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>>58360097
Being an outsider isn't so bad. I've always felt like an outsider right here in the US. I grew up poor, in foster care, and occasionally homeless in childhood. This was during the neoliberal era of Reagan and Clinton. I've never felt like I belong to the US and feel no obligation to be loyal to it. My brother was raped by a black man in a foster home and talked of this frequently in the days before he shot himself last year. Social Services covered it up -- just pulled us from that foster home very quickly and without explanation, for placement in another one. My brother was insistent it happened throughout his life -- he was six when anally raped -- and he never wanted to sue or make money, so he had no incentive to lie, plus that foster family did a lot of weird shit, like making my brothers and me run laps almost naked (in just underwear) around their backyard while they watched. I blame the government for my brother's death and would like to kill a whole lot of US government workers, and Colorado state government workers.
Why were we in foster care? Because my dad lost his job to outsourcing and we became homeless.
Deep down, I actually have a burning hatred of the United States and would like to see it nuked from coast to coast.
So I am an outsider and always have been. Eventually, being alone in the world doesn't bother you. You become self-sufficient and get your identity not through a group, but from within, like with your values -- and to the extent your identity comes from outside, it should come from a church or job or something like that. But being emotionally and existentially self-sufficient is the key.
I love American coal mining; it's among the best in the world. But America is turning its back on coal, and my loyalty is to coal first of all. It makes no sense, given all this, for me to remain in the USA.

https://www.countoncoal.org/2024/04/energy-addition/

>Metallurgical coal exports from Baltimore, used for steel making, largely move to Asia with top destinations including Japan, South Korea and China. The majority of the world’s primary steel production — about 70% — uses coal-fueled blast furnaces. Last year, U.S. coal exports rose 17.7% from 2022 to 90.5 million metric tons. Of that volume, 51.4% was metallurgical coal and 48.6% was thermal coal.

>>58074712
Steel anon, if I may ask, what country are you from?

>>57897169
Bitcoin "mining" isn't real mining, brother.

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