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U.S.' inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS

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  • Oh well, I'm sure Trump can just annex China along with Greenland and Canada. Don't sweat it folks. Right after grocery prices come down, I'm sure.

    • I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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  • I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.

    • What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?

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  • NFT, AI, "the blockchain", 3D TVs, SaaS... I know I'm forgetting some more tech trends that have been annoying from start to finish in the past ten or twenty years.

    (Sadly SaaS seems to be doing OK right now, and I suspect our Windows friends are not too far from OSaaS)

    • 'Homegrowns are next': Trump doubles down on sending American 'criminals' to foreign prisons

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  • except perhaps it would have meant more publicity and lent credibility to the opposition, which seems to have been intentionally ignored and marginalized by major media so far.

    This is one of the things bothering me the most. Yeah yeah owned by billionaires who support Trump. But this is our media, it's one of the things I grew up being taught helped preserve our democracy.

    And yet they spent years sanewashing Trump and are now failing to adequately cover the resistance to Trump.

    Are those principled folks who resigned publicly the only ones who remember why they are here?

    • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller’s is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.

    I dunno folks. we certainly don't have any other examples of Trump policies or behavior that might support this notion. I'm glad they are just "increasingly questioning" it.

    Maybe when the concentration camps start showing up on US soil that will be enough.

    • Trump's polling problem: Voters no longer blame economy on Biden

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  • 20% said both of their policies are equally to blame

    What the fuck is wrong with 20% of respondents? I can understand blaming it on Biden better than I can understand this response.

    • 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

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  • I'm even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don't have to be reminded again that such a page exists.

    • Salvadoran president says he won’t return wrongly deported man to U.S.

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  • Didn’t they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?

    That's only when you have functioning institutions and a commander in chief that cares about people.

    • History never repeats itself but it rhymes

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    • History never repeats itself but it rhymes

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  • OK.

    Have been told for about a decade now that we're overreacting about Trump and meanwhile he's doing exactly what has been predicted, exactly what he's said he'll do.

    Folks acting like this is all normal are as big a problem as the magas. It's not. We're 1930s Germany, LATE 1930s Germany.

    https://www.project2025.observer/

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  • Daughter says it’s just the way the world works - life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.

    See if you can get her to consider that the big dog at a place like her High School may very well be the small dog elsewhere. There is always someone smarter and hotter. She's a big fish in that specific small pond.

    Remembering there's no guarantee she's always the big dog might help her start to develop some empathy for the small dog. The initial impulse may be self-preservation, but maybe personal growth will flow from there.

    • Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’

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  • Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?

    • History never repeats itself but it rhymes

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  • If it doesn't happen it's because we stopped it, not because it wasn't going to.

    • History never repeats itself but it rhymes

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  • If you don't recognize that we're just at the start, sure.

    • Idaho passed bill limiting flags governments could fly. Boise keeps flying Pride flag, adds another

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  • Thanks!

    • Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading

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  • raises fear that confidence in America is fading

    Just now that fear is being raised?

    • Idaho passed bill limiting flags governments could fly. Boise keeps flying Pride flag, adds another

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  • Is there an article linked that I'm missing somehow?

    • History never repeats itself but it rhymes

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  • Yeah, like most such memes I stole it from another post, and as I was looking at it after submitting it hit me that it had that look. Sincerely sorry.

    • Sanders introduces bill to raise minimum wage to $17 by 2030, benefits nearly 22 million Americans

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  • Well some of those people will surely be brown and poor, so no way R is going to go for this.

    • I'm new and missed the lore

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  • I'm sorry about whatever stunted your reading comprehension.