Revelations is a revenge fantasy of an oppressed minority (Roman age Christians) aimed at the occupying imperial army (Rome).
It can be summarized as “When Rome fails, the world will end and everyone will get what they deserve”.
Meanwhile, there’s an extensive prior catalog of religious texts in the New Testament that absolutely do tell you to share the wealth, care for your neighbors, and pursue a utopian paradise free from inequality in God’s name.
what does “ending world hunger” mean?
Distributing agricultural surplus at market rate relative to population demand rather than market demand.
Would not food security lead to higher birth rates
Firstly, no.
The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any developed country.[
Pulling people out of starvation tends to reduce family sizes, as people don’t plan their families with the expectation of high levels of child mortality.
Secondly, “you need to starve to death because we’re afraid you might live long enough to have kids” is a fucked public policy on the scale of Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Finally,
lead to higher food requirements, when sometimes it already feels somewhat unsustainable?
Sustainability is a consequence of land use policy, not population rate. India and China are the classic case studies of this in practice. But you can see the pattern repeated across the planet.
Vegetarian agriculture is significantly less taxing on the ecology than animal agriculture. When you compare arable land requirements per Ethiopia, Bangledish, or Thailand residents to the dietary demands of Americans, Israelis, or Argentinians, what you discover is the enormous toll animal farming takes.
The unsustainable clear cutting of jungle and near-malicious misuse of limited irrigation drives up costs and cripples availability in even the wealthiest (and most thinly populated) nations on Earth.
Meanwhile, significantly more populace regions can thrive on a primarily vegetarian diet.
you are actively defending North Korea
If this was any other county, you wouldn’t consider it an insult.
Why do you feel the need to hate a foreign people this much? They have no impact on you whatsoever.
It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.
Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure
I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.
A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale
you think I’m defending the genocidal losers
If the shoe fits
15% of russian GDP has already been seized
Do you know what GDP is?
obviously there’s no accountability under this administration
When was the last administration that experienced accountability? Even Nixon got a pardon
You’re assuming a level of competency that the current FBI and DOJ have not demonstrated they possess.
one side sucks so clearly that means the other side is absolutely perfect
It’s funny to hear liberals defend the genocidal members of the Democratic Party by insisting “we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”.
But when you’re a guerrilla resistance fighting of the Japanese at their most bloodthirsty, or a country that’s painstakingly recovering after suffering more bombings in a year than all of Europe suffered in four, the bar gets raised through the roof.
You idealize tyranny and oppression
You are living under a totalitarian regime right now, you big dummy. You don’t seem to mind.
It’s jibberish. Might as well be calling Trump a TERF or complaining that Andrew Cuomo isn’t Italian.
totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani
What?
Obviously, the solution is US slavery
US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance
More rats sensing the ship is about to sink
Nah. Loomer is a chronic attention seeker. She’s just saying anything that will get her name in the headlines one more time.
In a few years time, depending on what happens in the next year, you might think that the entire MAGA movement was a hallucination
They’ve straight up murdered people en mass. They’ve “doubled Gitmo” with their concentration camps in Honduras and El Salvador and God only knows where. That’s not something you can just undo or walk away from.
If MAGA feels like a hallucination in another few years, it is only because of a massive cover-up by the Still Extremely Fascist media. It will be a prelude to another fascist surge and another wave of totalitarian violence.
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FYI, the debt will be paid by Russian war reparation
The EU equivalent of saying Mexico Will Pay For the Wall.
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
Ukraine’s been operating under the same Shock Doctrine that came for the rest of Eastern Europe following the collapse of the USSR (and much of Latin America and Oceania before that). The government is perpetually in a state of debt to its EU neighbors and it is constantly hemorrhaging state property at cut-throat prices to lowest-bidder private interests.
The looting of the Soviet sphere isn’t new and it isn’t the result of the Russian invasion. But the sudden acute need for foreign cash, combined with the mass displacement of Ukrainian citizens, has accelerated the process enormously.
One of Trump’s most persistent habits is to peel the mask of the Neoliberal Deep State and reveal the beating heart of Fascism beneath. Every other President would issue weasel words, parade about in defiance, and then quietly bend the knee to the Saudi Prince behind closed doors. Trump slaps MBS on the back and says “Killing journalists is based” right there on national TV.
The latest batch of released files has included some of the laziest and most haphazard redactions I’ve seen since Bush was on his way out in '08. These Congresscritters aren’t wasting staff time on cleaning up their info-dumps. It’s all just going out the door every Friday.
At this point, it’s white nationalists who want people to die. From Gaza to Haiti to Afghanistan, engineered famines are a tool of the powerful to subjugate and exterminate their geopolitical rivals.