The global economy is dying?
Good. Let it die.
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/economy-suffering-let-die/
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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Remember those "I did that" Biden stickers that dumbasses put on all the gas pumps a few years back?
I've been thinking about those a lot lately.
The Trump ones are funny because they use the pic of him looking into the eclipse without eye protection:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1842758474/100pc-trump-i-did-that-stickers-gas-pump
It’s really not just oil. The oil gets more expensive, but it becomes impossible in the short and medium term to source other petroleum byproducts, which are required components of an astounding number of other items.
Then, there is the LNG shipped through the Strait. This is used for energy in even more areas and applications than crude oil is as a fuel source and necessary aspect of oil he production of other items (e.g. the drying and curing of textiles).
Finally we come to what is most worrisome, fertilizer. The lack of such will cause famine-like conditions in entire swaths of the globe and if they don’t get out during the planting season, there is not a recovery possible — think mass starvation in a large number of densely populated regions.
This is getting a lot worse before it gets better.
I don't think there's a huge amount of fertilizer going through the strait, saudia arabia is the only producer that would need to do that, and while they're in the top 5 fertilizer producers, they are #5 by a fair amount.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/fertilizer-production-by-country
Natural gas byproducts are the single most in-demand precursor for agricultural fertilizer manufacturing.
At last, comrade Trump has assaulted capitalism! Long live he who prepares the world for the great decoupling of fossil fuels
At last, comrade Trump has assaulted capitalism! Long live he who prepares the world for the great decoupling of fossil fuels
Hey don't judge. Trump's just doing his best to combat climate change.
Honestly, I'd pay good money - all my money - if this ended capitalism (especially this late stage shit we're in), killed off corporations, and ushered in an era of progressive steps towards communism...
Me too. I only briefly entertained any delusions of being permitted to live a comfortable life in this system.
Interactive version, so you can be as destructive as you know you want to be: https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
holy shit i loved that so much
Why is this so entertaining?
Well, that's one way to speed up EV adoption.
the very thing (along with renewables in general) he torpedoed hard last year…
burning bridges is idiotic… burning bridges you still need to cross is going full MAGA
Yep, sadly he torpedoed potential supply as well. Honda, Ford, and other car companies announced cancellations of EV projects.
Trump truly cares about climate change 😍
Oil is one of the biggest blocks in that stack
This is referring to the fact that when oil gets more expensive, everything else does because oil is used to make fuel for transport of most resources in the supply chain. Because of how important is to the global economy, the exact disastrous effects are still unpredictable.
Highest, you mean? Because it's not stable at all.
And also, it's way down on the stack. The cartoon may apply better to oil than to OpenSSL.