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.

Wait, they poisoned bacon? And the US isn’t in revolution right now?

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!

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?

A disappointment equivalent to Piefed.

Air force and navy.

I think the point is oligarch bad.

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