• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Boo fucking hoo. Stop voting for policies that directly hurt you and yours just to spite perceived threats, and then maybe I’ll give a shit about your woes.

    – an “enemy from within”

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    13 days ago

    People think of farmers as something Grant Wood would paint. It’s not like that as much anymore. Big corporations control those guys.

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      12 days ago

      Yeah as soon as I started seeing signs in fields advertising the big corporation seeds that were used I knew something was up.

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    13 days ago

    They will just blame any and all negative repercussions on liberals and immigrants, continuing to vote in people who destroy their lives.

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      13 days ago

      Someday there won’t be any of those scapegoats left to blame but it’ll be too goddamn late. Pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over their desperation.

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    13 days ago

    And agricultural products would also be the obvious place for the EU to retaliate too, so if Trump goes ahead with his harebrained plan to impose ridiculous tariffs they can forget about exports as a viable business model.

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      And why use Chinese fertilizer, Trump is producing enough shit to provide all American farmers. Who needs fertilizer anyway.

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    13 days ago

    wait til your lord king, savior, and chief diaper-wearer shrinks your labor pool and those still around willing to work demand more money.

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    US exports are limited to war, Boeing, Caterpillar, Deere, agriculture and climate terrorist energy. The Trump promise of reindustrialization of US is a fake one. If universal tariff threat is followed through, certain recession. Placing them on the world, is not going to strengthen alliances.

    Just because DNC/Biden/Harris rolled over for Trump doesn’t mean rest of the world will. But that is the big geopolitical question.

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      The problem is that the US no longer has the production facilities and capabilities for so many basic things. How many screws are actually made in the US? How many electronic components, not just processors, but capacitors and resistors? All the ingredients for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry? They basically all come from China.

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        Yes. The CHIPS act making processors, will still send them over to Asia to make motherboards. Robotics in China is much more advanced because that is where all the customers are, and you need a lot of hands on tinkering help from manufacturer to get them to work with other processes. Boston Dynamics may be smartest in the world, but they are just making warehouse robots, and I doubt their sales are high.

        Trying to build the full industrial support structure for “highest tech” industries while tariffing all imports is just an extremely tough investment proposition.

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    https://apnews.com/united-states-government-60b2acc81d394e01a78e428c48d53815

    The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will provide $12 billion in emergency relief to ease the pain of American farmers slammed by President Donald Trump’s escalating trade disputes with China and other countries.

    However, some farm-state Republicans quickly dismissed the plan, declaring that farmers want markets for their crops, not payoffs for lost sales and lower prices.

    Looking forward to experiencing Groundhog’s Day about leopards eating faces next year when I visit home in the rural Midwest.

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        Oh, they will not wither and die, it will just be bought by Nestlé et al. and you can either import food from abroad and pay the Trump tax, or you can buy the price gouged local produce after all competition is gone.

        Fuck US politics in general.

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    US citizens with delicious faces, vote to let all of the face-eating leopards out of cages - now facing uncertain future…

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    China likely to reciprocate against the tariffs, why? They only hurt us, and help them. Placing Tariffs in the other direction makes their prices rise in their country, that doesn’t help them. They keep more industries by keeping prices low

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      It hurts them because imports will fall and that’s how they make money.

      It will just hurt Americans far more.

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        I suppose if the product in unnecessary, that would make sense. Required imports would stay selling at same prices until manufacturing plants elsewhere could be built for cheap enough to not just pay the tariffs. : /

        Nothing except market manipulation

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      China just usually buys its agriculture from friendlier countries without making a big fuss about “making China great again” public display. It does occasionally issue explicit bans against countries acting stupid, though. Brazil certainly feels confident to plant much more.

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      It does help them if they think retaliation will pressure the initial levier (the U.S.) to scale back their tariff schedule. It hasn’t worked out like that but that’s the theory. Also, China isn’t as subject to popular pressure as western democracies. Yes, I agree with you, trade wars are wasteful, harmful, and just a bad idea overall.

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        Someone used to tell me one of the largest exports of Panama City Beach when I lived there was mulch. They would ship it to China for fuel apparently. Never would have thought about a smaller town shipping trees half a world away… Talk about inefficient.