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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • I’m sure they’re banking on international consumers having as short of memories as US consumers.

    Remember “Freedom Fries” and rejecting Heinz ketchup for them because John Kerry was married to an heiress of the Heinz fortune and he had the audacity to run against Bush in 2004?

    Yeah, most people completely forgot, especially the people who claimed that the would boycott Heinz forever.

    Trump has done damage with specific partners like Canada, but I don’t think people in the UAE, South Africa, India, or Brazil are going to sneer too much at taking products from people in the USA who used to act superior to them.



  • I can’t believe I have to say this, but… USA isn’t the only country with a viable middle class to sell shit to anymore. There’s Canada, most of Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China… Other countries may not have as large of middle class citizens to pull from, but they exist as well in places like Brazil, India, Egypt, Israel, Iran, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates as well as others.

    Sometimes I am dumbfounded by my fellow US citizens still somehow thinking we’re the center of the fucking world when all that good will from the rest of the world was flushed down the shitter after 9/11. Trump is just the final stages of no one giving a flying fuck what happens to our middle class anymore.

    300 million people in the USA are the bottom 90%, that’s a fucking drop in the bucket of the worldwide population. Do you really think that they’re gonna be hurting by not selling to just us anymore? Just, christ, USA’s economy doesn’t exist in a vacuum.


  • The goal is to reduce the quality of life of the average US citizen to match the low quality of life in poor countries so our labor can “compete” in the market by vastly reducing our pay and purchasing power.

    It’s part of why Trump is pushing the “return to manufacturing” angle so hard. He doesn’t want people in other countries being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes, he wants people in the US being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes.

    I mean, it’s a long time coming. The wealthy have clearly thought for a long time that US workers are too coddled and demand too much and deserve far far less.



  • You’re very lucky. I lived 60 miles south of Seattle, 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, and was able to get a single channel with an antenna because my city was in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain and so the broadcast signals from the TV towers were all blocked by the terrain. No local stations, no local towers. Seattle actually has plenty of stations, but unless you’re in the right areas, they’re nearly impossible to access.

    I also worked in local television for a long time in the early 2000s and 3 out of 4 of the stations I worked at no longer exist and there are fewer and fewer rural stations, so unless you live in the big city or unless you’re in a very flat area where the big city signal can get to you, you’re shit out of luck.



  • Thought it was pretty clear. Matrix sucks.

    LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL

    I mean I wouldn’t say the original message was clear at all that you as an individual have had bad experiences. There are also people who may have things to say from a development standpoint beyond just “I have personally had bad experiences with it.” So, sorry you had bad experiences, but to be perfectly clear “LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL” doesn’t actually tell anyone anything at all. Thanks, however, for the clarification. I haven’t had issues like that with Matrix in a long time now, but I’ve been using it off-and-on since 2018-ish.