• loathesome dongeaterM
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    6830 days ago

    the president said the Chinese prices were “unfairly low” due to the government subsidising companies “who don’t need to worry about making a profit”.

    “They’re cheating,” Mr Biden said. “And we’ve seen the damage here in America.”

    Socialism is cheat code

    • @bobs_guns
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      5330 days ago

      If this is cheating then surely you will cut subsidies for big oil and dairy farmers, right??

      • 小莱卡
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        4730 days ago

        I was gonna say exactly the same thing. Also american farmers have corn subsidized, which destroys Mexico’s corn market. Hypocrites.

        • loathesome dongeaterM
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          2630 days ago

          That’s just the beginning of it. USA pushes every global south country to cut agricultural subsidies on the grounds that they are violations of some WTO agreement. The policy changes that caused the famous year-long farmers’ protest in India were supported by the US because they would have significantly cut government aid to farmers and farm owners.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          2430 days ago

          China is cheating by subsidizing products that are beneficial to society instead of giving corporate farms with millions of dollars money to not grow certain crops.

    • @taiphlosion
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      2530 days ago

      Just do the same thing if it’s working? LMAO

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      2430 days ago

      "They’re cheating by giving subsidies to people making productive products instead of giving government subsidies to multi millionaires to not grow crops or build “trains, but worse in every possible way”