Apparently offering to do something is the same as actually being able to do it.
It’s funny how the tankies are smug about panic-buying shortages in the US when they’ve spent the past few years ignoring much worse permanant shortages in countries like Venezuela.
>Governments must resist calls from some quarters to protect their own food supply by restricting exports, he said, as some have begun to do. … Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, has temporarily suspended rice export contracts.
>Many supermarkets across Hanoi have empty shelves due to panic buying over the coronavirus outbreak. DTI News has reported that many shops and small markets have run out of food as local people have been bulk buying products so they can self-quarantine in their homes for long periods.
Vietnam? Which has been shifting back from a planned economy to an open market over the past 34 years? The country that’s faced economic growth by EMBRACING private ownership?
I mean, regardless of if they’re lying or not, I don’t really think they are the hard socialist nation the tankies want to make the US into.
boy oh boy sure am glad that during this crisis I get to experience Capitalist Plenty
and not Socialist Deprivation
loving that the sidebar of your last (two month old) link shows me a portal into an alternate dimension where there’s a sensibly planned economy and the whole covid-19 thing is already over.
Man you really are desperate for any source arent you.
Also remind me, where exactly does Vietnam rank in freedom of the press?
Oh and you never answered my question, what exactly do you consider a legitimate source?
i did answer that question, [link] actually, and you never responded.
i’d love to hear what you think the current daily vietnam death toll of covid-19 is, since you’re so sure it’s higher than the 2000 a day projected in the US.
One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it’s the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.
For context here is a picture
what
It has a national park that’s bigger than maine. Or Switzerland. A park.
I lived in Alaska for two years and I will never get over the sheer overwhelming bigness of it.
Nights where the sky is clear you can see clusters of stars or the Northern Lights dancing. When the lights are rippling especially strong and fast you can hear a static crackle in the air. When the moon is out after it’s snowed, you don’t need flashlights to see. Everything glows and glimmers like polished quartz.
But when the sky is clouded over so you can’t see the stars, you can kind of almost sense the mountains towering over you and helping to block out the light, these giant monoliths acting like this void darker than your soul. I’ve never experience night like Alaska night.
Everything is big, the mountains, the sky, the valleys.
going “ohohohoh! but vietnam had panicbuying shortages two months ago too!” comes off as pretty weak in light of the fact that vietnam hasn’t had any new covid-19 cases in 4 days while in the US is ramping up to 2000 deaths a day. like yeah maybe vietnam had some issues too but look at the big picture here.
having a low mortality rate among the infected for a disease you’ve completely failed to contain the spread of is a pretty weak accomplishment.
regarding per capita death in relation to the whole population, the US is indeed currently trailing behind spain, italy, france, and various other european imperialist shit nations, but i’m not sure how that Le Epically Owns the commies. maybe if one of the countries which was doing worse in per capita deaths was communist? but alas, they’re not, so it seems your point is stupid and you’re an idiot.
On this day, 21 April 2007, 150 garment workers, mostly women, occupied the Mansoura-España textile factory in Egypt against job losses and unpaid wages.
Management tried various tricks to break the occupation, even threatening to fabricate prostitution charges against the women workers for sleeping away from home under the same roof as men who are not their husbands. But the workers held out against both bosses and their union, occupying their factory for two months before winning concessions on both job losses and unpaid wages.
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