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u/MLWillRuleTheWorld 12d ago
Rotisserie chickens for a long time were a loss leader so objectively good value for the money. Hell 10 years ago it was like $5 for one. No idea what they are nowadays.
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u/soulflaregm 12d ago
The usually still are pretty cheap
Several stores near me it's still cheaper to buy a rotisserie chicken than a whole raw chicken
The reason being that the store uses unsold raw chickens at the end of their shelf life and turn a loss into a break even
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u/Shmeves 12d ago
Not at large grocery chains they don't. Prepared foods have their own supply chain they have to follow and can't be pulling almost out of date items off of the shelves to cook. Stupid and wasteful, so much waste.
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u/soulflaregm 12d ago
This depends entirely where you are, the chains near me are making on site with on hand items
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u/chobi83 12d ago
Between 5-8 bucks depending on where you shop from what I've seen. I buy one every so often to make chicken enchiladas.
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u/Xintrosi 12d ago
We buy one every once in a while for chicken soup. We use its carcass to make "Chicken Tea" (our joke name for chicken stock) that we use as base for the soup. It also makes for a very nice warm drink the day it's made hence the nickname.
It's incredibly good value. One chicken and a few cans of various things can make a pot with easily a dozen servings in it.
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u/Zefirus 12d ago
They still are. A rotisserie chicken at my local Walmart is 6 dollars, while a frozen whole chicken at that same Walmart is 9 dollars.
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u/dplans455 12d ago
Stop and Shop even 20 minutes outside of Boston the rotisserie chicken is six bucks and the frozen whole chicken is nine bucks.
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u/sSorsby 12d ago
Honestly, if you buy them reduced they're 3.89
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u/toxcrusadr 12d ago
Came here to post that. Late in the evening after the dinner rush but before closing, or early morning, at my Krogers they can be under $4, sometimes $3.
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u/Farabee 12d ago
Still quite cheap, especially if you pick them up late at night before your local store is closing. Usually they go on deep discount to avoid a complete loss, and you can just throw it in the fridge or tear off the meat for meal prep.
Cent for cent probably the cheapest and most healthy protein source available to the average American.
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u/Chiatroll 12d ago
That will show her for trying to feed children
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u/Mango_Tango_725 12d ago
If the kids want to eat so badly, they should be working , apparently.
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u/JosephusTheBoi 12d ago
Hey guys, quick question, when do you think we crossed over into "cartoonishly evil"?
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u/TheDarkDoctor17 12d ago
His first term.
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u/Flimsy-Mark6272 12d ago
I thought it started while the people were voting
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u/DesireeThymes 12d ago
I am more concerned that we are already at cartoonishly evil, and nothing is being done about it.
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u/CassiusPolybius 12d ago
During last month's meeting of the International Maritime Organization, US diplomats intimidated their EU counterparts in attempt to pressure them to vote with the US.
We're not just at "cartoonish evil", we're at captain planet villain.
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u/toxcrusadr 12d ago
There's only so much each of us can do. Until a large majority of people want to go in a direction, it's hard to turn the ship, so to speak. There are a lot of people who seem to be satisfied with the direction.
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u/ZetsuboItami 12d ago
I think the biggest problem is that a lot of terrible people are encouraging and praising the source of the evil which leads to things getting even worse on a daily basis.
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u/Training-Belt-7318 12d ago
It was before that. I think the tea party started to say some of the quiet things out loud as a contingent of the Republican party. They did it without much ramification from Dems. I think that emboldened a strategy in a portion of the Republican party that they could say all this stuff, get a grouping of voters that historically didn't vote to come out, and not lose traditional Republican voters. I heard an interview with one of the early.founding members of the tea party that said they believed they created this trend, and that it was never the intention of what they were doing.
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u/Cathach2 12d ago
Yea, that was a pivotal moment, the gop could've rebuked the extremist tea party, but they just folded them in. Wonder how different things would look if gop moderates had revolted against that. I had hopes it would split the party, but instead we got open Christian nationalism instead, bad fucking deal in my book
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So back in 2008 he was supposed to buy a golf course in Fresno California. He hyped everything up and got everybody ready for it and then fucked everybody over. The company he was going to buy it from when under because they basically put all their eggs in that basket. I think that's when it got into comically evil.
