I don't think I've ever seen someone use a ";" followed by "&", but this isn't formal writing, so I don't think it's incorrect. It's just very unusual.

the wreck of the elon fitzgerald

I've been trying to get this going for years. I think of ~the internet ~ as its own nation-state and like any territory it can be claimed

It's taking awhile to let myself get used to the idea that the shitposting and meme wars that got us to this fucking place could be the very things that get us back out.

These insults pick up a weapon that Elon wields poorly and wield it against him expertly. This dynamic:

I don't know why these insults are so good. I think because they are true and have a documentarian matter-of-factness to them.

Hasn't the global right already been laying the groundwork with their vat meat bans and their "great reset"/"eat the bugs" conspiracy theories and suchlike?

Beef and lamb are so much more harmful to the environment than other proteins that we can make a lot of headway by just encouraging people to eat more pork, chicken, and fish. Eat a pork chop once in a while instead of a steak and so on.

the meat on the plate was the only thing that tasted good. over time the ratios shifted until meat was center stage.

American culture is downstream of British culture, which traditionally didn't use spices much. then after the great depression canned veggies that were cooked by boiling was the preferred method, and that made them taste gross.

Unambiguously correct. One of the most impactful things anyone can do politically or environmentally is go vegetarian. But Americans love burger. Meat is masculine coded and in fact a big part of masculine identity for millions.

start by attacking the hidden subsidies of meat production.

restricting the import of sugar into the US effectively subsidizes production of corn syrup which coincidentally ends up subsidizing feed to livestock producers. same w/ ethanol production.

not only meat, but the whole system of grain/soy feed as well (plus all of the inputs in growing those crops)

truly a wicked problem of industry interests/transition plus consumer treatlerism

the ag-gag laws absolutely need to go. this is something where you can get farm workers onside too

I've actually tried to game out how to accomplish vegan political objectives without generating too much backlash; I think one way to do it is to repeal agricultural gag laws and then ride the backlash to impose strong animal welfare laws that have the effect of dramatically increasing meat prices

We will have better luck hacking the genes of the methane producing bacteria than getting people not to eat meat

In the Netherlands animal farming politics is also deeply racist and fascist + the islamophobia angle + the anti Cosmopolitan angle that fascists are all about + gender .. it is all so frustrating

Plus the slaugtherhouses are filled with exploited immigrants

not just in usamerica; in germany, meat politics is already explosive, partially because a lot of it is tied up with islamophobia and general xenophobia (somehow eating pork keeps getting turned into a synecdoche for Real True Germanness so even vegetarian kindergarden meals become Politics)