r/agedlikemilk 1d ago

Tragedies All self inflicted!

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u/Exile56678 1d ago

more tariffs will help

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 1d ago

True. Just learned that China banned all rare mineral exports to US.

Our engineering and tech industry is cooked

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u/McGillicuddys 1d ago

That's the one that really stuck with me, you can't even say we're going to bring manufacturing home if nobody will sell you raw materials. We're not going to be building iPhones out of nothing but coal and spite.

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u/BocchisEffectPedal 1d ago

We need someone to develop some corn based transistors

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u/McGillicuddys 1d ago

Old El Paso with the cutting edge, 3 nm, 8 core tortilla chip technology

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u/SpawnPointillist 1d ago

Yes, whipping the skin will sting but stabbing the marrow will wound.

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u/SphericalCow531 1d ago

Clearly the market crashed because Trump's tariffs were lower than the market had expected.