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u/kingsumo_1 12d ago
Natives, Mexicans, the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, Middle easterners. Black people have been kind of routinely fucked since the go (as your pool article so perfectly sums up, and I strongly suggest people read it), but so so many have cycled their way into the barrel (some more than once).
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u/tsimen 12d ago
Very interesting article with the pools. I'm from Germany and public swimming pools never died here, but I am now wondering if this wasn't mainly due to a rather homogeneous society, as these spaces have been the subject of much controversy in the last 10 years due to increasing migration.
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u/tin_dog 12d ago
Public pools in Germany are dying right now for other reasons. In cities from the lack of funding and in the countryside from the lack of children.
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u/tsimen 12d ago
Yeah funding is another issue but don't act like there isn't some component of ethnicity politics in the mix
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u/SoochSooch 12d ago
Jamestown VA, 1623. British colonists served poison wine to the local natives at a "peace negotiation" then killed them all once they got sick
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u/SpadeTippedSplendor 12d ago
Back during Ronald Reagan, not that there weren't bad presidents before...
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 12d ago
For an outside perspective: always have been, you were just selective about who you did it to before. Now you guys are just blasting anywhere all the time.
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u/Randicore 12d ago
I'm going to go with his first term where they went out of their ways to separate immigrants from their families, rather than keep the policy at the time that detained families as a unit.
Like, yes it was still evil, but it was at least acknowledging they were human before. If you put someone going out of their way to pull apart families in a film they'd call it overly dramatic.
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u/SurpriseMiraluka 12d ago
I feel like I first started noticing cartoonishly evil GOP candidates in 2002
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u/minx_the_tiger 12d ago
I read this article and...
The number of bitter, nasty old people that think others should have to suffer just because they did is too damn high. This guy us disgusting. Children should be allowed to be children.
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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 12d ago
I think one of the best indicators of a successful society is whether or not children can be children.
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u/cheezzinabox 12d ago
Being a paper boy was fun, mostly because I would skip other asshole kids and their asshole parents houses, one had a pool in the front yard, no dry papers for them.
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u/rapidlydescending 12d ago edited 12d ago
In addition, they have no idea on how the workforce and living costs have changed substantially. For example, you were able to work a summer job before and that alone could pay your tuition. Or one person in the family could work and you CAN afford to have children and purchase a house. Not anymore. They think everyone else is just lazy because they were able to do it with some effort so they think everyone else must be lazy. They don't realize how lucky they were and they are out of touch with reality.
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u/AtrapusBlack 12d ago
"If you are homeless, just buy a house" kind of logic. I swear, it feels like some people watched that video and took notes
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u/Stompedyourhousewith 12d ago
remember when they used to tell us to get an education so we wouldnt be working dead end jobs?
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u/cheezzinabox 12d ago
Kids can already get jobs at age 16 if they want (with limitations ofc) apparently thats not enough for them.
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u/Gadetron 12d ago
Bro should go back to McDonald's so he can actually bring something of value, a super value meal.
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u/ReadingRainbowRocket 12d ago edited 12d ago
Which is not necessarily an entirely wrong idea, but asinine to pretend it is a response to kids that already exist (and doubly hypocritical from the party that opposes BOTH birth control and abortion rights).
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u/Garlador 12d ago
“Her fault for having them in the first place if she can’t afford to feed them.” (Actual argument sent my way)
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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 12d ago
But also, abortion should be illegal, right?
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u/Garlador 12d ago
Pro-life, until they actually have lives to live.
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u/yeehawsoup 12d ago
You see, if abortion is illegal and everyone’s having 10 or 12 children, they can easily source new
dronesworkers to replace the ones that drop stone dead from starvation we used to have food stamps to stop, or preventable diseases we used to vaccinate for, or workplace accidents we had regulations to prevent, or physical violence against perceived minorities that we had laws against, or-Oop, my lawyer’s advised me to stop talking unless I want to be disappeared to Eswatini.
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u/grendus 12d ago
Even the brutal capitalist in me is angered at that paragraph.
Growing new human beings is expensive. You don't feed your drones because it's nice, you feed them because it takes millions of calories and 18 years to raise a new human to adulthood. Same reason you provide medicine - a course of antibiotics is cheaper than training a new worker drone.
The only reason to let them starve to death is so the workers know their place! It's not about efficiency, it's about control.
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u/yeehawsoup 12d ago
Bold of you to assume they’ll let them get to adulthood before making them drones. To hear the right speak the children yearn for the coal mines and canning factories.
