It’s specifically young men that are becoming more right wing. I heard some poll numbers last week since Trump’s approval ratings are tanking. Controlling for male vs female, Gen Z has the biggest gap with 45% of men supporting Trump and 24% of women doing the same in the 18-29 age bracket.

Tbh the COVID shutdown had serious reverberations through the culture that are going to be with us for the rest of our lives. People shouldn’t have been exposed to that much internet.

Makes sense. I’ll take your word for it. I don’t know that industry.

I was citing a US foreign policy-friendly think tank (Center for Strategic and International Studies) that’s citing a global material supply chain analysis group (Project Blue) assuming they would be adversarial to China and willing to sound the alarm. Sounds like it doesn’t matter then.

USians had a choice for a managed decline back in 2016, but elected the way of pain. Real Century of Humiliation hours.

DILB. Damn I Love Birds

BLM

I remember that goon smashing up that auto parts store early on that didn’t seem associated with BLM in any way. Did anything ever come of that?

China also controls the vast majority of rare earth element (REE) processing and put export controls on several heavy REEs in response to the tariffs. From a department of war think tank:

Until 2023, China accounted for 99 percent of global heavy REEs processing, with only minimal output from a refinery in Vietnam. However, that facility has been shut down for the past year due to a tax dispute, effectively giving China a monopoly over supply.

REEs are crucial for a range of defense technologies, including F-35 fighter jets, Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines, Tomahawk missiles, radar systems, Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, and the Joint Direct Attack Munition series of smart bombs. For example, the F-35 fighter jet contains over 900 pounds of REEs. An Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyer requires approximately 5,200 pounds, while a Virginia-class submarine uses around 9,200 pounds.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to rare earths. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!

ass whoopin time

“kombucha”

Every full moon I strap a steak to my chest and go whistling through the woods at night. Real werewolf hours

Pretty sure another report from Bloomberg or something said it was like 90% of the people sent to that jail had no criminal record

Brace demanding that each person call him by a different nickname

I’m so sorry for your loss.

I’m going through it right now too and I don’t have an outlet for it. My dog collapsed a few weeks back. Rushed him into surgery. Put myself into massive debt ($15K). I saved his life, but the biopsy came back hemangiosarcoma. He’s probably got 8 weeks left at most. I’ve been numb for weeks while the bill collectors have been calling. He can tell when I’m upset and it stresses him out so I’ve been doing my best to be happy around him, but knowing he’s going to be gone at any time is… tragic.

It’s absolutely real lol.

Can’t wait for manufacturing to come back to the US!!

Macron (who is somehow still president of France idk) called on the EU to stop investments in the US as well.