I think it is actually authoritarian that we’re not allowed to hunt economists for sport
Infringing on the freedom to enact a centuries approved sport!
no no thats a philosopher and the socratic argument successfully made them into a protected species
Going to the Philosophical petting zoo and giving Focoult some head pats as he exists in existential dread.
going to an uni campus and selling homemade bread called foucaulcchia as part of my
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Or writers for the Economist
Nice profile pic, comrade
Thanks! The art from ghost is one of my favorite styles I’ve seen
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Never misses
Fixation on food security
The man is OBSESSED with food security.
All he thinks about is FEEDING PEOPLE.
What kind of SICK FUCK just goes around all day wondering how to GENERATE ENOUGH FOODSTUFF FOR 1.4B PEOPLE
Jesus FUCKING Christ, what a psycho.
The See See Pee bribes the Chynese people with food, water, and shelter for support
Xi is done for
It’s despicable when governments bribe people to vote for them by performing the basic functions of government!
Just appaling. How dare they.
I can build my own infrastructure, thankyouverymuch!
The walls are closing in.
Any day now
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Why would this country that has a written history going back thousands of years recording famine and its resulting upheaval be concerned with food security?
Must be the inscrutable oriental brainpan.
I take offense with this because I AM actually obsessed with food security and food-related struggles, and Xi Jinping does other things than single-mindedly doing food-related activism and work all the time. He’s a poser
Xi fucking CALLED OUT, is he too much a coward to respond?
@XiJinping@hexbear.net this u?
他们一门心思都放在一件事情上，而我已经拓宽了我的技能。
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I look forward to having to hear about how this is a crime against humanity from all my lib co-workers soon!
It does suck how you have to keep on top of this shit so you know what someone is trying to say when you hear a less-than-half-remembered version of it next month. The shit I heard from the libs in my life about Evo Morales being a vicious genocidal election manipulating dictator, and a month later I wanted to rub it in their faces how I was right and they’re all “what’s a Bolivia??”
It takes a lot of energy to have to be simultaneously more and less engaged in news media than the people around you.
The wealth of farmers is not more important than the food security of a nation. We do not need modern day kulaks, which is probably what the economist wants in China.
not even just that, capitalists want all nations to be dependent on imported food so it can be used as leverage
Yeah,
said it best. Look at your plate and where your food is from if you want to know who the imperialists areDang, spitting bars.
Libs coming to !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net to be dunked on is one of the best features of federation
midwest.social? Yeah it’s dunk time/mask off reactionary time.
This is like my dad said about how Xi is sending youth into the countryside to farm like in Mao’s Cultural Revolution (he was talking about how there are incentive for the government to send educated people to do town development)
Better die in a field than suffer in a cubicle
send educated people to do town development
god what an unimaginable dystopian hell. rather than just let their small towns rot alongside the people in them the government is forcing people to go and develop those areas with juicy incentives
like imagine going and getting an education and then being able to choose to do socially valuable work that the government heavily encourages
i’m gonna cry
This is kind of funny because he also complains how China is a hellscape because they prioritize in urban development , creating unbalanced development. At this point, it is not salvageable
pivoting so fast i become a human drill china is sucking the life out of all the rural areas and using it to fuel its reckless urban development! every .001% increase in GDP is a thousand villages razed to the ground by the ruthless monsters at the cccp
god what an unimaginable dystopian hell. rather than just let their small towns rot alongside the people in them the government is forcing people to go and develop those areas with juicy incentives
How many leftists here in the West would cry to the high heavens if they were told to do this
the idea alone is nearly enough to make me cry!
no, really. i’m tearing up just thinking about it
why do we live in hell:|
iirc I think Australia has some plan like this but foreign students trying to get a permanent visa or something have to spend 2 years in the farms, I’m probably misremembering it slightly; one of my old school teachers told the class about how she did it but later decided to return to live in Britain
The first part is that if working holidayer makers (WHM) in Australia want to apply for a second year, they need to work for at least three months or six months for a third year in a regional or rural area, which basically means farm. Having completed two/three full years of working holiday may only put you marginally ahead in applying for PR, which is a separate and much lengthier process.
Second part is that it was floated during the rural labour shortage caused by the pandemic, resulting from working holidayers and backpackers not being able to enter the country, that people on Centrelink (welfare payments) could work farms to pick fruit without having their benefits taper off. It’s far from a ‘go down to the countryside’ policy.
Oh ok yeah that makes more sense, thanks for doing the leg work to fact check me <3
imo its a dumb comparison because its not imaginable
Yeah no it’s entirely imaginable. I’m seeing plenty of western
leftists malding at being told they have to help Q-brainwormed meemaws and pawpawps tear out and replace their lead-painted drywall and plumbing all across america.
Catch me finding idyllic peace while growing prosperity in solidarity with my neighbors and the environment
This is my job in Hawaii, I do love it! You guys should join me sometime, there’s always enough work to go around.
But what of the price of cotton Mr. Lincoln?
The way I feel about the journalists working at The Economist is kind of similar to the way Bill Hicks felt about people that work in advertising
Communism too much food?
Fixation? FIXATION?!?!?!?!
Is there a moral case against prohibiting any The Economist staff member from having access to writing materials of any kind? BEcuase I think, for the good of humanity…
Shit he’s giving food to people with his comically large spoon!
Communism with Chinese Characteristics
Oh no
XI FLIPPED THE SPOON LEVER! HE’S PUTTING GRAIN IN PEOPLE’S BOWLS! REVISIONISM! ABORT! ABORT! 🗽Xi’sd to feed you
wall, now
What the hell is he saying! That’s revisionism! Pure revisionism! Worse than revisionism! Has he gone off his head? I hope Stalin hasn’t gotten wind of this yet, or there’ll be hell to pay. Tell Xi I want to see him in my office TODAY at 4:00 pm SHARP. And he better have a good explanation for this garbage!”
This reminds me of a quote from Catch-22, it has the same naked obsession with the ‘rightness’ of profit that reads like it isn’t supposed to be satire but which I can’t help be seeing as comedy:
Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen." — Catch-22, Joseph Heller
I thought Catch-22 was a satire
It is, I guess the ‘dry’ delivery reminded him of this.
Yeah, sorry could’ve worded it better. I wanted to say ‘vibes were similar’ but felt that would be more confusing.
That perilous yellow haze in the photo proves it to be the work of that dastardly paragon of scientific cunning - the Fiendish Dr Food Munchu.
