There's something special about seeing someone defend the Florida ban on cultured meat as "libertarian", on the grounds that it's a defensive move against hypothetical future plans to ban animal meat.
Much like trade wars, fighting bans with bans is another variant on the strategy of defeating your opponent by punching yourself in the face until they give up.
Or, as Nietzche might have said, "if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss crawls right up your asshole and eats your brain".
@cerebrate And I think we all know it's not actually about preventing an animal meat ban, it's about pandering to the kind of people who consider themselves oppressed by *somebody else* eating soy or whatever.
In the interests of avoiding abyss-gazing and preserving the remaining tatters of my soul, I make a point of trying not to assume people are lying goddamn shitweasels even when it is really simple and easy to assume that they’re lying goddamn shitweasels.
Oh, man, if I had to rely on my charitability to carry me through doing it, I wouldn't have lasted five minutes. Maybe not even one.
@cerebrate I can respect that, though I'm not quite charitable enough to follow it myself.