Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.

The enemy of my enemy who is also my enemy gets shot after one of them kills the other.

It’s not just that there’s no political will, it’s that there’s a solid chance the Republicans would try to ban it paying farm workers well outright.

Also everyone is a vulnerable to starvation, if you don’t eat for about a month you will probably be dead. Being obese is at best a buffer, that’s not even factoring in that a lot of that extra fat can be burned off exceptionally easily if you cut soda for example.

Yes they shouldn’t exist, that wasn’t my point. My point is collapsing the agricultural industry like a fucken smooth brained stalinist is fucking stupid, reform is needed but the current situation is going to get people killed if things go badly enough. I’d love nothing more than to turn these farms into co-ops but that isn’t what’s happening.

The reasoning is the important part of why these two opinions exist. The right has no replacement for the labor so when shit inevitably hits the fan and we end up with at best shortages at worst artificial holodomor style famine they will have been the cause. The left is generally smart enough that as a whole even if they hate the system they aren’t stupid enough to more or less collapse it without at least a fallback system if not an outright replacement.

It’s the type of irony that occurs with reactionaries on occasion where they attack an actual problem but it’s done in such a fucking asinine way where that problems traditional opponents have to defend it.

Surprisingly not by much, most of the improvements have been with portability not functionality, at least when it comes to stone working. Instead of steam we use electric for example so you don’t need to lug around steam canisters for a power drill. Scaffolding, blasting, drilling, and chiseling is still more or less the same since the 30s.

They have stirred up national pride, shame for them that they pulled an Austria-Hungary and are stirring up a springtime of nations. The US ain’t a nation it’s an ideological empire with a disintegrating ideological foundation.

My kin have been in North America for nearly 500 years, I am a Californian first, an American-Scot second, and an American last.

Yeah but then you have to be in Salt Lake City, the shear concentration of Mormons is enough to make me sick.

They look like they deserve the spicy deflator.

Frankly speaking the best barometer for discerning proper lefties who are just being nit picky about specific things and dipshits who do oppression Olympics as you call them is to ask them about logistics, surprisingly when ya start getting into the minutiae of distribution centers and trade routes the folks who want a medal tend to get bored and piss off. It’s also a great way to talk to rural folks who have been fed a steady stream of propaganda and bullshit since it comfortably circumnavigates culture war trite, hell in one case I was talking light rail vs truck distribution with one dude and he muttered “Why did I hate you at first” because I am not particularly subtle about my economic preferences.

Totally unrealistic, I wouldn’t be able to achieve fully automated gay space communism if it was based in America. Ignore who my trading partners were in the WW2 era.

Mormon raiders and bandits did try to claim the areas from the territory surrounding Utah back in the day. Would not put it past them to try that shit again, the proper response to militaristic cultists is to shoot them.

Hey now at least it shows that against all odds TN is at least a vaguely functional state. It’s not a Mississippi where it’s dead in the water or Idaho where it has some potential but would require billions in infrastructure improvements alone.

Can we drop them off on next to that big digger bucket next to the rest stop in the middle of Nevada?

This is weirdly specific but Lemmy is weird enough that at least one person knows about it, probably from the Nevada equivalent of California Gold.

That works brilliantly right until some Cholo rams a bayonet they bought at a flee market into their gut. I ain’t making fun of them, Cholos and flee markets are great.

Have you ever read the Odyssey or any polytheistic myths? The gods are fucking each other over about as much as they fucking us over, the only ones who have our backs are the underworld and craftsman gods.

Good comparison with fast food, plenty of folks consume propaganda for similar reasons. Just as there are food deserts there are also information deserts.

They were actually improving economy wise just before Hitler, then just like with the US right now the fascist dipshits fucked it all up.

Fuck you I refuse to wear pants when I am relaxing, I hold societal standards to contempt on that one.