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On Sun, 4 May 2025 14:12:04 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 5/4/2025 2:03 PM, bitrex wrote:
>> On 5/4/2025 1:18 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> On Sun, 04 May 2025 09:01:56 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> which is shocking.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/02/american- 
>>>> reindustrialization-manufacturing
>>>
>>> I would normally hit the 'next' button when someone links to a
>>> Guardian article, but as you say, they're right for once with this
>>> one. Lots of countries in the West were sold the same lie about
>>> swapping manufacturing for services. Mrs Thatcher told the British
>>> that the old 'smoke stack' industries would have to go abroad and be
>>> replaced by smart services. Those peasants in the Far East, they were
>>> told, would take over all the shitty, manual jobs whilst the British
>>> would get cracking with the clever stuff like manufacturing silicon
>>> chips. Problem was, the peasants in China and Taiwan didn't get the
>>> memo. The British lost a huge amount of manufacturing alright, but the
>>> service economy which replaced it was - for the most part - low paid
>>> and low skill. Some economists who could see the issues with this said
>>> at the time: "we can't as a country make a living from shining each
>>> other's shoes" - and that's the prediction which *should* have been
>>> listened to.
>> 
>> It wasn't the right in the US rioting at the WTO conference in Seattle 
>> in '99.
>> 
>> The right didn't care. Stocks were up, dot com boom was in full swing, 
>> and so long as the cops were beating down some  "hippies" it was fine, 
>> ship all the jobs to China, we have a White House blowjob to focus on..
>
>Actually _maybe_ Pat Buchanan piped up about it at the time, I can't 
>recall.
>
>Sort of like JD Vance, Buchanan could write is his own books which were 
>often insightful in their way, but then the punchline was the usual 
>disappointing ultranationalist white power gobbledygook.

Vance? White power?

His wife is Indian.

(But my biscuit recipe is better than his.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10VIJjqJIs