And considering this same admin is hostile to lab grown meat this clearly isn't about animal welfare but dismantling the states capacity to do science.

What they do to monkeys is, to be clear, harmful Mengele level stuff.

But so is almost everything else we do for drug discovery, until we can recreate a complete immune system in a brainless host animal that's going to be the reality.

The future of left politics is a mix of SOE and a state directed private sector of which Willet is unprepared for.

You're laughing, Yasukuni Shrine exists while we're sold frozen 'Gyoza' at costco and you're laughing.

Time to read up on the classics I see.

The US has failed to implement regime change abroad with sanctions, but maybe they'll work at home.

He's out here building "Socialism in One City", pic unrelated.

The closest you could get would be Paine's "Agrarian Justice" as a sort of Utopian socialist proposal.

Even so we don't need to cast about for an imagined past to justify anything!

Ok this is really interesting but also 1 big reason for govt to get into low-margin businesses is that private companies may choose locations/business models for them that maximize slim margins but don't maximize people's access to essential goods/services, see also: health care

That is also true, that there are reasons beyond profit that you would want these policies, a kind of thinking we're going to need to solve the issue of rural hospital closures.

Example, the idea that state run grocery stores isn't a useful way to address costs because of low margins is something you say when you think you understand economics without checking the relevant data.