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If the US goes to war with China, if we're literally shooting at each other and dropping bombs, I don't think it's going to be all that big of a step to expropr
by harryh 8y ago
If the US goes to war with China, if we're literally shooting at each other and dropping bombs, I don't think it's going to be all that big of a step to expropriate some farms on our own soil that they happen to own.
- ceejayoz 8y agoIf they're prepared in advance for such an action, that expropriation might be a bunch of bricked farm equipment.
- undersuit 8y agoBurnt crops and salted fields.
- YokoZar 8y agoThis is a ridiculous hypothetical to begin with, fear over stuff like this is how we end up with nonsense farm policy.
- ceejayoz 8y agoI don't think it's that silly. I have major concerns with how automation and interconnectivity have taken off faster than security efforts can keep up. It needn't be a state actor, even - a disgruntled worker at John Deere might push an update to a million tractors that burns out their motors, for example. The next World War might just be us waking up one day and the lights don't work.
- tptacek 8y agoThis is pretty silly. If China ever enters a shooting war with the US, their larger concern will probably be how to feed themselves, since they account for something like a quarter of all our food exports (80% of all US soybeans go to China!), and they import a comparable amount of food from our allies.
- samstave 8y agoYou might like this episode of rotten... https://www.netflix.com/watch/80149707?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C2%2C02d309f0-3e2c-4053-9564-6b25c0688ba6-72952219%2C%2C https://www.netflix.com/watch/80149707?trackId=13752289&tctx...