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very polarizing statement
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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Nobody needed magnets until ... 20 years ago
[citation needed]
What do you mean citation needed, the elected leader of the world's wealthiest nation said it so that must mean it's true
How do they work? Only China knows!
This dude beat the democrats
Twice. But to be fair, he had a lot of help from democrats.
They completely melted in the face of a confident bullshitter. Biden had the bullshit ability before his brain removedd into complete mush, with an assist from a horribly handled pandemic, but Clinton and Harris weren't convincing at all and ate shit.
About 15% of americans genuinely believe the person who said this quote is one of the smartest people who's ever lived.
Well it’s that or believe something preposterous like wealth isn’t an indicator of intelligence
*latest fad 
Funnily enough he's actually describing a process inherent in capitalism - the creation of new markets and new demands and new needs. No one needed electricity until it was available, and then suddenly everyone needed it.
Electricity has irreplaceable uses though. Some things are virtually useless, like teeth-whitening, but (among other factors) capitalists use advertising to make it so what is otherwise looking normal is now sub-standard.
at least with electricity we can sustain life in a way we couldn't before. what the hell is a smartphone for
jorkin on the go
fuckin magnets, how do they work
Beat me to it, damnit
Folks, Chinese magnets are putting honest, hardworking welders out of work. 20yrs ago, nobody knew what a magnet was until the Chinese told everybody. You're telling me there's a rock that sticks to other metals? Why would you need a rock that sticks to metals, can someone explain that to me? We got the best welders the world has ever seen, so big, so beautiful, so brave, with fire joining metals together. Meanwhile, the Chinese are out there telling everybody about magnets, what do you need a magnet for, huh? Can somebody explain why you need a rock to join other rocks when we got welders and soldering? It just doesn't make sense, and it's putting our honest American workers out of a job. We can't have that, so I'm telling China to quit it with the magnets.
definitely a top 100 all time trump post here
Just shows how out of touch he is, he's obviously never actually had to stick something to his fridge before.
I remember growing up, my mother would have to nail things to the fridge because nobody knew what magnets were yet
in my family we engrave words and pictures we want onto the doors and walls of our heirloom fridge. there's generations of art on that thing
ok but this actually sounds cool
All that freon escaping through the holes always made the house smell funny.
shit don't work on gold fridge
Eric would bring him drawings and instead of putting them on the fridge he'd scare him back into the basement
Among the Four Great Inventions, the magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han dynasty (since c. 206 BC), and later adopted for navigation by the Song dynasty Chinese during the 11th century. The first usage of a compass recorded in Western Europe and the Islamic world occurred around 1190.
the Four Great Inventions
papermaking, printing, compass, and gunpowder in case anyone was curious
Can't believe soy sauce isn't on that list smh my head.
What about the blockchain
"the blockchain" is what they called moveable type
Now why would a civilisation that cooked up minor widgets like that have high expectations for itself
Why is nobody talking about the magnet gap!?
Those dastardly Chinese put all the rare elements under their own damned country! 
nobody needed magnet 20 years ago
nobody needed magnet in 2005
Another Sistine Chapel banger from shitposter-in-chief
Before USA enforced power plants to have at least some permenant magnet alternator, (which requires permenant magnets unlike majority of alternator that uses electromagnets. Electromagnets are preferred because magnetic field can be easily changed with current) power plants needed outside souces for electricity to start producing it.
When a major blackout accured, you needed electricity from thousands of kilometres away to restart your power plant. But now they can restart on their own because of magnets
I’ve been about magnets the entire time
I blame ICP