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posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 02 2017, @06:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the swine-version-of-the-universe-championships dept.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims that Cambodian farmers are breeding "double-muscled" pigs. "Double-muscled" refers to a mutation in the myostatin gene (MSTN) which normally keeps muscle growth in check. Disruption of MSTN can lead to the abnormal proliferation of muscle cells in an organism:

Mutant pigs bred to grow to an enormous size just to be slaughtered and eaten? No, we aren't talking about the plot of the eye-opening Netflix sensation Okja—rather, this is the very real horror that seems to be unfolding on a Cambodian farm, where genetically altered pigs are being bred to develop heaping knots of muscle mass. Disturbing video footage and images captured on the farm have exploded around the web, sparking discussions about the many ways that animals suffer and are abused when they're treated as nothing more than "food."

[...] When South Korean and Chinese scientists created 32 double-muscled piglets in 2015, according to reports, only one was considered even marginally healthy. But pigs suffer even without this "Frankenscience"—on typical pig farms, their tails are cut off, their sensitive teeth are ground down, and the males are castrated, all without so much as an aspirin. Then, even though we have a wealth of nutritious plant-based foods to eat, these intelligent, playful, sociable animals' throats are slit and their bodies are turned into pork chops or sausages.

Breeders have exploited natural double-muscling, which occurs in Belgian Blue cattle, to create behemoth animals who suffer from a slew of health problems—just to yield slightly larger profits.

[Note: On Google News, only corroborating sources seem to be British tabloids right now]

Previously: "Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification
Scientists Create Extra-Muscular Beagles


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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by lx on Monday October 02 2017, @07:22AM (25 children)

    by lx (1915) on Monday October 02 2017, @07:22AM (#575795)

    Anti Semitic , --check
    Vegetarian leanings, --check

    OMG It's Hitler!

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:29AM (23 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:29AM (#575797)

    The OP acknowledged power to the Jews, above all other than the so-called "white man". I don't think you can get away with calling the OP anti-Semitic.

    Most Jews I've met, in America anyway, do consider themselves to be white, but now I wonder. Are Jews white?

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by c0lo on Monday October 02 2017, @07:51AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @07:51AM (#575803) Journal

      Are Jews white?

      See Beta jews [wikipedia.org]

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:52AM (19 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:52AM (#575805)

      Most Jews I've met, in America anyway, do consider themselves to be white, but now I wonder. Are Jews white?

      And now it hits me, do most whites think that they are the chosen people? No wonder the Nazis and Neo-Nazis, and Eth, and khallow, all hate the Jews! They resent the claim of superiority! And this is why we cannot have White supremacy. Jews actually are superior.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:06AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:06AM (#575809)

        Whites think they are Christian, and that Christians are the chosen people; Jews, irritatingly, scoff at Christians.

        I don't know where you get "Jews actually are superior". Up until about 250 years ago, most Jews were Sephardic (e.g., not much different from the gypsies). Around that time, German Jews, who have quite a bit of German DNA, and a majority of German culture, began their rise, and are now the vast majority of Jews, known as Ashkenazis…Yiddish is a dialect of High German, and both modern Jews and Germans value education, hard work, and stereotypical penny-pinching.

        If the Jews actually are superior, it's only because they are more German than Jew. Makes you wonder about the "master" race...

        • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:50AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:50AM (#575823)

          The only way Jews could be superior is if they were part German? I take it you do not know that many pure Germans. Take Arnold, and just know that he is above average intelligence. Germans are not too smart, in fact, really dumb. Defeated by the French, for God's sake, more than once? If anything, what makes the Jews of Wiemar Germany superior has to be their Jewish ancestry, since the German part is really, really, dummkopf.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by anubi on Monday October 02 2017, @12:02PM (15 children)

        by anubi (2828) on Monday October 02 2017, @12:02PM (#575862) Journal

        One of the big draws of religions is that each one teaches *it* is the *true* faith, its devotees are the Chosen People of God.

        Anyone who has read Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" knows how dangerous this meme can get if one comes to the belief he has been ordered to do something by God.

        This meme is just as dangerous in an ignorant public as a computer virus is among unpatched machines. It will spread like wildfire, executing the commands of some "neural hacker" aka "evangelist", "imam", "shaman", or anyone else proclaiming themselves as God's special representative.

        I have pontificated spirituality on these forums before, but even my own readings of the Bible seem full of warnings that this kind of thing will happen, and watch out for it.

