Always with the lame anecdotal argument that sounds like it came from a drunk idiot.
This is great! This’ll lower prices for everyone else.
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They’re actually setting up the board with some big criminal penalties for selling it. It’ll have a cross state freezing effect on the vendors as a whole and transportation through states. They’re going full drug war on it. I didn’t expect their need for cattle farmer votes to be so acute.
They don’t give a fuck about the cattle farmers votes. They care about that cattle farmers payment for their vote.
Fortunately you don’t need to go through Florida to get to many… Any… Other states.
Not long until they ban Linux!
Found one of the Lemmy people whose identity is “Linux”
It really is the socialist devil’s OS.
The alternative woke furry nerds love it.
I wanna get one of those cigarette boats and smuggle abortion pills and alternative meat into Florida and trans people out.
It’ll be black with a red racing stripe and a spoiler like the A Team van and I’ll name it the Baracus.
The fun part is the coast guard won’t care.
Can I join you? I will bring one two and we can start the freedom floatilla.
I’m so fucking sick of the Florida government. House insurance is astronomical, but they’re worried about lab-grown meat, teachers saying gay, and books.
Think of them a bit like a friend with a drug problem. They gotta ride this train all the way to the bottom before there will be any interest in change.
But why? What do they have to ban ethically-sourced meat?
Because they are free market Republicans. /s
Not destroying the planet and killing sentient beings is “woke”, so they have to oppose it.
It cuts into the meat industry’s profits and is primarily desired by liberals
Because they need to keep the kill count high otherwise some other demon will surpass them.
“Furthermore, on this day, henceforth shall it be known:
If it ain’t moo, cain’t moo, won’t moo, ain’t not never gonna moo, and can’t make you moo, then it is of the devil and shall not be permitted.
Also, the words ‘front loaf’ are not permissible descriptions of the governor’s crotchetal regions.
Let it be law. “
In fairness to them it’s not meat. Don’t ban it just label it appropriately, like sparkling protein.
How is it not meat?
It is literally meat though.
One bite and, bam, your transmexican.
Got to remember that one… It’ll come in handy for years to come!
What’s wrong with my transmexican?
Its an affront in the eyes of republijesus.
We’ll, I guess that means lab-grown meat is showing promise! I look forward to seeing it in stores.
Politics is bout ideology, value and belief. But here, it’s about making decisions by dogmatism and cult. This is a whole different level.
Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony.
What in the fuck is going on in these guys heads. I get being beholden to the cattle industry but this shit is beyond that
The same people believed margarine was a grave socialist (iirc) threat to the country and made the production and sale of that a felony. I think around a century ago. Something, something, those who neglect to learn history, something something…
They probably have their identities tied to meat consumption. That’s also a reason for the climate denialism. I recently learned about petro-masculinity and it seems very plausible to me.
They are actually that fragile.
It’s about pushing all the people who live there and disagree with the Republican agenda.
Party of small government my fucking ass. Also, isn’t the free market allowed to produce any product and compete for consumer spending? Isn’t that capitalism?
Desantis is literally pushing these laws and screaming woke while pocketing millions of dollars of “donations” from the large cattle ranching companies throughout the state. Hell, he started attacking Disney once they stopped paying him millions in bribes too. Disney’s disagreement with the dont say gay bill was the perfect excuse
No.
Capitalism is when certain industries and certain corporations amass such a market share that they are able to bribe legislatures to prohibit any competitors to their product, under force of law.
Similar to the exertion of influence by noble families under feudalism.
If our democracy has already been captured by such corporate actors, then it is difficult to imagine how “remembering to vote” could meaningfully correct such deep systemic flaw. Emigrating to Norway seems to be one of a handful of plausible remaining options
It’s all bad faith arguments. They just use it as a weapon to get their way. Although, this reeks of corporate regulatory capture.
Cool…😶
Medicine is too woke for Florida. So is meat, so are books.
Anyone have any predictions?
I feel like seat belts are going to be too woke soon for Florida.
