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General Mar 26, 2026 at 12:43 PM

Iran war chokes petrochemical supply, sends plastic prices soaring

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-war-chokes-petrochemical-supply-sends-plastic-prices-soaring-2026-03-26/
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speckledlobster Mar 26, 2026 +1000
The process of shipping oil is slow. The real supply disruptions haven't even begun yet, and when they do, they will be long lasting. Would take a month to normalize even if the infrastructure wasn't destroyed. It's going to get a lot worse.
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WilliamInBlack Mar 26, 2026 +320
Imagine if inflation gets worse than it did post-COVID?
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itsatumbleweed Mar 26, 2026 +265
It's going to. Sadly.
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Mikestopheles Mar 26, 2026 +264
Why would Biden do this to us twice?
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umpteenthrhyme Mar 26, 2026 +158
Failure to prosecute a seditionist?
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HankHippopopolous Mar 26, 2026 +139
Yeah like obviously none of this is Biden’s fault but the fact that he thought it could go back to business as usual without making an example and heavily punishing Trump and the Jan 6ers just emboldened them to try again and try harder. Now they’ve fucked up everything for everyone except for a few of their billionaire buddies who will be getting even richer off of this shit. So yeah obviously not his fault but he had opportunities to prevent this foreseeable problem and did nothing.
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Sheeple_person Mar 26, 2026 +73
This is going to happen again, *if* the administration isn't able to cheat their way to winning the midterms. If the midterms are reasonably legit, the Dems will take congress and then likely do absolutely nothing to hold these war criminals accountable, and we may get something even worse in 2028 as a result. I hope I'm wrong but who in their right mind believes that *Chuck f****** Schumer* is going to bring the hammer down?
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HedonisticFrog Mar 26, 2026 +7
He could have immediately prosecuted Trump for obstruction of justice as well, as Mueller laid out clearly in his report. Instead Trump got the kid gloves treatment because Democrats were too afraid of looking partisan. As if that was going to stop Trump from becoming a dictator in his second term.
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agent674253 Mar 26, 2026 +27
Yeah, their comment feels like /s but Biden had four years to prosecute Trump, and instead waited until the election year when it would be kind of... weird... to have a presidential nominee in prison. Trump wasted no time in 2025 going after cancer-striken Biden. He should have been imprisoned in 2022 so the world could have read his 'regarded' version of 'My cheeto struggle'.
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yobwerd Mar 26, 2026 +6
“Mein Kampf with Dementia”
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bishop375 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Two. They had two years. And a pandemic to deal with. There was absolutely no way they could have done everything they wanted to do in that short of a time under those circumstances.
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No_Chapter_3102 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Democrats are controlled opposition. They have/had a chance to do something, or run people who actually would advocate for change. They don't, because the rich people align with the conservatives and just need "the other guy" to stand there and look like we all get to make a choice. There is a single party in this country and they are aligned with all the rich people and the horrible industries they oversee. We would need to get a 3rd party off the ground to really ever change anything, and that is almost impossible because as soon as a 3rd party gains momentum all the democrats and republicans ally to shoot them down and uphold the status quo.
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itsatumbleweed Mar 26, 2026 +2
Fell asleep at the wheel
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JCeee666 Mar 26, 2026 +13
Way worse my friend. The refinery in Texas getting no press because it also disrupted production significantly. When gas hits $6.00 know that the entire global economy is sinking.
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Flexuasive Mar 26, 2026 +39
Your imagination will have its job cut out for itself.
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olivthefrench Mar 26, 2026 +48
we're literally looking at a repeat of 2022-ish, but this time it's entirely self-inflicted and the middle-east has no (meaningful) way to get their oil out until Dear Leader TACO's
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Whackles Mar 26, 2026 +50
Self inflicted? No created by the US for the rest of us
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MercantileReptile Mar 26, 2026 +17
This! No natural catastrophe this time. Or even biolab accident, for the conspiracy theorists. The US could have just not done that. In fact, they could still *not* do a lot of things and simply go home.
