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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

making yourself employable doesn't mean shit when the local community faces economic collapse since they are floating on top of the economic output of a single factory. Dude good luck finding a job with all the millions of other people moving to places where the work will be.

Also I wonder what he thinks the long term gains are? Dude thinks the economy is a muscle that needs to experience stress to get stronger. In the long term other countries will stop doing business with America, since they found more reliable partners.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Destroying the economy on the off chance that it might also hurt minorities...

It works, but...