There is no need for Zionism in a world where Jewish people can live peacefully anywhere.

Global anti-Semitism is nothing but helpful to Zionism, so they encourage it. When you see them equating Zionism with Judaism during this genocide, don’t think for a second they don’t know it makes it more dangerous for Jews around the world.

It certainly seems so. Particularly in a western “liberal” democracy.

Why wouldn’t they recognize Taiwan? Are they gonna confuse it for Japan somehow?

China acted faster and more efficiently than most other countries, especially consider they were the first to be hit.

Still better than politicians who don’t resign over anything but still speak in riddles and never commit to anything good.

Every state is authoritarian.

The point is that it’s only “authoritarianism” if the west doesn’t like it.

Westerners: “Let us manipulate you using social media in the name of free speech!”

China: “No.”

Westerners: “😠 authoritarianism!”

If not for Communism the Shen Yun wouldn’t have had to perform child labor under brutal conditions to show what China was like before communism smh.

They better watch out! They’re gonna have a problem with AOC!

Edit: Guess you all missed this from last week lol

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5298119-ocasio-cortez-warns-of-problem-if-democratic-colleagues-are-arrested/

Wait, I thought she was a radical antifa liberal who infiltrated a peaceful demonstration to try and cause chaos?

You think just calling something stupid is a good argument deserving of a proper intellectual rebuttal?

I don’t think your opinion on someone’s intellect is of much value if that’s the case.

If nobody lessened their consumption habits and just switched to “vat grown meat”, that would not solve the core of the problem. While less resource intensive than farm grown meat, it’s still resource intensive.

As I said before, it can exist to fill the voids left by other solutions, but it is not a solution in and of itself. For this reason it should not be the priority as the priority should be on growing/promoting other less intensive alternatives and lessening consumption itself.

Isn’t that the usual state of affairs for westerners?

Within our current political-economic system? End subsidies for farmed meat, subsidize alternatives, and raise awareness on the issue as well as about health effects of excess meat consumption.

This will have the “push” effect of driving up farmed meat prices while having the “pull” effects of cheaper, healthier alternatives. There is nothing in particular to enforce.

Edit: and as the market on farmed meat becomes less profitable producers will leave the industry as well which leads to a sort of “spiral” as scarcity goes up, raising prices, pushing more away.

What did I say that isn’t true? I never said the energy cost of beef wasn’t huge. Quite the opposite in fact…

I think it’s far more unreasonable to go along with a genocidal regime in the name of “following laws/orders”. Where do you draw the line on that front? Is joining the IDF and activily participating in genocide fine because it’s required by law and you can’t expect others to sacrifice anything of themselves in the name of opposing genocide?

My country is literally arbitrarily detaining and deporting/imprisoning people for advocating for a free Palestine. I still go to protests.

Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!

They literally can’t comprehend radical action beyond genocide.

It is an environmental problem because the resources required to obtain the same caloric/nutritional content from meat is far higher than the alternatives. If the “better method” is better than our current method of meat production but still too intensive to maintain at scale then it doesn’t solve the problem without reducing the scale of meat consumption.

That doesn’t mean nobody can eat meat, it just means that on average people need to eat LESS meat.

Why are you so against people eating less meat? Your arguments here are akin to the “nuclear energy” bros who rag on renewables all day. Just like we can use renewables and rely on nuclear to fill any gaps, we can lessen meat consumption and rely on less intensive forms of meat production to fill the gaps.