rhettoreck.bsky.social
A single tree has more value than 10 magats.
No unity with fascists, kill them all.
Everything bad began with Reagan.
Tom Homan, gargle my balls.
Less boastin' more postin'.
That's all the important stuff.
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I see W. Va as the model state for what would happen if we let R's have a free rein over the economy. We get a country full of poor, ignorant slaves with Stockholm Syndrome, dying of occupational diseases as they turn their environment into a toxic moonscape w/technicolor rivers and oxycontin rain.
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We get 80% of our tungsten from China. We simply don't have it. We cannot produce arms w/o tungsten. If we're dependent on China for that, what diff does it make if we're dependent on them for lithium or neodynium or whatever? We can't go it alone. That's the bottom line.
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The fact is, we have neither the mining NOR the refining capacity. There is no way we will EVER be "independent" in terms of certain rare earth minerals. If we're dependent on a couple, we're dependent period. I don't trust this gov't to properly regulate the expansion of production or refining REMs
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I was referring to the distant past when the UK and most of Europe was deforested to build ships. We're on the same path here now, except it's to build housing with our inferior American lumber instead of Canadian lumber. Maybe after we clearcut 280M acres, some cool birds like yours will evolve.
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Pretty obvious since he told Canada we didn't need their lumber that he's bent on returning to an old-fashioned, 19th-century economy. That means unfettered resource extraction. Look for privatization of all public lands including drilling, clearcutting & strip-mining of national parks & forests.
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W. Va. Those ppl are slaves to King Coal. They're scared shitless to even think of anything else. The Dems have offered them everything but the moon to abandon that archaic industry but they refuse. They'll kill their kids & ship coal to China at a loss if that's what it takes to please King Coal.
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The problem is their location. This mining is filthy, toxic and everything bad you can dream of. Will we turn Yosemite into a lithium mine? I trust the Chinese more than this gov't in terms of the potential damage that can be caused by the mining, refining, supply or lack of supply of these minerals
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Long as they ain't no black woman tellin' me what to do.
And no transy people playin volleyball either.
Now, pass me my lunchbox. I'm late. Gotta drop Junior off at the tater field on the way to the hog factory. Don't want the boy hungry come lunchtime and they let 'em keep a tater for themselves.
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No problem. That's what brain drains are for and we're fixing to have an enormous one soon. The EU is falling all over themselves to make it comfy for scientists and other disrespected professionals to emigrate. If I was in that demo, I'd be seriously lined up for France or somewhere by now.
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And its proponents know that they and thousands of others are dedicated to replacing thousands of dirty fingers with one giant machine run by a guy in an air-conditioned cab. Coal mining jobs are filthy & dead-end by design, both by the hands of their own industry and by its rejection by consumers.
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Resource extraction is what's left after a regime purges from gov't influence the rule of law, academia, science, specialized expertise, continuity, institutional memory & all the institutions, defense & economic alliances that made this country a desirable place to invest in better things than that
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No fair. You guys got way better birds then we do. Do we need to cut down all our forests too? Lol..
j/k
You do have cooler birds though.
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I learned it's not a physical malady either.
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I was excoriated for not agreeing that the term "boobie" or "boob" is a gendered insult when directed at someone dumb. Had to remind them that the Blue-Footed Boobie had a reputation, esp among sailors, for being dumb so she can stop wearing big sweaters cuz there's no relationship there.
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Absolutely, they'll kill dissenters. They'll first do it by proxy, then everything will be "treason" and sentences that amount to a death penalty will be thrown around like candy, to be served here or in a foreign hellhole. Strongarming law firms and "investigating" ppl like Krebs is the first step.
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If we let it be normalized, it'll be our new way of living. If we don't take back Congress with a VETO PROOF majority in '26, it'll be our new way of life. If we don't scare Congress into some spine and resist in huge numbers, it'll all be normal to too many people, just like Trump himself.
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It's "dissented from them", but you're still not far off the mark with "dissected".
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Today, immigrants, tomorrow citizens. Today, heinous gangsters, tomorrow Tesla vandals. The KGB stopped snatching ppl off the street in broad daylight cuz of bad optics and moved instead to 4 AM bedroom raids. I suspect ICE will follow the same playbook eventually.
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I guess that means if they become citizens they'll have to fight for their contributions to be credited to them. He's stealing untold amounts of money from legal immigrants and leaving it up to them to navigate the Kafkaesque mess he created to get it back.
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So, like I said, keep your head down. You'll notice that, outside of induced wars and famines, the people who are targeted are the people who act like they should be living in a free country or something. They don't go after the sheep. They need them to produce. Not saying it's good, just safe.
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Like being in prison. You learn the system. There's always someone for them to go after who hasn't. Most prisons in developed countries are actually pretty safe, especially if you mind your own business and don't ask for anything. Similar to life in a fascist police state, 'cepting for famines, etc.
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I was 16 before I realized anyone made a connection between alcohol and sin. Mine was an Italian family. My dad drank wine when he was 6, yet the bottoms would rust out of a 6 pack in the fridge when he was an adult. Repression was never a thing in our home. It only causes problems later.
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Fascists exist on the illusion of power, not any results. They crave the pageantry, the hierarchy and extension of power they perceive in fascist regimes. They don't care to know much about economics or anything complex. That's right up the magat alley and these ppl will do fine in a police state.
