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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 96 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Stick it to a garlic farmer by buying their garlic? Even if selling it again means that they dont get the sales at that event, thats still garlic sold at previous events above the amount that they might otherwise have sold. Maybe growing more changes things, but unless one is a farmer oneself, I doubt one can so easily grow more garlic that a professional garlic farmer, because of the land and tools needed.

This person purchased twitter blue. They are clearly incapable of complex thought and reasoning.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This guy is looking at the long view. If you read it to the end, he's starting his own garlic farm and is going to constantly undercut Jim's prices, so that Jim won't make any (or many) sales, until Jim goes out of business. He's doing this even if it means a loss for himself; his goal is to ruin Jim's business.

Now, this is what's known in Birdman culture as "a Dick Move," but Jim seems a bit of a dick himself. However, while it might screw up the beginning of my season, if I were Jim I'd simply pivot to onions.

It all comes down to how far OP's poster is willing to take it. He certainly seems petty enough to pursue all paths, at whatever cost, to prevent Jim from being able to still produce at that farmer's market; changing crops as Jim changes crops. If Jim's invested enough, he could rotate his crops between a half-dozen different root stocks and the odds Vengeance Boy would happen to match whatever he's selling that season would be slim and spoil his plan.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The dude showing up with onions would be an incredible twist

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 4 days ago

Hey! Got any ~~garlic~~ onions?

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It supposes that our garliccel didn't need the income, and they the original garlic guy does. By obliterating sales, he harms him now, and in the future.