        I do not believe I have committed any sin in the eyes of God by bringing it up; actually I feel compelled to post. I feel I am doing His work by pointing it out.

        Jesus himself, if you are so inclined to believe, also had run-ins with religious leaders. I have had run-ins as well. I think most of us have. Some have caused us a lot of problems, sometimes setting whole nations on retrograde courses. Because we apparently have been trained from birth that we are to be subordinate to "leaders". If we are not watchful, or "leaders" will sell our souls to enrich themselves at our expense. Also known as "Tragedy of the Commons".

        I have heard it said that politicians and diapers need to be changed frequently. For the same reason. I could not agree more. But we have got a major problem over which people are pre-selected for us to choose from. We are not fixing the USA until we address this.

        Political systems have been unstable from the get-go. Always have been. Bible's full of tales of how unstable human governments are. I guess it is part of the human condition. Probably always will be. I guess there are some things we simply cannot control. We may try and *think* we have it down pat, turn our back for a second, and the whole thing is a mess.

        One of the particularly nasty things recorded in history is when the governing elite have the physical means to enslave the populace... and I know a lot of us are wise to this, hence the anti gun control faction, as we know we are quite vulnerable to enslavement if only Government elite have the power to inflict physical harm.

        Anybody who can not defend themselves is ripe to be bullied. Unm, how about those pigs? They can't defend themselves either. Look what's happening to them.

        Don't think it can happen to us? It's already happening. I have hundreds of homeless people living a mile from me now. We are getting them thoroughly dependent on the Government dole.

        One good economic collapse, and we have all sorts of people out there who are not used to doing anything useful in society, all they know how to do is take. I see a helluva big problem brewing.

        My tagline pretty well sums up my take on the whole thing, penned almost two thousand years ago.

        --
        "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday October 02 2017, @02:09PM (1 child)

          by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday October 02 2017, @02:09PM (#575896) Journal

          This meme is just as dangerous in an ignorant public as a computer virus is among unpatched machines.

          The key difference, of course, is that we are able to patch security holes in software, but it's a hell of a lot harder (if not impossible) to do it on brains.
          Over the years I have come to view advertising as the science of exploiting these unpatchable vulnerabilities.

          • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by anubi on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:59AM

            by anubi (2828) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:59AM (#576447) Journal

            For the human brain, education ( especially sites like this ), studies of critical thinking, and pure old common sense go a long way toward making one more immune to manipulation.

            I post this in the hope it does someone else good, as some friends and counselors to me showed me a few things which explained the human nature of the "controlling class", which were quite foreign to me, as a member of the "working class".

            Their guidance led me to understand completely new paradigms as to why boss-types were the way they are, and how businesses and religions manipulate people.

            Ignorance is sometimes bliss, as people having insight into manipulation by others are often seen as not being a "team player". Ever heard management types refer to "leading" engineers to be analogous to herding cats? By our very makeup and psychological type, we self-select ourselves to go into this line of work.

            Knowledge and intelligence seems to lead to insubordination when the giver of orders is evaluated as incompetent. I often will not do things just because someone else does it or tells me to do it. I see other factors, which can override "chains of command". Order-givers simply cannot tolerate this characteristic in subordinates.

            I see a lot of advertising almost as psychological warfare; the art of laying guilt trips if someone who has purchasing power to buy something fails to do so. Any parent can cite numerous examples.

            Or our need to "be one of the group". Advertiser-backed "trendsetters" define the path for "what's in" and "what's not", forcing us to continuously buy un-necessary stuff just to be accepted by "the in-crowd". Being left out is every bit as painful as the "Christian Ghosting", whose practice makes me extremely leery of organized religion. Advertisers will use that need of us to be accepted into a peer group to their advantage. Just find weak willed ones for use as a "Judas Horse".

            You may recognize what someone else is doing, but if you lack the ability to communicate with a person feeling under someone else's authority, its either take the shafting as well, or leave.

            Why we so easily subordinate ourselves puzzles me. Even that meme is discussed in the Bible. Start at 1 Samuel around verse 10 or so.

            Hopefully, no one will mind if I post this wordy off-topic rant onto this pig topic. SoylentNews in my primary blog site where I leave a lot of rants. I tell my friends or possible business associates that if they want to know more about what makes me tick, come over here and do a search under my username.

