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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like coal's back on the menu, boys! (Ugh.)

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha ha, but for real. They'll just turn people's power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

Team Orange let's no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's interesting to see that the circle of profiteers gets smaller and smaller each iteration, since everybody else is losing footing in the process.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

less competition

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

capitalism as predicted by Jack Lennon in the book that inspired 1984

The Iron Heel

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel

The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.

It also inspired the national socialist party of Germany to "redefine socialism" as fascist oligarchism.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am surprised I've never heard of this book. Will need to check it out.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

it stays with you... or should I say it haunts you