they curate only the rarest isotopes
you say libertarian i say warlord
No. But we will likely be selling arms to their masters so they can keep fighting.
Oh, I’m positive these “refugees” will be eagerly welcomed - they’re just as Americans like them, inanimate, mineral and valuable.
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That that is naked quid pro quo if I’ve ever seen it. Trump plans to allow conflict mineral sales in exchange for Intel building a plan in Arizona. I suppose it would be a national security issue to fund terrorist organizations. Just not the kind we expect.
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Have those even been enforced for the past several years?
It isn’t diamonds…it’s coltan for making your fancy mobile phones. A UN report specifically named a US company as being a main mover. Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (document S/2002/1146)
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Because every filthy poor is born with a supply of it that they didn’t even have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn!
You might as well be proposing a universal basic income.
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“Artisanal mining” is the actual term of art used for these mining practices, and this use goes back decades. It’s not the specialists’ fault that a word that means “done in a traditional, non-mechanical manner” has been appropriated by hipster marketeers.
According to Charlie Sheen, 45 only uses the finest cubic zirconia for those.
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