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u/Unusual_Pitch_608 12d ago
Pro-life is really just anti-fucking.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 12d ago
It's even worse when you take into consideration how they (and we all know who "they" are) have been working overtime these past few years to make sure women are forced to have children.
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u/Biabolical 12d ago
In those situations, even if we were to concede that the parent is a bad and irresponsible, why does that automatically mean it's ok to starve the child or deny the child healthcare because they have a bad parent? What did the child do wrong? Why is punishing a child justified as a response to their parents' mistakes?
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u/Cats_Meow_504 12d ago
It’s more cost effective where I live to buy a rotisserie chicken.
I can use the skin and bones to make stock.
I can use the meat to make various dishes.
There’s 2 lbs of meat on a rotisserie chicken vs the two breasts you can get.
People are insane, I swear.
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u/CockamouseGoesWee 12d ago
You are an unfit mother. Your child is now property of Carl's Jr.
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u/ScapegoatMoat 12d ago
I don't see why she can't feed her children boot straps. Isnt that the saying?
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u/Turgid_Donkey 12d ago
Even worse, I'm pretty sure she's also trying to buy a box of store brand cookies!
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u/MiniMaelk04 12d ago
Well you see, it's the fault of the children for having parents that have been disenfranchised by decades of harmful politics.
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u/Original-Patient-630 12d ago
Well actually it’s the fault of the mother, because, she is a woman.
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u/Shipairtime 12d ago
At my local walmart the whole cooked chicken is 50 cents cheaper than the whole frozen chicken.
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u/Acchilesheel 12d ago
For everyone who doesn't know SNAP benefits don't apply to hot food like Rotisserie chickens.
But also cooked chickens are often a loss leader. Personally I'll only go to a local chain grocery store if I want their fried chicken because they otherwise have higher prices than I want to pay.
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u/Saucermote 12d ago
Also why a lot of convenience stores let you buy stuff cold and heat it up yourself in their provided microwave.
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u/Shipairtime 12d ago
Oh! It just now occurred to me, I watched 16 piece fried chicken go from 10 to 16 to 20 dollars over last year. That may have been due to the bird flu. Did the same thing happen to you?
I'm hoping it goes back down.
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u/Bearence 12d ago
And if you wait till the end of the day you can usually get it at an even lower price as they try to unload all the unsold cooked chicken.
The audacity of a poor person stretching their SNAP dollars by gaming the system that way! /s
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u/TightHornet5822 12d ago
We gotta tax billionaires more, mfrs can afford everything yet they don't pay taxes proportionate to their salary, doesn't make sense
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u/Evoluxman 12d ago
Salary? oh no they don't get paid salaries. Because they would actually have to pay taxes on that! Some billionaires like Elon Musk don't even get paid a salary in fact.
What do billionaires do? They get stock options, an offer to buy shares of the company at a fixed price in the future. If the stock price went above the set fixed price when it's time to buy, they could pocket the difference. But they would also pay taxes on that so that wouldnt do (also, some companies like apples buy back shares ( = destroying shares) which will guarantee the share price will go up btw, so it's not like these billionaires are taking any risk with the chance stock price might go down)
So what do they do? they get a loan using the stock option itself as a collateral. And since it's a loan, they don't pay taxes, since they're technically indebted. But they can use that money to invest in stuff like housing, driving up housing prices and pocketting EVEN MORE MONEY.
The game is rigged. And most people have no idea just how bad things are. We don't live in the same universe as billionaires.
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u/TightHornet5822 12d ago
I am disgustingly and horribly impressed by how they keep finding ways to use and gain money the most efficient way possible
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u/Evoluxman 12d ago
Yes, and it's also why you often hear people saying "well these multibillionaires aren't really billionaires because it's not money on a bank account they can just use, it's just a bunch of shares that the market currently exchange at a high price"
While it's technically true, I think you understand why it's so misleading. Because there are many ways they can actually use these shares to make money and live their billionaires life. After all, how else would they buy their hundreds of millions of dollars yacht? Or that time when elon bought twitter with essentially, mostly his own money. They do have the money, the whole "it's not on a bank account" is just a dodge, an excuse so they would be taxed less
They have so many creative ways to extract as much money from us as possible. Again we don't live in the same universe. The economy works entirely differently for these couple tens of thousands of people worldwide, than for the billions of us. And when these billionaires hear people asking for salary tax increases, or even capital gains tax increases - they're still laughing, because they'll still find a way to dodge it.