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olivthefrench Mar 26, 2026 +6
that's the most infuriating part, they just did this to shift attention from the E files (which worked) but also planned nothing beyond the initial strikes so now everyone loses
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guave06 Mar 26, 2026 +9
It’s worse, prices are already matching the ones from 2022, and we’re just getting started
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olivthefrench Mar 26, 2026 +4
diesel is $6/gal in my town already, it hardly reached that in 2022. 87 is $4/gal but that's probably the lowest it'll be all year
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FirefighterLeft5425 Mar 26, 2026 +17
Going be worse than that. We've destroyed a ton of infrastructure through this terrorist operation of ours. The world should completely turn away from us. We are dangerous and unserious.
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olivthefrench Mar 26, 2026 +6
good point, i'd forgotten about that. gods be good it's so joever
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Flextt Mar 26, 2026 +20
There is a bigger dimension to this with significant parts of global production capacities physically destroyed and damaged and oil wells getting plugged. There is a very real engineering dimension affecting physically available supply to this that bean counters fail to see. Large equipments have lead times of months to years. Plugged oil wells have questionable productivity in the future.
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KwisatzHaderach94 Mar 26, 2026 +12
it will last long enough that a democrat president will still be fixing it and take so long doing it that impatient voters put another republican in as if that will help. wash, rinse, repeat.
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2kWik Mar 26, 2026 +4
About the same way computer components will be going for AI.
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SinisterCheese Mar 26, 2026 +3
Process of shipping anything by sea is slow. Most time scales being 30, 60 and 90 days, depending on routes and cargo. Currently it's just been futures that gone up, but as each if those time markers get hit things get worse. Then after those we get to the reshuffle, as shipping companies consider/start to alter routes and schedules of their fleets. This isn't just about oil... But all products, since the movements of global fleets affect everything from maintenance dockings of ships at shipyards/dry docks, to container flow (as in... Literally where the global supply of cargo containers is distributed physically).
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jumbee85 Mar 27, 2026 +2
That's what happened with covid and yet Biden was blamed for not acting fast enough.
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Ale_Sm Mar 26, 2026 +1471
Inflation is back baby!
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N3R37H05_111 Mar 26, 2026 +569
Back? It's been here this entire goddamn time!
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LittleKitty235 Mar 26, 2026 +187
You haven’t seen anything yet!
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FirefighterLeft5425 Mar 26, 2026 +55
I feel like Chevy Chases character in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation daily just ranting to myself.
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neatyouth44 Mar 26, 2026 +18
Best we can do is a jelly of the month club
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Crackedbwo Mar 26, 2026 +8
Clark, that’s the gift that keeps on giving alllll year long.
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PhoolyCooly Mar 26, 2026 +130
Trump: Fed needs to lower rates. Fed: I would love to if you would stop doing inflationary shit you dumb f***.
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aerost0rm Mar 26, 2026 +11
The wealth transfer picks up due to limited supply!
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seeyou_nextfall Mar 26, 2026 +10
Inflation 2
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ChefCurryYumYum Mar 26, 2026 +5
It never f****** left
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Epi52 Mar 26, 2026 +12
Inflation? I feel like hyperinflation is inevitable now 😭
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Sterbs Mar 26, 2026 +3
Inflation? Deflation? F*** that. Welcome to *stagflation,* bitches!
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rnavstar Mar 26, 2026 +4
It’s new inflation……looks like old inflation but with the word “NEW” in front of it.
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CurrentlyLucid Mar 26, 2026 +579
trump is screwing the world in so many ways at once. Amazing what one propped up demented fool can accomplish.
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Kjb72 Mar 26, 2026 +203
He's had a lot of help.
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goldbman Mar 26, 2026 +51
Right, he's propped up
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GovernorHarryLogan Mar 26, 2026 +10
Can we discuss how plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs? This is really unsettling that they will cost an exorbitant amount now. Dinosaurs --> dinosaurs bones --> fossil fuel --> petroleum --> polypropylene pellets --> plastic dinosaurs. I hope the dinosaurs rise up and solve this crisis.
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Embarrassed-Yard-583 Mar 26, 2026 +4
Somehow, the most incompetent evil faction won out over the boringly competent evil faction, so here we are.
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Gonzomi313 Mar 26, 2026 +60
Or even worse, the fools that voted him into office. Or even worse than that, the fools in congress who refuse to do anything about it.
