https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1447230705902235656?t=ch-X4kg7vAU_DPykDbMRbQ&s=19
https://nitter.snopyta.org/CNN/status/1447230705902235656?t=ch-X4kg7vAU_DPykDbMRbQ&s=19
Glad to see CNN is using "the before times" unironically, that fucking owns
Yeah I've been calling it the Before Times for a while now, capitalization included.
Middle income people losing the lifestyle and the treats they were accustomed to and feel entitled to? This can have some really, really nasty political consequences.
Petty bourgeois are the backbone of fascism. But the regular bourgeois always support it over communism, too.
Seconding this.
While it is true there are reactionary people in working class Appalachia, I have found most of these lot to be very good people. The left just needs to get better at talking to people, I am very guilty of this.
It's the comfy suburban republicans and even some girlboss democrats you need to look out for. I've noticed a lot of suburban hogs really only care about trying to trick people into thinking they're a badass, so that's why they PRETEND to be rednecks. They'll buy pickup trucks they don't need to drive to their cushy office job that contributes nothing to society, but it would be worth it if someone mistook them for a tough guy upon watching them roll coal on a cyclist for daring to make them question their mindless consumerism for even a millisecond. They'll make all sorts of threats on Facebook or :le-pol-face: for the sole purpose of digital masturbation. One quick look at the comments under your local paper is a good way to find them. Fascism suits them perfectly, what they're doing is evil, they know it's evil, but they just can't help themselves because a steady diet of lead poisoning and Rush Limbaugh taught them that supervillains are SOOOO HARDCORE, and maybe then some loser somewhere might think they're cool.
Sorry for the ramblings, these lot piss me off and I can't believe I ever confused them for rednecks, who are usually pretty cool.
One of the most exquisite joys of being no class hillbilly trash is making fox news rednecks visibly uncomfortable purely by existing near their eyeballs
Could we at least have Applebee’s instead of Chili’s?
No but it has half off boneless wings after 10 and cheap cocktails
Yeah, half priced appetizers after 10pm. It’s definitely at the one in my town, I’m pretty sure it’s a universal thing for Applebee’s though. And most of their food is gross but the appetizers are pretty good, I’m a big fan of the honey bbq boneless wings
chuckling to myself as I look at the row of 50 different out-of-stock chip options because at least i'm not in communist cuba where the shelves are well-stocked with only a single brand
I WILL KILL EVERYONE I SEE UNTIL I CAN BUY THE LIMITED EDITION GINGERBREAD FLAVORED MOUNTAIN DEW! :frothingfash:
I swung by a "mini" Target the other day and was reminded just how dumb modern grocery stores / the whole "consumer choice" thing is. The entire store is like 1/5th the size of the regular grocery store down the street, and it has probably 95% of the things that 95% of people need for a grocery store, plus all sort of other stuff like furniture, electronics, medical supplies, clothing, etc etc.
Having 70 different brands and 27 different flavors of cheese based snack crackers is so fucking unnecessary, actually makes shopping more of a pain in the ass, and is unironically a significant contributor to the climate crisis, economic crises, etc etc.
good, our monkey brains can't handle all the decisions we have to make in a day.
I once made the mistake of going to a grocery store while tripping on shrooms and the information overload was like stepping into a special circle of hell. Critical support for comrade supply chain collapse
I remember after I was living in a small town for over a year and didn't go to a supermarket the experience of going to one made me feel like an overawed peasant
Oh no, you’ve committed one of the seven deadly sins of chapo.chat by not being vegan.
Watch this be the thing that finally radicalizes a critical mass of the U.S population, because we live in the stupidest of all possible timelines.
They'll try to pin the blame on some minority. I expect right-wing identity politics to get a lot worse.
tbh these treats are honestly what lots of people in this country are living for.
I have been informed by remembered propaganda from the before times that this means we are now the soviet union
I’m here to remind you once again that Ben & Jerry’s is…NOT on the BDS boycott list anymore?!
https://bdsmovement.net/news/where-we-stand-ben-jerrys
the Before Times
SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP STOP TRYING TO HUMANIZE YOURSELF STOP TRYING TO BE FUNNY SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP :joker-shopping:
I’m fine with it. That’s what I’ve been calling it since like May 2020, it’s honestly nice to see it normalized. Makes me feel like I’m not crazy for thinking that was a gigantic historical milestone and things will never be the same.
Idk to me it doesn’t sound cute, it sounds appropriately dramatic
It sounds like something from like dragon age. It sounds like a video game thing to me
I agree with this but I’m fine with that. I feel like that’s the point. YA novels use names like that because they get a sense of gravity across really bluntly, and that’s exactly what I want. I feel like a more “normal” term does exactly that, normalize this, when this is not normal and you should have a stupidly dramatic term to show how extreme this is.
