Exactly my point. You're acting like I'm already eating luxury foods and not only what I can afford. Telling people who are already struggling "hey, rice and beans are cheap!" is the most overdone advice and shows how oblivious you are to the actual issue. You think I'm over here eating steak every night and complaining it's expensive? Hell no. I'm eating cheap shit and barely affording that.
You have very strong "avocado toast" vibes fyi. You seem to think that the problem is what we're eating as if we have enough money to be buying luxury foods in the first place. I'm already eating the cheapest, calorie dense food I can. If I could eat a nutrient paste gruel every day with 100% nutrients that was dirt cheap, I would.
My point that even if you had all the supporters you needed right now, the current plan is basically "let's crash the economy" with no forethought on what happens next. How do you crash the economy AND prevent new monopolies from forming in the wake AND not starve half the population to death in the process? No one ever addresses the second part, which is why this is exactly like the screen cap.
Ummm we did? My pixel 9 pro is noticably smaller than my pixel 6 pro, much to my delight. Maybe stop buying the XL tablet phones and you'll find they're actually a reasonable size again. So many people in the comments rallying against an issue that isn't even there. You're just being told this is an issue. Do you even check for yourselves?
No, making it longer would help if your only goal is to crash the economy thinking that a tantrum will solve the core problem and not just lead to a bunch of bandaid appeasements.
For the record I'm agreeing with you. We need more directed action and more specific demands. These demands need to be things that have a clear roadmap to being implemented as well, not just "I want X". Cool. Nifty. How do you expect X to be implemented in today's world? What will the steps look like?
I keep saying exactly this. It needs to be longer than a week and it can't be things like groceries or you're basically asking people to starve. And so many people who are supposedly fighting for the less well off don't seem to get "living paycheck to paycheck" and the idea that working 5 days a week and taking care of yourself/kids means that when you shop is largely dictated by factors out of your control. Its got "oh, just make your coffee at home to save up for a new house" or "blame the average person for climate change and not the massively polluting corporations" vibes.
Nancy Pelosi, the most successful stock trader ever? Oh wait, I forget she's a congressperson. Why should she care? You really think she's on our side?
I'm so sick of all this "they(GOP) did this to us" language. The DNC is just as complicit in this as the GOP. It's not about red vs blue or any of that bullshit. It's haves vs havenots. It's the rich vs the rest of us. It's "get mine at the expense of anyone else".
It's simple: either they don't want to stop this or they are powerless to do so. Either way they're useless. Fuck the Democratic Party. A true left party needs to replace it.
Any unit since pi is a ratio of radius to circumference(π=C/𝒅). That's the point of the image - if you measured using circles, EVERYTHING would be a ratio of pi in some way you could discern.
My point is that I literally will be putting in zero effort and buying on my normal days because that's all I can afford to do. You're asking people to make a choice and for some of us there is no real choice. When I buy groceries is determined by my payday WAY THE HELL MORE than any ideology.
I get your point, but a day is a rounding error. A day is "oh it snowed so no one went out". That's normal enough that I just don't see how a single day will amount to much. People will either buy ahead of time or right after. They won't forgo their purchases, just delay them at best.
I buy my groceries every two weeks when I get paid. I don't get paid that week. I won't be buying anything anyways. And even if I did participate, I'd just buy stuff the next day and it would balance out. I'm not sure how this actually does anything. In the grand scheme of averages, this seems like barely a blip tbh.
I agree. Looking through the comments, I'm getting that "crabs fighting in the pot, pulling the others back in" vibe. We elevate society by being better. Period. Not being better if.
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In Europe they would have thrown shoes at him. You can go through all the metal detectors in the world, but you'll still have 2 shoes. Just sayin.