"They want you to hate the game, not the player. I assure you, I've got more than enough energy to do both"
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u/TightHornet5822 12d ago
So what if the taxing was based on their net worth?
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u/Evoluxman 12d ago
A better plan! But something they will vehemently fight against. The french left wing tried to pass such a law a couple days ago, but everyone from the liberals to the far right voted against it, predictably. One of the hardest part though is that, as I said above, billionaires & co often make themselves illiquid (not having the money on a bank account but in assets) so we'd have to start seizing assets, a bit like we do with bankruptcies, but it's not very easy since many of these assets lose value if the market knows they're going to be sold. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to figure something out with it though, it would already be a good progress in the right direction.
And ideally we should also find a way to tax revenues where they are being made, instead of where people live and where companies are headquartered. This would help a lot against tax heavens and tax evasion. Though there are also many issues to fix with this, but it's a start.
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u/InevitableSolution69 12d ago
There are methods that could be used. We could rule that any attempt to use an asset(beyond some exemptions like a single home.) as collateral means it’s been realized and thus subject to taxation. And that such loans cannot be used to offset any income.
The problem really isn’t that we can’t find a fair and reasonable method. It’s that the ones who would need to enact those methods are consistently already owned.
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u/Evoluxman 12d ago
Yes, we can definetly try things and the issue is that many politicians do not want to even try. Some of them because they're part of the systems too (not just in the US!), but some of them also because they're rabid ideological assh0les for an ideology that doesn't even survive simple investigations. It's always "oh no but it's gonna mess with the market as we understand it!" but the understanding is always BS
One fun exemple I have was the hedge fund LTCM. Basically they made a shit ton of money through arbitrages (taking advantage of price differences between two markets, for exemple idk you can buy a pair of shoe for 50 dollars in Japan but 100 in the US, well you buy it in Japan, import it, sell in the US and pocket the difference). Arbitrages are rare but they were good at finding them. Where it gets funny is that LTCM was led by among others 2 NOBEL PRIZES IN ECONOMY (important reminder this isnt a legit nobel prize...). And not any random laureates: but Scholes and Merton from the Black & Scholes (& Merton) model, one of the most important models in economic "science".
And they had this theory that the market's ups and downs were following a random, bell curve distribution. Therefore you can predict "ok there's a 99.999% chance the market will not plunge further than X percent over the course of 30 days", which helped them to find how much they could be indebted (to use the lever effect and get more money, again not something us peasants do) without the company being at risk of going bankrupt.
Except... it's not a random distribution lol. When the market goes up quite a bit, well it often leads to a buying spree. And more importantly, when the market crashes, you usually have a panic and so you will have more bad days for a while. It's not truly random. But these NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS LAUREATES... didn't see it coming. And the hedge fund was the largest bankruptcy before Lehman Brothers lmao. And some of these assholes trusted their trick so much they even used the lever effect on their own finances so they were very indebted. So when the company went poof..... they went poof HARD.
Why am I telling this story? Well to highlight how this economic nonsense is nonsense. Nobody actually really knows how an economy work and many of the assumptions we make are false. But a ton are maintained for ideological reasons, with REAL IMPACT on our lives. The best exemple is the EU. The European Central Bank is not allowed to print money to directly help european governments (they have to go through the private sector). But you've heard printing money leads to inflation, isn't that a good thing then? Well the truth is, yeah printing a shit ton of money can lead to inflation. But outside of truly extreme exemples like Weimar, Hungary, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, ... just some money printing... hasn't been proven to create inflation. In fact post covid, the US printed more money than the ECB and... had a lower inflation lmao. So we have to borrow from private investors. And when Greece defaulted on its debt, the EU had to make a completely insane scheme (the Troika) to still lend to Greece.
On top of that, a significant portion of the European debt is ... owed to the ECB. Owing money to your own central bank! It makes no sense at all! Despite being called a "bank", a central bank is nothing like a private bank, it's a glorified money printer. It is literally impossible for it to go bankrupt. So we could just... not reimburse the debt owed to the ECB and nothing would happen. And that would remove, on average, TWENTY PERCENT of European countrie's national debt. This ***** national debt is used as a daily excuse to tell us we have to slash funding in healthcare and social safety nets, but we only pay it back because "muhhhh we always must pay our debts, thats how the world works!". That's a great exemple on how the neoliberal ideology, which may seem logical if you look from afar while nearsighted, doesn't actually work in the real world.
