The cult is basically irrelevant. Their loyalty is guaranteed, like you said.

I’m more interested in what the other 2/3rds of the country will do.

Your arguments can and have been used to justify bestiality.

Good riddance.

I’ve started thinking of efficiency gains in my personal life as prep for the collapse of civilization.

LED bulbs use less power? That’ll be great when I’m forced to rely on what I can generate in my house!

Obviously language can be translated, even someone who can’t speak can use sign or give written consent. I suppose language itself isn’t even necessary, we evolved with the same social instincts that let us understand human body language and tone of voice and facial expression, we can figure out how to communicate across the barriers between us.

That’s why the only milk you should be drinking should come from a human who can meaningfully consent.

Goats can not meaningfully consent. I don’t care someone trained a goat to jump on a platform and accept milking, it absolutely wasn’t the goat’s idea. They had to learn to do this from the human that exploits them, and they think it’s normal because it’s the way things have always been. A wild goat would never let you touch her.

Besides, it’s not necessary anyway. No one needs to do this anymore. Just stop.

I believe in verbal consent and think your argument is uncomfortably similar to rape apologia - you can just tell she wants it!

There’s no sustainable way to do this for 8 billion people, so frankly I don’t give a shit.

Cows have to be tricked into letting their milk down. They won’t let you steal it otherwise.

That’s not a justification for stealing the milk. It’s not yours.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

That milk isn’t for you. It’s stolen.

The criminals are the ones in the FCC

This is always the greatest weakness of deploying people against their own nation, like how the Bolsheviks won over the war weary Russian soldiers. Since they spoke the same language they could appeal to the them as fellows who should join them against the Tzar.

Hope is for people who want to sit around doing nothing while they wait for things to spontaneously get better all on their own.

It’s still not comparable to Italy or Greece, because the US prints its own money while Eurozone nations can’t.

The real problem is less that the US is accumulating debt and more that it is destroying demand for dollars with sanctions. If China doesn’t want USD anymore then every dollar still on the market becomes less valuable.

What if, instead of hiring a company, we organized together as workers and yelled at the boss collectively? 🤔

They thought they were white.

Legitimate improvement.

I just take umbrage with the fact that people act like the authoritarianism and fascism started with Trump, as if we haven’t been building up to this point since the start of the GWOT. On the bright side, Trump makes these preexisting problems easier to see.

They’re mountainous. Surely pumped water storage would be better than chemical batteries?

My only problem with the demolition is that he’s only doing the East Wing.