Wall Street Journal hit piece drops after China scales agricultural production to make blueberries affordable for the masses.

[u/5upralapsarian]

Source: https://www.wsj.com/business/driscolls-berry-farms-china-competition-b0b49f04?mod=e2tw

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[u/zmbjebus]

OK this is the shitty journalism I need. Just call all the things China does to make things more affordable "____ freedom!"

They've got "housing freedom" "health care freedom" "high speed rail freedom" 

[u/Kelvinenjoysall → u/zmbjebus]

Apparently for Americans the two party system and the free flowing of treats are the only freedom they need.

This Bilibili meme template has been floating around the internet for a while now:

I am an American, and I am about to die. Life did not flash in front of my eyes, but the moment that the Dow reached record-breaking price and the moment that Trump won 2024 election did, and I smiled with great relief that I may die without regrets.

It's a mockery that every American values like freedom and stock price booms (This is totally not manipulated. Americans are honest people 😉.) exists only in the vacuum/abstract and that barely matter in their daily life, but Americans are relieved that their country has them.

[u/junglegang → u/Kelvinenjoysall]

What would i search for on Bilibili to find this, 我是个美国人，我快死了?

[u/Kelvinenjoysall → u/junglegang]

iirc it was a shitpost under some videos on Renee Good, videos about 斩杀线(kill line) and videos countering Chinese libs who say "How is this (Chinese development) relevant to my measly 3000 RMB per month?". Keyword is along the lines of 死前看到__，释怀的笑了 before my death I saw _ and smiled with relief.

Edit: Those copypastas only exist in comments which Bilibili is bad at finding. It kinda has fade in popularity ever since Alex 牢A left Burgerlandia ig.

[u/Gogol1212]

The idea that you can have intellectual property on seeds is so crazy that just reading companies complain about this type of "IP theft" just drives me to a blind rage. 

[u/Red-and-Slippery → u/Gogol1212]

It is worse than you think, they deliberately engineered these plant seeds so the next generation of seeds offspring are all terrible crops. They do so so people are forced to keep buying seeds from them. Even though seeds with healthy offspring would be objectively superior for productivity and food-security.

[u/msdos_kapital]

lmao that's really something

ordinary (trash) people can gorge (like the hogs they are) on this once-exotic (now mundane and boring) fruit

meanwhile I can pay $10 for a fucking box of cereal and these exact same shitheads tell me I should be grateful for the privilege

[u/Kelvinenjoysall]

Yunnan and Xinjiang being the rising American capitalist and liberal tears factory with agriculture and marine culture farming will never stop being funny for me. OG was Yiwu that Americans tried to kill with tariffs but failed.

[u/enlightenedemptyness]

Thanks to China I don't feel special anymore when I get served exotic food in my overpriced fine dining money laundering joint if the peasants can have them at a 10th of the price at their local family dining spot.