Spell it out. Diversity equity and inclusion .
Sounds real fucking stupid when you spell it out.
The idea of a man revoking intrusive thoughts instead of simply embracing them is just straight out repulsive!
The price of eggs is the go-to example, but the real matter is cost of living in general. People are being squeezed and nothing is being done about it other than token gestures at best. Token gestures are also what’s on offer for human rights and dignity.
We knew this about Americans though. It’s why Walmart is able to kill every mom and pop store in a town just by moving in. People are very susceptible to economic pressure.
Making economic pressure less of a big deal is extremely important, and why the elites will never do it without a fight.
That’s why I’m not really against Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau waiving federal sales tax on beer, restaurant food and takeout, kids’ clothes and toys for two months. Even if business reports say it was a waste of a billion dollars of missed tax revenue, the psychological effect on Canadians, the feeling that we can afford stuff for a bit, will hopefully help keep us from making stupid American decisions and avoid electing the Conservatives.
That’s actually a really smart way for him to do it.
From one of my brother’s friend, he said, and I quote: “It’s Biden’s fault for the egg prices for being high because he told all farms to kill half the chickens so Trump could take the blame once he got in office and prices rised. That’s why chicken meat is low.”
I wish I could make it up. Anyway I’m going to invent something to clog my ears and eyes for the next 4 years
Pull the wool out of your eyes. Getting complacent now only helps them.
That can’t be true
BipolarSilence’s brother’s friend definitely said this, trust me.
My dad told me the same thing. They’re getting it from the media they consume.
IDK, I have seen a lot more brown eggs over the past few years… Might be something there.
Dammit Obama
Obama’s eggs went to bail out the banks.
Edit: Obama was absolutely the best President of my lifetime. Acting as if his bank bailouts didn’t screw the working class is the same blind loyalty MAGA has for Trump. The guy chose expediency over equity, and only the wealthy prospered.
I’m not sure he specifically chose expediency. I think it came out that way because of his insistence on trying to negotiate with the Republicans after they vowed to block everything.
He said in his SOTU address, as well as in multiple interviews, that he hated how the TARP bailouts were designed but attempting the alternative of bailing out the borrowers would’ve taken far longer. That was with control of the Senate and the House.
I’m not convinced that Republicans had the stones to resist an equitable bailout while the banking industry was on fire. It’s not like they could force TARP without his approval. He made a call, and it wasn’t the right one. I’m not branding the guy. Good Presidents can make bad decisions.
I agree that it injected a tremendous amount of moral hazard into banking, but surely you aren’t implying that the working class paid for the bailouts? You know that the federal government made money on the bailouts, right? It literally cost negative money, it’s just that there weren’t consequences for the conmen who all should have been jailed and prohibited from running banks ever again.
The crisis was created by banks intentionally signing high-risk loans and essentially betting against them being repaid. The bailouts absolved the financial burden from the lenders, and left the borrowers holding the bill.
The same bailouts were needed in the EU, but several nations absolved the borrowers. The banks still got their money, but without the widespread foreclosures and subsequent property value depreciation ripple.
Oh okay, I misunderstood your comment as implying that the working class, though tax revenue, bore the burden of bailing out the banks, rather than saying that the working class paid for it because working class people had their house foreclosed upon.
Edit: Well, apparently I accidentally did a racism today… Nothing overt, but bad enough that it could totally ruin someone’s day. Sorry.
Even with that, jokes about minorities mating with animals are straight out of the racist handbook.
I’ve literally never heard that before, but am now concerned and intrigued. Is there actually some sort of an animal-sex dog whistle that I’ve never heard before and am now propagating?
If so, I’m totally removing it from my comment. If this is because implying that someone had sex with chickens, that’s why I said “ew.”
I’m so confused right now.
Yeah I figured it wasn’t something you were aware of, it didn’t read the same way. One thing a lot of people don’t understand about American Racism is just how rooted it is in justifying slavery. By the time the Civil War happened slaves were legally and socially considered to be beasts of burden, different to a cow only in that you wouldn’t eat a slave.
After they lost the Civil War southerners rallied around that idea and invented even more ways to reinforce it in the Lost Cause ideology. This is why there’s so much representation of black people as feral apes and it’s juxtaposed to well mannered black people in traditional slave roles under white “managers”.
Part of that was a myth that black people could not control their libido. They propagated the idea that black people would force themselves on anyone and any animal nearby. This is why even looking at a white woman was a lynching offense in some areas.
Edit to add - the original comment above is just a reference to the “Thanks Obama” meme.
