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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub

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Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering ending its cooking oil trade with China in retaliation for Beijing refusing to buy U.S. soybeans.
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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    Trump fucking caused the snub… stupidest fucking timeline

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    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
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      Because it’s cheaper from China.

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        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.

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          When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn’t matter.

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          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.

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          Just because you don’t understand it does not mean it’s not true.

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    Crab Rangoons are the enemy of the people

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      But people rave about them

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        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.

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          TIL, I was just trying to make a crab rave joke

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            Still, it’s fucking hilarious it is now a meme.

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    Trump - The dumbest and worst negotiator in history.

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    deleted by creator

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    You lose, I lose, everybody loses.

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    He has buddies riding the VIXY, that’s what this is.

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