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It was banned in the 80's shortly after it hit the charts. The ban was based on nationalism, religion and firearms. This shite has been happening for a long time.

Last I read it's early 2026. They were hoping for this year but the government shutdown moved the timeline.

Quantum computing is the wildcard. It's progressing much faster than I thought possible just a few months ago.

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We police the world while many allies shirk their military obligations and we subsidize many of our allies health care. Tell me how that's existing at our pleasure.

Are you advocating being the worlds bitch? It sure seems like it.

No problem at all, but we must reciprocate. They should do what they feel is best for their citizens and we should do the same.

It is definitely hypocritical to throttle your own industry with environmental regulations and turn around and support companies that are doing what is forbidden for the home-grown companies. You see what's happening to California and their over-the-top regulations and taxes.

advantages for them and disadvantages for us when it comes to competitiveness. If it's important for us to enforce strict environmental standards at home, then it's a little hypocritical to then buy from a pollution machine that shares the same planet.

It's never that black and white. Countries with lax environmental standards will almost always eat our lunch in terms of the heavy industry required to keep a military running.

How many true capitalist countries do we trade with? Do other countries tariff our goods? Are we currently a true capitalist country? Our local and federal governments pick winners and losers all the time, we don't live in a world where everything is black and white.

I believe in the world we live in, where other countries are waging economic, judicial and electronic warfare that tariffs are a tool that can be used effectively within our current version of capitalism.