it’s funny how all the propaganda has completely flipped from a hundred years ago. US Capitalism means you cant afford a home or education , and the average person is cutting back even on simple necessities like food. And all of this is good for some reason.
Chinese Communism means housing is so cheap and plentiful you cant make a profit off of real estate, education is free, and there’s so much food that its effecting prices all around the world. And all of this is bad for some reason.
I think they feel they have successfully convinced enough of the working class that they are “temporarily embarrassed billionaires” that they don’t even need to pretend their system offers anything to the working class. Yanks (and most people in the west) have almost negative class consciousness these days.
That line from only fools and horses except it’s an entire country (this time next year, we’ll be billionaires!)
I’d imagine because of the bourgeoise news which is owned by private billionaires see the crushing austerity of the poor and the obscene wealth going into their pockets a good thing.
Yup, they’ll only change with the threat of labor organization. It’s why the DNC moved like lightning to smear any and all DSA candidates.
It’s internally consistent if you’re a landlord or a business owner
my guess is that China’s sale of surplus food production to other parts of the world will be less malicious than the last century of the US using their own subsidized overproduction as a sharp political weapon. if anything, it might counter balance imperialist “developmental” aid, which is probably what the publisher is going for with this article.
even so, i’m definitely looking forward to neolibs hijacking decontextualized Sankara quotes like:
He who feeds you, controls you.
… as they clamor for everyone to go back to waiting in line at the ConAgr-ADM-JBS warehouse for their subscription cornmeal and lard, as AtlantacistFreedomGod Inc. intended.
Communism
no foodtoo much food!!fuck, came here to post this
We are sharing one braincell
They want China to be small, weak and starving and easily bullied so damn bad.
No they don’t
But also free Taiwan
And Hong Kong
Also Tibet
And Xinjiang
And if China is still powerful and successful there’ll be other regions that need to be freed.
But not Hawaii
Nor Puerto Rico
Just Chinese areas
B U T
A T
W H A T
C O S T
Millions of lives that get cut short
This makes me remember those early Rayman Raving Rabbids ads where they always started with some thing the bunnies couldn’t do, followed by “BUT THEY CAN DANCE” with funky music playing.
Need a parody of that, but with positive China news and “BUT AT WHAT COST?” in the exact same style
I guess libs will have to go vegan to own the see see pee
The insidious Chinese plot to clog our colons
i mean unironically they might have to, if meat is no longer competitive in many countries they may be forced to swap domestic production to unique goods like vegan products to stay competitive. or outsource domestic production to cheaper markets (re: usa -> argentina)
hell yea, eat beans they’re good
btw
“China is making it so people can afford food and that’s bad”
I remember like in the 2006/2010 there were a surge in the price of rice and other grains that really fucked up a lot of people in Asia and Africa and the stabilized media blamed the Chinese for starting to being able to afford to eat meat for that. Meanwhile, the commodities traders on Chicago were ripping up and getting record wins, but that didn’t catched up by those news organizations.
And now that is the other way around is somehow bad and is China fault
America literally used subsided corn and NAFTA to wipe out local corn farmers and the entire communal farming system in Mexico.
Since the beginning of time, mankind has yearned to starve.
All these people crying about the Uyghurs should show their dedication and starve to death
Oh nooooo not the poor baby established global producers! Anything but them! Please, won’t someone do anything to protect the billionaire pedophiles?!
I hope JBS ($70+ billion revenue annually), Tyson Food ($53+) and Cargill($177+) aren’t effected. I’m friends with those guys on Twitter and they’re just barely scraping by trying to make ends meat. Won’t somebody think of the steak-holders? /s
But seriously, had to look it up, I didn’t know any of the top 20 meat firms. Is their whole PR strategy to hope no one finds out about what horrible shit they’re doing? (okay I don’t eat meat, but still).
ORGANISATION produced SURPLUS which it sells to the MARKET? more likely than u thonk!
Oh no, more food we have to keep away from the poors!
“Stop eating! Do you want the Chinese to win?! Full poor people are traitors to the nation!”
And then they deploy the emergency starvation forces, drawn from only the poorest chuds (also libs), whose job it is to starve to death to prevent China winning; they’ll deploy them to urgent hotpocket zones to spread the death by starvation for maximum coverage.
We made too much pizza at the pizza factory and then the hungry people ate it and died. Good god man how could Mao do this?
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