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[โ€“] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scandimandian here, hell yeah. Local is best, produced by fellow citizens somewhere in the county second.

A lot of stuff, particularly tech is hard to find though. At best it's low grade Chinese stuff with a custom label slapped onto it. Not even assembled here by foreign parts. Just straight from slave factories.

But I eat local eggs at least. Made by slave hens.

this is the problem with people zealously advocating boycotting american industry. good on paper, sticky in practice.

itโ€™d be great if you could just never buy american again but certain economic sectors, such as tech, only really offer you the one market. idk what europeโ€™s precious metal industry looks like but both the US and Europe need to heavily invest in fabs in the coming decades. for all the problems we have, the entire Westโ€™s reliance on Chinese fabs is our collective achilleโ€™s heel