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Whackles Mar 26, 2026 +39
And the morons who did not vote
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sunlightsyrup Mar 26, 2026 +39
'I kind of feel like all the candidates are basically the same anyway' - Literally the most useless, stupid, assinine fuckhead waste of space ever to walk the earth
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T_Gamer-mp4 Mar 26, 2026 +15
the goal of authoritarianism is never to get people to want to be evil, it’s to make them not care and presume it’s not worth trying to fight only if we get somebody in office who Genuinely Hates Evil will we actually get out of this hell
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sunlightsyrup Mar 26, 2026 +9
Well said. All that is required for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing. Every man is guilty of the good he does not do.
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tortoisebutler Mar 26, 2026 +2
It boggles my mind that there are shitheads out there still defending their choice to not vote in 2024. I guess the most important thing was for them to feel better than everyone else, huh?
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FoxKamp7785 Mar 26, 2026 +8
It's wild what you can accomplish with dark money  :D
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Wanna_make_cash Mar 26, 2026 +2
Well in this case, it's a demented fool and the will and whim of Israel
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catchmycorn Mar 26, 2026 +322
Funny how it keeps getting called a war and yet no articles of impeachment have come from this considering congress never approved
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BlueKnightofDunwich Mar 26, 2026 +219
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/senate-iran-war-powers-resolution-vote-trump/ Congress is refusing to assert their powers and simply allowing the President to do as he wishes.
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doneandtired2014 Mar 26, 2026 +85
Pretty much. The Republicans wanted their God King and they got him. The fact he's a child raping moron whose brain is melting in real time is irrelevant. Tangentially related: f*** anyone who voted for this shit show for any reason, ya'll are irredeemable pieces of shit. Same goes for you soap box sitters who couldn't rub enough brain cells together to know when and where a temper tantrum should have been thrown.
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sunlightsyrup Mar 26, 2026 +25
'All candidates are basically the same' Jfc I hope these people ************
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doneandtired2014 Mar 26, 2026 +3
Same friend, same. Fortunately, I'm not particularly interested in trying to reason with them because it literally doesn't matter now, it won't matter in the future, and "I fucked up" changes nothing. You know the Rime of the Ancient Mariner where the sailor kills the albatross and how the rest of the crew ties its carcass around his neck? That's basically where I'm at with those dipshits. Too late for us all, but maybe they'll serve the purpose of being walking warnings for future generations after they've been sufficiently traumatized by the policies and actions they couldn't be bothered to stand against.
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qtx Mar 26, 2026 +4
> The Republicans wanted their God King and they got him. Trump is their lightning rod. As long as Trump is getting all the media attention for his stupidity they can rob the US blind while no one is watching them.
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IlVeroStronzo Mar 26, 2026 +2
Pretty much an entire branch of government has become obsolete
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SwissChzMcGeez Mar 26, 2026 +31
There were 7 articles of impeachment a year ago. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-now-facing-7-new-articles-of-impeachment/ar-AA1DQRhf The problem is no Republican will ever hold another Republican accountable, and Republicans control the House, Senate, Presidency, Media, and Supreme Court.
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Kankunation Mar 26, 2026 +22
Sadly nothing new there I'm afraid. The US has not official declared war anywhere since WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq, all done with only the powers granted by the war powers act and the US has put itself in a position where the War Powers act is nearly impossible to fight against. Hence why the Dems have been pushing for a resolution or declare that war on Iran is illegal, as that would actually give them something to impeach on potentially.
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Wanna_make_cash Mar 26, 2026 +4
Why isn't there a laundry list of other things they could impeach him for?
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braxin23 Mar 26, 2026 +80
We are all in hell and no one can tell me otherwise.
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Icy-Map9410 Mar 26, 2026 +6
Yep. And stuck for three more years, possibly beyond. Midterms not looking promising for the Democrats with all the wealthiest billionaires backing the Republicans.
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Suchisthe007life Mar 26, 2026 +252
Working in construction, and this is a massive issue that we have been discussing impacts on for the last fortnight. This is going to make COVID look like child’s play.
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mr_potato_thumbs Mar 26, 2026 +161
Unfortunately people don’t understand how much plastic is required in order to get everyday things to them and stored long term. Every can and every bulk liquid good requires plastic. Almost everything you own has a plastic part in it, or was touched by plastic in the supply chain. Every coating, every machine, most clothes, utilizes plastic. Furniture and lumber products. This will cost us an insane amount of money, and will delay supply chains for at least 5 years.
