An amazing insult, tbh

The Repubs wanted to come in and strong-arm everybody into doing what they wanted. They didn’t consider that the other guy could just walk away and avoid the interaction entirely tho. Gonna be seeing a lot more of this

Agreed. All this shit is just a hop and a skip away from literally every other nation out there that’s not already devolved into such bullshit.

AGREED. We need to be moving further away from tribalism and isolationism, not back toward it. This path we’re on is the complete opposite of the Star Trek-esque utopia I always envisioned.

Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

And don’t forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.

But they’re not going to increase wages to account for us having to spend 55 dollars on something that used to cost 5. So the end result is just that people end up with less overall. I’m cool with limiting consumerism, but this isn’t the way to do it imo. And it’s not going to make us “richer” as a nation.

And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally–and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald’s. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

So I guess they’re hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.

This will be hilarious, because Teslas don’t even really work for the demographic that goes through vehicles the fastest: heavy duty company trucks, rental vehicle companies, and country-folk who commute 40 miles to work and 50 miles to the city for weekend leisure.

Is RFK Jr. sharing his alien mind control brain worms with all these other political candidates, or have they always been this garbage?

Appreciate you for all of that. Thank you

Yeah. I hope they cut even more as a giant “get fucked”. They’ll all vote red again next time anyways, so might as well go hard I guess.

This is directed toward the vets that voted red. If you didn’t, please disregard lol

Not me. I’m going to be bitching and moaning about it for the next 4 years. As well as enjoying a healthy dose of schadenfreude.

Also as their Lord and Savior Elon Musk imports cheap H1B labor in from all over to undercut American employees, lol

Yeah, I’m discouraged to even buy American because Trump and the Republicans have basically turned that into a nationalist policy. I used to love buying American and local, but it feels gross to think that I’m supporting their agenda.

As someone who loves driving cars, I’m completely on board with this. Driving should be optional, and I’d love to leave the car home when I go out partying, or don’t want to worry about leaving my nice ride somewhere sketchy overnight.

What is the reason btw? Genuinely asking because I dunno

Mmhmm, do you know what’s not lost on me? All the Trump supporters that stormed the capital, in much the same way that people around here seem to be hinting at. I don’t think they really accomplished much behind bars for the last four years. But let’s ignore all that and throw some more jabs in my direction. I’ll be here voting and figuring out what else I can do while the people here criticizing me either do nothing, or lose their right to vote after a prison sentence.

Sir, we are posting on a Lemmy thread. There is no front line here.

Sick of all the complaining. Why don’t you share some actionable advice instead venting about how I’m not doing enough to make yourself feel superior?

I’m seeing a lot of criticism and no actionable advice whatsoever, from anybody who has responded to me. Maybe your contribution should be to educate people instead of telling them their actions aren’t good enough? Either do that or shut up, because you’re not contributing to the conversation.