https://twitter.com/Cynthiao47/status/1533320040128208896
America uses prison labor in fields that were antebellum slave plantations.
Um, that’s just giving them a chance to live the American dream sweetie.
I will never forgive liberals for taking something as innocuous of a term as “human rights” and perverting it.
Rights are idealist and will never lead us to where we need to go. The sooner the population understands they must claw every one of their “rights” from the cold dead hands of the ruling classes the better. Neither god nor capital will dole these “rights” out
Rights are ideals to uphold, nothing more, nothing less. They are immaterial which is exactly why they are so precious and must be realized practically.
If you mean the liberal conception of human rights, then I agree.
Nah it’s just not a useful framework at all and leads inherently to Liberal modes of thought. The “right” to property is the underlying problem after all.
We should care about workers having control over their own lives and their own conditions, not because it’s a right but because it’s an end in and of itself. We should mercilessly destroy the bourgeois parasitic class so there remains only 1 class with shared common interests. The rest will handle itself as long as there are adequate protections against persecution and unfair treatment of minority groups, and a mass line to ensure that public sentiment is reflected in the transitional state’s policies
Adding to this: Rather than rights, Marxists tend to express things in terms of 'humanity'. Acts which harm are alienating/dehumanizing, like imprisonment, wage theft, discrimination, and being a middle class fuckwad all dehumanize and alienate both perpetrator and victim. Marxist philosophers generally recognize that the path to humanizing the oppressor is to fight the oppressors to liberate the oppressed. But civil rights being nebulous removes this dialectical relationship from the equation, putting everything into legal terms where we make possible events like the repeal of Roe v. Wade and gosh it's just nobody's fault isn't it EXCEPT YOU, LEFTIST WHO DIDN'T VOTE.
i see it being employed both ways by liberals and leftists. it seems like an easy way to confuse is with ought.
love how liberals are just out here playing word association to understand the world. Wheat is in Ukraine war news so everything that has to do with wheat = Ukraine
It goes even further, because it is wheat in bad country, so that means it was stolen from Ukraine by bad country to be given to other bad country
She is right though, the world isn't as dumb as I think; it's actually much fucking stupider
Extremely ironic given that westerners
steal, ahem I mean import, all the high grade food produce from global south countries, and the people living there get the low grade stuff and have 30% of their kids have stunted growth from malnutrition and hunger.During the COVID 19 lockdowns local supermarkets here created whole new "luxury" brands and ranges to sell, at a premium price, the high grade food that they could no longer export.
It's always projection with liberals.
no joke food prices have been so high in brazil like a bottle of soybean oil was costing like 25 brazillian bucks earlier this year (used to be 12 brazilian bucks before the pandemic) and we produce so much of this stuff like literally destroying the amazon so rich fuckers can plant soy there and we can't even get normal priced soy products here
In South Africa sunflower oil is now more expensive than coconut oil because of the Ukraine war and how fucked global capitalism is. We have plenty of sunflower farms in SA, it's our third largest crop by yeild, and coconuts only really grow in tropical costal areas of the country, but then the prices end up the way they are. Also can't get normal priced sunflower oil despite producing a ton of it.
Most efficient system everybody!
IT FUCKIN SUCKS SO MUCH people keep saying "but you see the problem is that the economy is not good and it is more profitable for the big farmers to export as they will be payed in dollar" AS IF I CARE ABOUT THE BIG FARMERS (and also the ammount of farm subsidies brazil has means a single big city pays more taxes than the whole farming sector so i am kinda paying for these dudes to profit real cool stuff)
really good system of resource allocation for sure!
Let's go get paid in USD while our people starve, truly the best humanity has to offer!
the Agriculture lobby is really powerful here and they always repeat "WE FEED THE COUNTRY" as their main argument to their importance and it is so frustrating like they don't The Rural Landless Worker Movemente, it is called MST - basically actual farmers that grow crops that occupy farming land from Big farmers that have not been used (the brazilian constitution has some stuff about the social value of land that means that both urban and rural land can be occupied and given to the people using it as long as it has been abandoned for like 10 - 5 years depending if it is a rural or a urban space, it gets really complicated if i go further than this into how this works) and other smaller producers are who feed us like it is a lie they destroy the rainforest so they can do more meat and more soy and we don't even get to eat it, like rural land reforms are just such a fucking needed thing in this country and it just can't happen because they are so powerful, like Lula was a big Land reform guy but it just will not happen politically he had approval ratings in the 80% and he couldn't do it
In South Africa sunflower oil is now more expensive than coconut oil
mayos also sharted out buckets of propaganda in the 1960s against saturated fat, because the industrial seed oil manufacturers were out of a job after WW2 (the oils were used for war machines). The secondary reason being that you can't grow coconuts in the US, apart from Florida (a lot of snack foods from before the 1950s used coconut oil by default, before the war messed up trade).
