This is a bit of a dumb question but while I hear the phrase "Eat the rich" getting tossed around a lot, is there anyone here that is actually 100% serious in the idea of "Given the opportunity, I will literally grill and devour Elon Musk's calf"

Using a throwaway because I don't want to be the guy associated with starting the cannibalism struggle session

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    You know, if I were at the BBQ and some was offered me a bite, I might consider it. The thing is that cannibalism enables prion diseases, so probably not. It's an easy way to get owned while you're winning.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      prion diseases

      Such a terrifying pathogen, with a name that sounds like a Honda model.

    • Abraxiel
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      4 years ago

      So not in favor of cannibalism, but kuru, the prison disease most commonly endemic to humans, is/was pretty much only found in the Fore, an indigenous population in Papua New Guinea. It broke out there because ritual funerary cannibalism enabled a prion likely from a random mutation to spread through the population. You won't get a prion disease if you don't consume the prion. The prion causing Kuru, like that of BSE, is mostly present in the nervous tissue of affected animals. This is one reason Kuru mostly affected women and children, who traditionally consumed the brains of the deceased.

      Long story short, you can prolly eat capitalists' brains and the only thing you'll catch is the vile, parasitic brainstorms that cause them to seek infinite accumulation. But maybe don't eat an Englishman, they had a rough bout of BSE.