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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)
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Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[-] davel@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago

Nobody left to neocolonize but ourselves I guess.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago

someone once said that fascism is when the colonial methods of oppression are brought home to the imperial core

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

You mean Russia has been fascist since Peter the Great till now, with brief interruptions in 1905-1914 and 1991-1993 ?

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago

That sounds like a whataboutism!!!

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