Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦
We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?
How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.
That's a good question as I watch unharvested corn and soybeans rot in fields in the Midwest. You can tell subsidy fields from yield fields when it's corn going unharvested in October. If they really cared, the subsidy would only count if it was a crop that added nutrients to the soil, instead of crops that take nutrients from it.
LITERALLY a thing on Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel's show, 'Dark Web'. I had no idea this became a meme thing on tshirts until I saw that. Fucking hilarious.
15 Comments
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 305d
Trump fucking caused the snub... stupidest fucking timeline
reddig33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 305d
Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦
We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 305d
Because it’s cheaper from China.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.
thundermoose@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 305d
When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn't matter.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 305d
That's a good question as I watch unharvested corn and soybeans rot in fields in the Midwest. You can tell subsidy fields from yield fields when it's corn going unharvested in October. If they really cared, the subsidy would only count if it was a crop that added nutrients to the soil, instead of crops that take nutrients from it.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 304d
Just because you don’t understand it does not mean it’s not true.
vegeta@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 305d
Crab Rangoons are the enemy of the people
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
But people rave about them
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
LITERALLY a thing on Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel's show, 'Dark Web'. I had no idea this became a meme thing on tshirts until I saw that. Fucking hilarious.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
TIL, I was just trying to make a crab rave joke
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
Still, it's fucking hilarious it is now a meme.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 305d
Trump - The dumbest and worst negotiator in history.
xyzzy@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 305d
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
He has buddies riding the VIXY, that's what this is.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
You lose, I lose, everybody loses.