US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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The Dubya administration's obsession with forcing democracy on Arabs led to Hamas ruling Gaza and Iran almost completely infiltrating the government of Iraq to the point where Soleimani would sometimes sit in meetings instead of the Prime minister. It was idiotic
Especially considering they consider democracy idolatry.
 
Bernard and John the savage long for Gods presence in their lives. For true human ties and connections, for meaning. I know this is rage bait, but if you truly don't understand or sympathize with their struggle you might not be human.
Think you might have some reading comprehension issues, where in my post did I imply that I "don't understand or sympathize with their struggle"? I'm saying that their problems have much more to do with the enforced culture of shallow media consumption, drug use and casual sex than the whole lobotimized test tube baby caste system.
A major part of his alienation comes from his wife getting all her dopamine hits via interactive TV, where the people praising her and telling her she's beautiful can't see her chemically destroyed hair and ruined skin. That wasn't quite possible yet when the book was written, but Instagram and filters have made it real.
Been a while since I read the book but I remember his girlfriend/wife just being a conventionally attractive airheaded stacy, and that part of his inferiority complex comes from the fact that she's way out of his league.
 
A major part of his alienation comes from his wife getting all her dopamine hits via interactive TV, where the people praising her and telling her she's beautiful can't see her chemically destroyed hair and ruined skin. That wasn't quite possible yet when the book was written, but Instagram and filters have made it real.
Instagram and TikTok hit women like crack hit the black community.
 
My apologies for a slight derail, but i think it fits. Y'all are talking about books to read, and it's one of my favorite topics to sperg about a little bit. This is a little project teh UK did a few years back, they put together a list of 200ish books that people thought were required reading. It sounds dumb, but it actually ended up being a great list, some trash on there but mostly really good stuff, and a lot of stuff you probably haven't heard of. I've been buying and reading 12 a year for a couple years now, and putting them in this big old box i'm going to gift my daughter when she has her first kid. (hopefully that's not anytime soon, she's in middle school lol)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Read

Not seen thsi posted yet, one faggot congressman claims the peace deal is bad because we don't negotiate with terrorists. https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/t...ews-not-a-fan-of-negotiating-with-terrorists/ https://archive.ph/BLH2W
 
How was i supposed to interpret this statement?

"it mostly comes from him being an autistic manlet who has trouble relating with normies. "

This sounds like you're diminishing their experience.
It's an intentionally facetious way of describing the truth. The main triggers for his alienation are that he's got a complex regarding his height, and that he, unlike most of his peers, has little interest in engaging with the shallow entertainment brainwashing his society. I could see how you could read that as diminishing their experience but that was not my intent.
 
The venezuelan broad is smart enough to dedicate the prize to T-Money, which just guarantees Maduro won't be there in a year:

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Literally all you have to do is be nice to Trump and good things will happen, simplest fucking rule in the world.
 
The prices of things are coming down btw. Not all at once, but they are. There are areas still high, but a lot of that can be explained by shortages in materials, like aluminum. Talked about cans like 20 pages back, but aluminum is worth a lot now. The US has some Bauxite reserves, but a lot is imported. Gas is weird. It depends where you are. It isn't Biden levels anymore where I'm at, but I'd like it to be under 3.
Aluminum is weird because the ore is not the costly part, electricity is. Hence most producers are area with very cheap energy (like canada with the very cheap hydro).

Similarly, "rare earths" are not rare at all, but extracting them is an environmental nightmare so only china is really open to poison it's land and citizen to extract it.

Both are area where producing locally wouldn't have much effect in lowering cost
 
Literally all you have to do is be nice to Trump and good things will happen, simplest fucking rule in the world.
I hope Trump pivots to more Realpolitik-oriented foreign policy after this debacle. Resolving foreign slap fighting is not always the best for the interests of the United States. The countries involved aren't always grateful either, considering the recent comments both Pakistan and India made when Trump floated the idea of getting the Bagram Airfield back from Afghanistan.
 
The venezuelan broad is smart enough to dedicate the prize to T-Money, which just guarantees Maduro won't be there in a year:

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Literally all you have to do is be nice to Trump and good things will happen, simplest fucking rule in the world.
They had democracy in Venezuela. They elected Chavez.

I hope Trump pivots to more Realpolitik-oriented foreign policy after this debacle. Resolving foreign slap fighting is not always the best for the interests of the United States. The countries involved aren't always grateful either, considering the recent comments both Pakistan and India made when Trump floated the idea of getting the Bagram Airfield back from Afghanistan.
Trump's biggest failing is that he is a Boomer and believes, in his heart, that democracy and freedom are universal values that know no race, creed, or sex.
 
