ChonkyOwlbear

Our farmers are being decimated right now. They’re being absolutely, absolutely decimated. And, you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country.

And we’re going to have to be a little bit like other countries. We’re not going to allow so much to come in. We’re going to let our farmers go to work.

Reducing supply increases prices, not decreases them. That's like page 1 of every economics book.

Isn't that kinda super illegal without ATF registration?

All I can say is that the host of behind the bastards is an excellent journalist who does thorough research before each episode. I don't have any expertise in this topic, but in other episodes where I am knowledgeable his research has been accurate.

Anything from Rusty is always good stuff!

The "rights" they are losing is the ability to treat people differently than them as interior.

I remember hearing an interview with a guy who studied the Jan 6 insurrection. He found that the most common demographic other than white, male, and Christian was that they were a small business owner.

Considering Chrysler stopped making sedans in 2016 and Ford stopped in 2018, I think they were well aware how far China was ahead. They didn't even bother trying to compete and just make cars for people who will take the longest to make the switch to electric.

That death toll also includes China who also used Lysenko's fake farming techniques. Russia didn't want to admit their plan wasn't working and China didn't want to admit they were failing using the method that supposedly worked so well in Russia. Farmers reporting low crop yields in both countries were blamed and accused of hiding food for themselves. The deaths definitely fall on a lot of shoulders, but at its heart was Lyselko convincing the government to use his plan with false data and continuing that lie even after he knew it wasn't working.

Communism didn't kill the people so much as Stalin's habit of killing people who disappointed or disagreed with him led to massive falsification of scientific data and crop yields.

Unfortunately I think history shows us that there is always a portion of the population which, through fear or greed, wants to dominate the rest. The constant battle against authoritarianism may be just part of human existence.

I just got done listening to an old Behind the Bastards about Trofim Lysenko who was a Soviet scientist whose job it was to increase crop yield. He ignored Darwinian evolution in favor of a type of Lamarckian evolution that fit better with Stalin's politics. This involved planting massive amounts of seeds per acre with the idea that the seeds would help each other grow better. He falsified his data to show that this worked and in the long run led to the starvation of 30 million people.

I don't mean to criticize communism by mentioning this. Certainly capitalism has shown the same adherence to ideology in spite of evidence with climate change. I just think it was an interesting bit of history in light of the post which is actually good agricultural science they also fits with collectivist thought.

This headline makes it seem like Sean Combs was involved in trying to shoot Trump.