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7point5swiss Mar 26, 2026 +72
You know what sewer, storm, water and gas pipes are made of? Plastic. Sheathing on electrical wire, electrical conduit, plastic. This is going to be horrible for trying to get projects built because the price for a block of pvc is up 200%
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mr_potato_thumbs Mar 26, 2026 +42
Yep, it’s gonna be a mess. I work in coatings so I can’t wait to explain two years from now how we are still dealing with supply chains issues from this debacle. The scope of petrochemical plants is incomprehensible to most people, and they don’t understand how long it takes to get everything back up and running after shutdowns.
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DragonHalfFreelance Mar 26, 2026 +12
And not just plastic but everything that requires oil to function…..power disruptions, delivery costs skyrocketing, long distance traveling becoming impossible for many.  And on top of which fertilizer supply destroyed so food is going to be in shorter supply and sulfuric acid which is used to process copper which is used in most electronics too
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Suchisthe007life Mar 26, 2026 +8
Yep… the whole narrative on “good, we can just stop using plastics” is so very nearsighted. I agree that we should use less, but the entire global system can’t just be retooled overnight, and the costs associated are not going to be absorbed by the manufacturers. We will hopefully see a shift from petrochemical based products, but the disruption to everyday products in the short to mid term is going to suck!!
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pickofdestiny89 Mar 26, 2026 +27
The only good thing I see from this is that it will hopefully accelerate getting away from oil and plastic. Especially plastic packaging has been ridiculous. Some companies try to use less, but in general I feel like a lot of cardboard and paper packaging has been replaced with plastic in North American grocery stores. Either way, we got some expensive years ahead once again...
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mr_potato_thumbs Mar 26, 2026 +15
Even the cardboard and paper packaging you see probably has plastic on it or in it. We have a few non-oil base adhesives we can use for these products but they tend to perform worse than the alternatives.
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Alone_Again_2 Mar 26, 2026 +9
Couple of issues with that. Consumers like to see the items that they’re purchasing, hence translucent packaging. A cardboard box doesn’t keep your bread fresh. A plastic bag does (extend this over a myriad of products). Petrochemicals are precursors for fertilizer (urea) and a multitude of medications as basic as acetaminophen or as commonly used as Metformin, the most widely used diabetes medicine. The list goes on and on. Think transport costs rising - using bulkier cardboard packaging would add a multiplier effect to that.
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defianceofone Mar 26, 2026 +2
Yeah, not crying for the f****** plastics industry. The world has already too much plastic shit. If it impacts everything, maybe find a better, less destructive and toxic way to make them or don't make them at all. It's not like consumerism is something to aspire to.
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Sad_Math5598 Mar 26, 2026 +2
We won’t need plastics anymore once we are sent back to the Bronze Age by nuclear hellfire
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Wanna_make_cash Mar 26, 2026 +3
Why does it feel like supply chains get damaged and then they just never recover. They only get more damaged and prices only go up more.
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +23
In the Automotive Side, people are not gonna drive, cars are not going to be repaired. Gonna make the Tariffs on the auto and steels look like child play when the entire supply chain gets hammered. Every country should be full tilt on EV. No more relying on a specific country / region for energy.
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Alone_Again_2 Mar 26, 2026 +11
Except now we will be relying on a single country/region for the rare earth metals to build those EVs. The global supply chain is interdependent, regardless of the product that you’re trying to build.
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Ph0enixKaye Mar 26, 2026 +8
I work at a county hospital in supply chain. Our vendors are already rationing their glove supplies in preparation for the production shortages. The amounts the have allocated us is not sustainable and everyone is already panicking. I didn't work in this field during Covid, but I dealt with the fallout of the panic buying leftovers. This is going to be a shitshow.
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DoubleJumps Mar 26, 2026 +2
I work in the toy industry and we are all sitting here looking at the double whammy of tariffs and then this and realizing we are heading back to the shitshow we were in back in the 70s. Not fun.
