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Because there’s a market for it, simple as that.

There’s also plenty of vegan products that don’t directly emulate meat-based foods. Also some foods were always flexible in their ingredients, and expecting meat is just personal and cultural bias.

And Kinderschokolade for not containing even 1% of meat from real children.

They are all very prominently labeled as vegan on the front and are located in an entirely different section of the supermarket.

If those hints couldn’t save you, maybe it’s okay that you tried to try a vegan alternative for once before reigniting this culture war issue over other people having options and sometimes being catered to as well.

And those that aren’t openly and knowingly racist are still nationalist and authoritarian, of the “might makes right” variety in particular. You don’t thrive in that environment otherwise.

We all know what that’s code for. I have never been to the US in my life, and yet as a white European I’d be accosted much less than tens of millions of US citizens.

If only he was closer to his predecessors in other ways too.

Yeah this makes total sense if you never ever think about it.

No I’m sure they resisted this immensely popular thing for many months for absolutely no reason /s

No but they do like the idea of keeping their options open. There’s a reason they haven’t codified so many basic protections and relied on historical precedence and decorum instead.

And even with Trump they haven’t shown a willingness to admit their mistake and learn their lessons in this regard. They’ll write Trump off as a fluke and keep making all the same mistakes, including the repetition of many far-right talking points.

So they keep doing the same things using a dozen other excuses as they already do.

They feel like they’re winning as long as groups they don’t relate to are made to suffer even more.

That wouldn’t even help at this point. One of the openly fascist ministers would be in power by the end of the year.

This still serves their larger goal of portraying all of government (potentially representing the will of the people to some degree) as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic “strongman” attitudes, as well as the continued push for deregulation and privatisation.

Yeah “unproven” except for a decade of international research. And there’s nothing generic about it.

https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

“Uniformly happy and rich country like the US” ok lmao you’re straight trolling with this one, good job.

“If the propaganda supports Trump, why didn’t it support Hillary” because she’s not fueling right-wing extremism. No one cares about Hillary Clinton or your outdated Windows, jeez. Hope you get well soon.

The ever-increasing pressure for short-term profits which, once real growth stagnates, forces them to screw the remaining loyalists by trying to make enshittified crap look premium.

It’s a well-documented fact that there is a decades-long large scale state-sponsored effort of propagandists in St. Petersburg using bots and tens of thousands of fake accounts to push far-right propaganda narratives online which are aimed squarely at dividing western societies. They are on every platform, posing as concerned citizens, creating the illusion of a silent majority fed up with wokism or whatever the boogeyman is today. They’ve scored massive wins with their support for Brexit and MAGA, and have only doubled down on this strategy since.

So the question is, are you denying this or pretending it doesn’t matter?

I am obviously not saying it’s all Russia and things would be fine otherwise, so don’t even go there.

That’s an idiotic take fully ignorant of both history and the present.

And then CDU gets to come in and pretend they’re the people’s party, after a decade of gaslighting the public that everything else is communism and they’re the only electable alternative - despite adopting many AfD talking points and strategies, laying the groundwork for further far-right gains.

That itself is more of a symptom than the root cause.

They’ve started selling their brand to external manufacturers a while ago. A pretty strong sign where they’ve been headed.