China imports no US soybeans for second month, Brazil arrivals up 29% (www.reuters.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 04:36
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cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/53408652

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tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 05:49 next collapse

US could always turn those soybeans into cheap food for the US.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 06:13 next collapse

Even give it away to starving families who lost their SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

But capitalists have to lie, çeat, & steal.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 06:27 next collapse

Cheat?

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 06:41 next collapse

Tax evasion, market manipulation, monopolies… etc.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 08:57 collapse

Sha-eat?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 09:22 collapse

You got it right the first time.
Cha che chi cho chu = Ça çe çi ço çu.
English is such a shit language it changes “ea” to /ι/ in “cheat” /çιt/

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 09:38 collapse

You seem reasonably proficient at it. I think you introduce misspellings like this on purpose—given your history. It’s a bit psychotic if you ask me—given your history…….

b_tr3e@feddit.org on 20 Nov 11:05 next collapse

What’s the problem with “çeat”? Pretty obvious that it’s pronounced “cheat”. If you’d speak three languages or more, you’d be aware of that.Don’t blame others for your eductional deficites.

anguo@piefed.ca on 20 Nov 12:19 next collapse

Pretty obvious that it’s pronounced “cheat”

French would like to disagree.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 15:35 next collapse

I don’t disagree, but I am blatantly Eigo no des.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 15:57 collapse

Eigo hanaserun dattara, nande eigo hanasenai no?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:25 collapse

Hokkaido dashite.

b_tr3e@feddit.org on 20 Nov 17:18 collapse

It’s not not a cedille, actually. Or is it? I can’t see the original post from the “Messages” menu.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 15:48 collapse

ðey do þings like ðis on purpose to troll. ðey hæve æ history of it.

In fact 10 minutes before my posting this comment they admitted to doing it to mock the English language. Ironic for a person who calls themselves an “Anti Bully”

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:36 next collapse

Languages are tools. Imperial tools can be made fun of. Is there a reason you are this bent on supporting a war crime language?

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 16:44 collapse

Japan sided with the Nazis, who spoke German, so I don’t know how insulted I am when you call English a war crime language.

Try harder. Be better.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:52 collapse

And we reparated twice. The US has never reparated Indigenous folks. Their genocides continue.

Maybe criticize your conquerers harder before you tell me again who are the psychotic imperialists demanding we correct our use of a language.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 17:01 collapse

If you didn’t put effort into being a troll, I wouldn’t mind language mistakes at all. But your English is just fine… you just want to troll people because of where they were born and what language they learned as a child.

That’s what’s wrong with you. You don’t care at all about the “indigenous folks,” I’m sure I can scroll through your history and not find a single mention. You just want to hate on people you think are “bad.”

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 17:18 collapse

Projection. Absolute projection.

Please cease your English bootlicking nonsense. I have other projects to attend to than to ego stroke a grammartist.

Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win on 20 Nov 17:28 next collapse

Pwojectshahn. Absorute pwojectshahn.

Pwease asease yo Engrish bootricking nonsense. I have otha pwojects to ahtten to than to ego stwoke a gwammatist.

That’s you. That’s what you sound like. Assoe.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 17:29 collapse

You’re the one projecting. You’re the one saying that people who were born “wrong” are bad.

You sound exactly like those people you hate.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 17:34 collapse

Cite me where I said that word.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 17:36 collapse

Do you think it is OK to hate people based on the language they speak?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 17:43 collapse

<img alt="🌾" src="https://c8.alamy.com/comp/APRD65/clutching-at-straws-female-APRD65.jpg">

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 17:56 collapse

Are you afraid to answer a direct question? That usually suggests that a person is afraid to defend their own beliefs.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 17:58 collapse

thehistoryofenglish.com/grasping-at-straws-meanin…

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 18:00 collapse

I know the meaning. Answer the question. Or, are you scared?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 18:03 collapse

Why would an imperialist grammarian instill more fear in me than the damages they cause?

You seem hung up on something I already ended.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 18:12 collapse

Why do you think it is OK to hate a person based on the language they learned as a child?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 18:18 collapse

I am a lover, not an imperialist.
Please end your English imperialism.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 18:21 collapse

Why do you think it is OK to hate a person based on the language they learned as a child?

b_tr3e@feddit.org on 20 Nov 17:28 collapse

Bullying the English language? That’s a bit far fetched, IMO. Also, cry me a river, language hugger. How do you like zis? Haha! Vee can do even vorse zings to ze language you love zis much. Gunther, here, vill recite some literature for you in his native Saxon accent…

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 17:32 collapse

I’m sure you can go through their post history and see them criticizing the English language over and over. They just need someone to hate, and it is people who speak English.

It’s a strange hill to die on, but I guess they’re going to do it.

It’s weird that you are coming to their aid

b_tr3e@feddit.org on 20 Nov 18:51 collapse

A language can take a lot more than somebody making fun of it. Actually, jokes are language, often enough used in smart ways.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 19:02 collapse

Do you think it is OK to hate a person based on the language they learned as a child?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 15:39 collapse

Making fun a language isn’t psychotic behavior, unless you have something you want to confess.

