I mean, they're closer to the pulse than most of these gormless dipshits in the media.
And somehow they still manage to find the most insultingly ghoulish way to say it.
Leave it to the NY times to figure out how to admit that neoliberal scripture is failing while still being as condescending as possible to the working class.
"DUM WORKER DONT CARE IF LINE GO UP CUZ HE CANT EAT BURGER"
Fuck yourself. Why don't you just come out and admit that your markers for a healthy economy are based entirely on fraudulent criteria?
americans will literally do anything to avoid using the metric system
that's just a dumb and kinda dismissive way of saying the truth tbh, people are getting poorer and are less able to afford things than they were a year ago
:geordi-no: 16 cents off your July 4th cookout?
:geordi-yes: This fucking stunt :feast:
Biden's mistake was going to war on the field of treats.
This feels condescending...and it also ignores any path to legitimacy that isn't focused on only providing abundant access to low quality slop.
What I was getting at was that I think we can do better than calling it good when everyone gets a big Mac. I think the NYT might think the great hog masses wouldn't appreciate something nice anyway, so why bother giving us more than pure slop.
Meanwhile, this'll be used as proof that the radical Democrats' environmental agenda has gone too far by outlawing cows.
tbf a Big mac is often the cheapest, most calorie dense, nutritionally rich meal poor Americans can afford. What that says about our capiralist utopia is another thing entirely but the price of a big mac isn’t that bad of a metric to use to show that the system is literally collapsing if the poorest Americans can’t even afford that.
any other change that would result in it(rapid and massive change in Diet across all of America, sudden loss of access to beef, massive spike in wealth allowing higher quality eating options, widespread death among people eating beef meals) would leave such a massive, noticeable trail that it is a useful metric for the current system. I mean, if enough Americans went vegan that there was a massive dip in Big Mac sales, that would cause massive sweeping changes in how food is produced and priced, as well as the lifestyle of the average american. Anything less than that and it's just the current system failing.
Biden to meet with self-styled burger "king" to discuss failed trade agreement
