What has generally passed for "Western Liberal Democracies" will largely live or die by which approach dominates.
WLD's are a once (thus far) in history event. there is nothing to guarantee they go on, nor that something like it would ever happen again.
it's worse than that, DR.
they come from cultures where the purpose of government is to determine which tribes are allowed to rape and plunder the others.
every time you give them something, they see it as weakness, as capitulation, as an admission that they have the power and you do not.
why else would you give them things?
they see it as a sign that you are weak and they are strong and that you fear them.
of course they demand more. why wouldn't they?
the failure of the west to understand that this is the standard view of most of the world and that the west is a tiny bubble of high-trust exceptionalism is what feeds this.
"if we're just nice to them, they'll learn to be like us!"
no. they think we are stupid and soft. they have zero interest in being like us. they just want to take what we have.
.Western liberal democracies lack an immune response to this type of stuff. Once that once in history WLD is destroyed, then a pretty nasty immune response will ensue.
But then, the job is done. For those in and out of the west, who hate everything about it, it’s Gone. Replaced by something far less benign.
@angie_eeee I think if one has been significantly overweight, a round of fasting may be beneficial. But beyond that, fasting is at best an exercise mimetic. Folks would be better off exercising.
🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire
It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.
Maybe we can have both.
I'm watching Clarkson's Farm, and he went to the Netherlands, the most productive agricultural nation on Earth.
It's all high-tech.
A dairy farm in the middle of a city, floating on a barge. The cows milk themselves.
Measuring soil to target fertilizer and seeds. Insane yields.
It's amazing.
.I seem to recall some neuronal tissue as well as RBC's still needing some amount of glucose. Fortunately, even under frisky fasting conditions, GNG is a thing.
I'm open to the possibility that under some intense training conditions/genotypes some carbs may be warranted. That's a far cry from "the brain is a mono-fuel organ..."
@simonmaechling . Not remotely enough traffic to attribute any of this to bots and you seem outright allergic to actually interacting with anyone, about any of this.