Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

What have I started lol.

Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…

Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.

You can make bread with rice flour too if that’s your thing.

Of course not, you can’t see very far below the surface.

Delicious.

Aluminium goes in one end and out the other, does it not?

Would love to, unfortunately, I’m a citizen of the globe, not the US. I wish you the best of luck!

This. Especially reporters. They should all call out lies and abuse without hesitation. Access to the Whitehouse press office isn’t worth it. Don’t even cover that shit. Make Trump have to step outside if he wants an audience.

No, but what I want is for the Memdani momentum to continue.

So, what now? Is there a socialist candidate the left can vote for instead?

True, good points.

Interesting. Didn’t think of the military applications. I think both countries care about cutting edge technology markets in general, and not creating economic chaos by shutting down TSMC. But once TSMC in Taiwan itself is no longer essential, all bets are off. Given both US and China want to get away from relying on TSMC, it’s only a matter of time.

With the US currently only caring about money and power, all interest in Taiwan’s defence will evaporate. I hope for Taiwan’s sake politics change before that day comes.

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

Chinas chip fabrication is advancing quickly. So assuming Taiwan remains strong and doesn’t get infiltrated, we won’t see an invasion until China is confident it doesn’t need Taiwanese chips for its own technology. Then, it’ll just be about politics and having more of the coast line and trade routes secured, not the fabs.

I reckon there’s at least a few more years before they will take Taiwan by force. Time for international relationships to change for the better…

And kids. They want every unwanted child to be forced into the world, regardless of the life they will enter. I guess most of the abandoned ones would be raised in horrific church-run foster care halls in the past. Gotta maintain the supply of easily indoctrinated followers and labourers.

Thanks for the additional context.

It is of course about all supposed benefits to the US of economic colonisation.

The rare earth component seems less known. Articles like this may shed some light.

The anti-war FIFA peace prize winner just started a war to liberate Venezuela from imaginary drug lords, whose imaginary drug traffickers were systematically murdered as a pretense, for what is actually a ploy to avoid having to negotiate a deal with China for rare earth minerals because they’re too expensive now thanks to tarrifs he imposed.

I don’t think this is real life anymore. It’s more absurd than any media storyline I’m aware of outside of drug trip movies.

Yeah, I have no idea how I misread that as “blew up on the internet”.

Explain the meme for me. I may just have a synical mind that goes to dark places.

Just a small loan of some God given bodily assets, a touch of charisma, and probably not at risk of being homeless if drops out of education and becomes an adult with no other tangible skills. Also we only see the 1% of the 1% who succeed. For all of them I expect many ended up in actual porn or at least OnlyFans.

I’m fun at parties.

Knows…