Broke my Leatherman today.

I won a raffle in 2008 I think.

The first prize was a gift card which I used to buy the most expensive leatherman that was available in the store at the time.

I have used it so much and still somehow taken way too good care of it. Never abused the blades. I bet the tool I have used the most have been the pliers and the screwdriver.

The leather holster that I used occasionally looks still almost like new.

Cutting hot dog buns for kids when out and about, fixing my bike…

F for respect 🫡

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[–] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

China is over there with mega cities, electric cars that cost less than some motorcycles and high speed trains everywhere powered by the fucking sun and NA rednecks are still like “them Chinese caint build for SHIT”

No dude, cheap American businessmen only bought cheap products from them, and then told you that they were just savvy businessmen flooding our market.

“Alumericum” is probably the term you want, since we invented that shit

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    In truth, American Industry outsourced all the production, handing them out technology, and building their factories for them, to save a buck on labour and environmental cost in a country that is in effect fascist.

    They work them 6-12's, 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. They outlawed that schedule a while back, for show, they are still forced to work it. They dump their pollution, they have no worker protections, not for unemployment, nor for injury.

    Many of their workers aren't residents of the cities they work and live in, they are illegal in their own country. They can be fired, cheated, beat up/arrested/thrown out of town on their employer's word.

    So I appreciate you are trying to respect other cultures, I would suggest not to respect the culture of the authorities ruling with their boot on the neck of their exploited workforce though. Chinese workers won't thank you for it, not in truth though they can't say it, because the aforementioned fascist government, unless they are on a vpn, of which I have talked to some actually.

    Now, to get back to it, yes, Wall Street is ultimately responsible. But China is complicit and also responsible, sacrificing current generations for their future ruling class' suzerainty.

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