• eskimofry@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Another convenient excuse for the hand of the free market to limit supply and jack up prices even further…

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      1 year ago

      I mean, if buttholes are shooting missiles at boats, I think we’re beyond “convenient excuses.” Do you want to captain a ship through there by chance?

              • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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                man i wish there were some way to test that theory

                maybe we could do sort of a ‘stopping the ongoing genocide’ test run, see how they respond

                and then keep it going indefinitely because genocide is bad

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                They flew in with a Palestinian flag on their helicopter. Their own flag say’s death to Israel and America; the nations doing the genocide and sponsoring the genocide. And all of this is after they just survived a genocide at the hands of the Saudi’s with US bombs and went on to win the war.

                Maybe, just maybe, they mean what they say.

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          They’re firing fucking rockets at them, isn’t that bad enough?

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              Insurance costs for sailing through the red sea are a verifiable metric, and it actually costs at least an order of magnitude more than it used to.

              Are you saying the insurers are part of an international cabal of deep state global elites who actually provide lower rates to transportation companies than they state, or somehow hand over those profits freely to Wal-Mart so they can double-dip on the price gouging…???

              Like bruh you can criticize price gouging without falling head-over-heels into insane crackpot conspiracy theories. Missiles are being fired, ships have to divert south around Africa, shipping gets expensive, simple as.