This is insane. The Taiwanese government is paying farmers to NOT grow rice because they need the water for AI chip manufacturing instead. We're prioritizing AI over feeding people during a drought. https://t.co/Jd3qieucUT pic.twitter.com/dchH1CvT0U
— Reid Southen (@Rahll) July 22, 2024
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: What drought? Taiwan is being hit by a fricking typhoon rn
Leftoids cannot understand why a nation would want to use their limited water supply to make semiconductors instead of growing rice
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Why are commies so obsessed with subsistence farming? (Taiwan doesn't depend subsistence farming btw but they seem to believe it does) Do they think the Taiwanese will starve because of this?
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They refuse to acknowledge that the global market is perennial and amoral. It's the same with juchists and preppers. They think autarky is not only possible, but ideal.
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That's something they share with protectionist rightoids !neolibs
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I mean, the counterpoint is that neoliberals believe that input substitution has no floor and that all inputs have fungibility, which is ridiculous.
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Because commies are explicitly terrible at it. Before the Soviet Union collapsed it was dependent on American grain imports.
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So are rightoids
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Not in my country, here the "subsistence farming made by the wholesome landless peasants" is an exclusively leftoid talking point, but we have full food security while being of the largest food producers and net exporters worldwide.
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BUT THE RAINFORESTS
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Food independence is a good idea for national security reasons, but I doubt that this is Reid Southern's main concern.
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