There have been a bunch of great answers already, but I’m not seeing one important factor: soy farmers. Soy is one of the cheapest sources of protein, and there’s a lot of it grown, so the soy lobby is always trying to push new uses for it.

Yep. Jars of fibre! It’s a horrifying corporate grift, but it’s also great for chronic fatigue perverts like me who cannot spend much energy on cooking most of the time. It does help.

Shut the fuck up. Go to SE Asia and tell them nobody ate oil from crushed up seeds 150 years ago. Goddamn.

Not fascists. Fascists need expansionist military conquest for the regime to survive. When authoritarian communism goes bad, it’s able to survive by The Revolution. The Revolution justifies any act, no matter how brutal and misguided.

Fascism justifies itself through conquest and extermination of “lesser peoples”, like the Slavs or the Palestinians.

Well, that’s some blatant racism. Fascinating that Lemmy is a refuge for that. Political opponents of China, clean up your yard!

Yep, and they lost.

It really is a coincidence. The moon is slowly moving further out in its orbit, so in a few dozen million years it won’t be eclipsing properly any more. We live at a time when it’s just the right size.

I got hella freckles mate. I am doomed.

What do I do if I want to reach a high area in my roof, like ten feet above me? Hose extensions are floppy.

How did you write this? Are you a wizard?

That’s okay, the machine wants you.

The Sony Trinitron of Damocles

Yes, you are, but keep that habit alive. It is valuable.

A disappointment equivalent to Piefed.

That sucks, mate. I kinda know the feeling, I’ve got an uncle who’s a Musk bro. Poor bastard just goes quiet and looks sick whenever his politics or personal life come up, but still sees Tesla etc as this cool future corporation.

Air force and navy.

I think the point is oligarch bad.

Jesus. The immense tonal shift from his usual comics made this even darker.

Exactly. Helping organise a genocide in Myanmar, sure, that’s bad, but on the other hand, money!

So the mirror likes goth chicks.