cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40096934
“This is a fucking disaster”: Generational Republican family loses 95-year-old mill to Trump’s tariff mess - WTF Detective
https://wtfdetective.blog/95-year-gop-mill-collapses-trump-tariff-chaos/
https://wtfdetective.blog/95-year-gop-mill-collapses-trump-tariff-chaos/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40096934
88 Comments
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 244 pts · 237d
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 81 pts · 237d
This is why America has no future. Its people will drive it into the fucking ground thanks to the corporate propaganda machine and conservative culture.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 237d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
Regressive culture. They have stolen the word conservative. I'm conservative, in every way in my life. Part of that is not trying to force my point of view on others. I give my point of view and certainty will tell someone I disagree with theirs. I'm living my own life. I drive a fifteen year old well maintained car. I've had two mobile phones in the last 12 years. I rarely buy anything that is not of use to me or my children. I don't want to take rights from people for their beliefs. I don't drink much, gamble at all but don't condemn those that do unless they are harming their children doing it.
The regressives I see drive huge late model vehicles. They always brag on having the latest mobile or some other frill. They constantly judge others for what they don't have. Those that were lucky enough to be born into stability get upset when reality intrudes on their life. They blame everyone but themselves and enjoy the pain and suffering of others they blame for it.
That is how I see this whining simp from the article. I bet he hasn't once cared for some ex employee of his in any tangible way.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 236d
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 235d
A conservative will happily eat a shit sandwich if it means a liberal has to small his breath....
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 237d
They would rather be repeatedly raped by a rich old white man than helped by a young black woman. Thats essentially the modern Republican platform.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 12 pts · 237d
Out-groups to bind, in-groups to protect. That's it. Often on a purely emotional level. Having the out-group be just out and about living life feels wrong to that kind of person. There has to be hierarchy, they feel.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 237d
yup, most of these people are basically in survival mode their whole lives. when your worrying about nothing but how long you can stretch your next paycheck...not much room for sympathy/self-reflection/critical thinking.
is why education in developing years when people are least burdened by real-world worries is so crucial (which has also been specifically dismantled for these communities, generally)
Mpatch@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 237d
You miss understand these people. They own a mill. They have wealth, to them its "oh well it sucks on to the next thing." Look how patriotic I am. It's the employees at these places that are suffering.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 237d
BanMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 237d
Yeah the article says they just laid off the 50 employees, put the factory in mothballs, and then got real sad. No one is liquidating their company's assets let alone coming for their personal fortunes. It almost sounds like they wanted an excuse to retire and sell the assets at their leisure, and this gave them that opportunity...
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Okay, to be fair, from what I understood they tried offering them jobs at the other mill, but only 10 accepted. I don't know why - whether it was too far or something - but they tried to do right by their employees.
That doesn't change the fact of being dense as fuck and still wanting to vote for the orange rapist, but yeah.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 237d
‘I wish more of my bones were broken’ - Deranged Lunatic
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 237d
"I've lost my multi-generational family business in the span of one short year, but stand by my incompetent fuck-witted decision to vote for a man who wouldn't piss on me if I caught fire."
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
"Man upset that no one has sympathy after he intentionally stabbed himself multiple times and plans to do it again"
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 237d
If anyone knows one of these half-wits, please trick them by asking them a question, then spitting into their mouth when they open it to answer.
andyburke@fedia.io · 73 pts · 237d
It's all clowns all the way down, isn't it?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 237d
Yep.
It’s going to get better as soon as the media landscape improves, though.
. . . aaaaaany minute now . . .
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 237d
It's going to take a collapse of the United States to reset the cycle, and it's coming quickly.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
VERY quickly.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · -1 pts · 236d
Or could just release all the emancipatory technologies... reset back to the start of the suppression, availing all the good stuff we've been denied since?
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
“It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
... As patent office whistle-blower Tom Valone mentioned at free energy conferences in the early [20]00s, there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents, secreted, by the year 2000.
We have so much headroom without the crooks who would destroy it all to hide their crimes of depriving us to maintain their power over us.
... No need for the act of god that Ben Rich mentioned... easier to pay private contractor to "re-invent", as Bennett Hart said... and easier ways yet if we just radically sublimate, radically provision...
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 236d
I wonder which comes first.
That.
Or.
The wealth starts to trickle down.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 237d
"Wahh wahh, they are hurting the wrong people." -this dipshit
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 237d
Ok_imagination@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 237d
What a fucking clown. He deserves every part of the closure.
assembly@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 237d
What dilemma is he facing by not voting for the politician actively hurting him and his community??? These people are ina cult.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 237d
Correct.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 237d
Got screwed but still can't admit he made a mistake. Fuck him and his mill. Sometimes people get what they ask for and you have to enjoy that.
danglybits27@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 237d
Good. Now let's hope the property gets bought up by some shitty finance company and torn the fuck down so we can be sure they can never have it again.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -38 pts · 237d
Wtf, this place probably employed many people in their community. You're gloating about the misfortune coming to many people just because someone who has a different political view than you will also be hurt?
