• @dellish@lemmy.world
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    11 day ago

    Here’s a wacky idea: if Americans won’t do it, Americans don’t get to eat. Let’s see how long it takes for things to change…

    • @Zink@programming.dev
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      31 day ago

      So yeah, many people could use that kind of tough love and reconnecting with the basic realities of life. It would legitimately improve the mental and physical health of the population too.

      Unfortunately the conservatives have already claimed the strategy of starving the young and the infirm because their parents or caretakers aren’t good enough worker bees.

      • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        210 hours ago

        Or physically can’t.

        This country is also way too big and its climates are way too varied to support its population on small subsistence farms all year long.

        We could do it that way a century and a half ago, but even then we were reliant on industrialized farming and food production.