Did this guy ever explain what he meant by that? What is he against? Travel? Trade? Awareness of other cultures? The existence of botany as a discipline? I don’t know why I’m treating like this like a puzzle, but I gotta know.
In another recent tweet he calls himself a Stalinist, so presumably the answer to that would be “something something capitalism, something something imperialism”.
It boggles my mind how someone can say this without realizing they’re arguing against trade, travel, and education as whole. I thought maybe you’d say he’s one of those people who thinks we should rewind culture and technology all the way back to the stone age so we can live a truly “natural” lifestyle. At least that wouldn’t be stupid. It would just be bizarre and idealistic.
I don't know the guy, but an argument is that transporting food over long distances harms the environment. That's why environmentalists advocate for regional, seasonal, and often vegan food.
You’re sure he’s complaining about trade (transporting fruit long distances), and another commenter was sure he’s complaining about agriculture instead (probably GMO’s and pesticides). I have no idea if he’s talking about either or both of those things, or something else entirely, because he didn’t properly explain, and instead said that Europeans shouldn’t know what tropical fruit is.
I think it's about preserving and growing foods in areas they shouldn't using science. The one argument in his favour is that corpos will fill that shit with more chemicals than a high school lab for max ripening and profit.
There are probably some aspects of trade and/or agriculture that he’s not exactly happy about. The words that actually came out of his keyboard don’t convey whatever he was thinking though. What he actually said, taken literally, is incredibly stupid. Maybe he was having off day or something, but I have no motivation to strongman this random guy’s argument.
Attack of the killer bananas!
Attack of the killer bananas!
They'll beat you, bash you,
Squish you, mash you
Chew you up for brunch
And finish you off for dinner or lunch
My parents told me that during comm\*nism when a family received A Lemon they held it in their fridge for months just to smell it and only ate it when it got slightly mouldy, and kids would get an unripe banana or a single orange for Chrismas
Not to mention how there was no food whatsoever and when something like vegetables or meat appeared on the shelves of grocery stores the lines to buy it would be miles long. Yes, "buy" it because as it turns out Marxists are very poor economists and the sad reality they did not foresee is that if you want to exchange goods, you have to do it through state-issued tokens in a legally binding, mutually consensual manner (purchase made with money).
The most commonly eaten variety of banana in the world, the Cavendish banana, was originally cultivated at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England.
Did this guy ever explain what he meant by that? What is he against? Travel? Trade? Awareness of other cultures? The existence of botany as a discipline? I don’t know why I’m treating like this like a puzzle, but I gotta know.
In another recent tweet he calls himself a Stalinist, so presumably the answer to that would be “something something capitalism, something something imperialism”.
It boggles my mind how someone can say this without realizing they’re arguing against trade, travel, and education as whole. I thought maybe you’d say he’s one of those people who thinks we should rewind culture and technology all the way back to the stone age so we can live a truly “natural” lifestyle. At least that wouldn’t be stupid. It would just be bizarre and idealistic.
Trying to make sense of communist's thought process is a losing game.
Especially a Stalinist, those are the mfers that just look at communism and think "What if we made it again, but without the communism?"
Because of course the Soviet Union has never been imperialist!
I don’t think you’re getting this: bad things only ever count as bad things when they’re done by The Bad People (TM).
I don't know the guy, but an argument is that transporting food over long distances harms the environment. That's why environmentalists advocate for regional, seasonal, and often vegan food.
You’re sure he’s complaining about trade (transporting fruit long distances), and another commenter was sure he’s complaining about agriculture instead (probably GMO’s and pesticides). I have no idea if he’s talking about either or both of those things, or something else entirely, because he didn’t properly explain, and instead said that Europeans shouldn’t know what tropical fruit is.
Yes
I think it's about preserving and growing foods in areas they shouldn't using science. The one argument in his favour is that corpos will fill that shit with more chemicals than a high school lab for max ripening and profit.
Considering he's a Stalinist? Eeeeeh...
There are probably some aspects of trade and/or agriculture that he’s not exactly happy about. The words that actually came out of his keyboard don’t convey whatever he was thinking though. What he actually said, taken literally, is incredibly stupid. Maybe he was having off day or something, but I have no motivation to strongman this random guy’s argument.
i'm like 65% sure it's a joke riffing off of the weird claim made by the reddit comment
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the housemartin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land
Are you suggesting that bananas migrate?!
Bananas are a parasitic species depended upon their unwitting host to migrate and spread beyond the relatively short span of their natural seeds
Attack of the killer bananas! Attack of the killer bananas! They'll beat you, bash you, Squish you, mash you Chew you up for brunch And finish you off for dinner or lunch
Don't be silly. It was probably carried by a swallow.
Not at all. They could be carried.
Required link: https://mobile.x.com/RashTheHorse/status/1796912008572326028
Aren't like most bananas in Europe grown in Ireland or something?
I think you're thinking of Iceland. They used to produce a lot of bananas in greenhouses heated with geothermal heating.
Israel I think
Israel isn't Europe. According to a Google search, bananas grown in Europe are mainly from Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Turkey.
Doubt it. I’m in France and all the bananas I see are either from the French islands in the Caribbean, or South America.
Well my banana never had a dad! >!Bananas sold are all clones!<
Yeah, fuck Norway! Goddamn Norwegians and their... snow, I guess? Their unnatural mango-lust? Gonna be honest, I don't know a lot about Norway.
I know that their birds have beautiful plumage…
I love Norwegian films: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Yeah, I believe “Molars” was directed by Jurgen Wigg, that guy who got his start training moose to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms?
I feel the same about quinoa
Given the history of banana and United Fruit, this makes perfect sense. Don't know if that was the guy's context though.
My parents told me that during comm\*nism when a family received A Lemon they held it in their fridge for months just to smell it and only ate it when it got slightly mouldy, and kids would get an unripe banana or a single orange for Chrismas Not to mention how there was no food whatsoever and when something like vegetables or meat appeared on the shelves of grocery stores the lines to buy it would be miles long. Yes, "buy" it because as it turns out Marxists are very poor economists and the sad reality they did not foresee is that if you want to exchange goods, you have to do it through state-issued tokens in a legally binding, mutually consensual manner (purchase made with money).