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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by starkd on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:11AM (#32962260)
"a couple of the main things that goverments are for: to do violence and tax externalities"

huh? Maybe in authoritarian countries, but not in countries whose constitutions are geared for individual liberty. Your fascist tendencies are showing.

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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by Bakary on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:32AM (#32962433)
A country with a constitution that is geared like this is still using violence or the implied threat of it to guarantee these rights or even private property in general.
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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:24AM (#32962373)
What? It's the people that focus really hard on individual liberty that call government action violence, my dude.
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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by starkd on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:31AM (#32962427)
Only when government action infringes on what they want to eat, dude.
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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:43AM (#32962539)
That depends on whether you consider taxing externalities to be infringement.

I definitely don't. Taxing externalities is great and not fascist.

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