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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by krastanov on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:07AM (#35356687)
Populism is part of democracy and some people even like it. But riling up your voter base to be excited about one bombastic law without (1) considering second order effects or (2) talking about what might be more pressing but unpopular problems, is not something I (and, seemingly, OP) like. And this does not even go into the usual malicious uses of populism.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by dangwhy on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:30AM (#35357012)
> riling up your voter base

But where did you get that this happened in italy . I didn't see that in the bbc article.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by actionfromafar on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:49AM (#35358086)
Are saying this is not supposed to rile up the user base, or not that the law is in Italy?
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by ChrisRR on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:08AM (#35358361)
The title?
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by timeon on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:14AM (#35358455)
You went from:

> sorry but how is this different from just democracy

to:

> But where did you get that this happened

Which seems like example of moving the goal-post.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by dangwhy on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:29AM (#35358672)
how is it moving goal posts. gp's response as i understood is that this has something to do with 'riling up' which makes it 'populism' ( vs democracy) . I am asking where they got there was any 'riling up' involved in this case.

I guess i don't really understand 'riling up' means.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by marcosdumay on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:22PM (#35360316)
> Populism is part of democracy and some people even like it.

Populism is how people react to democracy failures. It happens when people are disenfranchised.

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