• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    When I was there I felt like a medieval adventurer because I could just find a market stall and pay for a meal with one coin

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      How liberating that must feel, that food is cheap and plentiful that you don't have to worry about something that's a human right. I joked about it up-arrow up there, but things are so dysfunctional in the imperial core that being food secure is a sign of having wealth, total peasant shit.

      • SadArtemis [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        Pretty much. My partner says I have a "great depression mentality" around food (stockpiling, etc) and it's true..

        • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          i grew up poor in the US and i literally learned how to grow calorie crops and have some in my backyard right now that could keep me fed for like a month if needed. My idea of luxury is having the money to replace my old broken shit that barely works but i keep using.

      • SSJ3Marx
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        1 month ago

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    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      if you took an arrow to the knee would you get healthcare for free?

    • UlyssesT
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      2 months ago

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    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      now this is the kind of rhetoric that wins hearts and minds

  • gramxi [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Great Satanians can't even buy McDonald's shittiest borger for $1.80 anymore

    • UlyssesT
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      2 months ago

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  • Mokey2 [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    buys same t shirt for 20$ and the cheapest most unhealthy meal is $6 minimum

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      You can pry my $25 4-pack of plain black costco t-shirts from my cold, dead hands.

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    I found this brainrot in the comments:

    CW: Ableist slur

    Show

    frothingfash

    Show

    "Advocating for camps for fascists"

    wonder-who-thats-for

  • blame [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Amazon.com, Inc. has a list of I believe 12 or 13 core tenets that they refer to as "Leadership Principles". These tenets are supposed to permeate company culture and impact every decision made. Their hiring process vets candidates based on these tenets. One of the central tenets is Frugality. Amazon.com, Inc. is a company with a $2T market cap. It is the 5th largest company in the world by market cap. Are you, Mr. Los Angeles Times, saying that Big Business is wrong?

    • heggs_bayer
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      2 months ago

      I love the irony of a company who's most well known service is an ecommerce site that tries to manipulate people into impulse buying and overconsuming having "frugality" as one of it's leadership principles. It's up there with the Bezos Post using "Democracy dies in darkness" as a slogan or Google using "don't be evil" as their motto.

  • UlyssesT
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    2 months ago

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