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The majority of our food we can produce our selves with the exceptions of some luxuries like Maple Syrup or Coffee
America has maple trees. One might have to look to Hawaii for coffee though, since it needs a hot climate to grow well in.
remember they switched from beef tallow to veggie/seed oil because of consumer health concerns and price.
From what I remember, they stopped using beef tallow at least in part because of certain followers of religions that don't allow eating beef products were whining about accidentally making themselves impure because of fries.
(protip - if your diet is that strict, eat at home or ask questions before stuffing your face.)
Imagine being the owner of a ski resort that allowed a "swarm" of protesters to ruin everyone's time.
 
I'm just saying to be critical of them too. For example China is attempting to stop corruption but it's because internally the CCP fears it can lead to greater unrest. Does that mean corruption is stamped out? Fuck no, it just means lower level corruption is less common.
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Look, I can respect how you’re trying to apply a basic moral framework, but this doesn’t make any sense. And before you worry too hard about competing propaganda, bear in mind that decoupling was never spoken of until trump and we’ve been propagandized by the uniparty establishment to accept China since the fucking 70’s.

Why on earth should we go easier on them than we did the Soviet Union, which was their contemporary, their big brother
 
I'm also not a Classical Chinese scholar! But what I have noticed is that the original texts I have looked at tend to be very terse, sometimes with rhythms or symmetries in the characters that don't translate well to English sentence structures. So some translations focus on capturing the poetic aspects (but still don't really succeed).

The other issue is that because there's a lot of explanatory detail missing, you have to choose one of many possible interpretations to translate, which means the reader often gets the translator's take instead of the (presumably intentional!) ambiguity of the original.

So my take is that there aren't any, but I couldn't do better.
One academic whose Asian history blog I sometimes read suggests that Chatgpt is actually fairly reliable for translating Classical Chinese. He is fluent in Classical Chinese and has a post comparing his translation to Chatgpt's and finds it passable. You just have to specify it is Classical Chinese and not modern Chinese.

 
Maybe American farmers should grow shit other than corn?
Well the reason they grow corn is because corn specifically is heavily subsidized and it grows well and it's sold for things like oil, whiskey and largest of all animal feed. In fact most of our biggest crops by acres are primarily animal feed or things that make animal feed through byproducts like soybean husks.

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I don't actually think his plan is even going to positively effect domestic food prices that much. It's just going to flood the domestic market with corn and soybeans. Not even corn meant for people either.

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I mean I hope I'm wrong and that the plan itself is more complicated than just a blanket tax on all agricultural exports or that he offsets it somehow so we don't have massive agricultural issues.

I would love for it all to work out and food prices to go down but I'm not so sure.
 
, however now Honda is moving for domestic production. In the long run this is for the best.
only in so far as honda and the rest of the japs don't unionize. Once they unionize their cars will have all the wonderful shoddy build that american car makers have. UAW started their push into the Honda Marysville plant in 2023. Soon all car makers will suck ass.
 
From what I remember, they stopped using beef tallow at least in part because of certain followers of religions that don't allow eating beef products were whining about accidentally making themselves impure because of fries.
(protip - if your diet is that strict, eat at home or ask questions before stuffing your face.)
I'm telling you it was the Hindus and the Muslims. Religious Jews don't eat fast food (except in Israel) because of all the non kosher stuff (Kosher law is super complicated and it's not just how the cow is slaughtered but also how the food is prepared/served). Fun fact in Israel they use Beef tallow at McDonald's and grill the burgers up on charcoal.

I completely agree with your pro tip. Seriously their is a whole industry of ready to eat food to allow Jews to keep kosher while traveling. Anyone who forces the majority population to bend to your laws and whim at the detriment of you is retarded.
 
Well the reason they grow corn is because corn specifically is heavily subsidized and it grows well and it's sold for things like oil, whiskey and largest of all animal feed. In fact most of our biggest crops by acres are primarily animal feed or things that make animal feed through byproducts like soybean husks.

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I don't actually think his plan is even going to positively effect domestic food prices that much. It's just going to flood the domestic market with corn and soybeans. Not even corn meant for people either.

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I mean I hope I'm wrong and that the plan itself is more complicated than just a blanket tax on all agricultural exports or that he offsets it somehow so we don't have massive agricultural issues.

I would love for it all to work out and food prices to go down but I'm not so sure.
I totally forgot about the animal feed component. You make very good points, sir.
 
States get voting representatives in Congress and electoral votes that count for choosing the President, territories do not. Everything else is irrelevant.
So no different then before for Alberta, but with better trade and other perks.
I will say that I'm worried about Trump's plan to start taxing American food exports in April.

I understand why he wants to do this, he wants to make exporting food less economic than selling it to Americans for cheaper, but I don't think this is going to end well, I'm afraid it's going to cause out agriculture sector to start suffering mass bankruptcies. Domestic food prices would fall which is great for most Americans but I'm worried about our long term farming sector.

The only way that works is if you increase benefits and subsidies for American farmers so that they can survive being forced to sell to a less profitable market.
It'll be harder on the massive farm corporations like Monsanto with their monocrops, but as long as Trump can make his terms clear before the growing season most farmers will be able to switch crops in time
 
So RFK's first act in make america healthy again is to stop antisemitism on college campuses. Of course they are using the IHRA definition of anti semitism which just shuts down anyone who critiques Jewish power.
As a reaction from the various pro-Palestine protests that turned into public disturbances. Now, think about WHY "antisemitism" is a problem around college campuses. I'm sure somebody will make an argument that it hinders freedom of speech. With that, I say: those people that align with pro-Palestine protests don't give a solidarity fuck about inalienable rights granted from the Constitution. That's why the term "lawfare" exists.
 
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Now that MAGA has taken over the GOP it's fascinating watch the controlled opposition operate in another country. Canada truly doesn't deserve to exist at this point, just give the land back to those faggots you always have to acknowledge or you'll be raped by a jeet or whatever:

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edit: :story: this will be an own goal, especially since she killed her kid:

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Well the reason they grow corn is because corn specifically is heavily subsidized and it grows well and it's sold for things like oil, whiskey and largest of all animal feed.

I totally forgot about the animal feed component. You make very good points, sir.
You both forgot the Federally mandated ethanol additive for gasoline, that's a massive industry subsidy.
 
Okay so is there any clear evidence of a WW3? I don’t see any propaganda by the state nor mass efforts to recruit or conscript
 
How is generational wealth supposed to exist when nothing you own lasts a generation?
This, this right here is a fundamental issue. If I spend time building something that lasts 10 years, I get some use out of it, either by using it or selling it.

But if I can make it last a hundred years, then it's ten times as valuable! But it doesn't cost anyone anything after I make it! It's just there, existing. Sure, it could be sold or has maintenance costs, or whatever, but it keeps being a thing.

And this is how the world was before the industrial revolution - if you were a medieval farmer, some or maybe even many of the tools you used were centuries old. Repaired, sure, but still old. Things wore out, but were replaced by generally the same thing.

But we are coming down off of two hundred years (almost the entire lifetime of the USA) of great technological advancement; we throw things away not because they're broken, but because something so much better is now available that there's no reason to keep the old. I think that era is starting to come to an end.

And with it should be a return to generational wealth and long-lasting things. Why shouldn't you have a trash can that's the same one your grandfather had?

I can make a move toward this by using things until they actually die, and trying to resist replacing them as much as possible.
 
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