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svmep Mar 26, 2026 +110
For someone who come from 3rd world country with low wage this war gonna affected us badly, can't believe this is caused by stupid trump and his genocider friend. Can't imagine of innocent people who lost their life from this war.
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splittingheirs Mar 26, 2026 +22
Don't forget about the millions of americans that voted for and still support him. They deserve some love too, after all they're the ones who made all this possible!
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Skadoosh_it Mar 26, 2026 +35
I guess the world better start making stuff out of metal, glass, paper and natural fibers again.
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Spire_Citron Mar 26, 2026 +15
Would be ironic if Trump of all people pushed us towards a greener future by making people see the potential financial and security disadvantages of plastic and oil.
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +344
Can we call it the Israeli-American war. This is their doing. F both those countries.
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WilliamInBlack Mar 26, 2026 +130
It’s getting more embarrassing to be an American by the day.
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jRw_1 Mar 26, 2026 +30
Hey I'm an Iranian, and not the dumb diaspora monarchists, I live right here and bombs shake my house every other while. I don't hate you. I understand that you didn't want this as much as I didn't. We are both stuck with this mess, with the exception that I might not wake up [or my vpn might fail to connect] tomorrow, so I want you to know that I wish the best for all of us.
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hopefeedsthespirit Mar 26, 2026 +15
I want to jump in here. Im not the other poster but as an American, I am so sorry your home was attacked by these idiots running the gov here. We are all in danger because of it. I certainly wish the best for all of us too but I am hoping and praying that the bombs stop dropping everywhere and that you are safe and at peace. 
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jRw_1 Mar 27, 2026 +2
This brightened my day. Thank you I never for a moment doubted that most people around the world just want to live their everyday lives and be able to plan ahead based some manner of stability; but now Ukrainians can't bc Putin decided, we can't bc of Trump, Gazans bc of Bibi, etc.
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +58
There are good Americans. You need to be louder. This morning, I had strawberries and saw on the carton “Produce from the USA”. I said to myself F*** THE USA. I never have ever in my life thought negatively about the US at this scale. Sure things go wrong, bad policy and some rifts. But this feels irreparable, and as a Canadian even more. We don’t fly flags like the US here in Canada, this year I’ll be flying two. Canada and the EU.
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itsatumbleweed Mar 26, 2026 +26
There are. I'm one. Canvassed for Harris hard in ATL. I don't blame the rest of the world for saying f*** you to all of us. We messed up really bad and screwed everyone over, even if some of us tried not to.
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Robertroo Mar 26, 2026 +16
As an American, I will also come out and say F*** THE USA. Trump is not making America great again at all, hes a f****** moronic grifter surrounded by grifters.
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t4boo Mar 26, 2026 +15
I’m American and I say this all the time now
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Careless-Gain6623 Mar 26, 2026 +12
Been saying this to American products for over a year. Never too late to join the club.
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +10
Oh I have! Trust me. Maybe 70-80% reduction. My next cut off is Amazon and Netflix and going IPTV. It hasn’t been this profound in my thoughts. I love the good people, the bad can go to hell along with this admin.
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Tambien Mar 26, 2026 +10
Just wanted to say, as an American, thank you for boycotting us. The idiots in this country have been isolated from consequences for so long that the only way they’ll understand is feeling personal pain. You boycotting helps make that happen and strengthens those of us fighting it. Keep it up please!
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +2
Just because money goes into the Federal coffers, I’m not buying American, otherwise id do my best to support blue states and allies. The red Trump and MAGA states can burn.
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SwissChzMcGeez Mar 26, 2026 +3
How loud do we need to be for elected officials to stop ignoring us? Protesting, writing, emailing, yelling doesn't do ANYTHING.
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +4
Streets. Think French. Think revolution.
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SwissChzMcGeez Mar 26, 2026 +10
They *want* a civil war as an excuse to crack down on liberals and cancel the midterms. I don't know what you expect to do against a militarized police force who has killed a man for *checks notes* kicking an SUV's tail light.
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cybah Mar 26, 2026 +3
This is the sad truth. The minute we do something, we will be squashed like a foot on an ant. That’s the problem here.. and I don’t think the rest of the world understands, it’s not a matter of not wanting to rise, it’s a matter than our own govt and military will turn on us o a dime.
