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America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Burn all the bridges!

Trump is the best thing that ever happened to China and Russia.

Fascist dictators being buddies

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Trump is the best thing that ever happened to China and Russia.

As intended.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago

It's all projection with Donald Trump. The mob boss demands more when America has enough wealth as is.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Japan owns an obscene amount of US national debt. Guess what would happen if they decided to sell it off?

[–] Tenderizer@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Japan owns a lot of American debt but most of it is owned by American domestic companies.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

Be China

Win without fighting

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 5 points 15 hours ago

Oy, the comments from Redcaps. What a bunch of assholes.

[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

Man born with golden lips attached to his ass attempts to judge others on excessiveness

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca -5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

We don't import their rice or cars because they're both shit.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the infamous Japanese cars, nobody ever said anything good about those right? Like the garbage Corolla. Or did anyone ever drive a Prius? Or a Hilux?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, are people downvoting me because they think I'm saying Japanese cars are shit?

I'm a Japanese-Canadian living in Japan; I'm saying we don't import American rice and cars because they're shit.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Oh then I misunderstood (but didn't downvote). But yeah American cars aren't really a thing outside of the American and maybe middle east. The American brands produce different models for different continents.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Didn’t they used to import a ton of shitty rice from the US due to some fucked trade deal? Which they just let sit around because they don’t want to eat it?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

A lot of the old emergency stockpile rice gets sold off as animal feed as it ages out. I would imagine something similar happened for that.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean we have em already, but nobody buys them.

I bought a bag to see, but I never ate it because it was full of those rice beetle things. Probably just a coincidence, but I've NEVER had that happen in the 15 years of living here so I don't wanna take that chance again.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, yall dont have to freeze your rice to kill pests?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

??? I've never heard of that. Is that something that you need to do?

We just wash and put it in the cooker. We even have pre-washed rice. There's a lot to complain about here in Japan, but rice isn't one of them. At least, it wasn't. It's more than doubled in price in a year or so :(

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you use it quickly no, but rice and flour in the united states should be assumed potentially contaminated with pest eggs. They won't be a serious problem but they are gross and so any long term raw grain storage here should include a freeze period just to kill it. Tbh I'd just assumed thst was a byproduct of it being natural agricultural products, sorta like you gotta check your dry beans for pebbles that the mechanical sorter may have missed

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Ah ok! I bet it's also because Americans tend to buy bigger bulks, so it stays in your pantry longer once the seal is broken. So the chances of those little critters hatching/entering is higher.

I know Japanese rice isn't immune, because they sell resealable containers and natural repellents specifically for this reason. But personally, I've never had a problem in my resealable container and certainly never had bugs crawling out of a freshly opened bag until the import. This was before the whole 51st State thing so there's no way I'll ever give that rice a second try, unfortunately.