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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019

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      the "USA" isn't selling farm land to foreigners Individual Americans are, presumably because they want to retire, or buy something other than dirt. If you don't like that, outbid the other buyers and buy it yourself Don't try to infringe on farmers' rights to dispose of assets https://t.co/AePtfW3zqe 

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    2. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP

      While I don't disagree that trying to pass a law against it is wrong, I also don't think trying to exert social pressure to keep people from parting out American assets directly to foreign interests is necessarily a bad thing either

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019
      Replying to @tigerboy74u

      you think someone named "Deplorable Sarah" tweeting on this hellsite is going to exert some influence that keeps a 72 year old farmer from listing his farm with a real estate firm?

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    4. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Fuck no, I meant as a general philosophical thing All our high ideals don't matter at the end of the day if we end up selling everything to the ChiComs

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    5. Lawyer Dog‏ @TheClarksTale 31 May 2019
      Replying to @tigerboy74u @MorlockP

      So long as they can't physically take the land away, this seems like a fairly minor concern.

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    6. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
      Replying to @TheClarksTale @MorlockP

      I dunno, if it works like anywhere else they start buying property it begins with a couple scattered acres and ends with owning 3/4 of the land in a given area and all the infrastructure on it

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019
      Replying to @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

      ok, so let's imagine that some German firm ends up owning 2 square miles of Alabama soybean fields so what?

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    8. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @TheClarksTale

      A German firm buying a couple soybean farms isn't the same concern as a bunch of Chinese state backed shell companies gradually buying an entire county

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019
      Replying to @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

      the real estate in the US is worth 10 or 20 times the entire Chinese economy

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    10. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @TheClarksTale

      I said county, not country. I also feel like that's kind of relative, you could probably by half of Wyoming for what you'd spend on a block in NYC But with what a lot of Chinese firms and speculators get up to extra-nationally I'm not really convinced the official GDP of China

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019
      Replying to @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

      ok, so let's say China buys a county so what?

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        2. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP @TheClarksTale

          A significant amount of economic and political leverage in that state; now there's an incentive for government to kowtow to keep them spending Member we're libertarian, but that's not the playbook other people use

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        3. Lawyer Dog‏ @TheClarksTale 31 May 2019
          Replying to @tigerboy74u @MorlockP

          At the end of the day, if they get too uppity about it we change the laws or use eminent domain or regulate it to their disconvenience.

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        2. silicon age tulpa‏ @mr_archenemy 31 May 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

          not much came of the japanese buying everything in sight in the 80s (I think it was the 80s?), despite all the hysteria

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        3. Snake‏ @tigerboy74u 31 May 2019
          Replying to @mr_archenemy @MorlockP @TheClarksTale

          Again I follow, but the post-war Japanese aren't anymore the Chinese Communist Party than the Germans are; it's not concern about foreign investment in general but about who is making the investment specifically

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        2. silicon age tulpa‏ @mr_archenemy 31 May 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

          also, why are chinese buying land in the US? just to own something safe, I assume - isn't it essentially just more capital flight? if so, why get riled up about it?

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 May 2019
          Replying to @mr_archenemy @tigerboy74u @TheClarksTale

          also, if I told you that an American investor was buying land in Chile or Thailand or something, you'd worry that he was getting conned by the conniving locals, who know the value of land and local conditions far better than he does yet when it's Chinese citizens...

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