• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Problem is that in their view of morality letting this food rot IS better than giving it to somebody for free, because getting free stuff weakens the recipients. They actually see forcing them to fend for themselves as doing them a favor. Or at least that’s how they rationalize it.

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      Literally the ideology that made the Irish potato famine. The whole time the famine happened, Ireland was exporting food to England. And the English refused to give aid because it’d reward those pesky lazy overbreeding Irish poors. When they did send aid they refused to send milled corn so that those lazy starving Irish had to WORK for their damn corn gruel!

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        1 month ago

        More specifically, the Irish famine was because the British government publicly announced that the free market would fix the famine so they shouldn’t intervene. Funny how Communism gets famines on its death count but not Capitalism.

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          And Ireland’s population has never recovered to what it was before the famine, even after 150 years.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged, except once again, it’s capitalism demonstrating the evils that supposedly only happen under so-called “Communism.”

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      1 month ago

      Not just food but everything. One of the valid criticisms of USAID is that it’s more a subsidy program for American companies than an international aid program as it will buy American products even when it could be bought or made locally.

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      They are making videos claiming that Elon has proven all USAIDE money is paying 3mil a week for high fives. I’m not making that up, that’s literally one of their claims. I know that sounds REALLY made up, but I’m not being cute here, get actually are claiming this is what tax revenue is spent on never realizing it’s incredibly self serving spending in the first place, they have no idea how the house of cards is stacked and they are digging through the mechanisms blindly ripping things out.

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    1 month ago
    1. Republicans make government worse
    2. Blame democrats
    3. Profit

    Half of America are legitimate morons

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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      They got 92% of his tariff money. By the way, if China doesn’t buy our exported food, they’ll get it from somewhere else. And once you lose a buyer, it’s hard to lure them back. They have deals and negotiations and contracts with other nations. They’re not going to just break those.

      Maybe instead of jacking up the price because you’re a racist prick, maybe consider not losing your biggest repeat customers.

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        The plan then is to literally bomb the competition until the biggest repeat customers have no choice but to come back to us. It’s not listed on Project 2025, though. And the ones that can’t be bombed will be turned into puppet states, so either way, they come back. I doubt that their plan will actually unfold how they want, but we’ll see.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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        Think of yourself as a buyer. A buyer for an entire nation.

        Does the US look like a stable and cooperative partner?

        I mean, shit, if you’re China, has it ever? I bet it’s real interesting to see your biggest buyer going on and on about your espionage and your “secret communist agenda”.

        As if America doesn’t have a secret capitalist fascism agenda. lol

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        China has been investing heavily into the Brazilian agricultural industry for that reason. Likely, even if the US drops tarrifs in the future, global supply would have adjusted to source American agricultural goods elsewhere.

        The same thing happened to cotton after the American Civil War. The UK and France invested in other countries’ cotton farms when they lost access to American cotton.