Fuck.
Thank you.
Also, how could I have forgotten this gem
You did this
Oh my God, am I seriously the only one who thought that’s what the Obama comment was? Seriously, what’s the meaning that I’m not getting?
Yeah, eggs are usually more varied in colour depending on nutrition (and happiness), so some companies spray paint them for uniformity before sending them out. The tan colour is usually chosen because it seems richer in quality (aka cooked).
Egg shell color is dependent on the breed, egg yolk color is dependent on nutrition.
Good TIL
Make sure to avoid the ‘easter eggers’ man. Those ones are laid by rabbits!
Didn’t see source on spraying thankfully haha
Little newspaper blurb here
There’s definitely a peace of mind benefit to being vegan right now. Eggs could cost an arm and a leg and it wouldn’t dent my quality of life in the slightest. Add to that living far away from US makes it a moot point anyway …for now.
The weirdest part to me is eggs haven’t gotten that crazy yet. Like the $1.50 packs of eggs are now $6 for a dozen, and I’d buy a dozen every 2-4 weeks so my costs are largely unchanged despite the 4x increase
To me the problem is if we can’t fix something as simple as egg prices, how will we fix something as complicated as housing?
In the grand scheme of things eggs still aren’t that expensive but they’re an indicator that things are much more broken than most people realize
In case you aren’t aware, the egg prices are through the roof because bird flu (H5N1) has been spreading rampantly through chicken and cattle herds. If it mutates to where it can spread person to person (some cases have already jumped to humans, and some humans have already died of it) we’ll easily have a second “once in a lifetime” pandemic on our hands
Yes, this is incredibly well known.
Also knowing you aren’t contributing to needless & brutal animal exploitation & cruelty, fuelling the next pandemic, antibiotic resistance, environmental destruction & climate change, resource depletion, psychologically traumatizing violent work of often vulnerable members of society, and consuming excess cholesterol & saturated fat that puts you at higher risk of cancers & heart disease & diabetes. Plus eating a chicken’s periods, cow’s breast milk for their baby, and the mutilated corpses of sentient beings is the grossest & most barbaric uncivilized thing I can possibly imagine.
He’s already vegan, why are you still preaching…?
For everyone reading who still isn’t in 2025
Trump is trash, and so is this shit.
The “lo” is how you know it’s a bible quote fs
And the people did covetith the land of the green. And so they therefore did proclaim that they it should be givith unto them.
But see that the people who coveted were henceforth shamed for their desires. For what they desired was not theirs to desire.
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I think you misunderstood my joke. I’m not pro rich people I promise you.
So much of the last 10 or so years, if you told someone without any context seems an unbelievable horribly written story, “utterly ridiculous and unbelievable, learn to write something better” they’ed tell you. Because what you’ve posted is what’s happend and wven living through it, it sounds ridiculously impossible
And so goes the saying, “truth is stranger than fiction.”
Human rights and dignity weren’t on the ballot, though.
California had a prop to end prison labor. They rejected it.
Because leftist people not only refused to vote to prevent a fascist from taking the executive branch, they also refused to engage in anything down ballot, completely rolling over for the far-Right.
Again.
Like they have consistently done my whole life.
Of course the government doesn’t reflect anything left of center. Virtually none of us engage in elecroral politics, causing things to get continuously worse (but people are totally going to revolt any time now and usher in a new era of worker rule, despite a complete lack of extant evidence.)
It is pretty weird that there seems to be a view that revolution, general strikes, assassination of corrupt leaders etc. are somehow easier than just voting for the better option in each election.
I suspect it’s a mix of abstract idealism over reality-on-the-ground, performative leftism, and (dons tinfoil hat) concerted efforts by authoritarians to sabotage any leftward motion (“interesting” how accelerationism aligns perfectly with authoritarian wishlists).
They pretty clearly were. Choosing to ignore secondary effects of choices, or being willing to use suffering of vulnerable groups as a means to your end doesn’t change that.
We got to choose who we would protest against. We chose poorly.
Maybe but you had 10/10 denial of rights versus like 5/10
The choice was still obvious.
Sure seems like it is if they removed all mention of trans folks from stonewall…
They weren’t?
Narrator: They were.
Damn DEI Altsteirer chickens taking the jerbs of the more highly qualified Wyandottes
I’m just bitching at a stupid comment
When were people given that choice? In the past US elections the choices were genocide and more genocide.
and yet somehow “more genocide” won.
You know, a president who enters office with control of Congress has, for the last 30 years, lost it at the mid terms. It happened to Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump.
