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Actually Argentina got $20 Billion so it’s like 1,000x worse
And no those customers don’t want to buy our crops anymore BECAUSE WE WERE GIANT ASSHATS so we better put our big boy capitalist pants on and find new ways to earn a living
I thought it got doubled to 40 billion.
You’re right
So it’s actually 2,000x worse
What’s an extra 20 billion between despots? Like a rounding error eh? Actually unsure on the Argentina side but if Trump okays billions I think that says enough.
I thought they were referring to the Argentina Soybean sales to China. What is the value of 10 cargo ships of soybeans?
Before the 2018 trade war, the soybean experts to China were only $12.8 billion. And that was the top. It’s been significantly less since then even before this second full stop.
i’m sure if we all hit the pavement and go country to country we’ll find someone willing to buy our exports. there’s plenty of money out there for people who are willing to work for it
“Guys, could you help me kill US farming? I’ll give you money?”
they should be GRATEFUL that tyson, perdue, foster farms or any of the large farms corporation allows them to work for them.
it went to 40bn, its also alot worst, because that 40bn is going to bessenets friends who invested badly in argentina, so they are getting profit off of that aid.
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Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%
Corn and soy are about the only agricultural products that aren’t extremely scarce this year…
Guess what the US exports instead of buying from Brasil? Nature wants them to fail too.
Honestly you’re welcome. I’m glad someone is benefiting from this absolute shit show.
Sadly its not the people of brasil profiting, but massive farms with millions of hectares.
Mostly rich farmers though we still get indirect profits from taxes
Yeah, but I doubt, that the benefits the taxes bring outweigh the damage the farming does to the civilians and the local ecosystem
Are you from here or have some info you want to share?
I am not from south America, but had the luck of being able to listen to a lecture of a professor from brasil and he talked about how farming works in brasil and what consequences it has. I am not sure how much stuff you can find in English, but his name is Antonio Androlio.
Im actually brasillian haha and financially those taxes do help, had to study that a lot for the university entrance exams here. Would it help more if was another industry? Yes, big farmers hardly spread their profits to other areas. Does it suck for the enviroment? Yes, I wish we would move to other ways to make money. But its still helpful, we don’t really export much else besides that and iron ore.
I just wish I could find soy milk in the supermarket. I hate that we don’t prioritize our internal market first.
As a brasillian its the exact same thing here sadly. With tariffs our meat exports got crippled badly so I expected to have a lot of high quality cheap meat at the market but… Yup, the producers prefer not to lose their product than to sell domestically and bring down the prices, fuck those guys
Sou brasileira amigo, tô falando do Brasil msm 😅
Eh nois entao haha
Guess the farmers will have to sell their farms to billionaires for half price now.
Go work for Amazon while Jeff Bezos uses your land to save money on groceries.
As was the plan all along.
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I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!
-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!
This is hilarious and I upvoted. But it’s also not accurate, and presenting it this way makes Trump look like a giga chad tricking bullies into punishing themselves, when he’s more like just king of a mentally ill cult. I won’t take my upvote back because I voted for Trump one time 9 years ago and I can’t take that back
If you’re committed to unlearning the fascism, you should know that the narrative that it’s just “mentally ill” people that voted for him is also not accurate and is infact ableist. White affluent Americans have been primed to endorse these values for centuries, it isn’t new and it isn’t disabled people’s fault.
Being unable to stop trying to commit mass suicide via climate change seems like a serious disability
More generally, VOTERS killed farming in America.
And the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at or told we were being overdramatic
Congrats republicans, you MAGA’d your way to the downfall of America. Maka America Garbage Again
Let’s not give them all the credit. All the dumbass nonvoters deserve their fair share of responsibility too.
the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at
Time to turn the tables. Never miss a chance to laugh at them
Most farmers voted to burn their own fields… again. The same man who nearly crippled American agriculture last time was welcomed with open arms. Tariffs, trade wars, and labor shortages wrecked their profits before, but somehow they lined up for another round. It is like watching someone hire the same man who burned down their house and expecting him to rebuild it this time.
in his first term, i read an article where the farmers were hopeful he would turn things around despite him putitng the tariffs in the first time. theres no helping these people.
Customer retention is a huge thing. Customers are often hard to get and easy to lose. Piss them off and they’ll find an alternative and they are not coming back. Trump has crippled us for decades.
