also looks like funny fish eye warping dank meme xd

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    China and India = the difference between Dengism and neoliberalism

    • T_Doug [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The smallholding farmers who would lose their livelihood under a Big Ag driven takeover/mechanization probably don't think so

      • weshallovercum [any]
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        4 years ago

        Ideally, there should be consolidation o f land, mechanization and the laid-off farmers would find better paying jobs in cities which is what happened in China.

        • ap1 [any,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          can only really do that with a good jobs program and social safety nets so they dont end up in poverty, which is why Modi needs to be hung before anything like this is considered

          • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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            4 years ago

            Oh my god I can't believe you would suggest that.

            He needs to be hanged. I refuse to believe there is any universe in which Modi is hung

    • KurdKobein [any]
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      4 years ago

      Isn't intensive agriculture incredibly ecologically damaging in part because the mechanization is dependent on fossil fuels?

      • T_Doug [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yep, here's a cool article by Jason Hickel on the tremendous potential held by small-scale, regenerative agriculture, for mitigating climate change.

        https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-01-10/regenerative-agriculture-our-best-shot-at-cooling-the-planet/

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Jesus, is the entirety of the Americas and Eurasia just dogshit for growing Yams? Also surprising that Europe and Turkey supplies the entire world's supply of poppy seeds, with the Czech Republic being the largest producer.

      • charles_xcx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        i think in the americas (and maybe europe) they grow a lot more sweet potatoes instead, which i recently found out are not the same thing as yams.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          4 years ago

          Yes. Actual yams tend to go by the name yucca in America.

          I've had a lot of laughs from white people running cooking/recipe blogs, trying to create "Traditional African recipes", and using sweet potatoes in place of yams.

      • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Tangentially relates, China grows most of the world's watermelons https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.worldatlas.com/amp/articles/top-watermelon-producing-countries-in-the-world.html

  • unperson [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Is this going to be yet another example of a successful communist revolution in a peasant "asiatic" economy as opposed to a developed industrial capitalist one?

    Either Marx really did fail to consider or Lenin's application is just too good.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Large segments of southern Nepal are made up of fertile valley plains and there's extensive terrace farming in the Sivalik Hills which stretch across the country