You would rather see a sawmill torn the fuck down and all of the workers on the street just to spite a family who used to own it because they voted differently than you?
With views like that, I bet that if you were president, you would also be a tyrant who punishes political opponents.
It wouldn't be enough for you that they lose their mill, you want everyone who ever worked there to be punished.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 237d
see the good thing is there will probably be an opening in the market for somebody else to open a sawmill
not gonna get into whether or not it should be torn down, but "because they voted differently than you" is very disingenuous. it's because they support fascists. those are not the same thing.
Kaerkob@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 237d
No, it's generally only big company sawmills now. It's the same thing where stuff closes down and it's unprofitable for older small businesses. These guys were probably barely hanging on.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
Most of their work was from overseas.
The domestic market obviously did not support this mill.
Odds are whatever company (and employees) fills the void will not be paying into the USA.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 237d
Your take is that it's un-american to produce a product for export?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
My take is that tarriffs killed the ability for this mill to compete for its foreign customer's business, which was the majority of the business. After tarrifs there were not enough domestic customers to keep the doors open.
The mill that will meet the foreign needs will not be American because the dont have to add on tarrif increases.
Thus the jobs, business tax, payroll tax, and wages reinvested in the economy will all be going to some other nation.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 237d
The people who support fascists don't own the mill anymore! Whether or not it should be torn down was the only point that I was discussing in my comment.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 237d
Demand creates jobs, not benevolent rich people.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 237d
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -10 pts · 237d
I'm not a trump supporter and many of the people who work at the mill won't be.
Why are you calling it a sub? Bringing your Reddit zero sum mindset over here, I see.
It's great that they had to sell the mill sure, but the person saying that he hopes it goes further and the mill closes and everyone loses their jobs, is a objectively terrible person and has a terrible take. Downvote me all you want, if you support saying that the mill should close just to spite people who don't even own the mill anymore, you're not a good person and you're definitely not better than the trash who vote for trump.
Isolde@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
I love how you’re attacking a person for a comment about a sawmill they didn’t shut down, and a president they didn’t vote for. All while completely ignoring the two parties in this article that have any true fault.
Apologists like you, are just as bad as the supporters, since you share the insatiable drive to find some other party to blame.
Also this is lemmy, if you were so into semantics, you would have thought about your comments a little more carefully. People who throw around the “you belong on Reddit” insult are just as pathetic as the trolls that are still over on Reddit. They have a slew of “communities “ if that’s what you prefer; for apologists. Why not check it out?
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 237d
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 8 pts · 237d
To be fair, spite is kind of the point of this community.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 236d
Downvoted this for spite.
Keeping in the spirit of the community.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 237d
They didn’t “vote different.” They voted for a convicted criminal who is a pedo and wants to subjugate minorities.
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 237d
The employees likely voted for this, too.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
Because they voted for a fascist who is actively destroying the country?
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 237d
Those people don't own the mill anymore. How hard is this to understand. It's literally the subject of the discussion. Every single person who works at the current mill can't be assumed to be a trump supporter and don't deserve to be punished to spite people who don't own the mill anymore.
aramis87@fedia.io · 24 pts · 237d
"Even knowing what I know, I'd still have voted the same way." Okay, cool, please accept my lack of sympathy for your current situation. Also, emphasis added:
Yeah, let me expand that lack of sympathy ....
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 237d
Eat shit losers.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 236d
They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps
Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 237d
"Enlightened" people on the left calling for sympathy for Trump supporters are wrong and working against compassionate national policy.
I's charitable to forgive, but babyhands supporters voted for a rapist who stated his clear intent to harm people with greater focus after harming people for years.
Actions have consequences and every cowardly, selfish maga idiot being harmed by their own choice is getting what they deserve.
The tragedy is the countless other people being killed and devastated because of cowardly maga voters.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 236d
Fucked around.
Found out.
Tradition doesnt replace intelligence and paying attention. It’s lazy. It is never a safe bet.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 237d
You were warned this would happen you stupid fucking assholes. I hope you starve.
