US Farmers having the day they voted for:
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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They were voting for subsidies
US could always turn those soybeans into cheap food for the US.
Even give it away to starving families who lost their SNAP benefits during the shutdown.
But capitalists have to lie, çeat, & steal.
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.
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Turning us all into soyboys?
Lol the irony would be pretty delicious.
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.
So much winning
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.
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
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.
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.
Good. Make it forever.
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.
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?
The deals are so good.
That's just playing by Trump's own rules and winning hard. Good for them. Fuck the fascists above anything else.
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