kent_eh @ kent_eh @lemmy.ca

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Hopefully none of Trump's chaos goblins are there to mess with the process.

You're thinking a bit one dimensionally.

Locally produced also means local jobs (with the spinoff spending that comes with mor epeople having better jobs).

And means building the local infrastructure and skill base to sell your products to other places.

Praise be our capitalist father who art in Ottawa Bay Street.

I'm involved with DSA in my area.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Where are all of the workers in the east wing now?

Waiting to see if their paychecks bounce...

How far are you from your state legislature? Or from your congressman's office?

And, again, have you got together with other people to combine your voices?

Now I’m pretty much waiting around for this whole thing to get rebooted.

That's part of the problem. Everyone is standing around waiting for someone else to fix it for them.

You gotta pull together with others and work as a group to fight back.

I know group cooperation towards a common goal runs counter to the "nation of rugged individuals " mythos that Americans have for themselves, but that's what it will take.

And how much did they contribute back to the countries that allowed them to amass that ridiculous amount of wealth?

The question is: how broken will their spirit be by the time that happens?

Will they just lay down in fear and exhaustion rather than rising up against the people and system that abused them for so long?

I'm watching this dumpster fire from afar in horror.

Surely those Americans who claim not to want this will band together and put a stop to it soon?

To me it just looked like a common typo.

Full stop doesn't follow a question mark

What a weird and absolutely pointlessly insignificant thing to complain about.

I'd like to say I have contributed to this change, but I've been drinking local microbrewery beer since before Trump got elected the first time.

Luckily Co-op exists in my part of the country.

East of here there aren’t a lot of options that aren't on OP's list.

And in smaller cities and towns across the country they have even fewer options to choose from.

You're forgetting that Vance will become president. He might be even worse.

Given that the same puppeteers have their hands up Vance's ass, that and Vance is not an incontinent geriatric moron, he could be much worse.

That would be the stated reasons.

It's what else they'll do with all that juicy personal information that concerns me.

Then again, I (and a lot of other canadians) didn't need any additional reasons to not go there, so it's not changing my plans to stay away from Trumpistan.

Yes the current crop of hypocritical charlatans have made their corruptions abundantly clear, and are giving more people pause to question the validity of religious claims in general.

But the previous generations running the same scam started the slow (but accelerating) turning away from those same religions claims.

I wish them well, but who can afford to eat out these days?

When you see what Christianity has stood for in the US over the past decade century it's no wonder.

In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried

Should be, but it's such a deeply ingrained part of their national self image that it'll take a few generations of consistent effort to make it fade away.