queermunist

Sure, the working class is huge. There's all kinds of people.

Still not the norm. Normal workers do not know or care who Soros is, what Davos is, or who the email recipient's husband is.

Pastoral, hunting, and fishing communities do not respect cultured meat. They hate the idea of being separated from the land and their animals like that.

Vegans can be connected with the land. I can grow nuts and legumes and grain, I can't really culture my own flesh. I can share the same connection with the land as my community without hurting animals, but an alchemist with their homunculus burger will face a much greater obstacle to acceptance.

I am highly skeptical that there's any significant cultural buy-in for cultured meat.

I wonder how Trump will actually respond to this. He can't just "make a deal" so will he become belligeren/vengeful towards Russia for humiliating him or will he lose interest entirely?

I expect him to lose interest, he doesn't care about geopolitics, but predicting Trump is a fool's game lol

Conspiracy theorists are generally small business owners or retirees living off investments; people with lots of leisure time to drive themselves nuts. The working class usually doesn't have time to go down these conspiracy rabbit holes (it happens, but it's not the norm)

That's literally multiple people conspiring in secret to achieve an illegal goal.

And it's just not necessary.

We're more alienated and isolated than pretty much any time in history, they really could just tell their base "go arrest your neighbor for woke and await further orders" and they would do it. There's just no need for a conspiracy to manufacture riots, their loyalists will happily kill their neighbors. They can just do this whenever they want.

The cruelty is certainly the point, though, and that contradicts your own conspiracy theory. They aren't trying to manufacture riots per se, they just want to make people suffer. Even if there are no riots they get what they want.

manufactured riots come hell or high water. “marshall” law by mid-terms, mark my word.

This conspiracy never makes sense to me.

If they want martial law they can just do it. Just lie and say there are riots, boom. There's no need to manufacture actual riots.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren't in style anymore.

He didn't even get a majority. He got a plurality. 49.9%

Canada uses prison labor. They rent out prisoners to private firms for rock bottom wages.

But that's different, right?

This is exactly like when gun lovers try to say "this isn't the time to discuss gun laws" and "they would have found a way to hurt people regardless". Zero difference.

But actually this is exactly when we should argue about the existence of cars: someone just performed a live demonstration of how dangerous they are in the hands of someone who wants to kill people. Without a car, mass killing would be much much harder and it would also be possible for people to defend themselves or escape the danger. Cars also enable impulse killings in a way knives don't, because carrying a knife has to be premeditated whereas with a car the murder weapon is always readily available.

I guess? But it's also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I'm doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

By this standard, the US is still a democracy. Leaders are still voted into power and that isn't going to change.

Will they let everyone vote? Obviously not, but you seem to think it's democracy when only white men can vote so...