https://nitter.net/TheEconomist/status/1690713079405768704

  • StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]
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    1 year ago

    2.5% is the hunger rate of China according to your source. So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/food-security-and-nutrition-assistance/

    10% or in other words china is currently 4x better at feeding the hungry than the US is. 10% of 300+million is also around 30+million, so a comparable number but just out of an incomparably smaller population.

    So you, following the advice of people who cannot get hunger below 10%, in a country with enough food waste to solve the problem, think that people on the other side of the world, whose hunger problem is only a quarter of your neighbors, should fix their hunger by growing LESS FOOD in favor of cash crops? Is that correct?

    If I'm misrepresenting you please let me know

        • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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          1 year ago

          An unnecessary comparison. I'm talking about 1 in 40 Chinese people facing hunger, this has absolutely nothing to do with America.

          • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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            1 year ago

            It does because you're claiming that the system that America is the best example of: letting the free market run food security, is superior to what China is doing. This is an incorrect statement as proven by statistics.

            • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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              1 year ago

              It does because you’re claiming that the system that America is the best example of: letting the free market run food security

              Putting words in my mouth.

              Also you used a different metric from the metric I used. China and America have the exact same (2.5%) hunger rate using the same source. Typical Hexbear lying.

              • Zodiark
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                • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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                  1 year ago

                  There is no other way to interpret this comment other than demanding the farmer(s) sell the product of their choice at the market, favoring the individual over the collective here.

                  The government could make them grow green rice but give them extra money to make up for it. Farmers deserve fair pay. Of course, the millionaires and billionaires of the CCP wouldn't want that.

                  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                    1 year ago

                    Of course, the millionaires and billionaires of the CCP wouldn't want that.

                    Source?

                        • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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                          1 year ago

                          Oops I assumed the CCP and parliament were the same thing. Anyways:

                          https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1746362/china-latest-communist-party-billionaires-spt

                                • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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                                  1 year ago

                                  a state sincerely working towards resolve its internal contradictions

                                  Then immediately ban billionaires and redistribute the wealth. Not too fucking hard it's a dictatorship they can do whatever they want.

                                  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                                    1 year ago

                                    it's a dictatorship they can do whatever they want.

                                    Why hasn't President Xi answered my request for Catgirls then? He said he'd fucking do it smh

                      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                        1 year ago

                        No, like the implication that the government wont subsidizing or give benefits to the farmers who grow green rice. Because it sounds made up tbh

          • flan [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            That is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve heard in my life.

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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        1 year ago

        Nah it's pointing out how the approach you suggest (let the free market decide what's profitable to grow for food security) is inferior to what China is doing.

      • StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Ok but why are you so angry about people so far away from you when your neighbors are suffering more (at the hands of the people telling us what it's like 'over there's)