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Trump’s 'Golden Age' killed another American company's factory in a red state
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ProfThadBach lemmy.world ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-20
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North Carolina Fuck YEAH!! Coming at you every mother fucking daaayaa!!!!!!

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KnitWit lemmy.world KnitWit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
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Fayetteville, so probably a lot of veterans working there too.

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Bonesince1997 lemmy.world Bonesince1997@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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“The Goodyear Rubber and Tire Co. announced this week that it would be shuttering its Fayetteville, North Carolina, plant that currently employs more than 1,700 workers,” reports Reason, before analyzing company reports to sort through the reasons.

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Jimbabwe lemmy.world Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-18
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“Simply put: you can't make tires without rubber, and it is impossible to buy rubber that isn't imported — because rubber trees do not grow in the United States,”

But Trump sees other countries with a surplus of rubber production as a threat to be targeted with tariffs

Trump’s failure to understand basic economics. A story in two quotes.

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ProfThadBach lemmy.world ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-20
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Fayetteville, so probably a lot of veterans working there too.

And nobody cares more about veterans than the GOP, right? /s

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-28
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This is the dumbest gilded age... We all have known all along how fucked up it all is. It's just a few people on top peeing on us and calling it prosperity.

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
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People are always concentrating on specific little things like people working or making enough to pay for food or housing or bills or such. They don't talk about other affordibility measures. Like the normalized cost of blow jobs has never been lower!!!

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