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Risottia
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Risottia » Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:47 am

Shin-Mutsu wrote:NSG, do you believe in placing more emphasis on physiocracy?


It's a load of bullshit. Mechanisation allows for less people employed in agriculture while increasing productivity, so there's no reason to keep food prices artificially high.
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Heloin
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Ex-Nation

Postby Heloin » Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:56 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:I don’t know if it’s practical but there’s an appeal.

The happy music playing in the sunny fields of hay and corn, the joyous farmers, the berries, the renewed connection with nature and animals

I'm currently thinking of the time a neighbour lost his toes in a combine harvester.

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Adamede
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Postby Adamede » Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:58 am

Heloin wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:I don’t know if it’s practical but there’s an appeal.

The happy music playing in the sunny fields of hay and corn, the joyous farmers, the berries, the renewed connection with nature and animals

I'm currently thinking of the time a neighbour lost his toes in a combine harvester.

I’m think about all the fawns farmers run over with their combines during harvest season

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:04 am

Adamede wrote:
Heloin wrote:I'm currently thinking of the time a neighbour lost his toes in a combine harvester.

I’m think about all the fawns farmers run over with their combines during harvest season

That wasn't really a problem where I grew up.

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Adamede
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Postby Adamede » Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:05 am

Heloin wrote:
Adamede wrote:I’m think about all the fawns farmers run over with their combines during harvest season

That wasn't really a problem where I grew up.

Eh, varied form location to location.

Still farms aren’t exactly a good way to get in “contact with nature” or whatever dukbass thing it was IM said.

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Ethel mermania
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:01 am

Heloin wrote:
Adamede wrote:I’m think about all the fawns farmers run over with their combines during harvest season

That wasn't really a problem where I grew up.

You had lions who ate the fawns where you grew up. People bitch about lions around here, whiners
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:49 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:That wasn't really a problem where I grew up.

You had lions who ate the fawns where you grew up. People bitch about lions around here, whiners

I once saw a Black Rhino in the township. That was a fun day.

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Ethel mermania
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:53 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:You had lions who ate the fawns where you grew up. People bitch about lions around here, whiners

I once saw a Black Rhino in the township. That was a fun day.


If we put those here, I think folks would be a lot more positive about farming.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Alcala-Cordel
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Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Alcala-Cordel » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:04 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:I once saw a Black Rhino in the township. That was a fun day.


If we put those here, I think folks would be a lot more positive about farming.

Release more dangerous animals into the wild
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

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My Political Fantasy
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Ex-Nation

Postby My Political Fantasy » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:06 am

Alcala-Cordel wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
If we put those here, I think folks would be a lot more positive about farming.

Release more dangerous animals into the wild

Based.
A combination of the neutrality of Switzerland, the military capabilities of Israel, and the authoritarian governance of Russia.
I like to complain about bad governments are people halfway across the world, but I prefer that anyone except me deal with them.
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Ethel mermania
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:29 pm

Alcala-Cordel wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
If we put those here, I think folks would be a lot more positive about farming.

Release more dangerous animals into the wild

Man is already out there.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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The New California Republic
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby The New California Republic » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:30 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Alcala-Cordel wrote:Release more dangerous animals into the wild

Man is already out there.

Release some Übermensch then.
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They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
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Ethel mermania
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:35 pm

The New California Republic wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Man is already out there.

Release some Übermensch then.

nietzsche, nietzsche, nietzsche, its always fast freddie with you.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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