Not surprising, our gut flora love the stuff. My old microbio lecturer used to always get his class to run an experiment where people would test the growth of different types of good bacteria found in the gut using different food sources. Some would be random foods, others would be bio active drink made for the task and, ever present, was porridge (about the same thing). Porridge always won.
It also has one of, if not the lowest glycemic index of all carbs.
Facsism is just capitalism when you try to say no.
Understandably, workers didn't like capitalism. So, when they found out about socialism, many of them grouped up and tried to say no. After which, facsism was made to counter this.
So, I mean literally fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no. You only get mercan staal neo classical economics because you say yes.
Outside of small city states, capitalism came from merchantislism.
Specifically, at the intersection where merchantislism and mass dispossession/theft of people's land meet.
The only meaningful change is that the assets are now, mostly, intangible and you're allowed to move to a different parish.
Please, the Ferengi weren't forced birthers.
Its the rest of us who are Ferengi, on our good days. Those right wingers are even worse.
If only there was some kind of proven road map where countries who has been dominated by their ruling elite using the two party trick went on to form a kind of labour movement that forced a third choice on the ruling class....
I see a fair amount of online adverts that use them. Usually the kind you might get orbiting an article of some kind, just using AI images as their hook.
They call countries banana republics, from what could be described as oil and banking republics with just a small modification or two, without a hint of irony.
Honestly, i think the reason is that just the right amount of alcohol dependency is amazing for capitalism. Dont get me wrong, I'm not judging anyone. I understand and I enjoy a drink myself. I just think we need to be honest with ourselves about it.
It keeps you consuming and it makes you forget all the bullshit you had to put up with all day. It dulls your your problem solving, your creativity and (most importantly) your empathy, so supervisors, middle managers, department managers and execs are less disinclined not to beat down on those below them.
I'm not saying its some grand conspiracy. I'm saying, those in power have known exactly the right drugs to administer to the masses in order to placate them. The Romans knew to give wine and not cannabis. The British army knew to give rum & brandy but not weed.
In fact, all of them were legal. Then, capitalism really took off and, totally unrelated in sure, every drug other than alcohol suddenly became illegal.
Of course I beleive in you. If you didn't already know that, then I'm sorry for letting you down.
Instead, how about afterwards I give you a hug and we work on helping you beleive in yourself?
Nice try but all I did was play you at you own game, for which you called me a troll without a hint of irony or self awareness.
You won't quote them because that wasn't what was said and you can't defend the ridiculouly sunderstanded nonsense you came out with. So, you choose to run away instead.
You made yourself look like a clown right there. If that's not what you meant to do, you should do different things in the future.
Well, you answered while evading you own answer. I don't remember saying that you did any of those thing. Perhaps you could remind me of when I did?
What answer do you want there? What would make you be happy about what was said? You clearly have a problem here. So, why woman or man up and state it?
Can you quote where I said your question was an attack on positive masculinity? Its just that, without that, ita going to look like a terribly bad faith and desperate twisting of something that wasn't close to what was said.
For me, it kept a lot of the worst of the idiots away from places like reddit.
As soon as xitter got bad, lots of them left. You see, those kinds of weaponsied, unhigned right wingers are so repulsive to be around, they can't even stand each other. More so, they dont even want to have a conversation or an exchange of ideas. They literally just want to rant at people, parroting the lines they read somewhere else at anyone they think disagrees with them.
If everyone agrees with you, you have no one to rant at.