• As a Belarusian, Lukashenko has been doing the “public shaming” thing for as long as I remember. This often resulted in one of directors being publicly yeeted and then silently getting a good position in government or another facilty. Usually, another boring corrupt man who wouldn’t really change anything is appointed so next year the same can be repeated. It’s just cheap populism.

    • KomradeKOP
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      Indeed. I don’t actually think he’s an “animal rights icon”, I just thought it was amusing that Lukashenko of all people was pretending to care, and also the strong language he was using.

      • Oh he pretends to care about a lot of things. It’s just the part of the image. Our nazlib opposition mocks him for it, but it’s more of a shame because of how fake it is. Like, cities would sometimes repair roads and houses around it before Lukashenko’s visit but only those he’ll be driving through.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    It’s interesting to note that, while many discourage comparing the meat industry to the Shoah, many survivors and writers have themselves compared the Shoah to the meat industry. Jack Sittsamer, for example, said that many Jews marched to the Mielec Airport ‘were herded into box cars, like cattle.’ Jacques Stroumsa summarized the Reich’s concentration camps as ‘intended to completely destroy the human personality and to reduce it to a number tattooed on the skin, like animals in a slaughterhouse.

    While I find it extremely unlikely that armed forces will end the meat industry, the increasing popularity of meat alternatives will surely reduce its size to the fringes and render it a margin of its former self (as it should be).

    • Muad'Dibber
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      Probably true. There is nothing cooler than an old person that’s vegan, but its rare.

  • Bury The Right
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    I think he sympathizes with farm animals because he can recognize the similar situation both them and commoners living in liberal capitalist regimes are subject to.

    • MarxStuff
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      172 years ago

      please comrades, do not take the ‘‘critical’’ out of ‘‘critical support’’

    • KomradeKOP
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      132 years ago

      Yep, I prefer Lukashenko over Putin. Can’t believe he was almost president of Russia, I wonder what kind of difference it would have made if it actually happened. Maybe Russia would have a lot more nationalised industry and less oligarchs.

    • @ComradeChopin@lemmygrad.ml
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      Lukashenko is as based as a non-commie leader of a Post-Soviet state can get. The whole conspiracy around Putin secretly being a commie applies way better to Lukashenko. He probably isn’t really, but he’s still miles better than Putin since he prevented Belarus from privatizing too many state assets like other Post-Soviet states and preserved many Soviet symbols. Hell, it’s for these reasons that the Communist Party of Belarus supports his government! Can Putin say the same? You think you know Lukashenko better than the commies actually living in Belarus?

      Here’s an entire book about Lukashenko and Belarus.

      https://leftypol.org/leftypol/src/1632890374571.pdf