            --
            "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Grishnakh on Monday October 02 2017, @02:39PM (3 children)

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday October 02 2017, @02:39PM (#575909)

          If we are not watchful, or "leaders" will sell our souls to enrich themselves at our expense. Also known as "Tragedy of the Commons".

          Interesting post, however I have to disagree on the "Tragedy of the Commons" bit you have here: that's the wrong term. The term you're looking for here is "corruption".

          "Tragedy of the Commons" is something entirely different, and doesn't involve any leaders at all (really, it's caused by a lack of sound leadership). Basically it's when a bunch of people of equal standing deplete a common shared resource because they're all too greedy. The name comes from some public grounds in England I think, where people were allowed to graze their sheep. But the problem was that there was only so much ground and grass, and too many people with sheep wanted to use it, so they overused it and then the grass was all dead and no one could graze their sheep there any more. The whole idea is that individuals, all acting in their own self-interest (or selfish interest), won't work together to best manage a shared resource, and will ruin it, in the absence of leadership which manages the resource.

          One good economic collapse, and we have all sorts of people out there who are not used to doing anything useful in society

          That's most of society these days: various paper-pushers whose jobs are ripe for automation, all their layers of management, plus HR workers and managers. None of them really do much useful work.

          • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @03:52PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @03:52PM (#575939)

            Logical arguments and centuries of history have taught us that such leadership should take the form of strong private property rights for each individual.

          • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by anubi on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:27AM (1 child)

            by anubi (2828) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:27AM (#576458) Journal

            I meant "Tragedy of the Commons" in the sense that those financially empowered to buy things ( housing, patent and copyright, water, mineral, food, etc. ) for the purpose of rent-seeking, generating yet more and more money to do more of the same.

            A real live monopoly game. Its like carrying a tray of water... the slightest imbalance and all the water goes to the heavy side, making it more and more so. An inherently unstable system.

            Enabled people will often do this, regardless as to how that kind of activity economically drains the rest of the people for the enrichment of the one doing it.

            The definition of "Tragedy of the Commons" you stated is exactly the one I had in mind as well. I was extending it to financial commons.

            While I believe patent/copyright is necessary *for a limited time*, it has grown to absurdity. With most copyright to the point of absurd unenforceability. The most egregious example I can think off off the bat is those epi-pens. Many other "artificial monopolies" are "turf wars" which rely on governmentally-granted law to enforce.

            Personally, I consider a "natural monopoly" to be the only kind of monopoly that should exist... that is, say, I have a light bulb manufacturing plant, which is only economically viable if I make a million light bulbs a day, and sell them for a dime each. No one else can make 'em that cheap, and even if they did buy another plant, the market isn't big enough for both of us to make a profit, so as long as I make a lot of bulbs cheap, I am the only one on the planet making this particular light bulb. Raise my price, then others will start making them too. This places a check on me that I give the public a good price, but should I abuse my monopoly, someone else will enter the fray.

            Economics, not law, guides this.

            --
            "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
            • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:17PM

              by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:17PM (#576617)

              I'm sorry, but you have your definitions wrong. Tragedy of the Commons is an actual term in economics, and it's not what you're describing. There's a Wikipedia page about it that you should read. You're right about monopolies, but it just isn't related to rent-seeking and monopolization at all. It's an entirely different phenomenon.

              As for natural monopolies, again you're misusing the term. A natural monopoly is something where it's plainly infeasible to have competition; the typical example is a municipal water and sewer system. You can't have 15 different sewer systems running under the city streets. This isn't the case with light bulbs, and things there just don't work the way you say at all; in the real world, the one company making that thing will jack up their prices because the barrier to entry for would-be competitors is significant (it takes a lot of money to tool up a factory), so the bulbs won't be that cheap.

        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by HiThere on Monday October 02 2017, @05:00PM (4 children)

          by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @05:00PM (#575979) Journal

          You've misidentified the "tragedy of the commons". The tragedy of the commons is that when there is a shared resource that is beneficially consumed by everyone, there is always a limit on the rate of consumption before it becomes degraded. But it will often benefit each individual to consume more than their fair share of that limit.

          The example is taken from a shared village pasture that can safely graze one sheep (or cow, or whatever) from each family, but which will degrade if an extra animal is grazed. But the amount of degradation is sufficiently minimal that it will still benefit any particular family the graze more than one animal.

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          Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
          • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:12PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:12PM (#576150)

            You've identified the accepted interpretation of the term.
            Grishnakh did a good job on this, a bit before you.