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How winguts used to love to throw around that old Franklin quote about those trading liberty for security deserving neither. Don't hear that one much lately. But fascists don't often come for the weak, ignorant and properly compliant, so authoritarian personalities like magats can do ok under them.
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That's good but he looks like no one more than Mussolini as played by George C. Scott. All Hitler comparisons pale beside Benaldo Trumpolini.
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We got too big for our britches with all that "cheap chinese garbage". We need to have our heads down in a factory like in 1899, but putting millions of screws into millions of iPhones. Bring back belching smokestacks, clearcut forests, technicolor rivers and child labor. It's the Gilded Age Redux.
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What really drives it home is to look outside our blue bubble and read the comments posted under vids by CBS, ABC, FOX etc. Millions of us would love to be a fascist police state like El Salvador. It's the easiest way ever to ensure safety, as long as you keep your head down and your mouth shut.
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And just as much the fault of millions of people too blind to see them for who they really were, or too cowed, apathetic or complacent to do anything about it.
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I'll say this much. Now that we've had this discussion, you will notice what I'm saying. Like when you buy a car and begin to notice all the other cars just like it. This trend is related to or caused by a marketing campaign that was copycatted or SM fad. It's not the organic evolution of language.
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I agree. I shall ask such a scholarly type to lesson me some tips for more effective braining and see what he languages.
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Cap gains need to be taxed like ordinary income. Half of this country's economic imbalance is caused by this dogma that unearned income is so much more productive than earned income that it should be taxed less. Makes sense only wrt the interests of that class of donors who most influenced tax codes
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...decided years ago that it wasn't in our best interests to produce domestically. Meanwhile, this same donor class scoops up equities during the ensuing depression with the tax savings we subsidize each time we buy an import, because imported stuff is once again reserved for the affluent.
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Deliberate error to facilitate a giant dump and pump. They'll buy up a bunch of stocks when the DOW hits <30K, discover their "mistake", pause the tariffs, recalculate, impose minimal tariffs, declare victory, watch the market rebound, cash in and get richer.
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Yeah, but that's harder than it sounds. When I was a kid, I used to envy Protestants cuz they only had to time it right and accept jeebus just once, right before they died, then they were home free. We catholics had to do that shit every week! I prayed to be struck dead every time I left confession.
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The quickest way to a prison cell is to live by biblical morality unfiltered and un-cherrypicked using today's moral standards. Those who need the bible for their morality need to be closely monitored in case they lose their biblical faith and confidence and force us to shoot them like rabid dogs.
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By the time they get done, you'll be lucky to see a tree at all. You'll be hearing steam cleaners on asphalt.
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I realized just an hour ago that no one in this regime has ever expressed compassion unless it was some performative bs to exploit a crime victim. Other than that, they're all a gang of sociopaths. Not one has expressed concern for the ppl they're cutting off vital social services, only denial.
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The way things are looking here, deporting them back to where they came from might be the most humane thing in the long run.
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Yes, perhaps you're right. Maybe I'm just not an expert. I'll be sure to ask a brain surgeon what music he listens to when he brains, or a neighbor what he likes to do when he families, since I'm neither a family nor a brain scholar so may be unfamiliar with the jargon.
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As for losing our world standing, prestige, trust, or institutions that separated us from any other shithole on earth, those are gone and can't be replaced cuz they evolved organically, involving decades of expertise, diplomacy, statesmanship and everything being purged forever from public service
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All we can do now is pressure congress while the regime's contempt charges and constitutional crises pile up. If we don't take back Congress so they can impeach him and hobble JD until we can elect a proper pres, we're toast. The only alternative then will get me sent to El Salvador if I mention it.
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That's what I'm talking about. Food jargon has appropriated mechanics' jargon. It's all a part of a stupid fad of turning nouns into verbs. I first noted it a few years ago when "brain" suddenly became a verb, along with other nouns like "family" and "math". Dozens more nouns are also verbs now.
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What investor would invest in a place so schizo, erratic and subject to the momentary whims of an ignorant and unrestrained psychopathic cult leader? What honest person would move to a gangster country from anywhere better than a cardboard shack?
Nothing can ever rebuild the legacy maga destroyed
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Sorry, Suzy. We're not talking about things that might happen. This is water under the bridge. Fait accompli.Done deal. The brain drain of scientists has begun and it certainly extends to public health research. What scientist would be stupid enough to sit through the trump/RFK Dark Ages Redux?
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So, there ya go.
Raskin/Auchincloss '28.
Quite the mouthful.
But I fear we're too stupid for that much phonics. Only Buttegiege/Auchincloss could be worse.
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Yeah, managed to dodge the sinkholes so far, but the rednecks are a different issue. I'd prefer the sinkholes.
You're lucky to live where you do. I was priced out of my home and away from my beloved Gulf 5 yrs ago. It was the only good thing left of this state. Now I have the rednecks but no Gulf.
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I just noticed your January date. That'll give him time to deport a few hundred thousand of them. Their special status is over, so it'll be interesting to find out if they'll feel a bit less lovingly toward the same Dear Leader they were so sure was going to eat the other guy's face but not theirs.