But Trump knows that his base will still vote for him regardless of how his policies directly impact them.
Their desire for hate and oppression trumps (pun intended) whatever economic hardship they face.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Doesn’t matter what his base thinks, or who they vote for. Guess my point is that it’s too late to turn around and regain our “customer’s” trust.
When the manager, who was approved by the employees, belts every 4th guy in the door straight in the teeth, that stores custom is drying up and it’s not coming back.
IMO there’s a good chance that Trump’s second term will mark the end of the United States as a super power.
Speed running the collapse of an empire.
It really feels like that, doesn’t it?
Any % Democracy death blind playthrough on a DDR pad.
A has-been empire with a massive military and an aggressive desire to get back to the days when everyone respected them.
They’ll probably decide, fear is as good as respect…
What massive military? Militaries only exist as long as they are paid.
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If only there were signs that a spoiled, deranged imbecile, pedofile who bankrupted so many companies that he ended up as a game show host wouldn’t be a great leader
The US needs a German style constitutional court to make sure you can’t have a dictator again.
The dismantling of NATO, all of the “soft power” has gone down the drain, the US being subservient to Russia. It has basically already happened. We are just waiting for everyone to acknowledge it, because every leader in the Western world are desperately clinging to a world view which no longer exists.
and destroy the republican base, gop too. hes taking everyone down with him, at the behest of putin.
Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First… Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.
kind regards, The rest of the world
Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.
I couldn’t believe how many people don’t realize that a country literally CANNOT be run as a business.
It can, but it doesn’t mean it will be good or useful at all lol but I get what you’re saying. Government is for people, business is for profit. People and profit are not compatible as the purpose of the entity. Just look at the US Healthcare “Industry” for the most glaring example of this.
You’ve summed it up exactly. Business is for profit, government is for people. To expand slightly more on the thought here’s what I say:
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Unproductive members of a business are fired. You can’t do that with people. Well you can, but then we call that euthanasia or mass murder or other such things.
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A business is made up of folks that are, in the main, healthy, relatively trained and able to work. Assuming that the business is a good one and is one of those “one career” type things, you have them for about 35 years. A country has to take care of people from birth to death. So that’s like another fifty or so years.
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Everything that a business does and everyone it hires is (theoretically) there to help expand and grow the business and it’s associated profits. It doesn’t need things like a military which sucks up profit and is only used once in a while.
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A business doesn’t normally rely on its own employees to generate its profits. They might contribute, for instance Esso employees are probably paying for gas, but the vast majority of the profits are coming off non-Esso people.
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What I don’t get is how come this hasn’t translated to more plentiful and cheaper soybeans here for the local market. You can’t buy fresh soybeans at my local grocery store. You can only get them frozen and they’re about four bucks a bag. Which isn’t hugely expensive but it’s not exactly cheap either.
You think things are going to get cheaper just because there’s an excess of it? No, no, that’s not how that works here. You’re used to paying $4 a bag, therefore you will continue paying $4 a bag or more until the heat death of the universe. I’ll be surprised if it isn’t $6 a bag by this time next year.
Anything not sold will, obviously, be destroyed. Can’t have anyone trying to eat it for free.
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They don’t usually harvest and store them fresh. Most are harvested and stored dry, but generally need additional processing to be used… there’s just not the domestic capacity to use it all. They can only supplement feeding farm animals and unless processed beforehand, are just like cooking any other dry bean.
Do you mean edamame? I think mature soy beans are normally dried for storage, but maybe I’m wrong?
My wife said this tonight and it really hit me: China will be eating burgers and America will be eating soy
they are also eating soy and burgers.
I bet they’d love soy burgers?
That’s one way to get the farms into the hands of billionaires for cheap.
This was the goal all along. They want all that land in the hands of private equity. The farmers can lease it back if they want to try again. Serfdom.
So the us is just going full Great Depression again huh?
When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.
Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism…
(Yes please)
I think Europe has better farming practices
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I just know they have better quality food so it can’t be as bad as the subsidized corporate poison here
This is why farmers shouldn’t monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn’t care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.
They don’t? Afaik soy is an off season crop to balance nitrogen(?) in the ground. But not being able to sell your harvest 50% of the time is still pretty bad.
