Oy, the comments from Redcaps. What a bunch of assholes.
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I wouldn't take it even in those circumstances.
- I don't use American products. Ever. For any reason. I started de-Americanizing my supply chain in the '90s.
- I don't know which strain they grow in the USA predominantly, but it's a singularly tasteless, texture-free one. When I lived in Canada, even before I started my de-Americanization, I bought rice from Thailand or India. Because they had actual flavour. Aroma. Texture.
I remember reading¹ a story of a woman who "helped" her (CHEF!) boyfriend by just putting all the rice he had in so many scattered small containers into a single large one.
She thought all rice was the same. She found out the very hard way that it isn't. I gathered from the reading that she and he were not together any longer after that.
(Note: it may sound harsh that he dumped her over this, but she'd asked about it DOZENS of times and was told each time to leave the rice alone. The fact she did it anyway indicates a serious deficiency in her ability to let well enough alone that spells a dire future for any relationship.)
¹ For the youngsters in the audience, reading is what we old-timey types did to get information back before everything was an effin' Youtube, Instagram, or Tiktok video.
I've never had Amazon. Never had Apple anything. Never had Disney services of any kind. Dropped Google stuff years ago (though I watch Youtube videos with a bunch of anti-ad stuff my SO set up for me). I do, however, pirate like crazy.
Of course it's easier for me. I don't live in North America or Europe. Very easy to avoid this stuff here.
The PM should just:
- Raise all tariffs on all American products to 500%.
- Turn off all exports of raw materials to the USA.
- Cut off all electricity to the USA.
- Cut off all water to the USA.
Then never do business with the USA ever again; start building up relationships with nations that aren't filled to the brim with hateful assholes.
Anybody wanting to know just how bad the USA has gotten just needs to look at this: we have to ask. We really have to ask if a meme on a phone got someone banned from the USA.
Literally any other year before 2025 and the answer to that question would be so obviously a "no" in the public eye that you'd be laughed at for even asking it.
Now it's all too believable.
Jesus say: Blessed are they who honour the wise of every nation, and make not mockery in their name: for they shall inherit respect among all peoples.