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.
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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They have their minds set on one thing, and I have broadened my skills.!!! xi-lib-tears :::.
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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!
For some reason, this reminds me of that time in the Cold War, that a rickety footbridge collapsed.
Small accident, not a single injury directly resulting.
This very small accident caused an international incident.
Because the town was a US state border town, neither state would take responsibility and replace the bridge, the feds said it was a state matter for the states to sort between themselves, and the town certainly couldn’t afford it themselves nor did they have a municipal government to collect taxes for such things, and so this one townsperson, after weeks and weeks of the states arguing, he says to himself, I’m gonna get us a damn bridge. So he campaigns to every possibly responsible authority he can, newspapers pick up the story, still no bridge and the same nonsense about jurisdiction from both states and the feds. Finally, he decides to go for broke, and writes to the Soviet Union requesting foreign aid to rebuild their bridge. So, the Soviets send a journalist. And, ridiculously quickly, the feds say they’ll pay for the bridge. (The Soviet Union then promises, if the US Federal Government doesn’t actually follow through, the Soviet Union will get the bridge built.) The bridge is built at Federal expense. It still stands today. The generally accepted story among the general public is that the feds just built the bridge to get rid of the Soviet journalist before “US Federal Government Cannot Afford Basic Infrastructure, Local Authorities Seek Foreign Aid” ended up in a Moscow newspaper. Though I’m sure the US Government would give a different official explanation of the incident.
(Specifically, “I can build my own infrastructure, thankyouverymuch!” reminds me a lot of the guy’s supposed line, “I’m gonna get us that damn bridge”.)
The walls are closing in.
Any day now
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.
Yes. The single individual. Forcing this country of over a billion people against their will to have their own sustainable food supply. On his own. Like a dictator.
Believing that over a billion people are all unilaterally controlled by a single person is not only peak great man theory, but also just another extension of rabid racism
From observation it seems really handy for crushing all nuance, too. Who did the Holodumber? Stalin. By himself. WIth a big spoon. Don’t ask why Ukrainian communist officials in Ukraine were genociding Ukrainians. Stalin did it, alone, by himself.
The cultural revolution? Mao did it. Just Mao. No one else was involved. We can condemn the entire country because the entire country is just one dude on a framed propaganda poster. Or like “we’re going to sanction Saddam” or whoever, because sanctioning hte dictator is justifiable, whereas people might ask why we’re pushing millions or tens of millions of people because we don’t like the guy that supposedly single handedly runs the entire country.
4chan calls us Chinese people “soulless bug men” and it’s just so cool and good that the Economist is printing the polite version of that.
Bu… But you’re brainwashed! YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY NEED FOOD! DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!
Do not, my friends, become addicted to food. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
That was such a brilliant, wonderful, terrible line. Just… so much… political bullshit and lies and dissembling and cruelty and indifference is tied up in that line.
It’s a great film; so much of it could easily have come across as hokey or dumb, but somehow it all works.
I found it really authentic because everyone was totally bought-in to the camp. The things that would have been camp were part of these people’s lives, and there was so much attention to detail in how they spoke, moved, dressed, and acted that it sold the whole thing as real people in a real culture living their lives. Like the war boys weren’t dumb, mindless thugs throwing themselves to their death for nothing like in an 80s action movie. They took time to show how they were devoted to Joe, they had religious beliefs, they genuinely thought of themselves as heroes fighting for a worthwhile cause. They invested the warboys with so much depth and character that I, at least, never thought they were silly. These are warriors from a warrior culture who have their rituals of war, their symbols of valor, their pride, their pathos. When the one guy takes a bolt to the head and his buddies are praying for him to get up so he can die as a hero there’s just so much realness in that moment.
And for me, personally, I know a little bit about guys like General Butt Naked in the Liberian civil war, and some other pretty out-there gangs and warbands and mercenary companies, so a lot of the “over the top” elements were recognizably similar to things that warrior cultures do in real life.
I like how they took a photo that is clearly very mundane and used a filter to make it look like literal hell. Very subtle.
Meanwhile in America:
https://fortune.com/2023/06/08/how-long-will-smoke-new-york-city-air-quality-last/
Chinese farmers are just yearning for the opportunity to grow bananas for the United Fruit Company.
In East Germany, no banana.
In Venezuela, only banana.
In Glorious People’s Republic of Walmart, choose any food you want and one of our child slaves will be by shortly to bring it to you.
I still choose East Germany.
Reunification was a complete mess and everyone who let it happen the way it did should be rotting in a gulag.
And it doesn’t even pay off, because you a very limited selection of flavorless fruits and veg because they’ve been bred solely to be stable for transport.
It’s very “They have all this stuff but they don’t even enjoy it!”
Like endless misery to deliver mediocre produce.
Idk, I don’t know if that makes it worse, but it does feel more perverse somehow. Like in stories you expect the baddies to cause vast misery and suffering to procure the best, most exotic, most delicious luxuries, not bland bananas with barely any flavor or shitty mangoes that are almost all pit and taste vaguely of soap.
Like endless misery to deliver mediocre produce.
I mean, I think this would be somewhat overstated if not for the fact that everything is so crazy expensive.
Like in stories you expect the baddies to cause vast misery and suffering to procure the best, most exotic, most delicious luxuries, not bland bananas with barely any flavor or shitty mangoes that are almost all pit and taste vaguely of soap.
There’s plenty of high end food available in trendier and more upscale corners of the country. It isn’t as though grocery store mangos are the only mangos.
Imperialism with a smile and a pat on the head, that is all the capitalists bring
fixation on food security
caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist
it’s not the feeding people that they’re even mad about so much as the freedom of action that a country has when it doesn’t rely on trade with other nations for essentials like food and energy
Guevara has a bunch of speeches about this. IIRC, he differentiated between “political freedom”, the power of a people to make their own decisions and act on them, and “economical freedom”, the power of a people to decide over their production and trade. He argued that a revolution aims for the former; after that, the post-revolution state builds the latter.
damn that sounds really good. I’ll have to go looking for those
This is the book, but it’s in Portuguese. It’s in chapter one: political sovereignty and economical independence
Leverage. It’s all about leverage.
B-B-B-BUT muh COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE. This isn’t PARETO EFFICIENT, and that’s against the RULES. (Please ignore the inseparable intertwining of economic and political power and just play along like dupes)
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.
I think it is actually authoritarian that we’re not allowed to hunt economists for sport
Or writers for the Economist
Nice profile pic, comrade
Thanks! The art from ghost is one of my favorite styles I’ve seen
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
for the week
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! 🗽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!”
Xi’sd to feed you
Communism too much food?
Xi jinping failed to consider that food isn’t a universal right under capitalism. How are we supposed to condemn China as capitalist and fascist if they do socialism?!?
Have you considered that food cannot be a right because it is the only recognized right that requires labor and you’re not entitled to other people’s labor?
(I’m paraphrasing this fash-lite talking point because it lives rent free in my head and makes me extremely angry)
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
Nooo you can’t just make food to feed people without a profit motive!
Real “why are the cells multiplying and building tissue without a profit motive?!” energy
President Biden, please start bombing. My country yearns for hunger.
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…
good for feeding people
not valuable
choose one, piggy
People aren’t valuable. Simple as.
Yup. Just plain, simple, uncomplicated evil.
