Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

Post by ericmay » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

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Are you ready to sign up and go fight in Ukraine or elsewhere and die to stop authoritarianism as a matter of practicality? It's not a very fair question to ask, I know, but I think we really need to make sure we are honest about what we're asking people to do. Cutting economic ties in these specific cases isn't enough to actually stop the bloodshed and bring about stability. There are practical limits to our willpow…

> Are you ready to sign up and go fight in Ukraine or elsewhere and die to stop authoritarianism as a matter of practicality? Not necessarily, as I’m not directly threatened, but I’m more than happy to carve out a piece of my paycheck to give Ukrainians any and every piece of equipment they need to do it for me.

Post by slashdev » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 7:31 PM UTC

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NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS are not niche. They all ran cover for Biden until the debate made it too obvious. They were not "very critical". They are, however, extremely critical of anything Trump does.

I wouldn’t say extremely critical of Trump. He brings half of it on himself. Simply reporting what he says and does that makes him look incompetent is not being particularly critical.

Post by School-Cotton » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 7:32 PM UTC

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This is disingenuous even by your usual standards. “cheap Chinese crap for Christmas” was just one example of things that tariffs will make it harder to get, by no means the only one. It’s not the 90s anymore. Lots of Chinese goods are neither cheap nor crap, nor producible elsewhere.

I’m specifically responding to a post that links an article about christmas toy shortages. I know China makes some incredible technology. But it also makes a lot of cheap crap nobody needs. Can we at least agree on banning that?

Post by broost3r » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 7:32 PM UTC

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Are we really subscribing to Reaganistic trickle-down economic theory now? How sure are we that those imports aren't mostly just lining the pockets of the rich? We're measuring the wrong things. We need to measure cost of living instead of how empty or full a Port is. We don't know if these two things are correlated yet.

That's not what trickle-down economics mean. Trickle-down is the idea that giving tax breaks or benefits to the wealthy or big corporations will eventually benefit everyone else through increased investment or job creation. What I’m talking about here is the basic flow of goods and services in an economy—when that gets disrupted, the effects hit workers and consumers directly, not eventually or indirectly. When impor…

Post by rvba » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 7:34 PM UTC

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This could get really ugly when the shelves start going empty. This may make the toilet paper incident seem quaint in comparison.

It's a good thing the United States doesn't depend on China for toilet paper, then. > The United States primarily sources its toilet paper domestically, with about 90% being manufactured within the country.However, a significant portion of imports come from Canada and Mexico. In fact, the United States does not depend on China for any essential consumer goods from what I can find.