If anything, English is an imperial language forced down our throats after Amekos beat us in WWII. But given that you actually know history, you should know why Unicode relented on “ç” for /ch/.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 15:51 collapse

Ironic how you love to mock specific groups and also call yourself “anti bully.” You and I both know you’ve got a long long history of trolling.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:24 collapse

The fuck you on about?

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 16:28 collapse

Go to bed.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:34 collapse

Are you going to pay me to go to bed?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 08:14 collapse

🙂‍↕️

tornavish@lemmy.cafe on 20 Nov 08:53 collapse

Sha-eat?

Clearly English is your third language.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 09:19 collapse

How do you pronouns “C”?
/ka/?

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 20 Nov 16:01 collapse

Giving things away for free en masse costs money. And the farmers are already going bankrupt from this. Big Ag will buy up that land cheap, and then the subsidies will be announced. Just like last time.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 16:28 collapse

Wow, capitalist propaganda in my response.
Did you even bother to read who actually paid for the beans on these farms through subsidies?

Let’s be blatant, the farmers are worried about profit, not feeding the hungry.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 20 Nov 20:27 collapse

I don’t think you read what I wrote properly.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 21:49 collapse

Money is theft.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 21 Nov 11:47 collapse

No. Let the adults talk.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 21 Nov 12:37 collapse

The “adults” in the room.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 21 Nov 13:37 collapse

The existence of abuse of an item doesn’t make the concept bad. That doesn’t solve anything. It’s fanciful distraction from an actual solution to the issue you claim to care about

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 21 Nov 15:19 collapse

Explain that solution.

Ilixtze@lemmy.ml on 20 Nov 08:57 next collapse

According to americans beans are for mexicans and commies and soy feminizes you, thus, no such luck.

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 14:33 collapse

So what your telling me it’s time for the Mexican fembois to rise up and take over America?

Iv heard of worse fates.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Nov 13:27 collapse

Turning us all into soyboys?

Lol the irony would be pretty delicious.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 20 Nov 06:13 next collapse

Good. Make it forever.

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 09:56 next collapse

US Farmers having the day they voted for:

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/23bbad56-8e76-496d-8ccf-e9c72bd3ba82.jpeg">

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub on 20 Nov 11:55 collapse

They were voting for subsidies

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survirtual@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 11:39 next collapse

Soy farming is destructive to natural ecosystems. A shame for the farmers in the US, but the nature will be glad and that is more valuable. It does depend on the replacement crop.

I am worried about Brazilian’s nature with the increasing soy farming. Soy needs terrain that competes with beautiful native plants, and with increasing production, more land will be lost, and more water consumed.

The good news is that soy farming makes more sense in Brazil. Higher rainfall means less diverted water. It is actually more ecologically cost effective. Hopefully there will not be much more forest displacement.

kiagam@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 13:51 next collapse

Soyf farming and cattle ranching have been destroying the amazon for decades. It is severely diminished from that. But it is such a huge forest that it seems infinite.

The bigger problem is that the soil on the amazon is actually pretty bad. There is a thin fertile layer that gets renewed by the forest. Once you cut it down to plant something else it quickly becomes bad, so you have to cut down more forest to keep up production

survirtual@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 15:24 collapse

It’s true and very sad.

They claim the soy farming won’t be allowed to deforest further, but the more land used for soy, the less for cattle. That can push cattle ranchers deeper into forested land and the effect is the same.

I hope this can be solved soon. The Amazon is a precious, ancient treasure of Earth.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br on 20 Nov 17:21 collapse

Soy farming restores nitrogen on soil. The alternative of using chemical processes to restore that nitrogen is stopping farming corn, and that’s not happening.

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Tronn4@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 16:12 next collapse

So much winning

card797@champserver.net on 20 Nov 17:01 next collapse

The deals are so good.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca on 20 Nov 17:42 next collapse

Good. Fuck em. I’ll sit back and enjoy while the rest of the world proceeds to set up a trade network that bypasses the U.S. entirely, fostering far more cooperation and goodwill than America’s Hegemonic diplomacy ever has. America can get fucked for all I care.

verdi@feddit.org on 21 Nov 12:57 next collapse

For those asleep at the wheel: This is part of the plan, it’s helping the last % points of a corporate takeover of the US primary sector that started over a decade ago. It’s consolidation into monopolies. It’s the US perestroika.

falseWhite@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 12:58 next collapse

That’s just playing by Trump’s own rules and winning hard. Good for them. Fuck the fascists above anything else.

Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org on 21 Nov 13:33 collapse

It’s a bit confusing:

China Makes Biggest Soybean Buy From U.S. in Two Years

China made its biggest daily purchase of American soybeans in two years, in a move that ends a temporary pause and appears to signal a commitment to a trade truce reached late last month.

It would be interesting to know how this effects the people in China as the country is the world’s largest importer not just of soybeans but of food in general. Is Brazil even able to fill the gap?