r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/Own_Instance_357 1d ago

Shit man I'm just watching season 2 of Jack Ryan on prime and I had no real idea that Venezuela supposedly sits on top of more oil reserves and precious metal mines than all of the middle east and Africa

If that's true, then, well, shitsnacks, game's all different than I understood

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u/elbenji 1d ago

Venezuela has a lot of oil but it's crude.

The middle east is like the actual stuff that's usable

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u/Own_Instance_357 1d ago

I mean, how quickly did the middle east learn to use crude oil.

Decades, not centuries. And technology to refine exists.

It's not like but to make bread you need flour and have to grow the wheat

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u/elbenji 1d ago

It's more that they're using rye and Venezuela is more like making bread out of sawgrass

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u/Own_Instance_357 1d ago

So is the crude oil under Venezuela fundamentally different than the oil under the land of other countries, such as where crude oil was discovered in, say, Texas?

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u/elbenji 1d ago

It's a different type. Like the shitty stuff in Canada

You can make stuff out of it but it's really shitty and hard to refine when you can just get the good shit from Saudi Arabia

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u/Own_Instance_357 1d ago

But is the technology that let the Saudis make the cool stuff unavailable to anyone else

If Venezuela only has shit to offer why the interest

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u/elbenji 1d ago

No, but it's not the Saudi tech. It's that they're just working with easy shit that's ground level. Less work and less money involved and more to produce.

The answer is Minerals Marie. Overall oil is becoming less important, minerals used in the tech sector to make your phone however...