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?
@[email protected] 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。
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.
The See See Pee bribes the Chynese people with food, water, and shelter for support
Xi is done for
The walls are closing in.
Any day now
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?!?
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
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.
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.
Communism too much food?
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/
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
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
President Biden, please start bombing. My country yearns for hunger.
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.
But what of the price of cotton Mr. Lincoln?
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