some of this was partially true (too much butter/animal fat is bad for you), but much of it was utterly false (like falsely equating butterfat with ALL saturated fats), when it's been shown that coconut oil is not equivalent to butter, and that butter's problems come mainly from its chain length rather than its degree of saturation
https://sciworthy.com/is-coconut-oil-really-better-for-you-than-butter/
I know this is very serious and depressing but the phrase "25 brazilian bucks" took a moment for me to process that Brazilian was not a large number name
to be fair that is a pretty funny thing it did not even cross my mind before you said it
There is a book I have saved in my e-reader - I forget the title - but it's about Marxist who explains explains exploitation of the global south through 3 products: coffee, iPhones, and t-shirts. For coffee, for every cup of coffee an American buys, only like 6 cents goes to the people who grow and harvest the beans...
Its pretty amazing that China would be able to grow this much wheat from Ukraine considering Russia has been at war with Ukraine for about 4 months, which is about as long as it takes to grow wheat on average.
He had a new one forged using iron smelted from the blood of the entire Uyghur populace, saving their tears for the water to temper it.
It's also just stupid, like it's already grown what does she think they did uprooted it from a warzone to replant in China? It's just profound levels of :brainworms:
You know how countries usually just...capture a whole field and then deliver to another country. Even past that, what's the relevance of "human rights violations and slavery?" Is that just the pavlovian response instilled in them, no ability to think or say anything else when China is mentioned?
Is that just the pavlovian response instilled in them, no ability to think or say anything else when China is mentioned?
That, and the fact that this is the only thing these ignorant pig headed libs even know about China. They are so full of their ideology and arrogant that they always feel the need to chime in on every subject, but the only thing they know on the “China subject” is Uighur genocide, Tinyman Square & Honk Honk
This reply literally reads like a bot randomly generating a bunch of pro-Western phrases into a tweet
GPT-2 trained on 100 GB of The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist op-eds
Her bio:
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yeah that checks out, all it's missing is the words "Live, Laugh, Love"
she has more than a quarter of the amount of followers as Gorbachev does lmao
https://nitter.net/mgorbachev
spoiler
WARNING: don't take gorbachev's twitter handle and remove the g, I LITERALLY PISSED AND SHITTED AND CAME IN MY PANTS LAUGHING
*crooning voice*
"Who's a good little gorby-worby-kins? Who's a good gorby-worby-woo? You are, yes you are, my little gorby-worby-porby-dorby-thing! Who's a good boy, you are, you are you little gorby slorby"
:kim-salute: to whichever one of you dunked on her in the replies a few minutes ago
but my question is who the fuck is watching a live stream of grass growing?
cgtn has a lot of kinda weird streams that seem to be geared to having them on in a like, dentist's lobby on a tv lol
They're avant-garde livestreaming while we're looking at 3D anime girls suck at video games like amateurs.
Anime girls growing crops is all anyone will watch in the future
idk man some of the 3d anime girls need to get good but others were doing blind no-hit playthroughs of Elden right while wearing blindfolds and standing on their heads. Like holy shit some of those livestreams were humbling.
I don't think the point is for people to sit down for 3 hours and watch it like a twitch stream, but to regularly check in and see how its going, and maybe hope to see some cool farm machines being used. Streams of birds' nests are also very common, and the idea is that you check in every once in a while to hope to catch the eggs hatching and otherwise see how the babies are growing.
Livestreaming is when I sit next to a stream at the park and watch squirrels fight while they forage :grillman:
:comrade-doggo: are you ready to approach squirrel without caution and then forget what the plan was when you get there?
My dad loves to watch a river crossing television stream where its just pointing a camera at a river where elk cross and then counting how many cross.
I’m a fan of the Fireplace For Your Home Extended Cinematic Universe, but somehow Netflix lost the rights to Mountain Stream For Your Home and my all-time favorite, Oscillating Fan For Your Home.
Really quite the flex to broadcast it.
"Would you have more fun watching wheat grow?"
These people can only hold 3 countries in their memories at once and assume they're completely connected somehow
And the fact that she's saying this about wheat probably means she just watched the news and assumes wheat fields = Ukraine. No attachment to reality whatsoever.
the world isn't as dumb as you think sweaty we know that wheat is Ukrainian cuz China has it also Russia is involved (these are the only three foreign nations I can point to on a map)
You're optimistic to assume that this person can point to all three of them on a map.
I've learned to stop underestimating it and it still surprises me sometimes