Driving licenses altogether might be too woke.
Salads? Too woke for Florida
Florida will be full of those sovereign citizen license plates, if it’s not already.
@Varyk @zarkanian Florida is too woke for Florida. It’s all gonna come crashing down soon like a house of cards in the wind.
This reminds me that Miami has pumps running 24 hours a day to keep it from flooding.
So pumps will become woke soon and then Miami will be underwater.
Today I learned.
They should do what the Dutch did. But I wonder if that’s also too woke…?
Oh what did the dutch do?
Even before you tell me, I can confirm that anything the Dutch does is too woke for Florida.
It was something that involved books and science, so yes, it is not something Florida would ever consider. Conservatives despise books and science.
I feel like they should probably get rid of the seatbelt law… let the problem sort itself out,
The problem with this is that ambulances are a constrained resource.
Not to be too much of a dick about it… but if that’s the best reason… by all means we absolutely should.
(in reality the seat belt law has saved innumerable lives. same with warning labels. There’s a lot of dangers that are not immediately obvious.)
I agree with you, I think seatbelt laws are a positive thing. I’m just pushing back on the idea that not wearing a seatbelt only impacts the individual because it’s not true. People can and do suffer and die due to constraints on emergency resources like ambulances and ICU beds.
That’s true, but there’s a solution there that’s better for everyone- pay firemen/ems a livable wage, and maybe a bit more so they can pay off the school bills etc.
Yea, the covid deniers really helped the rational side of the population by weeding themselves out in similar circumstances
Open internet is too dangerous for our kids.
What if they learn too much?
Aaaahhh the political party of not wanting to interfere in people’s lives.
Unless you eat meat from a source that might change an industry and cause a select few individuals to be slightly less rich
Unless you masturbate and waste gods seed
Unless you love the wrong person
Unless you want to vote for the wrong person
Unless you believe in the wrong or (gasp) no god at all!
Unless you’re the wrong skin color, how dare you!
Unless you have the wrong genitals
Unless you have the wrong wrong genitals
Unless…
Anyone else notice the rules are identical to what a slave owner would want (to increase slave reproduction).
Yeah, Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t get why a slave owner would care about like 9/10 of the things on that list, though.
Fewer cis het couples = fewer babies = less profit
Reversing that, is LQBTIA+ a communist plot to make western companies have less profit?
\s (possibly)
Nature is natural
You forgot poor
Yeah, I knew I forgot about 50 more of em, but I thought the point was there, sorta…
Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois, the Republican who introduced a similar bill, HB 1071, told Politico that his major motivation is protecting the cattle industry. “Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida,” Sirois stated, adding, "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have.”
I don’t agree with him on the policy, but I’ll give him this: that’s more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I’ve seen.
Usually there’s something about how it’s potentially deadly or maybe waving around “concerns” about whether there’d be food security in a global famine or something.
By this logic, Florida should criminalize cars to protect the carriage industry
He also thinks it’s an affront to nature and creation that could lead to cloning, so yeah…
It’s also a very stupid take. If that’s what he thinks, then he should finance farms that transition from growing animals to growing whatever is needed in this more modern and civilised world, like high protein legumes and that sort of stuff used in producing new generation foods.
Wow that’s extremely anti capitalist and still sucks ass
Bravo to this guy, sucking in exactly all ways
So capitalism is bad and the government can tell me what I can and can’t buy… according to Florida legislators? Sure sounds like the republican went woke.
Republicans have never been for free market capitalism really. They just talk like they were, but in reality the only difference is that they’re corrupted by a different set of corporations.
Real free markets are too much for the voters to handle, apparently.
Well, unions are actually highly regulated in the US. It was never about “small government”, it’s about using the government as a cudgel against who they don’t like, which is practically everyone below a billion net worth, and even some above.
The whole Republican establishment agenda right now is to do the white Christian version of Sharia Law.
Oh, but don’t tell them about the house insurance rates, that’s a problem for their constituency, not them.