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Tex-Rob Mar 26, 2026 +3
Being loud does nothing in the modern age. When you only had newspapers and local news, protests were the news and therefore dominated it. In the modern age, the Internet age, it's so easy to ignore and just not cover it. I am not saying people shouldn't protest, but it does very little.
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BudvarMan Mar 26, 2026 +2
Trump said if I vote for Kamala Harris we'll be in the war with Iran and gas prices will be high. I guess he was right.
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PKSkriBBLeS Mar 26, 2026 +13
The Epstein Wars Axis of Epstein
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CircumcisedSpine Mar 26, 2026 +3
War of Epstein Aggression The First Epstein War
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markusthemarxist Mar 26, 2026 +9
No? That makes it sound like Israel and the US are at war with each other
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LengthClean Mar 26, 2026 +4
It does, but in my head I’d love it to be known historically who the bad guys are here. Any suggestions? Regardless of who the current regime is in Iran, don’t think Iranians are the bad guys here.
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etre_meilleur Mar 26, 2026 +3
They're definitely not the good guys either, though?
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Wanna_make_cash Mar 26, 2026 +2
Everybody sucks here but sometimes you just have to leave a hornets nest alone instead of trying to rile it up..oh well, too late for that.
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Tex-Rob Mar 26, 2026 +17
The rest of the world is full speed ahead on EVs, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, you name it. They are just going to go all in on moving away from oil, we are strengthening the transition and making the choice clear, while shooting ourselves in the foot. The US has gone from a world leader to the laughing stock of humanity in such a short time.
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Designer-Salary-7773 Mar 26, 2026 +17
Donold and his GOP enablers created this quagmire.   They undoubtedly profited handsomely. Your sons and daughters will be fighting their war . 
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DarthBluntSaber Mar 26, 2026 +27
Trump and republicans did this. Again
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heybobson Mar 26, 2026 +22
Reminder that the reason we have so much plastic in our world (and microplastics in our bodies) is because we pump so much oil and subsidize it that companies had to make use the byproducts when refining. Not only does burning fossil fuels heat our planet, but it drowns us in plastic
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KDR_11k Mar 26, 2026 +12
Plastic is really useful and if we stopped pumping oil we'd use non-oil methods to make more plastic.
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heybobson Mar 26, 2026 +11
Sure plastic can have its uses, but we produce way too much because of our oil addiction. Plastic wouldn’t go away with reduced oil consumption but there would be far less c**** plastic out there
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Ok_Dragonfruit_2185 Mar 26, 2026 +3
Also why plastic isn't often recycled. It is cheaper to just use new plastic because it's so abundant. This feels like oil company propaganda to me.
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GreenStrong Mar 26, 2026 +6
To extend your line of thought a little more: Plastic recycling (and bioplastic) fails in a business sense because it can't compete with c**** virgin plastic. The petrochemical feedstocks like naptha and natural gas liquids are essentially a byproduct of fuel production. If demand for road fuel, which is 60% of petroleum, is displaced by EVs, other industries like plastic are going to have to pay 100% of the cost of drilling and refining. The price of plastic will rise; recycling and bioplastic will be viable, using the same technology that failed in the past. This is *achievable*. Not immediately, but within our lifetimes.
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ArCovino Mar 26, 2026 +3
Exactly. We severely under price all oil-based products already. If the costs to the environment and our health were included oil would already be a relic of the past due to extreme cost.
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Daren_I Mar 26, 2026 +36
I never thought it would require a war to reduce plastic use.
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cazbot Mar 26, 2026 +14
I did. In fact, I’ve always thought it would be the only way. Ironically and completely unintentionally, Trump may have caused the biggest drop in fossil fuel emissions in history.
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zergling- Mar 26, 2026 +6
He also did that in 2020 with COVID! Turns out he's been great for the environment /s
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PuzzleheadedTea4221 Mar 26, 2026 +11
It's not going to reduce plastic use much. What it will do is increase the amount that you pay for those plastic products that you are using. I've worked at these Plastics plants in Houston texas. They run 24/7, 365 days a week. They get paid a nice bonus for that machine not to shut down.
