r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/capt1nsain0 1d ago edited 1d ago

Look at the Bible Belt. Those states have been super red for decades now. They lead the U.S. in all horrible statistics, such as low education, infant deaths, murders, and poverty. They haven’t learned or changed for it.

At least they aren’t woke though. That’ll show us.

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u/The-Eye-of_Ra 1d ago

Bible Belt in 21st century says it all. Those people have lost touch with reality.

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u/Sprinkle_Puff 1d ago

Sounds like it’s time to kick them out of the union or let them have their own malignant twisted version of what they want , create a wall around it , and isolate them

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u/Yvese 1d ago

They haven't learned because they're incapable of it by design. The GOP wants that for the entire country.

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u/crackanape 1d ago

Until now they were still fat off the surplus provided by cheap trade with China. When the walmart shelves are empty things will be different.

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u/bigredone15 1d ago

The politics of the south are tricky. Everything you posted is correct, but if you removed members of the democratic base from those states, all those numbers would trend right along with the national average.

It is also the part of the country that has been most damaged by the complete outsourcing of US manufacturing over the last 75 years. As a country, we decided we would rather have the poor and working class in other countries making our products than our own poor and working class.

Look at the states that swung towards or again supported Trump. None feel they have benefited from globalization. Is it really irrational that they would vote the way they do?

Your grandfather worked in the mill, job sent to China/Vietnam. Your dad was in construction, job now filled by illegal immigrants.

Doesn't seem irrational at all to be protectionist.

If you haven't spent any time down in the Bible Belt, you should.

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u/donkeylipsh 1d ago edited 1d ago

if you removed members of the democratic base from those states

Who are these people that you're referring to?

C'mon bigot, say it with your chest

Your grandfather worked in the mill, job sent to China/Vietnam

BY THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS OF OLIGARCHS

Your dad was in construction, job now filled by illegal immigrants

BY THE WHITE COLLAR CONTRACTORS WEARING "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" HATS AND BREAKING THE LAW TO RECRUIT THOSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM THEIR HOMELAND AND HIRE THOSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO REPLACE YOU

The people of the bible belt are clearly so fucking bigoted, that they would rather look to very people who caused all their problems for salvation, and believe the lies can can confirmed with any sort of intellectual investigation.

Rather than allow the WoKe MoB to give them a better life

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u/bigredone15 1d ago

It's not a bigoted thing to say at all. Having large, historically poor minority populations in a state is always going to affect the statistics that were referenced. That is why I said the politics are tricky.

When "liberals" point to the south and claim that republican policies are what causes it to stay poor, most republicans in those states will point right back at the "liberal" base as the cause of those statistics. It is an incredibly messy situation. It just becomes a circle of finger pointing and is completely unproductive.

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u/BeefJerkyFreak 1d ago

then why are blue states more prosperous and giving welfare to the red welfare queen states?

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u/donkeylipsh 1d ago

Pretending that pointing at a minority as the source of all your problems isn't bigoted, sums up MAGA completely.

Say it with your chest, who are these minorities?

Straight up fucking nazi scapegoating.

At what point have they been living under the "liberal" policies that you say create their problems? It's almost as if 250 years of bigoted governance intentionally has created all the problems for this minority group, so bigots like you can point to them as the source of the problem.

Why doesn't republican leadership take any responisbility for their failed policies that have created the environment in which a minority population is the struggling in these areas?

Yea, it's the poors who took all your jobs away. And not the panal of billionaires pooping champagne at trumps election.

Fucking nazis man, Dumbest people on earth

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u/bigredone15 1d ago 
Your grandfather worked in the mill, job sent to China/Vietnam

BY THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS OF OLIGARCHS

I'm not exactly sure if you think these tariffs are supported by the "billionaire class of oligarchs" or not. If these tariffs hurt anyone, it is that billionaire class.

BY THE WHITE COLLAR CONTRACTORS WEARING "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" HATS

There is some truth in this for sure. But you have to also admit that uncontrolled illegal immigration has been a major problem and this administration has done more to close the border than any other.

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u/donkeylipsh 1d ago

If these tariffs hurt anyone, it is that billionaire class.

Yea cause the billionaires are going to starve. The billionaires are living paycheck to paycheck. The billionaires are going to lose their house when they lose their job. The billionaires aren't going to be able to retire cause their 401k tanked

Good grief

You are addicted to sucking oligarch dick