            Neither of you, however, mentioned that the concept didn't exist before it was invented as propaganda by Capitalists, after the Enclosure Acts of the 1600s (which privatized land ownership of what had previously been The Commons), synchronous with the explosion of Capitalism.

            Up to that point, The Commons had worked just fine, thank you very much.

            .
            anubi also included a howler when he mentioned The Bible containing History.
            There's a bunch of stuff in there that is so outrageous that you would think that a legit historian would have mentioned that stuff in his work.

            As an example there's Herod's massacre of the innocents. [skepticink.com]

            -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

            • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:14AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:14AM (#576397)

              > Up to that point, The Commons had worked just fine,

              Have to call you out on this one -- I'm pretty sure that the Romans ran themselves out of firewood in the later stages of their empire. Well before 1600...

            • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by anubi on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:53AM (1 child)

              by anubi (2828) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:53AM (#576466) Journal

              The concept of land ownership is all over the Bible... Old Testament is full of it.

              It seemed transfer of ownership was most readily performed by "smiting with the sword".

              Thanks for the link, Original... There are a lot of places historian's accounts differ. I think its all the meme about "He who controls the past controls the future" and those in control have been known to edit the records of the past. I will not pick bones with anyone on the concept of which is more historically accurate - I have no way of knowing - all I can do is thank them for introducing another set of independently arrived-at research. I give more credence to historians than to leadership types - as leadership types ( political or religious ) have a dog in the fight and are apt to tamper with the evidence.

              Oh yes, there are a *LOT* of howlers in the Bible. If one listens to preachers, it seems all about faith, giving, tithes, and hell and brimstone for those who resist. There is a helluva lot more in there than that.

              Look at Luke 16 versus 1-9 [google.com], otherwise known as "the parable of the shrewd manager". Talk about screwing your boss!

              I see the Bible more as a book about ethics and the human condition than exact history. Many people believed to be inspired by God wrote this thing. However, its also been finely cherry-picked by the Church as to what is to be included and what's not.

              Fun Fact... Balaam had a talking ass! [google.com]

              --
              "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:26AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:26AM (#576478)

                I hadn't heard that one.
                It's right up my alley. 8-)

                -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

        • (Score: 2, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 02 2017, @06:03PM (3 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday October 02 2017, @06:03PM (#576038) Journal

          Uh...if you're a Christian, you don't exactly have the moral high ground here. Your God runs an endless, eternal, inescapable concentration camp full of fear, fire, pain, torture, and suffering for nonbelievers, i.e., political prisoners. He is literally infinite Hitler, combined with a dash of Kim {Il Sung/Jong Il/Jong Un}'s "worship me!" narcissism.

          Wasn't there some passage in that anthology of yours about not giving your neighbor grief for the speck in his eye before you pull the beam out of yours?

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:43PM (#576068)

            "Uh...if you're a Christian, you don't exactly have the moral high ground here. Your God runs an endless, eternal, inescapable concentration camp full of fear, fire, pain, torture, and suffering for nonbelievers, i.e., political prisoners. He is literally infinite Hitler, combined with a dash of Kim {Il Sung/Jong Il/Jong Un}'s "worship me!" narcissism."

            God runs heaven. The Devil runs hell. If you are going to argue against religion, at least get the basics right. Unless you consider heaven "hell", but even then, your post makes little sense.

            • (Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 02 2017, @09:12PM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:12PM (#576196) Journal

              ...uh, no. No, the Devil does not run jack shit. It's a pop-culture trope that Satan is sitting on a throne of red-hot skeletons in Hell or something, but if you ACTUALLY READ THE GODDAMN BIBLE, you will see references to "...the fire prepared for the Devil and his angels" (Mt. 25:46) and various places in Revelation. Do your research before you post.

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:46AM

            by anubi (2828) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:46AM (#576484) Journal

            The Bible is a strange book... full of metaphor and symbolism. Different people seem to arrive at different interpretations. Who am I to disagree?

            I have my own interpretation ( which has got me into hot water with preachers ) of John 1:1 which states "In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.".

            Something snapped in me when I read that.

            I parsed it thus: God is the very laws of physics under which everything operates. Those laws were in operation before the Universe existed. They will exist after the Universe burns out... that is if it does. Everything operates subject to those laws. The law is not a respecter of persons. If there is a hell, its when the Universe collapses back upon itself, and everything supposedly vanishes back into the nothingness from which it apparently became. "Let there be Light" is another word for "The Big Bang".

