And so far, Biden seems to be a candidate that is able to moved further left by agitation. Keep pushing him, but we still gotta vote. He's the convincable candidate. I doubt Douglass was saying shit like "this Lincoln guy isn't perfect...let's just elect Breckinridge and get it over with"
I truly believe that Trump and MAGA are a threat, and while I consider myself pretty left, I clearly don't meet your definition. I'm willing to compromise. So tell me, what is your plan to keep to Trump out of the White House. As long as it's not starting our own genocide of everyone we disagree with (this one will be ok though because its the leftists doing the killing) and it's at least plausible, I'm game. What's your plan?
Hell yeah, we won't when we won't listen to the guy who says he'll be a dictator on day one, arrest his political rivals and sick the national guard or DOJ on members of the wrong political party. The one arguing in the multiple courts across the country that nobody can be a President if they have to worry about laws...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in Last Action Hero.
It's an older movie, but the idea is that a kid gets sucked into an action movie staring Arnold and at one point, he's trying to convince Arnold that world isn't real, so they go to a video rental place to look at the Terminator memorabilia and it's all Stallone.
Net consumption (if I'm understanding your definition here correctly), while important to the economy, gets a little weird when you think about how individual choices impact the overall economy. Technically, if I were to buy less than I'd otherwise use of something, that'd lower GDP (the standard, if very flawed, measurement of economic activity) because I wouldn't be circulating those funds among other workers. Buying more than I need actual improves the economy right up until the point we run out of the inputs for production. It's gets more confusing in a service-based economy because service workers don't technically produce any resources...instead they free up time/energy by doing things for resource producers to make more resources or they aid the process of getting those resources to the folks who want to buy them.
None of that means I disagree with you. From a resource-consumption standpoint, there's good arguments on both sides of the aisle...each new person DOES use more resources than is sustainable long-term, but we also need enough people to keep the economic engines running smoothly. A big part of why life got harder after the pandemic (and one that doesn't get talked about much) is that so many workers died or were disabled beyond the ability to work. That's part of why you see the child labor laws relaxing most in industries that were hit hardest by covid (like factory farming). It's definitely not always the moral choice to have kids, but to tie it back to OP, the state definitely has an interest in people having the right amount of them.
Because you aren't replacing yourself. It might not be net negative while you're alive (though I would be very surprised if your 'self funded" retirement wasn't helped along significantly by the tax code (either tax breaks you get for saving for retirement or tax breaks tour employer gets for matching contributions, etc) the state will outlive you and need a replacement...one you didn't contribute to the system.
The people still supporting Trump, by and large, live in an entirely different reality than the rest of us. Even among Republicans, the belief that Biden actually won the last election or that Trump has done anything wrong is strongly correlated with Fox News viewership.
The point wasn't that there might be animal parts in the food. The point was that it's ridiculous to say a term with a legal definition is a lie while advocating people replace it with a marketing term with no legal definition. But Har Har fat joke, I guess?
Vegan products claim to be free of all animal ingredients and animal by-products. The term “vegan” is not regulated by FDA but is understood to have certain meaning in the marketplace. It is possible that a trace amount of an animal product such as dairy could end up in a vegan product
No...they're specifically using antibiotics we don't need for people. It's cool if you want to advocate for veganism, but make sure you're being factually accurate when you do so if you want to be taken seriously.
They also need to worry about debris. You shoot down a missile in your airspace, it's likely gonna land in your territory...if a Russian missile killed a civilian in a NATO country right now (even under these circumstances)...well, that's a big can of worms I think we'd all like to avoid opening
Based on your other comments, it didn't seem that you were talking about the ideal of free speech, especially since you specifically mention that the joke was making fun of people who use idealized (aka 'only what they like') definitions.
And so far, Biden seems to be a candidate that is able to moved further left by agitation. Keep pushing him, but we still gotta vote. He's the convincable candidate. I doubt Douglass was saying shit like "this Lincoln guy isn't perfect...let's just elect Breckinridge and get it over with"