Target didnt open in israel because they didn't want to tempt Hamas into doing something funny
the real "target"
Live Ha-masThat sign should become the new flag of Israel. It's way more fitting than the star of David anyway, so just make this the new one.
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you think even a semi-conscious government would recognize treats are the only glue holding the tattered remains of american "culture" and cohesion together and would have put a stop to this particular type of gouging (even if just the food sector) using the various tools available
but nope. speedrun this thing lets do it. how about that supreme court case coming up about destroying the concept of unions being legal entities
People act as if "bread and circuses" was this scam the Roman Empire ran to keep the people as complacent sheeps or whatever, without realizing that being fed and being entertained are basically the only two things people care about, and that anyone who provides that is going to avoid collapse
The Roman Empire didn't fall because it tried to keep everyone placated with bread and circuses, it fell because it could no longer provide that stability to its people
Yeah anytime someone mentions bread and circuses it’s always with the smug aura of “couldn’t be me, I’m too smart to be fooled like that” like bitch we’re in the YouTube comment section what the hell do you think the circus is?
without realizing that being fed and being entertained
Not true- they’re just the two things most likely to lead to revolution if they fail! Otherwise you just get silent suffering
It's ok comrades, Uncle Joe Biden has sent a strongly worded letter to corporate bosses to please stop with shrinkflation. We are saved 
My favorite moment in politics lately was when a reporter asked the press secretary
"Have you considered any actions other than "conversations""
It was about Palestine but it applies to pretty much everything and boy howdy did that question piss off the press secretary. I'm pretty sure the official transcript included sputtering
One of the few things that brings me joy lately is knowing that Genocide Joe himself will likely die of old age without ever facing justice (aside from losing the election) but these little twerps like the press secretaries whose hands are just as covered in innocent blood will live long enough that we can get some payback, someday
Ngl the slop getting more expensive was a significant factor that got me to stop eating fast food. At least when it was cheap I could tell myself there was a benefit to the garbage I was eating, but even the "deals" stopped being worth it.
We joke but now even treats are being taken away from the masses, when the bread is gone I hope the circus is worth it.
Yeah the fast food staples like wendys, taco bell, mickey ds etc have pretty much lost the purpose of “cheap”
Id rather just spend an extra 2 bucks and go somewhere fast casually like Qdoba or something. Or Sandwich places (jersey mikes da best)
>4 food items
>$25
That's only true if you buy the items individually which seems to be very common with how many people i overhear the order of in the drive thru.
But I know for a fact that you can get a cheesy gordita crunch, beefy 5 layer, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a medium (+$0.10 to make it a large) drink for $7 (in the taco bell app, it's the 'build your own cravings box'). Welcome to what I like to dub the "pizza place monetization scheme", where prices are inflated to shit and back unless you know or research the magic code and/or corporate advertises the magic code.
Not coming at you personally but I keep seeing this posted when people talk about fast food prices.
It shouldn't take a dedicated app, advanced planning and signing away your rights to a class action lawsuit to not get charged $8 for 1 item of fast food slop
It's like if somebody responded to a complaint about grocery prices with a link to that extreme couponing show and said they didn't know why people were complaining.
Not that I'm trying to take fast food that seriously, just not eating the stuff is pretty easy when there isn't any of it for 40 miles in any direction but this slop was the closest thing to a creature comfort for a lot of people who are struggling.
This is true and the fact that you need to navigate a bunch of bullshit for an affordable meal seems like it also functions as an anti-homeless measure for the companies
What’s the name of that TikTok guy who gets paid to share food discount codes but acts like they’re secrets and bugs that the company forgot to fix?
i didn't know about the build a box shit, that's new tech to me. I always just got dollar menu items previously
Biden ameria is what Happened...... the rise in food pri ces, the defunding of police, the unemployment, sending our taxes to fund Hunter's war against Putin in Ukraine.... it's all apart of The communist agenda.
Whatever you gotta do to feel right, I suppose.
The fact that they're right helps, i suppose
You're talking about electoralism when this is an issue where the vast majority of voters have nobody to vote for that actually aligns with their interests. Do you vote for Biden the senile Zionist or Trump the deranged Zionist?
