Biblical Rule

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.
  
  Edit: Well, apparently I accidentally did a racism today... Nothing overt, but bad enough that it could totally ruin someone's day. Sorry.
- 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.
  
  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
- 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...?

Trump is trash, and so is this shit.

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.
- 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.”

The “lo” is how you know it's a bible quote fs

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.)
- 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.

You’re arguing a candidate supporting genocide was offering “human rights and dignity”?
- Surely Trump and Netanyahu will be much better for Palestine!
  Checks news.
  Oh wait. I'm a dumb fuck.
  
  So far Trump literally has been better, though BlueMAGA liberals don't realize it because they refused to acknowledge most of the evil that happened under Biden.
  
  You realize that the other guy being just as bad as your guy on a particular issue doesn't support your position here, right?
  
  You know I wasn’t implying the inverse. But your politics regularly require you to play dumb. I’m sure it’s a reflex at this point.
- This is a crap argument, bad logic and just stupid.
  Joe Biden is an extreme piece of shit who actively supports genocide in Israel, Kamila did not come out against it.
  Trump actively supports genocide in Israel, sucks on Putin's boots when it comes to Ukraine, is destroying the economy and will push for American genocide as soon as he sees it necessary to maintain power.
  Sure both sides suck, but one is way worse.
  
  K. Y’all can argue amongst yourselves about who’s the preferable genocidal maniac. Just stop bitching that sane people refuse to participate.
- To liberals Palestinians don’t count as people.
  
  How can you be this fucking stupid lol