• blight [any]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      69
      3 months ago

      you can tell by the amount of text in the meme that it’s lovingly made by a fellow leftist

  • @underisk@lemmy.ml
    hexbear
    78
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    you don't really need to call supermarkets bread lines when you have actual bread lines. i've stood in them. they stretched for blocks and it took over an hour to go through it. the food was day old bread and other goods nearing or past their sell-by date

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      65
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      The most radicalizing thing you could do to someone would be to force them to live like they're poor in the US for a few months

      If they don't come out a frothing leftist, they're hopeless

      • @underisk@lemmy.ml
        hexbear
        63
        3 months ago

        so many people think of "poor" as just "unable to afford luxuries" when it's more like "I have a job but dont have the ability to pay bills and eat regularly this month, and this isnt unusual or likely to change"

        • Moss [they/them]
          hexbear
          37
          3 months ago

          Also "I can't afford to fix or replace anything and if my car breaks down I'm fucked"

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
            hexbear
            7
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            slowly getting more and more behind on your mortgage payments of your tiny 2 bedroom house in a rural area until you are forced to sell because rates were hiked and wages stagnated

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
          hexbear
          31
          3 months ago

          for me it's having a job that used to be considered "middle class" that I work full time and net like -$100 every month even after strict budgeting. Living perpetually on the edge of homelessness despite doing everything I was told to do growing up.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
          hexbear
          25
          3 months ago

          I talked to a guy who was really desperate to define poverty as literally dying of starvation in the street.

          • SoyViking [he/him]
            hexbear
            10
            3 months ago

            That's the thing with liberals, they pride themselves of how they want to help the poor but somehow you always have to be poorer than the concrete people you're talking about in order for it to be real poverty.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      hexbear
      46
      3 months ago

      nooo food banks don't count because it's "charity" not "government mandated" which means it's good not evil!

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      17
      3 months ago

      Imagine living in a place where you could stand in a bread line. My food bank requires ID, you need a car to get there, and it's strictly means tested.

      markkks-juggalo

      • @underisk@lemmy.ml
        hexbear
        13
        3 months ago

        That’s so fucked up. We lived in walking distance but still had to carry it all with us if we couldn’t manage a car trip. They didn’t ID or means test though, which I didn’t even know was a possibility. Do they think rich people are gonna show up and take all the stale bread?

  • LeninsBeard [he/him]
    hexbear
    68
    3 months ago

    When I want to rant I tell my friends to set a timer so I don't go off for too long

  • Awoo [she/her]
    hexbear
    60
    3 months ago

    breadlines

    3million people in the UK relied on foodbanks last year.

  • Angel [any]
    hexbear
    59
    3 months ago

    It's over... as you can see here, I have depicted

    YOU as the soyjak wojak-nooo

    and MYSELF as the Chad gigachad

    so you've already lost and your arguments mean absolutely FUCKING NOTHING!!!

    ha, owned

  • Maoo [none/use name]
    hexbear
    54
    3 months ago

    This is the OG communist. If you're not reading commodities prices and acquisitions you're a fake friend

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    29
    3 months ago

    Turkey doesn't appear to mention socialism in their constitution, but interestingly India, Portugal, and Bangladesh all do.

    We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic

    open up a path towards a socialist society, with respect for the will of the Portuguese

    Further pledging that it shall be a fundamental aim of the State to realise through the democratic process, a socialist society

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
      hexbear
      13
      3 months ago

      I wonder if anyone in Portugal has launched a constitutional challenge against right governments based on that. Would love to see the chud-lite party attempt to argue they're building Socialism.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
    hexbear
    28
    3 months ago

    Numbers Girl, thanks. I didn't collect every volume of the proceedings of the Soviet Agricultural Society to be misgendered.