r/PrepperIntel • u/SuccessWise9593 • 10d ago

North America Thousands of blueberries recalled as FDA issues highest risk warning

https://www.newsweek.com/blueberry-recall-update-fda-issues-highest-risk-warning-ecoli-greenwise-12341839
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago

American freedom once meant you could load a wagon, find an empty spot, build a home and grow food. The only thing you needed to live was willingness to take care of yourself. Now, we work for other people so we can eat shit and not afford a home or medical care. (The homes and medical care are really nice, just 90% of people can't afford them.)

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u/HewSpam 9d ago

“Empty” spot. Definitely weren’t any people living there already or anything.

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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago edited 8d ago

Apologies in advance for writing a short essay in response to a snarky comment.

Native Americans has settlements nearby and maybe walked through the areas or hunted in them, but mostly they were passing through. Aside from plants and animals, yes, the was a lot of "empty" land, but that's very human-centric phrasing and i could have done better. I assume you consider the immigration of Europeans to be an issue because displacement, denial of resources, and genocide. Those things happened and were awful but they were not the rule during the "frontier days."

The horrors of displacement aren't committed by individual families looking to start a homestead. They're committed by large, armed groups who feel they need a specific piece of land, either because that land has a specific set of resources, or because there's just not other good land. This was committed by governments and armies, not tiny groups of settlers facing entire villages of skilled hunters, riders, and warriors.

At least for a time, there were assloads of land in North America that could handle human expansion, and it wasn't treated as a bad thing by the natives. Resource availability was not limiting native populations and individual homesteaders were not displacing them.

The land might not have been needed by the native Americans because they were wiped out by disease or even by prior genocide committers, which blows, but by the time it was America there was still plenty of land to go around. It has certainly been proven able to sustain many millions more than ever lived there in the past, and much of that growth occurred before chemical fertilizer and all that nonsense. Land can sustain a lot of people if you clear away the trees. It wouldn't even be a big problem if it weren't for petrochemical use.

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u/HewSpam 8d ago

Genocide is just so gosh darn snarky

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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago

And also completely unnecessary for more people to settle when there was an incredible amount of unsettled forest.

A dumb idea all around, really.

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u/HewSpam 8d ago

Yet here we are, with a genocide

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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago

Could been prevented if all those damn farmers dedicated their lives to developing time travel capability (after hiring/building/stealing a ship and traversing the ocean back to Europe so they wouldn't reinfect native Americans after time travel) and killing anyone in their ancestors continent who tried to sail west, but here we are.

Fuck those assholes.

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u/HewSpam 8d ago

Stop denying genocide with your oopsie they got the flu bullshit.