Do we have any reason to believe there's giant blocks of pure, rare metals on the moon or asteroids? At least on earth we (well mostly China) gets them by processing more common metals and extracting the tiny portion of REs.

We did neocolonialism. It was profitable. Nobody forgot that.

*are doing, is profitable

There's no brown people on the moon you can give a dictator weapons to in exchange for keeping the people selling their labor and resources for peanuts.

Not just their own party, they get half of what they want from the opposition party!

We already have neocolonialism on earth.

I don't see how the economics of space mining is supposed to work out. We have tons of ore on earth, in existing mines, just sitting there, because it's more expensive to expand the mine/process less pure ores than the result is worth. It's not like there's asteroids of pure platinum floating around.

Someone who says this, wtf do they think the left is?

if trump dies the chosen successor would soak up the sympathy

I don't think any successor would be able to unite republicans as effectively as Trump did. They wouldn't go away, but Biden might have a shot at getting reelected.

Disclaimer: Biden is too senile, and the rest of the DNC are cowards resigned to a second Trump presidency to arrange something like this.

The fact that they both sides'd a slave uprising got buried in that 2deep4me multiple timelines bullshit

That is what I was suggesting. Nobody stages an event like that and thinks including "Wait let me get my shoes" is a good look.

Wait wasn't this his 2020 platform?

I recall something similar happening on the Newgrounds forum in like 2005

Would he say into the mic "Wait let me get my shoes"?

Advocating the death penalty for people who've committed mass social murder is not murder.

White collar crime like this is the only case where the death penalty might be useful, since these people actually do a risk-benefit analysis.

I understand exactly what you're saying, you are saying that Chinese officials don't really care about endangering people's lives, they just care about the consequences for doing so.

I'm telling you that's how all political systems work.