You want to work within the system? Make a billion dollars doing something morally depraved and bribe the politcians yourself. It's just as unrealistic as voooooting your way to progress and more effective.
I remember believing that. Then I saw the Democratic party cheat and gaslight the public into thinking theres any real democracy in their primary.
It's Joever, dude. Democracy is dead
That's an assumption you've made, and its not factual. It's a supposition of fact that you shpuld treat with appropriate skepticism
it will always be easier to engage in what already exists.
Yes, that’s why everyone in this thread is explaining to you why that’s bad.
exactly! It is super easy to just vote. But it doesn't change anything. Doing easy things are not going to fix anything
You: "I disagree with Ogodei Khan's's policies and the Mongol Empire is collapsing on multiple fronts, if only we declare Kublai Khan the Great Khan at the Kurultai then the true will of the people will prevail and the empire will be cured!"
makes a wordcel statement that is so vague there literally isn't anything specific to prove or disprove
people ignore you because even chat-gpt comes up with more coherent thoughts than this
declare victory
There is no difference between good things and bad things you imbecile, you fucking moron
harder libat our current rate of economic and ecological breakdown we don’t really have the time or resources to form a better structure.
Which is why we need to do a slow incrementalism by voting?
it’s easier to fix the system than replace it.
If we can’t even decide on basic shit like “is the earth warming at a rate that is hostile to life” how are we supposed to form a new cohesive government? It’s going to be hard enough electing decent people to any structure you can think of.
You yourself are making our point for why liberal democracy cannot fix itself. We can't form a "cohesive government" as you say within this system. That's why its necessary for this system to end.
You will never be able to elect "decent people" because you, us, the people do not have a say in who they get to vote for. This government does not exist for us, and it is not a democracy for us. And it never will be, until the power of capital is broken
be more aware of who the people we cast votes for and what they’re beholden to, but that’s not sexy enough for hexbear users.
They're all bloodthirsty zionists and neocons
People are clowning on you because of the naive electoralism and because you come from a 
instance but you're not completely wrong. You just need to go a step further and realize that what the system is doing now is what it was designed to do. Working within it is not going to get you anywhere. Also the guy you're replying to is joking.
You just need to go a step further and realize that what the system is doing now is what it was designed to do
That's the key thing with all well meaning lib arguements. They believe their system is broken, when in fact its working perfectly and it was never their system to begin with
It’s broken for the people.
It’s working for those in power.
Thats how liberal democracy is intended to work you fucking lib shit!!!!!!
That's what i just said and you read and you still don't get it, because you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about
echo chamber
No communist in the west lives in an echo chamber. We hear your view - the fatalistic lib, capitalist realism veiw everywhere. You literally live in an echo chamber - its called the US, the most propagandized nation on earth
I have no clue what any of that means. I think its some kind of nerd way to say "no u" with a little emoji to show how not big mad you are right now. Go back to reddit
Damn I really thought we could have saved this one 😔
🎶Don’t save her, she don’t wanna be saved, don’t save her she don’t wanna be saved🎶
Dont worry comrade ill make sure to vote for Hillary Clinton in this election since you people got mad at me for not doing so in 2016
The software you're using was written by a communist lmao. Lemmy was just us and Lemmygrad/lemmy.ml for years before you rddit NPCs decided to freak out over some rddit bullshit and make a thousand reddit clones. Now every once in a while we get to see you basement dwellers accidentally walk outside your echo chamber and freak out.
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Get a load of this lib.
Congress functions to serve the owner class and has for its entire existence. It started out serving, exclusively, white land-owning men as part of a slave nation.
It will not do anything else, ever. It is baked in and will only stop doing so when the owner class itself is subjugated, something that will only happen via revolution. It would be nice if that wasn't necessary and the ruling class could just let their power get voted out, but we don't have the luxury of such fantasies.
The only fix? Voting harder? You're really tipping your hand when it comes to your total lack of imagination or investment in actually improving things.
tacobell really jacked up their prices recently tho. lots of dollar things are now 2,3,4 etc.
