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Amazing that Regal Ware manages to add 0 value to the aluminum that they buy.

(that's what the guy implies with "So I’m now at a 25 percent disadvantage immediately on all those products.")

Really they appear to retail for ~100x the cost of the aluminum in their products, meaning wholesale in the range of 20-30x the cost of the aluminum. So a roughly 1% issue.

It's all an entirely predictable result of protectionism.

Why Canadian milk infuriates Donald Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/...

Why is this political hit piece posted here?

Why do you consider it a hit piece?

This forum should be about technology and the news surrounding it. Polarizing news articles threaten the integrity of this forum.

I feel that the rise of populism like Trump and Brexit, and the breakdown of the liberal world order, and democracy itself, are fundamentally important issues.

That said, they're so important that they could very easily 'crowd out' all the other news here, and there are many other places to discuss these things, so despite - or rather because of - their importance, these issues should probably be kept off of HN.

And truth be told, it's time to stop chatting and start getting personally involved to counter this crap.