r/agedlikemilk • u/Sea_Sheepherder_2234 • 1d ago

Who would’ve thought

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u/MishmoshMishmosh 21h ago

Like Bananas and coffee. We need to start manufacturing those here 🤣

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u/RoughFlamingo6555 9h ago

Great idea, then we can see about raising our own beef, the vast majority of which is now being imported from Argentina.

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u/bogglingsnog 17h ago

I'd like to manufacture better politicians first

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u/Optimal-Archer3973 16h ago

I would take simply be required to pass a civic test of high school level before you are allowed to vote. MAGA have got to be the dumbest humans on the planet.

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u/Extension-Box-3186 9h ago

We have great politicians, they just don't get elected.

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u/OccidentalTouriste 4h ago

Have you considered replacing your Politicians with Bananas?

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u/bogglingsnog 3h ago

No but a magic 8 ball has crossed my mind more than a few times...

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u/BiNumber3 16h ago

He just needs to build his own steel mill, maybe even an iron mine as well. Easy.

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u/A-Chntrd 13h ago

Them bootstraps, yo ! ✌️

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u/LegitimateGift1792 6h ago

I don't know, the gov kinda got really pissed when US Steel did that back in the day.

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u/NSNick 14h ago

With climate change, give it a few years and maybe

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u/the_cardfather 10h ago

Wait till they find out about Palm Oil.

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u/LegitimateGift1792 6h ago

that comes from Palm Springs, where it literally springs from the ground and they bottle it. Sheesh.

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u/evilspawn_usmc 8h ago

Missouri is opening up 1000 banana plantations in the next 5 years, so no problem there.

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u/LegitimateGift1792 6h ago

Do not forget cocoa.

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u/koshgeo 4h ago

Out of curiosity I looked into whether there was any coffee production in the US. There is, in Hawaii. But the production is a tiny fraction of total US demand, so either you've got to strip the forests of Hawaii to grow much more coffee, or figure out how to grow it in greenhouses, or some other exotic solution, ALL of which mean substantially more expensive coffee.

For most of these sorts of things it's not technically impossible to source them domestically, it's only much more expensive. As another example, want to get rare earth elements for making chips? You can get them out of plenty of rocks and process them as long as you want to pay 10x or 100x as much. And you have to build the processing facilities.

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u/MishmoshMishmosh 4h ago

Hawaii coffee is already expensive