Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Yes. Of course. The Chinese are "coercing" farmers to pay less for superior equipment.
That's what's happening for sure.
Fucking Hell are Americans getting delusional.
Yeah, no. My family owns an orchard up here in Canada, and we have a few pieces of Chinese equipment. A Foton tractor, AGT skid steer and excavator, and so on.
We also own a Holder (German vineyard tractor) and two Kubota tractors.
The Chinese stuff is absolute dogshit, front to back, side to side, top to bottom.
The key difference is that it is stupidly cheap. And so, on a per-dollar-spent basis, it ends up being worthwhile to get Chinese equipment to do infrequent work. Which is OK, because on a running-hour basis the Chinese crap also needs twice the maintenance and repairs just to stay up and running. It really does break down so damn easily. So to get the crappy stuff for infrequent work tends to work out.
Meanwhile, the Holder put in sixty solid years of reliable and minimally-maintained work until the oil pump drive shaft snapped. Its running-hour meter had only four digits, which it rolled over at least twice, for a minimum average of 300 hours of running time a year. Honestly, we would be lucky to get 10% as much work out of the Chinese equipment before we haul it off to the wrecker.
they dint learn a thing from the soybean tariffs of 2017.
America doesn't learn. This is something I've observed over time. Individual Americans may be able to learn, but as a culture it never learns and hasn't since its inception.