            Admittedly, I place the highest regard for what I consider God's law... the Laws of Physics. Math. Disrespect for that Law will certainly lead to my ruin.

            Seems like it is us that form this existence into what we perceive it to be.. not only do we do it to ourselves, we do it to everyone else as well. We have made both a paradise and a hell. We have a tendency to gravitate toward one or the other.

            I have to admit my ignorance on how to actually *communicate* with the laws of physics. I just try my best to understand them so the stuff I make will work as intended. I feel I am terribly naive to think I have more intelligence than something which fomented the creation of the universe. I feel more like comparing me as an ant to a human is more the scale, but even that is being quite generous to me. I *seriously* believe I could not possibly annoy God as much as an ant can annoy me. Even if I set doing that as my whole life objective.

            Tinfoil hat time ... I also have a strong suspicion that we are planted here ... Sumerians ... Ezekiel ... by a people of significant technological advancement that we have yet to accomplish. Maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

            I get the idea the books were written by men as leadership instruments. Some men were in the know about physical law and how stuff works. Even down to what is edible and what should be shunned. "Worshipping God", so to speak. Others degraded into what we would call foolish activity, failing to do the things we need to do to survive.. "Baal Worshippers". Spend their time in wine and song and fail to prepare for the winter. Eat stuff that isn't good for you. Doing things that are gonna get you in trouble with your neighbor.

            I believe we all are the "Children of God", while collectively we may well be the vessels in which God himself resides. I cannot explain consciousness, nor intelligence, nor explain how what looks like such simple things are capable of such profound things. Things like how my cat came from one tiny fertilized cell I can barely see with my microscope, yet that tiny cell it started as grew up into a momma cat that knows how to raise kittens.

            Take the above with large grain of salt. I WASN'T THERE. How would I know? Above is just a core dump of what's in me right now. That could change as I integrate more data.

            --
            "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:20AM (#576352)

        And now it hits me, do most whites think that they are the chosen people?

        Some of them sure do. [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by jmorris on Monday October 02 2017, @04:09PM (1 child)

      by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 02 2017, @04:09PM (#575947)

      Most Jews I've met, in America anyway, do consider themselves to be white, but now I wonder. Are Jews white?

      Yes. And No. American and most Western Jews are always quantum beings. One minute they are a fellow white guy explaining why whatever you wanted to do is "not in keeping with our values" or otherwise trying to blend in as the enemy within and the next day that are playing the Jew card. They know it is important for most to stay "white" most of the time lest people notice them.

      They really DO have an outsized control over the country. Did ya notice how fast the system went into full overreaction when CNN threatened to dox that 4chan kid? It wasn't for what they said he did, it was the poster size graphic he was circulating showing everybody at CNN / Warner who is a Jew. There are other posters out there for NBC / Comcast and Fox. The problem was the reaction was so kneejerk it threatened to Streisand Effect the whole thing so somebody higher up with a brain squashed the witch hunt. The control is pretty much incontestable, boardroom to on screen talent to writers and producers. No story is going on the air that doesn't advance their cause.

      It was bad before, but the rebirth of Israel seems to have made it worse. The Diaspora Jews split, the saner ones went home and we got left with the most hard core Communist ones. But I doubt it could be truly said that, even before, that most Jews living in America were truly Americans, considering their primary loyalty as America. Jews are loyal to Jews, period. Any decision will be decided based on "Is this good for the Jews?" instead of "Is this policy good for America?" The Diaspora has exerted mighty evolutionary pressure to create that mindset, any who didn't exhibit it got assimilated long ago into whatever culture they were living in.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:34PM (#576060)

        Everything you're saying can be applied to every other group just as well. Everyone from Catholics and Muslims to Protestants have spotty allegiances they themselves have a hard time recognizing at times. e.g. The Protestant agenda has especially screwed the US in trade and industry by constantly reorienting foreign policy in favor of Europe. They compete against the US on everything except grain; They don't need American tech; They buy their fuel from the Arabs and Russians. And yet, when a US business talks about going global, they first look towards Europe and the UK. This is the result of decades worth of state department pouring resources into Europe despite the little value it presents to America. How many trillions went into keeping Europe out of German and Russian hands only to see them becoming a socialist common market regardless? If a fraction of that money would have been spent on a few Asian and African countries, maybe China wouldn't have owned the US now.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @12:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @12:45PM (#575873)

    Wait. Does this mean that Aryans aren't white?