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by grej 269 days ago
In addition to Korea being one of our most important military allies in the world, you need batteries for military drones, and the US is way behind in the development of a domestic manufacturing supply chain for next gen batteries.

So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration. Or at least, more important than either the domestic economic interests of their own base or strategic national security interests.
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ModernMech 269 days ago
> So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration

Just now? The man entered politics and the first thing he said was how he was going to build a wall to keep the "criminal, diseased, rapist" Mexicans out. Yeah, of course this administration is preoccupied with nationalist xenophobia.

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breadwinner 269 days ago
> nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration

It is a little more complicated than that. It is what around 40% of American population want. (Then another 9.5% or so voted for Trump based on the price of eggs, the fact that the other candidate was a woman, and so on).

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asdff 269 days ago
40% of the voting population*
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nobody9999 269 days ago
Actually, it was ~30% of the voting population.

According to Wikipedia[0]:

Trump/Vance received 77,302,580 votes (49.8% of votes cast)

Harris/Walz received 75,017,613 votes (48.3% of votes cast)

Total votes cast: 152,320,193.

Those in the US eligible to vote[1]: ~250-260 million.

77,302,580/250,000,000 == ~0.3 or 30%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

[1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/... [PDF]

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amalcon 269 days ago
That's worse, though. It implies that 40% of the "electorate" was (in some combination) either prevented from voting or not bothered enough by the difference between plausible electoral outcomes to actually try to influence said outcome.
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OutOfHere 269 days ago
Just because the people voted for Trump does not mean that the people don't want visa laws followed. Also, voting for someone does not give that someone carte blanche to do whatever the hell they please.
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