I don’t understand why there country won’t legalize fully. Opening dispensaries would do wonders for the economy

And here I thought it was getting onto their knees, opening their mouths, and allowing the lord’s body into their receiving and patient mouths

States do not care about their citizens. They only care about preserving their own power

Objectively false. The state is a concept that can and has been changed repeatedly. It’s not some universal truth you can make such statements about.

That is how it has happened every time.

Not an accurate statement since there has never been an attempt without massive interference. Also not an accurate description since you are clearly thinking about a system i did not describe. I described a completely different system than those you’re likely thinking of

totalitarian state

What the actual fuck are you talking about. Nobody ever talked about a totalitarian state. I simply talked about state owned agriculture working in a not for profit fashion. And only to produce staple foods. Really not that different from socialized medicine.

WE WILL FIGHT YOU TO THE DEATH

Seems like a sane and reasonable response the the suggestion that maybe we should just try to feed people without trying to make money off of them.

Honestly this reply is unhinged

If farming is not allowed to be a business then everyone has to be a subsistence farmer, by definition.

If you read my comment you’d not be saying this.

Clearly I mean food production shouldn’t be only for profit. We should produce enough food as a service.

Frankly you are using the most obtuse way to define buisness. While I’m sure it’s technically correct, it’s not the only way that term is used and you’ve basically made an argument over something that clearly wasn’t the point.

You’re forgetting (or don’t know in the first place)

No it’s purely irrelevant. I didn’t see the need to specify you need to grow crops suitable to land/region. This point is so bad I’m starting to believe you asked AI to make an argument for you.

By centralizing farming decisions you make it more likely to have a catastrophic crop failure country-wide.

Not if you listen to experts. Kinda funny how you believe that corporations can grow crops no issue, but the state can’t. Corporations already produce most of the global food supply.

Most people new to farming fail at it

Not if you listen to experts

This is also why, for example, the Soviet Union experienced such terrible famines

Because they didn’t listen to experts. Also did you already forget we were talking about regions already under famine conditions?

Large corporations are guilty of this too, except they have a strong profit motivation so they find ways to preserve the knowledge they need to maintain profitability

So it’s totally possible for the state to do it too. Corporations prioritize profit that’s why we burn crops to keep prices stable.

Anyway, states don’t have a profit motive so they have no incentive whatsoever to preserve knowledge

You came to an inherently untrue conclusion. The state can be motived just to take care of its citizens. That’s what we should aim for.

So basically you made an argument that is overall unrelated, relies on the assumption the state must always fail, and that corporations are good. I’m unconvinced to say the least

Food should never have been a buisness in the first place.

Also areas that are struggling with food shortage and famine don’t really have for profit farmers. You’ll find that the majority are subsistence farming and maybe sell a little bit of excess. The exception would be those in these places that own a ton of land and have the money to farm at scale. Remaining food needs typically come from wealthier nations producing excess food at scale.

Ideally the state should produce staple crops at scale. Keep the people fed. This frees up subsistence farmers to engage in other economic sectors or employs them through the state to produce food. Either way it’s more reliable and more people get to eat. For the for profit farmers they could simply focus crops that aren’t staples.

It’s going to be a harder winter.

Truthfully if it gets to the point the mega wealthy are hiding in bunkers the people will have access to military arsenals.

The US has spent a lot of money researching and purchasing munitions designed to bust underground bunkers

Oh well I guess that makes it perfectly okay then.

We need to condemn all mimitaries that do this. Everyone involved in its action or cover up should be held accountable and criminally charged.

Just because it’s been done before doesn’t make it okay then nor now

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The budget for food, Healthcare, and housing is non-existent.

The budget to blow up fishing boats is infinite

Does it ever get old viewing the world as either good or bad with no in-between?

The world is complicated and full of nuance. I’d be exhausted trying to sort everything is such a binary system.

It’s a worldview that eliminates the possibility of people you identify as “good” to do bad and vice versa. The only way to keep it consistent ia to ignore all information that doesn’t fit the binary worldview you’ve established

IDK where I’m from drug smuggling isn’t an automatic execution. Usually you arrest the perpetrators and give them a trial.

But it’s easier to send a missle and sort it later.

It’s like all the children enemy combatants we killed via drones in Iraq.

Honest question, do you think the government should have the authority to execute anyone anywhere for whatever crime they deem fit with no trial or evidence collection?

But at least they don’t have to go to the RFK Jr. slave therapy camps

Basically any of my local news networks accounts and community pages/accounts.

Welcome to the south!

Even some leftists accounts I follow that are celebrating are getting brigaded by upset conservatives. Honestly it’s been good entertainment

Yes, but they aren’t the ones making incoherent Facebook rants rn.

Hell even my local republican congressman got on the unhinged rant train. Only words he missed on the bingo card were 9/11 and communism

I’m enjoying the unhinged rants I’m seeing from conservative social media. They’re not happy and it’s a fantastic read

Because it was taken from us. We used to divide labor, taking care of the home was considered a full time job for 1 adult.

Now here we are. Where it now takes 2 incomes, or frankly more, to raise a family and have a home. Now you have no time to do anything and purchase more expensive convince items to try to claw back time.

1 income should be enough if they want us to start having kids again

Basically every corporation at this point. Buy local when you can, even if you disagree with the local person’s politics if your only alternative is a megacorp go with the local source.

They can be a shitty person, but they won’t have the capital to invest in overseas slavery and election interference like mega corps

This is my favorite critique.

You get online to complain that people are taking time to protest, but offer no solutions or alternatives.

Then it usually devolves into either you having no answer, you want someone else to start a revolution while you sit online, or you make a vague statement about 3rd parties (not helpful considering there is no election until late 2026).

You are right and I’m sure I can find more common ground with the guy that owns the local pizza shop.

But remember all buisness need to pay employees less than the value of what they produce. That is inherently exploitation