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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by throwaway123032 on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:05PM (#17525758)
Try to guess why they are called locusts.
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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by thablackbull on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:40PM (#17526032)
Funnily enough I was just reading, locust is apparently a reference to the evils of capitalism. From Bloomberg [1],

> Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activist investors, the talk turned to “locusts,” Germany’s catch-all term for the evils of Anglo-Saxon capitalism.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-10/hedge-fun...

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by throwaway123032 on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:13PM (#17526295)
It's more a reference to what is going on in HK (infamous ads from 2012...) and nearby countries. Baby formula is one example or straining the overall health care.
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