• MarxStuff
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    This headline is two steps away from saying ‘‘Our glorious and civil wheat vs Their wretched and evil rice’’.

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      It’s funny, because even IF we turn our brains off long enough to humour this idea, why exactly should we automatically assume this vaunted “individualism” is inherently superior?

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        Most people who profess individualism are quite sorry individuals.

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    yellow man bad for… cooperating to grow the crop with 2-3x higher annual caloric yield so he can feed his community better? smdh my dick head

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    Rice is the superior grain

    I love to eat rice

    Yum yum yum I gobble up fucking rice.

    You know what I like to eat on my rice? MORE FUCKIN RICE

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      Westerners fucked up on this one. I wanna eat so much rice I fucking die.

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        Seriously I don’t care what anyone thinks I would always rather eat white rice than any other grain

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        There are so many other good grains y’all. Millet, barley, quinoa, oats (great as groats!), bulgur (wheat), etc. Mix and match, the more the merrier!

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          Critical support for non-rice starch grains.

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      And it’s not like Europe have a good climate for rice farming, those things have historical reasons.

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      millet was often preferred, and wheat has certainly been a thing for a long time.

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    Oh hey, this “theory” again. I recall it being forced in Russian liberal circles a few years ago.

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    I prefer bread over rice. How does the Economist account that for their theories?

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    bro, I love rice and wheat, both rice and wheat are indian staples

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      Tzarist Russia before it had wheat too, and peasantry had a very collectivist mindset

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        not only does the Economist remain the mouthpiece of British millionaires (the Lenin quote needs to be updated to “billionaires”), but it also is just abhorrently stupid

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          Billionaires get to enjoy their own farts and working class reading that gets a bit more garbage into its consciousness. Being abhorrently stupid doesn’t hurt anybody (except for maybe the advancement of humanity as a whole)

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            arguably the stupidity in their press is a form of psychological warfare to worsen the thinking capacity of the reader, can’t have the rabble thinking dangerously good thoughts (like those contained in Marxist texts).

            must pump idiocy and confusion into the brains of the commoner

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    I guess eating rice literally turns you into a giant eusocial ant 🐜🐜🐜

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    Fuck wheat, all my homies hate wheat. hashtag ricegang

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    I deadass got a video in my recommendation last night going over different skull shapes of the “black” compared to the “whites”. The west is really going mask off right now. Here’s the video if yall are interested or want to mass report.