Remember how we've been punishing Cuba for 60 years by making sure they can't buy stuff from other countries? That's our new model for checks notes ... improving the US economy.
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USA Unable to Make ~~Drones~~ Anything Without Components From China
FTFY
It's more like:
- the handgun is an Uzi
- the gun owner is senile and has tremors in their hands
- the foot is painted bright orange, is 10 sizes larger than average, and is dusted in a light seasoning of primacord.
- The hand holding the gun is very tiny
They've thrown themselves off the fast moving economic bus
What supply chains need to be blocked so that they stop making bombs for Israel? Asking for a homework.
"Mask off Maersk"
Also gonna drop this map of Elbit investors: https://act.progressive.international/out-palestine/
Much obliged! 🤘
America is going to realize how much they've relied on other countries to make their things, so that they can come here and be marketed in superfluous values.
America is going to realize
They already know. They don’t care.
In the case of the Americans I'm most familiar with, they already knew the US is reliant on foreign raw materials and manufacture. The idea is if they stop getting things from China, they'll have lots of jobs and be self-reliant. I've not been able to impress upon them what a terrible idea this is.
There's such a thing as minimal unit of production. For some processes. Very important, we are surrounded by cheap space-age materials all involving those minimal units quite big somewhere in the chain.
That's also why humanity can't just get rid of oil, everything around us is made from oil products. Everyone, including off the grid indie artists, relies on materials as good as magic made from oil products.
World economy of today pretty fundamentally can't work as a set of autarkies.
However, in the 70s, when autarkies were still considered by everyone (the Cold War and possible future Cold Wars and the remaining colonial friction), making them was studied a lot. Including what you can and what you can't do with autarky.
The complexity and efficiency of production will have to be reduced by orders of magnitude if that happens.
TBH, I like stuff made then. Good engineering and all. But say goodbye to computers capable of running AAA games, to the Web as it exists, to being able to buy so many things, to the general consumerism of today. You'll again have to know how radio works to use a radio, how computers work to use a computer, and how magnet tape works to use storage media, and a lot of that to not break things you use daily. And they'll be expensive as hell.
The point - not just "America". But, again, somewhere in the 70s "America" could claim that it's probably the most self-reliant country in the world. Except it'd quickly stop being that without markets for stuff produced.
Whatever happens, happens.
Excuse me, a third of the country was screaming that this was going to happen, a third was screaming for this to happen harder, and a third was uninspired by a boring Kamala
Bold of you to assume that last third is even aware that there was an election.
Probably should have thought that one through before pulling the trigger on tariffs with zero research
thought
We don't do that here in the States.
It's one of the banned words
Soon it’ll probably be a crime to use/say/write/type/convey banned words like “thought” and “research”
A boot, stomping on a face, forever.
No need to ban words or books when people don't even know how to read or have the reading comprehension of a dead possum.
Oh come on, are you trying to say there's a better way to bring manufacturing of specific high end parts to the United States than blanket tariffs on everything?
Have you tried making all the input materials more expensive too?
Well we can compensate by automating everything to keep the costs down, literal no brainer.
And fucking over Ukraine (as everyone anticipated).
Can't they just use rubber bands instead?
The rubber bands are also made in china.
Those are made in China
Oh alright. Quick! To the inner tubes!
Germany.
Actually great news, since we all know what those are used for.
hmm i wonder if they'll start using washing machine chips
Rare tarif W.