But this silly notion of blaming the poor and pretending everyone’s a fascist might just be what Trump needs to buck the trend. Democrats had four years to act in a meaningful way on inflation and poverty. They focused on getting WMD’s to a genocide and finding every dollar they could for a foreign war instead.
It makes perfect sense that the voters wanted change, and zero sense that you and others actually expected them to believe you when you insisted, without evidence, that Democrats would actually do something about the food prices.
Congrats, the voters wanted change and they got it. I don’t think it really matters that much what the fuck the Democrats are doing when CONSERVATIVES ARE ACTIVELY EXECUTING A COUP.
CONSERVATIVES ARE ACTIVELY EXECUTING A COUP
Get out of your echo chamber, because that’s not true.
They were elected democratically and there’s always a ton of turnover with any new administration. The only difference now is there’s more of it and your social media algorithm is putting alarmist posts in front of your eyes so you’ll keep clicking ads and buying shit.
DOGE has done some unconstitutional shit, yes, but you’re ignoring that the courts are putting a stop to it. They did with the funding freeze, the birthright citizenship EO, and the Treasury Dept. malfeasance. It just takes time, same as it did with the Muslim ban.
Also, stop blaming the voters. Next time you see a choice between a name you recognize and a Marianne Williamson, don’t choose the douche you know is a terrible president just because you recognize his name and ignore that he’s in public, literal cognitive decline.
Your “this is all just business as usual” tone really isn’t serving. Your President is trying to economically soften my country for later seizure and has openly made commentary about taking other countries in acts of international war. He has pardoned armed Insurrectionists who in the past tried to disrupt through violence the democratic transfer of power in his favour. He has invited to his cabinet heads whose entire manifesto they signed was gutting the past 100 years of regulatory law and administrative arms of government that was created by democratic processes and invited one of the most powerful people in the world to head the project who threw two Nazi salutes at an Inauguration whose decorating recalled the Confederate flag moreso than the stars and stripes. He’s refurbished Gitmo and has been utilizing ICE agents to speed the forced deportation of people, some of them on military planes in purposefully inhumane conditions. Every Executive order creates a new flood on the courts which will take years to fully sort out and in it’s wake databases are being seized or deleted, food deigned for relief efforts are rotting on shelves, proposals are in progress to strip voting rights for anyone who has ever changed their name which will hit women particularly hard. Trans people have already been denied travel, and denied new travel documents, any documents regardless of gender marker and had their existing documents seized at passport offices. He’s signed into order an order that was intended to force judges to apply the death penalty to any crimes where it could be an outcome. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/) What future purpose can you imagine this holding?
Congress, The Senate, the judiciary… Those bodies require process and deliberatiom, in other words time, and the President and his cronies have decided to just speed break things and push failure states and force compliance knowing that picking up the peices will be an infinitely slower process.
And blaming the voters? During the election Republican grassroot efforts disenfranchised a ridiculous number of voters because people sought out visible minorities or people who showed obvious Democratic party leanings and reported them to elections Office en mass which automatically struck them off the rolls until they could be investigated but since there was limited manpower to investigate so a lot of them were frozen without challenge. Those that did vote for Trump did so on promises that any idiot should have known was not in his legal power to fix and ignored his blatant desire to strip reproductive rights, remove trans people’s healthcare and banish them from public life, ignored a manifesto outlining the plans of his sponsors and a lot of racist, homophobic, sexist and authoritarian commentary on the campaign trail. If you have someone who decided enough was enough and left your life because of your vote for “better grocery prices” then yes, it’s deserved.
At what point have you crossed the Rubicon? When are you going to draw the line between “not a coup” and “this is a coup”? Will it be after this bunch of appointed ministers to the king commits an act of outright international war? Tell me, where is the line because I am pretty sure you should already be in the street protesting. Outside of the US the rest of the world is already discussing the US in terms of a failed Democracy. People who have experience in the feild of International Law are ringing the alarm. Why aren’t you?
in public, legal cognitive decline.
You mean Trump? The guy who is far worse in every “dementia” metric than Biden ever was? No, that would be going against your cult leader and king, we can’t do that.
DOGE has done some unconstitutional shit, yes, but you’re ignoring that the courts are putting a stop to it.
Also, I think it’s already a big red flag that a newly created government department run by the president’s billionaire buddy is doing ‘unconstitutional shit’.
Absolutely.
I’m not underselling the unconstitutional shit.
I’m underselling the alarmism when people can open up the AP site and literally read about checks and balances happening.