Aluminum is weird because the ore is not the costly part, electricity is. Hence most producers are area with very cheap energy (like canada with the very cheap hydro).

Similarly, "rare earths" are not rare at all, but extracting them is an environmental nightmare so only china is really open to poison it's land and citizen to extract it.

Both are area where producing locally wouldn't have much effect in lowering cost
It's not just the electricity though. Rare earth's are common. What are uncommon are deposits. Asia has high concentration. As for aluminum, it isn't as common in America as Iron. Yes electricity is a factor. Getting the material is still massive
 
Aluminum is weird because the ore is not the costly part, electricity is. Hence most producers are area with very cheap energy (like canada with the very cheap hydro).
The US is removing those dams as fast as possible. I imagine it's even worse in Canada, but I couldn't find any numbers.
AI Overview

More than 150 dams have been removed in the Pacific Northwest, with 39 of those in Washington alone. These include large-scale projects like the four dams removed from the Klamath River, with many smaller, older, or no longer functioning dams also removed to restore river habitats. Dam removal has also occurred in Canada, though specific numbers for that country are not detailed in the provided results.

Pacific Northwest
  • Total: Over 150 dams have been removed in the Pacific Northwest, with many removals focusing on smaller, older dams to restore fish access to upstream habitats.
  • Washington: 39 dams have been removed in Washington state.
  • Klamath River: Four major dams were removed from the Klamath River, which is the largest dam removal project in U.S. history and has reconnected over 400 miles of river.
  • Other examples: Several smaller, older dams have been removed from rivers like the Elwha, Rogue, Sprague, White Salmon, and Clark Fork.
Canada
  • Dam removal projects have also been completed in Canada, but the provided sources do not specify the number of removed dams or the specific regions
 
Israel is releasing tons of killers including the murderer of an acquaintance's wife,
it's weird how quickly having ties to Israel ends up going "and here's the part about killing"

like for me there's a guy at work I know enough for light bantz back and forth, he's mostly out of Israel
the musician shacked up with the enby killed on 10/7 was his nephew
he had a grim joke about how CNN profiled him as an "accomplished composer" being a mix of a post-humous promotion and like "austere religious scholar"
 
The US is removing those dams as fast as possible. I imagine it's even worse in Canada, but I couldn't find any numbers.
AI Overview

More than 150 dams have been removed in the Pacific Northwest, with 39 of those in Washington alone. These include large-scale projects like the four dams removed from the Klamath River, with many smaller, older, or no longer functioning dams also removed to restore river habitats. Dam removal has also occurred in Canada, though specific numbers for that country are not detailed in the provided results.

Pacific Northwest
  • Total: Over 150 dams have been removed in the Pacific Northwest, with many removals focusing on smaller, older dams to restore fish access to upstream habitats.
  • Washington: 39 dams have been removed in Washington state.
  • Klamath River: Four major dams were removed from the Klamath River, which is the largest dam removal project in U.S. history and has reconnected over 400 miles of river.
  • Other examples: Several smaller, older dams have been removed from rivers like the Elwha, Rogue, Sprague, White Salmon, and Clark Fork.
Canada
  • Dam removal projects have also been completed in Canada, but the provided sources do not specify the number of removed dams or the specific regions
it’s mostly a PNW and west coast thing, no real push for un damning in the rest of the country

All the built up silt from Dams gets released when they un dam and it ends up killing most life downstream kek.

California recently doomed a salamander species because of the un damming

I can understand being against the construction of new dams but getting rid of old ones causes just as much damage to a river as plopping a dam on it. If it’s old and it works why de-dam
 
It's not just the electricity though. Rare earth's are common. What are uncommon are deposits. Asia has high concentration. As for aluminum, it isn't as common in America as Iron. Yes electricity is a factor. Getting the material is still massive
Yes, it is just electricity. Canada bring bauxite by the boatload. Still much cheaper because they get very cheap electricity in quebec. On the other side, Canada has very nice rare earth deposit that will likely never be exploited because of the acid leeching and other process to separate them.

Basically no metal is as common as iron. Iron is the most stable element. Fusion produces energy until you reach Iron, then going higher cost energy. Fission energy potential is the inverse, the higher ,and thus farther you are from Iron the better.

What i'm saying is there is a reason for things to be as they are, and "we'll just do it ourselves" isn't always worthwhile
 
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