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You get what you fucking deserve.

When a culture is dominant it is confident and tolerant of others. When a culture loses dominance it becomes less tolerant. This is what is happening to the USA currently.

USA cannot now fight a war of any scale without Chinas support. USA does not have the rare earths supply chains needed. US exceptionalism blinded America to the emerging mercantile power of China.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/why-china-will-still-dominate-rare-earths-for-a-long-time 'The four decades that China spent building dominance in the small world of critical minerals is proving frustratingly hard to overcome.'

Bitcoin is symptomatic of the decline in trust in US institutions and authority. It may help in being an alternative SoV and MoE to the USD and its derivatives.

Usury is sin.

@Cje95 Thoughts?

'Social media can leave plenty of traces even if they are not on your phone.

"Social media apps can contain cached or copied content that is on the device's hard drive, even though the original content is principally stored on the social media company's servers," Cope said.

"Thus, when a device is in airplane mode, some of that content may be viewable on the device, even if it's otherwise private. As such, people can delete those apps for the purpose of travel and reinstall them later to avoid border agents accessing cached private social media content."

A New Zealand telecommunications expert who asked not to be named told RNZ that "I suspect if you've been online telling everyone what you think about Donald, it's too late" even if you delete information from your phone.

The expert said that the information is out there and seen by companies such as Peter Thiel-founded mass surveillance technology company Palantir.

"If apps are deleted on a phone but an officer knows ahead of time about a traveller's social media, the lack of the apps on the phone might lead to more scrutiny and questioning," Cope said.

"I had prepared," Kitchen said. "You go through the passport control and you do make sure that your social media has been cleaned up, that your phone is missing messages that might have been critical of Donald Trump, for example. ...In my case, it was not sufficient exactly because they had already done this background search on me."'

Not sure if it applies to Canada but does apply to over 40 countries -

'US President Donald Trump's administration is planning to order visa-exempt foreign tourists, including Australians, to disclose their social media histories from the past five years before entering the country.

The proposal, laid out in a notice published on Tuesday in the Federal Register, would apply to visitors from Australia and 41 other countries, including New Zealand, Britain, France and Japan, who do not currently need a visa to enter the United States.'

Just a few days ago there was a TV warning not to travel to the US as new visa rules come in requiring applicants to disclose their last 5 years social media posts. Commentators were comparing this to the rules applied in autocracies...not democracies. You can even get approved the US visa but then have it withdrawn once you are in the US on your travel and so then have to immediately return home. This new rule appears to apply to countries previously considered friendly toward the US.

You claim to be a Bitcoin Maxi but you refuse to enable Bitcoin payments wallet here on Stacker News. You are deliberately boycotting bitcoin p2p MoE here on Stacker News. You are an arsemilking hypocrit.

Trump is stalling this. I quote- 'Trump in August said he was “looking at reclassification.” He would be finishing what started under President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, which followed the recommendation of federal health officials in proposing a rule to reclassify marijuana; that proposal has stalled since Trump took office.' 'The Biden administration pursued efforts to ease access to the drug, with health officials recommending reclassification to Schedule III in 2023. But health officials have said that those recommendations were slowed down by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which took months to undergo required administrative reviews and were not completed before the end of Biden’s term. The Drug Enforcement Administration was supposed to hold an administrative hearing on the proposal, with a judge hearing from experts on the health benefits and risks of marijuana. But the hearing has been in legal limbo since Trump took office, amid allegations from cannabis companies that the DEA was working to torpedo the measure.'

Trump needs any distraction he can get from the fact that USA cannot fight any war of any size anymore because China controls the supply of rare earths and without them the USA military is in paralysis. About the most they can do anymore is illegally hijack Venezuelan oil tankers.

Trump is overseeing the decline of US military based global hegemony.

Might as well get stoned and go with the flower power, peacenik.

'Trump in August said he was “looking at reclassification.” He would be finishing what started under President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, which followed the recommendation of federal health officials in proposing a rule to reclassify marijuana; that proposal has stalled since Trump took office.'

'The Biden administration pursued efforts to ease access to the drug, with health officials recommending reclassification to Schedule III in 2023. But health officials have said that those recommendations were slowed down by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which took months to undergo required administrative reviews and were not completed before the end of Biden’s term. The Drug Enforcement Administration was supposed to hold an administrative hearing on the proposal, with a judge hearing from experts on the health benefits and risks of marijuana. But the hearing has been in legal limbo since Trump took office, amid allegations from cannabis companies that the DEA was working to torpedo the measure.'

Trump is stalling on this.

The US health system is incredibly inefficient and more than imposes additional cost upon citizens (not to mention massive inequities) compared to Europes collectively funded public health systems.

The real problem with both US and EU is that Chinas mixed mercantile economy has rendered them un-competitive in manufacturing and dependent upon Chinese manufactured goods.

China now dominates both manufacturing and commodity markets globally and enjoys trillion dollar trade surpluses because it makes the things other people want and need and makes them more efficiently than anyone else can.

Meanwhile USA cannot fight a war of any size without the rare earths that China now refuses to sell to any buyer who might route it to US military purposes.

The USA is fucked.

The US Exceptionalists didn't even see it coming before it was done.

They are still struggling to see it, even now its done.

Most people go to doctors for solutions to problems of their own making.

Economists could say the same.

USA doesn't make much of any value anymore except military hardware and financial services. Death and Debt.

Neoliberal financialisation and globalisation has resulted in the destruction of Americas productive economy and infrastructure. More financialisation will not fix it. The centre of productive economic activity and development has shifted- to China.

Trump is trying to maintain US global monetary hegemony- threatening to sanction any BRICS who settle trade outside of the USD- but multiple countries are already doing that...with China leading them.

The only viable option for USA is retreat- into regional hegemony over the Americas. USA cannot now fight a war of any scale without the rare earths supply China controls and has already blocked from export to any military end uses.

US hegemony is the most significant factor in the US economy. With China now dominating global manufacturing and trade in commodities the US is on the defensive regarding its shrinking sphere of power projection.

The oil and gas reserves of Russia and Iran have already fallen to China and Venezuela is another crack in the wall of US global resource hegemony.

Trump appears to be retreating US sphere of influence to the Americas so will be determined to regain control over Venezuelan oil deposits. Will China allow that to happen?

These are the real economics.

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