Yea as much as we're dunking on this it really is the thing that gets the vast majority of Americans to actually start thinking in terms of materialism.
They actually kind of have. I know lots of people IRL (including me) who have stopped going because the whole purpose of TB was to be cheap and edible (it was low quality but still tasty).
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$6 for way too many calories worth of crunchwrap, burrito, potatoes, and a drink still seems pretty good to me. That's like two and a half meals if you have self control.
That's true, but I just got to a point where I make all my own food for the most part.
i bought 2 chalupa supremes yesterday. Cashier said $13.45. I was like, "Not the combo, just the chalupas." Not to long ago 13 bucks would feed a family at taco bell. It's getting ridiculous.
My mystery flavor five for a buck ramen from the dollar store got 10% smaller a month ago. I'm furious. It's how I keep the lights on while feeding the kids real food.
It's also technically vegan ramen? Or at least, I can't identify any animal products in the chemical soup on the label. Oh well, I'll keep eating that slop.
This is a hexbear thread about food, as such I shall not be reading it. A curse upon all your houses.
it's a regular American hard shell taco with somehting resembling naan bread wrapped around it for some reason.
I've made this at home with better ingedients+the taco bell sauce they sell in groceries. It absolutely slaps. If you're gonna mock Mexican cuisine, may as well commit.
I think people are just confused by what Mexican dish a "taco bell gordita" is even supposed to be emulating.
I think people in the US have been conditioned to expect low inflation forever, because inflation was concentrated on assets and large expenditures like Health, Education, Housing and so on. It's cultural inertia, really. Down here we are 30 years removed from a hyperinflation crisis, so even media discourse considers wether or not the minimal wage rises above or according to inflation. We also have all the problems you have, like shrinkflation and lowering quality of foodstuffs. And arguably ours are worse. But the discourse of 'what happened, I used to be able to buy a penny' is never done with the implication that inflation itself is simply wrong for existing.
You might be overthinking it. Most people call any increase in price "inflation" and leave it at that.
What I'm saying is that the way americans talk about inflation feels dramatic and sheltered. If I didn't know any better I'd think americans simply have 0 inflation, but I know it's confined to costs of living which the government doesn't subsidize. Ie, anything but cars and gas. It's all very
Homeless population is exploding. I guess in a literal sense, we're accustomed to being sheltered, but I don't see what's dramatic about economic insecurity from stagnant wages and rising prices. "I am genuinely at risk of sleeping under a bridge" seems like a rational fear to me.
I remember growing up and watching a foreign movie from the US and finding it strange that families would do grocery shopping on a weekly basis. That felt like such a waste of gas. It was later that I realized that our own culture of monthly shopping arose after the periods of hyperinflation, especially due to the Volcker Shock in the 80s. There's a lot of small ways in which long term economic prospects shape our culture at large. And unlike what some romantic writers seem to think, American optimism is not inherent to people in the US. It's something that came into being out of historical circumstances.
I don't think american decline or even it's relative decline is written on stone. But if the post 80s libertarian policies aren't reversed, I can see a traumatic situation akin to that of Britain's stagnation. A total cultural shock. As a foreigner that's what I'm seeing. People surprised at shrinkflation, inflation and even older boomers shocked that the baseline welfare state they voted out of existence does not, indeed, exist any more. This isn't a criticism mind you. I think we here at the periphery are so used to rational fears, as you put it, that we normalize these things.
Wage growth is totally dogshit but that's been true for 30 years. This inflation stuff really is fucking crazy. You can barely walk out of a grocery store for less than $60. Everything has gone up damn near 50% in the last two years between prices going up and pirti9ns of literally everything going down.
Enshitificiation really is in full swing.
Yea, i meant, low real wages. If inflation is 10% and wages increase 20% thats still good. but in this case there is no counter to inflation in form of increase in wages.
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Could this be the thing that gets Americans to make their own food instead of eating out constantly?
I'm not sure who can actually afford to eat out save some gen-x'ers and boomers who lucked out, honestly.
purchases a tortilla pressI mean taco bell has always been cheap af if that’s breaking the bank there’s larger issues at stake than personal choice stuff implied by that Dril post