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Any genuinely terrible idea should be an uphill battle politically.

Do you know how much you, personally, benefit from modern material science? Do you think our nation could even operate with out Bayer, Dupont, 3M and the likes?

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We are about to find out if we can do without 3M as they face eradication from a $140B cleanup litigation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-02/3m-heads-...

We could always keep the company and fry the shareholders and executives responsible. If there ever were a company the nation couldn't do without, the only sane answer is for the government to take it over for national security reasons. Otherwise that company could hold the US hostage, or be bought out/taken over by foreign interests and used to collapse the entire country while we'd be powerless to stop it.

What you are describing is "expropriation." Cuba and Venezuela both did it. So if you want the US to look more like Venezuela, keep it up

As if that was the one thing that put Venezuela in the position it is in now. Venezuela does a lot of things we already do in the US too, but somehow we aren't identical either. Maybe our situations are more complex than "this one weird trick will salvage/destroy your country"

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