illuminabi

You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.

It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.

Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.

But ya know.. poor people are just dumb and lazy.

askawelfarecaseworker

There was a point in time where all I had in my apartment was a plastic tub full of oatmeal packets that my mom gave me. I’d eat 3 or 4 of those a day.

And every payday I’d treat myself to Wendy’s or Taco Bell.

It was honestly a smarter investment than lettuce would have been.

noah-greer

There’s a reason they started fortifying cereal products and milk. People used to die of malnutrition from the cheap grains like corn as well as heavily salted left over cuts of animal meat. When this epidemic of malnurishment finally showed up as decreased work production, you know wthey did? The cheapest option. Synthesize vitamins and nutrients and add it into whatever cheap nutrient deficient cereal stock they were eating. Not you know.. lower prices on healthy food.. or, heaven forbid, raise their wages.

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liberalsarecool: “ sushigal007: “ unthrifty–loveliness: “ salkryn: “ It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious...
salkryn

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

unthrifty--loveliness

Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”? 

sushigal007

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liberalsarecool

‘Meet me in the middle’, says the unjust man.

You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.

‘Meet me in the middle’, says the unjust man.

The ‘bad faith’ of the Republican Party, writ large.

07 January 300,141 notes
icecreamsandwichcomics

aimless efforts

iwanttrumpinmyrump

this is the best comic ive ever seen

averruncusho

Everytime I see this comic, I think about how this guy isn’t utilising his gruplink stocks at all. This ant civilisation definitely has amazing and evolved technology that he could steal buy and then develop or sell in the larger world.

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