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  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    The steel and aluminum tariffs are insane. We got rid of most of the American forges for Chinese imports, there's no other option.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Pretty sure China is the biggest aluminum producer and Russia is third biggest. I think the US was about 10th.

      • NewLeaf
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        6 months ago

        anakin-padme-4 maybe recycling will catch on

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      6 months ago

      i wonder if the us steel market is going to crash itself like they did after the trump tariffs

    • NewLeaf
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      6 months ago

      The Great Lakes are gonna be full of freighters, and there will be more accidents because of it. They're already running agound more than any other time in my life. The weather allows the shipping season to be longer, and in traditional capitalist fashion, the firms will overload ships to squeeze a couple more runs in before the ice closes the shipping channels and locks.

      I also have my suspicions that the ports and rivers aren't being properly dredged because of cutbacks, and rollbacks of safety regulations, but that's all just vibes on my part.

      • uSSRI [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Edmund Fitzgerald 2: oops all electric boogaloo

        • NewLeaf
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          6 months ago

          Waiting for the gritty found footage horror movie called the legend lives on and every so many years, the ship comes back and takes another freighter to its watery grave