In the face of spiking costs/shrinking supply, closing processing plants is reasonable. It's a symptom of a broader problem coming down the supply chain. This is a natural domino-effect. Those egg price spikes from a couple news cycles ago are the bleeding edge of the chicken shortage shutting down plants now.
Chicken shortages, though? That's where you start theorizing.
Look into the large culls in chicken flocks (ostensibly to stop avian flu) as well as reports of tainted feed which keeps hens from laying back in February. You know, the news items that coincided with the peer reviewed 2021 Chinese study that egg proteins help boost Covid resistance-- that theory the AP's deboonked.
Nothing to see here. Get into your pod and have some more bugs.
The way the Mottes are placed, even 'retreating' from an outrageous position still gains ground. Every Motte is just a little more to the left. You can watch them ratcheting the Overton Window if you pay attention long enough.
The clapping seals won't and useful idiots don't, of course. The rest of us, though...
They were gunning for Vermont at one point, too: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/31/building-zion-controversial-plan-mormon-inspired-city-vermont
I can't say I'm impressed.
Hand in hand with 'drag queen story hours' and 'transing kids' is the Social-Emotional Learning push, which is the name Maoists use for 'grooming kids into being a red guard.'
The cultural revolution is on its way to America and you can see the bleeding red edge of it in our classrooms.
The Cuban exile population in places like Miami is full of anti-communists and opponents of the Cuban regime. They oppose and 'nope out' of leftist indoctrination, since it's ruined their homeland in living memory. 'Once burned, twice shy,' as they say.
Since the Castro's were cause celebre among the left (See Justin Castro, up in Cannukistan) that particular segment of the Latino demographic skew right and Catholic in statistically significant ways.
It's a powerful ethnic voting block in Florida as a result.
You'd think that, but this was also Britain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSaZcTiIR8
tl;dw: Brits lined up to kill their dogs during world war II. Killing kittens would be in character for the UK.
James Lindsay would point out that this is Gnostic practice. Usually it's done through rhetorical framing or pre-emptively poisoning the well to back your opponent into a rhetorical corner. That's how the left writes the right's script before they realize the next escalation of the dialectic.
This is a disinfo seed being sown, knowing that the efforts to root it out cannot possibly catch everywhere it went. The 'Day of Hate' headlines will penetrate normie subconsciousness deeper than the hoax callouts. The callouts will be forgotten and then the 'Day of Hate' will become the basis for a mandela effect of 'wasn't that a thing?' years from now, when organized resistance to clown world escalates.
Digra was all about citogenesis and creating expertise on gaming to be cited elsewhere. If anything, it revealed that the academics were providing talking points and intellectual safe harbor to the exact same brand of leftist agitprop that we were fighting in games media.
Activists in two fields, both of which happen to be left fields!? Color me surprised!
I did a quick web search and am not shocked that they still host conferences and peer-review their own farts.
Hell, you can go to Digra's wikipedia page for a cameo by Carl Benjamin: Spoopy Sargon & Gamer Gate, oh my!
Ah, wikipedia, where the winners don't write the history, the perpetually online do! (Donate plox!)
I mostly see reflections of it in reporting by Clownfish and Eric July. The Joker 'male pregnancy' story that made it into the back of a 'regular' book speaks to what's going on.
I think it's mostly the unhealthy industry stuff: no sales numbers, slowdown of payments to comic book artists (which included DC and Marvel, but Disney being in better financial health than WB insulates the other member of the 'big two') and I recall (perhaps erroneous) speculation about DC shutting down its in-house comic production in favor of licensing the characters to third parties. WB being in financial straights really puts the vice on loss-leaders like DC comics.
I mean. I had doubted your ability to confabulate a reason.
I apologize. I should not have doubted.
I'm sure you have evidence of Rowling doing such a thing-- or will you assert that it all done with laundered money, so she can get the ego boost without all that pesky evidence?
How many of those are to South Korean bot farms?
I dunno-- how do you even monetize a Harry Potter Legacy bot? Botting is supposed to make money-- and buying 10 odd million copies of a single player game seems like a quick way to lose money, not make it.
I've been following the DC comic implosion, as well as the HBO Max lawsuits regarding contracts which guaranteed box office percentages being undercut by streaming releases. I noted the DC film universe self-destructing as well.
These are all wilting leaves springing from the dying WB tree.
There's a whole lot of worldly churches out there.
Christians should know who the master of the world is and react accordingly.