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watduhdamhell Mar 26, 2026 +11
Yep. To give people a little inside baseball, the Dow Poly 5/6/7 block in Freeport is putting out poly at 150+ MT/hr, and they are booked out for a year or so. These mega scale producers continuously produce overbooked. There is no shortage of orders. For perspective, that's roughly $300,000 in revenue *per hour*. Each reactor trip is an automatic loss of $400-600k in rate loss (because they are *always* scheduled to run), leave alone wasted raw materials. So no. They don't shut those reactors down, *ever*. Except for planned outages, of course. Now Dow is the largest elephant in the room for poly, something like 14% of the global supply out of 100s of companies making it. But this gives you an idea behind the motivation.
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Aria_Athena Mar 26, 2026 +2
Maybe recycling will be worth it for a lil' while.
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Radiant-Objective-35 Mar 26, 2026 +10
Damn Legos are going to get really f****** expensive.
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pizzaboy83 Mar 26, 2026 +12
...going to?
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jizzlevania Mar 26, 2026 +14
the Just Stop Oil group must be finally feeling a win but also feeling really weird about it.
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Avoidtolls Mar 26, 2026 +13
Shhhh. The stock market is sleeping, the day traders and investment managers are having fanciful dreams of huge Christmas, bonuses and billionaire, yachts, champagne wishes, and caviar realities. We don't wanna upset their chubby fat ass billionaire triple home having personal island slaves.
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Icy-Map9410 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Yep, as Trump just confirmed (for the 5th time now) an estimated timeline for ending the war. Manipulating the stock market, yet again.
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coldfoamer Mar 26, 2026 +7
The orange clown does not know or care about cause and effect.
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UrsaMajor7th Mar 26, 2026 +5
Oh no- less oil and plastics? What will the planet do!! All kidding aside, isn't it eye-opening how quickly the oil disruption trickled down to the consumer level? The oil companies certainly weren't taking the loss.
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Grazedaze Mar 26, 2026 +5
Seems like governing off emotion causes short sightedness for the ramifications.
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Phronias Mar 26, 2026 +5
Indirectly this is positive as it will force countries to electrify transport and seek alternatives to plastic packaging.
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GeebyYu Mar 26, 2026 +6
Strangling oil supplies AND increasing the price of plastic?! Iran really is speed running the whole sustainability thing for the world. 💚
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NPVT Mar 26, 2026 +3
I was gonna say. Now's a great time to ban plastic bags!
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GeebyYu Mar 26, 2026 +2
In fairness it's probably the easiest time to do it... Can quite literally blame it on increased costs.
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RLewis8888 Mar 26, 2026 +4
The world needs a slew of Trump: I Did That stickers.
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noseshimself Mar 26, 2026 +4
Come on. He destroyed oil, plastics (and the resulting trash) and world wide capitalism in one single stroke while at the same time supporting the government in Iran, giving Russia free reign and enabling the Chinese to take over globally. I doubt anyone but the most sanest genius would have been able to do that.
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Key-Commission70 Mar 26, 2026 +4
Iran doing more for the environment in two weeks than anybody else in the last 20 years
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eskjcSFW Mar 26, 2026 +3
I feel like a genius with my massive 3d printing filament orders right before this shit kicked is off
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Dunnowhathatis Mar 26, 2026 +5
So glad Trump is ending all these wars and makes the USA win all the time!! /s
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GreatGojira Mar 26, 2026 +5
Everything Trump touches becomes more expensive
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R-Dragon_Thunderzord Mar 26, 2026 +3
Well I’m glad I backlogged so much gunpla in 2024 then
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GrassyDaytime Mar 26, 2026 +3
Is the Swamp drained yet???? 🫤
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No-Stage-4583 Mar 26, 2026 +3
I mean - good! Plastic is not great.
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[deleted] Mar 26, 2026 +3
Just remember, every global petrochemical crisis just brings us closer to a solarpunk revolution :)
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Buttermilk-Waffles Mar 26, 2026 +3
Damn all the shit on Temu is gonna get a price hike,my one hope in all of this mess is that the orange shit lord fucked everything up so badly it causes the west to go all in on electric vehicles.
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pogulup Mar 26, 2026 +3
Maybe this means we get glass bottles back for things that should have never gone plastic?  Trying to find the upside.
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Ok-Focus-5362 Mar 26, 2026 +3
Oh no, less plastic.... How terrible....? 
