So what’s your solution? Do nothing and let the fascists take over?

Don’t fall for the misdirection. Sure, vote. But don’t belive it changes anything.

Start a revolution that will (at best) get put down quickly and nothing changes?

Take the occupy wall street approach, not the BLM approach.

The only way to really show force is to do a general strike, but no one has the community support networks to outlast the capital class to get shit done.

Yes yes yes. A one day strike. A one hour strike. A Japanese bus driver refuse fares strike (if applicable).

So for now, we either vote to keep shit from spiralling

My disillusion sees this as both easy to do and damaging because that’s all people do once every 4 years. Dur. I did my part, I voted.

Spoken from a place of privilege, where the consequences of your choice don’t affect those around you.

You don’t need privilege to observe when your vote doesn’t matter.

It matters to me who wins and loses, because one person winning means the rest of us lose and may not have a chance again.

It doesn’t matter who wins or loses because the corporatocracy wins if the wheel lands on red or blue.

I have people I love who may not have rights in a year or two depending on how things play out.

Misdirection again, although this time with serious side effects. The bigger the difference between the parties in social policies, the smaller the difference in economic policies. Corporatocracy wins either way.

I appreciate that you are defending your raw pork munching culture, but I’ve provided various links demonstrating that it’s not my ass that is talking.

Very strong argument. I don’t disagree. I would also add corporate sponsored lobbying into the picture you painted.

In swing states you certainly have a point.

In a state that is deeply one colour or the other, you don’t need every vote.

It shows that the regulators in Germany are not as good as you claim.

Counter opinion.

Win, lose, it doesn’t matter.

Voting is a pressure release valve that allows the status quo to exist.

It tricks the population into thinking it has an ounce of control over a country that serves it corporations

Voting is misdirection of the masses. It’s the wrong answer to the wrong question.

While you are directing your anger at the citizen voters on the other team, or the people not voting, the lobbyists are the people with the real greenbacked votes that actually count.

It is serious.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2017/05/19/Two-outbreaks-of-Salmonella-linked-to-German-pig-farms

Let’s take an extreme example.

Does a Democrat vote in Wyoming or West Virginia really make a difference?

50% of people in (East?) Germany, and I listed the existing serious effects above.

And no newspapers on heads.

Voting had never worked for me. I’ve always lived in places with large majorities.

Incorrect.

Yes, healthy people hardly ever notice the disease. However, the infection can have serious consequences for them if their immune system is weakened, for example if they have an organ transplant or if they contract AIDS. The parasite can then become active again and cause brain inflammation.

If the mother becomes infected with this pathogen during pregnancy, it can be transmitted to the unborn child, and the unborn child also becomes infected and suffers developmental disorders. This leads to the unborn child being born deformed or a miscarriage occurring.

No-one will stop you eating raw pork in Italy, UK and Spain.

No-one will join you either.

Excel Esport?

Do Germans love cats twice as much, or can we assume raw pork is also a factor?

Thanks. I’d love to know the inside story around those few days. I hope it surfaces in the near future.

Yeah. Everything is soup with a good enough blender.

Not strong slavery. Never mention the word.

But make it so if you didn’t play along then you would be cared for if you fell ill. Or you couldn’t get food. And you could only level up if you passed the right exams.

Make sure the highest slave owner pays a different kind of tax to the others at a much lower rate.

Make sure ownership can be inherited with relative ease.

Wow. Half of Germans have the parasite Toxoplasma gondii

Noone here is planning to inject hydrogen into existing pipelines.

Ok. Not you. But lots of people elsewhere in this thread.

If anything, synthesising methane during the transition so that consumers only have to switch their burners once, from nat gas to hydrogen, and not first to nat gas + more hydrogen and then to pure hydrogen.

Agree. Burning hydrogen has to be done carefully to avoid NOx and other side effects.

And that’s not even clear yet, hydrogen pipes will even be a thing for private consumers.

Agreed.

Industrial green hydrogen is a necessity to remove fossil fuels. Residential hydrogen I am very sceptical about. Even 100% clean fuel cells burn too hot for domestic heating.