Random Politics Thread

[Jaguar]

Question was general.

Given how much outsourcing takes place, yes, some companies will make it a selling point to put U.S. production on the label: Made in USA.
Some companies are so anti-China they are selling "China-Free" vitamin C.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Given how much outsourcing takes place, yes, some companies will make it a selling point to put U.S. production on the label: Made in USA.
Some companies are so anti-China they are selling "China-Free" vitamin C.

Well, here by the law you have to mark the source of the product.
However we invented a number of signs and stamps in color that quickly gives you the info and which can be observed from "distance" (this is mostly used for food).

 

[Red Herring]

Well, here by the law you have to mark the source of the product.
However we invented a number of signs and stamps in color that quickly gives you the info and which can be observed from "distance" (this is mostly used for food).

I have mainly seen that in smaller European countries like Ireland, Portugal or Latvia. They clearly mark native products or even have special shelves for them in stores because so much is imported that something produced in the country is the exception.

 

[Jaguar]

There's a criminal in the White House. What a piece of shit.

Do Navy leaders have a 'duty to disobey' Trump in Gallagher case?

Trump's harmful meddling in Gallagher case

 

[Virtual ghost]

I have mainly seen that in smaller European countries like Ireland, Portugal or Latvia. They clearly mark native products or even have special shelves for them in stores because so much is imported that something produced in the country is the exception.

It isn't really THAT much of exception (in Croatian case). However small countries can very quickly be economically overwhelmed in the modern world and therefore they do this kind of stuff. To differentiate the product as much as possible, otherwise local product may indeed become exception. German GDP is about 3700 billion $ a year and Croatian is just 55 Billion, therefore on the fully open EU market you can "swallow" us at any time (Plus lets not forget about Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands .... and other big exporters). However when production ends people just pack their bags and move into some more wealthy European state through minimum bureaucracy, leaving the land empty. As someone once said "Need is mother of all inventions".

 

[Virtual ghost]

AuthLeft: Bye God
AuthRight: By God
LibLeft: Bi God
LibRight: Buy God

 

[ceecee]

Given how much outsourcing takes place, yes, some companies will make it a selling point to put U.S. production on the label: Made in USA.
Some companies are so anti-China they are selling "China-Free" vitamin C.

The China free things like Vitamin C or ginseng or pine nuts is because there have been health concerns pertaining to these products in the past, not so much about anti-China products. People have always been able to buy all of these produced in the US but the propaganda possibility is too much for some to resist, I suppose.

 

[Jaguar]

have been health concerns pertaining to these products in the past

We already know. You missed our other discussions.

On a side note: This is why people shouldn't move posts from one thread to another. The context is lost.

 

[Jaguar]

Boris, you have major problems. Aside from that hair.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Boris, you have major problems. Aside from that hair.

Terrible hair seems to be in vogue among shitty right-wing politicians these days.

 

[Red Herring]

 

[Jaguar]

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U.S.-China trade deal 'stalled because of Hong Kong legislation': Axios - Reuters

Gee, ya think?

 

[Virtual ghost]

I will be taking a pause from politics since I really don't want to muddy the holidays with this. See you guys some other time.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

lol, it's Jordan Peterson

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I think the current US has come far closer to Huxley's vision than it has to Orwell's (though I think places like North Korea are closer to what Orwell imagined). There's just so much information out there. By information, I include everything we see via multimedia, including entertainment, which has replaced religion as the new opiate of the masses.

I think when asshats with plenty of exposure complain about being silenced, they are misunderstanding the situation. No one is silencing them, it's just that they drown in a sea of useless, trivial information.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I know Rolling Stone is a cringey magazine boomers who like to feel cool and relevant read, but here

Justin Amash: The Last Republican in America - Rolling Stone

Trump’s swift and total takeover of the Republican Party created an omertà on any criticism of this president, his policies, or his behavior. The few conservatives who speak out do so from the comfort and safety of retirement, bravely taking Trump to task in the opinion section of the Washington Post or on CNN. Call it Jeff Flake syndrome: Instead of doing anything to check a deranged and lawless president when you have power, talk a lot about the need (for someone else) to stop him once you don’t.

ON THE DAY SHE WAS SWORN IN this past January, Ilhan Omar, the progressive congresswoman from Minnesota, tweeted about all the firsts in the new 116th Congress. The first Somali American and first refugee. The first Muslim women. The first Palestinian American. A few hours later, Amash replied with a correction: “My father is Palestinian, and I’ve been in Congress since 2011.”

Amash says he began to think about leaving the party several years before he did it. The legislative process, he says, had broken down well before Trump came along. What had replaced it, he says, was “an elaborate form of performance art” in which two or three Democratic and Republican party leaders dictated everything — which bills got a vote and which didn’t, who got on what committees — and the rest of Congress made a lot of noise. There was little actual debate and even less appetite for any line of thinking that veered from party-issued talking points.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Buttigieg seems like the type of candidate who's got just the right amount of "woke credentials" to make him appeal to gender studies majors and their slightly more conservative parents who feel a little safer with him because he's a white dude--they can brag to their friends about how they support a gay "progressive" but still have the feeling of security they'd get from supporting any other whitebread centrist neoliberal.

He's the candidate for the dad in Get Out who brags to his daughter's black boyfriend that he'd have voted for Obama a third time if he could have.

 

[Jaguar]

"Drudge has abandoned you. I NEVER will. Check out, and bookmark, the Bongino Report today," he wrote to his 1.3 million followers.

Perhaps Matt Drudge doesn't want to shove his tongue up Trump's ass like you do.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Buttigieg seems like the type of candidate who's got just the right amount of "woke credentials" to make him appeal to gender studies majors and their slightly more conservative parents who feel a little safer with him because he's a white dude--they can brag to their friends about how they support a gay "progressive" but still have the feeling of security they'd get from supporting any other whitebread centrist neoliberal.

He's the candidate for the dad in Get Out who brags to his daughter's black boyfriend that he'd have voted for Obama a third time if he could have.

Buttigieg has the benefit at least of not having a long career with plenty of potential skeletons in his closet.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

I remember having some 'sort of arguments' about politics with my ex-boyfriend when we were together. He was super-conspiracy theory oriented. He also was more sympathetic towards Trump than me, but I thought he had some reservations. I just found out that he actively supports Trump. That does speak volumes about a person. I think it is valid to be a conservative, a republican, a democrat, a socialist, ideologically and be a reasonable person, but the personalized support of actual Trump shows a lack of character. I did kinda dodge a bullet there.