BrioxorMorbide@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 236d
And they delighted in the "liberal tears" of those who warned them.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · -8 pts · 236d
I disagree. This is the time we should help our fellow "trumpian" citizens after they have been badly bandied about by their dear leader. It's time to mend fences. Trump and his admin are the common enemy here, not the folks who voted him in (if they did...the jury is still out on that). I get it though, violence rules, not democracy.
echodot@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 236d
Nah, they are lost. They are too thick to be able to think critically, so they'll still vote for him. So they a still stuck in the cult of brainless stupidly.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 236d
We tried that, it didn't work
Linktank@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 236d
Nah, fuck these people.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 236d
No, we tried to reason with them for a fucking decade now and they let their hate rule them. They can all rot. They don't get to switch sides and be welcomed with open arms just because suddenly something bad is finally affecting them. They can live with the consequences of their decisions.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · -2 pts · 236d
More flies with honey than vinegar.
And better than shit, because shit's less sticky, and then flies go around spreading shit everywhere.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 236d
It's almost as if they want to destroy small businesses, to be replaced by giant mega-monopolies focused only on expanding profit.
That's crazy though, it's not as if our government is financed by evil corpo-fascists.
OR IS IT
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 236d
It's not a disaster. It's a lesson. Hopefully they learn something from it.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 236d
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 236d
Learning is for libruls and children. And he ain't no librul.
fishos@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 236d
Probably unpopular, but I don't care what side you're on, if your company is basically a monarchy, you don't deserve to exist. How is this any different than a landlord just collecting rent? You sit there and "own" the company you inhereited while hundreds of other people do your work for you and you profit off of it. And then you don't even give anyone else a chance to run it, only your nepo babies. If your company is just a means to serve your own family and nothing else, it would be better replaced by someone else.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 236d
Perhaps if they had prayed harder, believed harder, held on longer for the Great Lord Trumps promises to be allowed to come to fruition? [sarcasm].
ceenote@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 237d
Maybe it's naive, but hopefully 1-2% of the people this happens to will learn something from it.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 236d
Yeah, that's a shame. ANYWAY . . .
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 237d
Oh no! Exactly what they voted for! 😭
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
Follow shit, you risk falling in it
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 237d
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 236d
How long until people realize these crooks are not on their side, in a big club of their own, and are treasonous.
Time to leave the divisive groupthink traps they set up for us to fall into to turn against each other?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
I’ve been asking that since the 80’s. So far it’s only gotten worse.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 236d
Yeah, I've got to absolutely cease thinking people will figure it out.
They're not figuring anything out.
They're hijacked, so their limbic system takes over, and their frontal lobe stands down, and atrophies.
... Incidentally, playing in the background here as I write this reply, is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8mEBnpB_8 which pretty much says such at the start. The manufactured sideism and frauds to terrorize us, keeping us divided and conquered, and then victim blaming the victims of this terror, calling the victims (both sides), the terrorists.
I guess we have to find better ways of helping people see through this con, than just asking how long until people realize, like we're merely waiting, like we're insane, doing this same thing, like we expect it to work...
tym@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
JAWNEHBOY@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 237d
Cultist weirdos
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
✨Have the day you voted for 🥰
Natanael@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 236d
Terrible ads on that page
Better source
https://www.carolinajournal.com/liberated-from-a-legacy-mackeys-ferry-sawmill/
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Ads?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 236d
Where's my tiny violin?
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
All I can say is good. Get educated before you vote you dumb fucks.
slickgoat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Ha-ha!
reddig33@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
🤷♂️
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 234d
Thoughts and prayers.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
Anyways..
roserose56@lemmy.zip · -15 pts · 237d
USA news stuff only in this sub. Totally ruined community. Will Block it.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 237d
You are allowed to block communities without announcing it to the world you know
Also US conservatives getting their faces eaten is quite literally the only purpose of this sub's existence
roserose56@lemmy.zip · -9 pts · 237d
Outside of America exists, yet this people think all communities on Lemmy are only USA specific, hence they post USA stuff only.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 237d
A lot of frontents/lemmy apps allow keywordblocking for things like "trump", "tarriff" or whatever
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 5 pts · 237d
The leopards in America happen to be feeding very well in the past year, so naturally there's a lot of posts from there.
Be the change you want to see. Find some non-American examples to post.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 237d
Well... bye.
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
So be the change you want to see in the world and post some non-US shit?
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 237d
You're a moron. Totally ruined my eyes reading your tripe. Will block you.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 237d
It's the most news-worthy country at the moment. The only superpower in the world is turning further and further into fascism and falling in power while still exerting its power on the world as China is rising. Yeah Israel is doing awful things but it's doing it without repercussions, because the US is backing them and using its power to keep anyone from stopping it. All the biggest stories at least tangentially go back to the US right now. I'm sorry you don't like it. Neither do I, but I assume you at least don't live here from this post. Lucky you.
Edit: didn't realize this was leopardsatemyface, thought it was news but the point remains the same. Leopards are eating faces here far more than anywhere else. Let it be a lesson to all right wing people in Europe that nationalism is not good for a country. Especially not for the common people in the right wing.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 237d
This is an airport. Thank you for announcing your departure.