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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:12:49 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   >Mennonites immigrated into the Paraguayan part of the region from Canada in the 1920s; more came from the USSR in the 1930s and immediately following World War II. These immigrants created some of the largest and most prosperous municipalities in the deep Gran Chaco.
   >The Central Chaco region probably has the highest concentration of ethnic Mennonites anywhere in Latin America. German speaking people (almost all of them Mennonites) formed 32% of the total population of the Central Chaco as of 2005.
   I find it fascinating that apparently Paraguay's agricultural output is almost solely reliant on Prussian/Dutch baptist settlers
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:17:37 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @markcuban Gran Chaco is very dry, hot and unsettled. It's pretty impressive how they've made it work
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     markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:17:38 JST markcuban

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     @augustus people that live in the jungle dont need to do agriculture.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:19:33 JST lainy

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     @augustus @markcuban i can recommend this book to you for more things like that. the whole recent history of patagonia seems to be dutch and germans settling there and trying hard not to get killed for being too successful as farmers.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:22:28 JST lainy

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     @augustus @markcuban i like how the cited guardian article starts of with the world 'hitler'
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:22:29 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @lain @markcuban >Mennonites have received some criticism from human rights organizations for their relations with a number of indigenous tribes, including the Ayoreo people in Paraguay.[18]
     success breeds jealousy