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thepianoman456 Mar 26, 2026 +3
This is why I went on a spending spree of shit I needed / wanted before Trump took office. I knew he’d do a bunch of dumb shit to drive up prices.
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kmatyler Mar 26, 2026 +3
Maybe we should just be less reliant on petrochemical products? Maybe organizing an entire society around something that is literally killing us because it’s profitable is bad?
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gma7419 Mar 26, 2026 +3
Does that mean supermarkets will stop covering veggies in plastic?
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TauCabalander Mar 26, 2026 +2
Around here, an (eventually) degradable plastic derived from sugar is used, similar to one used for tea bags. Unfortunately corn is the most common source of the sugar. I use reusable fine-netting bags.
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lostroadrunner22 Mar 26, 2026 +8
This is gonna really hurt my microplastics intake
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peet192 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Fantastic Maybe Coca Cola will make the 500 ML ALU Can permanent not just a WC promotion and retire the 500 ml Plastic Bottle in Norway
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Caymonki Mar 26, 2026 +2
Why would Biden do this?
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Aromatic_Employ3392 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Hopefully this forces a switch to paper or other biodegradables  
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formerNPC Mar 26, 2026 +2
The idiots in this incompetent administration know nothing about the ramifications of blocking oil shipments. How can anyone think that just the price of gas will be affected. Keep up the good work you’re doing great.
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Victor-LG Mar 26, 2026 +2
Time to cut way back. Back to remote office. Eat less, buy less. No trips. No plastics.
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Plastic-Chart-9598 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Not the environmental hero I wanted, but...
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Fishtailbreak Mar 26, 2026 +2
Dammit I was going to buy Lego
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ApplesBananasRhinoc Mar 26, 2026 +2
Can’t wait until maga says it’s patriotic to start recycling and reusing plastic!
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Delicious_Rabbit4425 Mar 26, 2026 +2
It’s almost like maybe now is the time to realize the folly of our ways with petroleum and petroleum byproducts.
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bunky_done_gun Mar 26, 2026 +2
Oh, f***! Not the legos!1
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Tra1lhawk19 Mar 27, 2026 +2
LLDPE, polypropylene, Polyethylene, HDPE, all of this film is going up and it’s going to make the packaging industry REALLY suffer, and if you know anything about that industry, you will know just how detrimental that is as everything requires these materials in some way or another. Pallet unitization, food packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, you think it, it’s affected.
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Senior_League_436 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Work for car part factory with plastic maybe I can get days off Findlay
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Snarfbuckle Mar 27, 2026 +2
40k models gonna be even more expensive
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Electric-Dance-5547 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Fixing the plastic pollution problem and microplastics problem look at the Iran is inadvertently an environmental warrior!!!
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boogermike Mar 26, 2026 +3
"I (Trump) did this" sticker
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logan-duk-dong Mar 26, 2026 +3
Guess that vinyl sticker is gonna get more expensive now too. I suppose we'll all have to switch to woke paper stickers. 😐
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NSYK Mar 26, 2026 +1
Winning so hard from the war we’ve already won
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itsaride Mar 26, 2026 +1
Price of waste plastic for recycling skyrockets (not all of it is recyclable).
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noseshimself Mar 26, 2026 +1
Anti-Environmentalist and peace award aspirant Donolph Trumpler succeeded where we did not expect it: He is forcing the planet into renewable energy and materials instead of burning oil and producing poisonous plastic, ruining the current economy on the way. This deserves recognition for the ingenious move. Finally we seem to be winning...
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EmergencyGrocery3238 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Switch to microplastic then, problem solved
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FinancialReserve6427 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Lego is gonna love this
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justfarmingdownvotes Mar 26, 2026 +1
Anyone know where I can get potato seeds
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ollielite Mar 26, 2026 +1
Cost of Living Crisis 2
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DragonPup Mar 26, 2026 +1
Just in time for 11th edition of Warhammer 40k.
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BWWFC Mar 26, 2026 +1
guess silver linings to most all clouds
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onframe Mar 26, 2026 +1
Would that cause recycled plastic to be more competitive?
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hgs25 Mar 26, 2026 +1
RIP Warhammer, Gunpla, Lego, and Transformers collectors
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