@Chp_Spinna@BallMuse23 one person gaining money doesn't mean one person or anyone else loses money in the process. are you familiar with the basic rules of economics?
@BallMuse23 don't listen to communists
they have been making the same argument for 100 years and every single time it leads to unprecedented amounts of death and suffering
@seanmcvayburner@BallMuse23 ah yes! let's have the government take all of their money and surely they will re-distribute it to better people.... oh wait
The Lakers are signing DeAndre Ayton to a 2-year, ~$16M deal, with a player option in the second year, per @BrettSiegelNBA.
Ayton also makes $25M from the Blazers from their buy-out.
BREAKING: Border Czar Tom Homan confirms that a federal investigation is underway into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for allegedly employing a criminal alien on her congressional staff and instructing them on how to evade ICE.
“it’s cheaper to eat junk food than real food” is one of the most confidently parroted lies in modern discourse
here, i did the math for you:
real groceries:
$43.08 = 26,295 calories
1,282g protein
560g sugar
cost per calorie: $0.00164
13 full meals (based on 2,000 kcal/day)
junk food:
$43.44 = 15,280 calories
186g protein
1,290g sugar
cost per calorie: $0.00284
7 "meals"
so for roughly the same price:
you get nearly double the meals
7x more protein
half the sugar
and food that actually sustains life
but yeah, tell me again how “poverty makes people choose Oreos”
no—inertia does. misinformation does. subsidized addiction does. it’s a culture that would rather medicate obesity than admit it has a self-control problem
poverty doesn’t make you stupid, but pretending junk food is cheaper sure does
just say what you really mean: real food is boring and doesn't make my dopamine go boom
if one more person tells me “capitalism is making people starve” i’m going to lose it
the poorest people in America are literally gigantic. like medically unexplainable balloon-shaped and built like refrigerators. we’re not dealing with famine—we’re dealing with doorways having to be widened
have you seen what capitalism gives broke people in this country???
you can wake up at 2pm, take your government-subsidized Ozempic with a 3,000 calorie $9 “coffee” milkshake from Starbucks, get driven to Target in an air-conditioned car you don’t own, buy 40 pounds of seed oils and corn syrup with an EBT card, tap pay on your iPhone, and then go home and watch Netflix while you suck your vape in a recliner until the next time you’re ready to shovel food into that nasty mouth hole
your shampoo has biotin. your snacks come in resealable zip pouches. your cats eat grain-free. your dog wears a thunder shirt. you’ve got twelve $7 body washes for different moods. your teeth are rotting from Mountain Dew. your fridge dispenses crushed ice. you have a bluetooth air fryer that makes chicken nuggets shaped like Paw Patrol characters. you’re on six medications and still have the nerve to say the system is failing you
you don’t cook. you don’t walk. you don’t build. you don’t fix. and yet your lifestyle—degrading as it is—is still propped up by diesel engines, shipping containers, water treatment plants, and a thousand invisible laborers you’ll never meet
capitalism isn’t making you starve. it’s keeping you alive in spite of yourself
it gave you DoorDash. it gave you weed delivery. it gave you plus-size lingerie and mental health apps that send you push notifications like “you’re doing great sweetie” even though you’re a fucking emotionally unregulated lunatic. it gave you multiple streaming services to distract you from your own shitty choices. and you’re mad because it didn’t also give you meaning???
capitalism didn’t fail you. it cushioned your fall. it wrapped it in cheese, deep fried it, and let you finance it at 17% APR
but the most ungrateful part is: the system is still carrying your ass
on a reinforced mobility scooter
through the Walmart
to buy more of that trash you call food
take away profit and by day four of your revolution you’ll be shitting in a bucket and trading hot cheetos for insulin in a parking lot
SHUT THE FUCK UP
@OratoryJamesIV @ironwitch_@TheDemocrats@GOP they aren't
at all
they are a massive burden that we have to pay for
without them every aspect of the economy and our social lives would be massively improved not mentioning crime