Just a heads up that it’s a felony to make these kind of statements.

At best it’s a conspiracy to commit a crime an at worst it’s the crime itself, DDoS.

So I hope you used a good VPN when you posted this.

I was on the fence about the new Pope until now, but fuck em. Fuck the pope. I’d rather have the old one back, again, because even though he had shifty ideals on Ukraine at least he was too crippled to run his mouth.

Pretty sure thats part of the illegal thing done by these two, no?

Student loans are loans from third party lenders which are cosigned by the federal government for collateral.

Even if every government record of it were destroyed, the loan servicers would have perfect multiple ledger copies of it all.

You would be surprised, I’m sure there are a lot of foreign agents in US Prisons. Great place to train insurgents and radicals.

Honestly, yeah, please stop.

You overestimate the value of intercontinental ground telecom.

Russia occupies a lot of Ukrainian territory since the start of the three day operation years ago, Ukraine occupies a little of Russia’s last time I checked.

Putin is a lot like his puppet Trump. He can say this “special operation” is over as many times as he likes, that doesn’t make it true.

I think it pretty much only ends when one side agrees to give territory to the other in order to end it.

I wager the same reason a lot of comic books reference japanese culture or style in some form: they revolutionized comic illustration and printing technology for the modern era.

The USA had a similar effect on Television, movies, and radio broadcasts.

If tomorrow India invented a Neutron Teleportation based communication technology and used it to broadcast media to a receiver through the crust of the earth faster than sattelite, then whatever media they broadcast in the beginning would likely have longlasting impacts on culture everywhere.

That’s what we’re here for

You’re right, the USA can only import from this list of countries it has not tariffed:

1. /sarcasm

Jokes aside, India would certainly be smart to keep their biggest adversary, China, weak both economically and militarily.

Cobalt is easy to obtain outside of China but the issue is the Samarium. It can be obtained from Acid Cracking a mineral called Monazite which was once historically mined in South Carolina until a massive reserve was discovered in india, and it actually has a higher yield per weight than the Chinese Bastnäsite which can also be found in a couple of places in Africa.

The problem is even if the USA could source from other places than China in theory, the actual infrastructure to do so is not currently in place, and furthermore the Trump admin’s capability in securing a deal for the future is practically nonexistent.

Sometimes economists don’t/can’t factor in changes in production starting from near 0. Kind of like, any economist before the space program would have said a moon landing was 100% economically unfeasible.

I’m not sure what exactly the refining of cobalt to weapons grade is, but DR Congo exported 200,800 Tons of Cobalt in 2024 which is over 100x as much as China.

EDIT: Ah, I see, the Samarium is the problem not the Cobalt lmao

Looks like Monazite is a good source for it with extensive reserves in India, Brazil, and South Carolina, and as an added bonus it can be used to harvest Thorium.

Your message is like telling a woman to stop carrying mace to defend herself from rape, to take down the restraining order so the rapist and his convicted felon rapist friends can move into the next apartment over.

Cuba had every capability of avoiding this outcome, demonstrable by the fact that THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN TO OTHER COUNTRIES. Cuba has every tool at its disposal to stop this immediately. Remove the despots from power, stop cooperating with adversarial nations on the other side of the globe. Simple as.

If you think that’s a wild take then you will be surprised to find a user replied to my comment before you certifying that they 100% actually believe that. It’s called a “Tankie”, supporters of autocratic regimes in Russia and China, and by extension their military allies Indonesia, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. They have a huge presence on the fediverse because the developers of the Lemmy platform are Tankies themselves, which is why many users migrated to Piefed instances.

You heard it here, folks, the cold war is a conspiracy. China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea: all democracies. /sarcasm

Okay? And?