Resentment politics, blue version.

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Everyone is demanding that somebody else go and do something.

You’re demanding Americans do something that you don’t even have the will to put into writing?

Are you asking us to rise up and overthrow our government?

Less maize and replace it with a wider variety of edible crops intended for domestic food consumption. Beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas, peanuts, alfalfa are all nitrogen fixers. We already have more soy than we know what to do with, it’s insane.

If you can’t grow plants you can’t raise bugs, either.

Please stop tempting fate holy shit

Soy and beef sectors, both of which have metastasized as a knock-on effect of oil crop subsidies.

You see, we subsidize the farming of soy because as a source of industrial oil, it’s a cash crop. But most of the plant isn’t valuable to this end, so the ruffage ends up getting used as ultra-cheap cattle feed, which results in more cattle farming (Which we already subsidize, too). And grocery shoppers will pay more for soy crisps than farmers will pay for ruffage, so it also floods store shelves. Soy and beef are both relatively high-protein products, so advertising begins emphasizing protein content.

Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it’s right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn’t have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.

I do love vintage hatchbacks. Favorite car type.

The PT Cruiser is one of the more absurd abuses of US CAFE standards, it’s technically classified as a truck to skirt around fuel economy regulations. Chrysler didn’t have the balls to just lie about their fuel economy numbers like VW did at the time.