• frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]@hexbear.net
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    30 days ago

    you’d think the idiotic state-planners in the US would suddenly realize not having earth mineral refinement in Canada, USA, or Mexico is a serious, existential issue and would do something about it via gov’t investments, subsidies, tax-free industry, etc.

    but lol NOPE.

    china can literally do whatever the fuck it wants and make whatever demands it wants because the idiots in the west are so fucking incompetent. idiot Biden allowed China to get Russian natural gas for cheap because he wouldn’t let Russian trade with anyone else, and then did fuck all to fix the “issue.” just wild blunder after blunder from idiot western gov’ts.

    i know like “fuck george orwell” and everything, but it reminds me of that ~1940 essay the lion and the unicorn (iirc) he wrote wherein idiot UK was manufacturing hats, dresses, furniture, bullshit consumer goods, etc. while Germany was mass producing tanks, guns, bombs, etc.

    same energy