Just let them eat cake!
Yet when Michelle Obama merely suggested that Americans eat better and exercise, the pedo GOP blew a gasket.
They’re all friends in DC. Its theater when they get upset with eachother so that we the people divide ourselves so they can stay in power and not be forcibly removed.
If food is too expensive, don’t eat.
-Republicans
Famine makes ecconomic sense
-Also Republicans
Why aren’t the plebians having kids? We need more wage slaves! Maybe outlawing abortion is the solution.
-Republicans, again
I was in an argument just yesterday on the “not having enough kids” subject where people were insisting that younger generations are choosing to live in “expensive places” and that they should move to “cheaper places” so they can start families. As if the idea of abandoning their lives, careers and friends to go live out in the boonies in order to provide a bare-minimum QoL for their family is going to change any dual-income-no-kids couples’ minds.
"These goddamn city slickers are moving out here and making everything expensive "
There are no cheap places to move. In the USA, anyway. Anywhere that has “affordable” homes has no jobs, so they’re not actually affordable. And employers are getting harder about remote work. It’s very frustrating because I would happily move to a “less expensive area” but I can’t afford it 😂
“Clearly, this generation knows nothing of hardship. It may not seem like it but we live in the most equitable period in the history of the US and the tools and technology available to you give you no excuse for failure. The previous generations had the Great Depression and World Wars and all you do is complain. Instead of living selfishly beyond your means, try living on a budget. You don’t need to have money to start having kids, there are people living in poverty all over the world and that’s not stopping them.”
Obviously, just about the biggest /s I’ve ever /s’ed. These are just an example of the things people have said to me, taken more or less verbatim.
Valuing yourself? Sounds pretty selfish to me. /s
There’s a gap between valuing oneself and just trying to survive.
If I valued myself, I would living around the California central coast or wine country, not North Carolina.
Also “Eggs are too expensive, I will bring the prices down on day one”
Are eggs still expensive? I haven’t heard anyone bitch about it in a while and I have my own flock.
Good message, wrong reasoning.
Ecologists have been telling people [from rich countries] to minimize beef consumption or drop it altogether for years, but not because of its price tag.
not because of its price tag
I get what you mean, and agree, but want to point out that at least in a sense, it is because of the price tag: the cost to the environment and to others, in the form of water use, land use, carbon and methane emissions, etc. Internalizing those external costs would make beef cost more money at the point of sale.
Not just water use, but the run-off gets into our fresh water and makes it be not fresh.
Capitalism will make vegans of us yet.
I was expecting like 2040. Ah, that’s right. “Faster than anticipated.”
JPOD Don’s Five Year Plan is audacious but it’s working
Thanks, Trump! The animals thank you, too!
– A vegan
Imagine humans revolting because they’re pissed they don’t have the luxury of supporting ongoing genocide of living beings in the name of immediate gratification.
Leave it to the vegans to make the most stereotypical insane takes and support fascist pedophiles.
Yeah, honestly, these price increases will be universal like every fucking time oil spikes. Yeah, beef will be more expensive, but so will rice, soy, beans, etc. Ya can’t change your diet to avoid that. For the record, my beef consumption already took a nosedive shortly after COVID, and likely isn’t coming back any time soon. Shit is too expensive to justify. I’ll have it maybe once a month, but it’s mostly poultry and eggs for me.
Wait, which message did conservative radio give my brainwashed family members to parrot?
“Eggs are too expensive, its the President’s faukt.” “Steak is too expensive, eat something else.”
I need to know what to expect at Thanksgiving.
Miyoko has a delicious tofurky recipe. It’s really good. Better than tortured factory turkey or the corpse of a murdered pig.
This is the play.
Cattle country hates this one trick!
Considering that beef is a potential carcinogen, it’s actually good advice. Plus, cattle are a massive producer of methane, which is far worse for global warming than CO2
Not to mention screw worms.
I actually agree. Eat less beef and more vegetarian meals. I ate beef today but I also had vegetarian meals 4 days in the last week
It’s not hard to have a vegetarian day. Think about it: on any given day maybe you have oatmeal or cereal for breakfast, then a PB&J for lunch, then all you have to do is have a CBR burrito for dinner, and BAM, you’ve had vegetarian day.
I’m also not 100% vegetarian, but I try to be more often than not. Because of various compelling reasons.
It is a lot easier to commit to being a sometimes vegetarian than to give up all meat cold turkey. Eating less meat is better for health and for the environment
Edit: I do want to also acknowledge though that if someone is reducing their meat consumption, that is great too. Any effort helps.
This isn’t necessarily true. I’ve seen interviews with plant-based health coaches who’ve talked about adherence being better when people do jump all in with a plant-based lifestyle. That’s what worked for me too, partly motivated by what I saw in documentaries about factory farms and slaughterhouses, and partly motivated by seeing my own family members die from preventable diseases way younger than they could have lived. Our choices have consequences, so there is urgency.
I went all in for as long as I could, messed up, then immediately tried again and pushed for even longer. Eventually something clicked in my mind and I knew, “I literally don’t even need or want this.”
Yeah bitch, we about to switch from beef to Eat the Rich.
No more beef
Make the switch
Eat the rich
Have you considered eating bugs yet MAGA?
So maybe Trump is actually caring about climate change.
Not only has he lowered the CO2 emissions, through the closure of the straight of Hormuz. Gives electric cars a big boost and now he turns people away from meat to a plant based diet.
Wonder what is next on his agenda to save the planet. Keep on going.
If only he didn’t slaughter renewables and nuke international trade, some might consider this a step in the right direction
“Let them eat re-constituted soy!” (I’ve heard that before, but in a different language).
“It’s PEOPLE!”
“Cost of living too high? KILL YOURSELVES, STREET URCHINS!”
- the wealthy
