankie shit ig.