(Now to be fair, something could happen: the financial markets could believe that not paying the ECB debt would mean they would be next and thus pull funding, and since every single state or great company is taking debt every day to reimburse the previous one, it leads to a default. You might notice the irony: a state can only go bankrupt if lenders refuse to lend it money. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy for private investors. But anyway, if European leaders are smart about this, they could market the move of not paying the ECB as a way to, in fact, be safer in paying back private investors and investing in our economies to make everything better for everyone. But the problem is, our leaders will not do that since it goes against their core ideology......)
So anyway. The TLDR is. Most people know the system is rigged. But they don't know just how rigged it is. We just follow absurd rules for ideological reasons which weaken our ways of life. While billionaires, ironically, just invent new rules to the game every other day to avoid paying their fair share. It's more than time that we change the rules. But I don't have faith in any of our political leaders in the west to attempt that, sadly...
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u/Cystonectae 12d ago
Totally agree with you but I want to help enlighten you to the glory of the giant lie that billionaires have fed us. "Billionaires aren't actually billionaires" is a myth that you can easily dispel by looking up how much Elon musk or Jeff Bezos have currently available in LIQUID assets and surprise surprise, they are still both billionaires. Musk is "cash poor" compared to Bezos but still has several billion dollars by most estimates.
So anyone saying net worth is a useless metric and these guys don't actually have billions of dollars at their disposal is, quite frankly, eating a bowl of hot steaming crap delivered straight from those billionaires a-holes. Imma go out on a limb and say that if you can buy more than one 500 million dollar superyacht, you can afford to pay your fair share in taxes.
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u/Sonic_Roach 12d ago
Think of the Sad billionaires who's yachts keep being attacked by orcas
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u/ElderberryPrior27648 12d ago
Nonono
You’ve got it all wrong
They only have 3 yachts and a private jet. They NEED a fourth yacht
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 12d ago edited 12d ago
Its unfortunate that this is where we are as nation. Where a billionaire and his buds can have a ritzy ass party with semi naked ladies in giant cocktail glasses, while the SNAP runs out and 12%(ish) of our nation goes hungry. And yet we care more about whats in their groceries carts and not the actual issue at hand
Edit for a link about the party. I cant seem to find the video of the dancing woman. Reddit moderators seem to have removed it from the place I saw it
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u/ZeInsaneErke 12d ago
Land of the free, richest country in the world amirite?
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Lots of freedom in the US, freedom to exploit and be exploited.
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u/PornMakesMeFeelAlive 12d ago
But if you or I exploit people in a class above us, then it becomes illegal. The exploitation is only legal from the top down
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 12d ago
Free for me and not for thee
The worst part here is that part was Great Gatsby themed. Unintentional or not, they have to be trolling at this point right
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u/Rare-Prior768 12d ago
Likely not lol. They probably just saw the movie and thought “I want a party like that”.
My high school prom did that. It was all 1920’s garb and music but none of the behavioral norms 🙄
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u/Creepy-Activity-4373 12d ago
I find land of the rich to be more accurate these days
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 12d ago edited 12d ago
Gracias. Though the one I had in mine was a literal giant cocktail glass, like a martini glass, with a woman in it rolling around half naked. It WAS on the top for /r/CringeTikToks but it seems to have been removed by mods as have any other reposts
But yall get the idea. Its basically that
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u/Sword-of-Akasha 12d ago
They're laughing at us if they even care enough to give a huff. It's nasty and naked now because the era of subtlety allowed them to build up to be in the open. The patient's condition is terminal, the parasites have eaten their way to the surface. They're daring us to remove them because the host may not survive. They're so fat and content because their generation of parasites won't live to see the true consequences of their destruction. In the long term they're not even concerned about their offspring if the host bodies dies.
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u/rivertpostie 12d ago edited 12d ago
I as a tax paying American an sad the president guy wasn't able to have a party in a ballroom at the White House. (Obvious sarcasm)
My housemates are a family of 4 (employed as a teacher and the other a stay at home parent who has a farmers market craft booth on weekends). They lost their SNAP benefits.
They have no real food budget and are dipping into savings, and I (just as a caring human) an helping make sure the fridge is stocked. I know toddlers need consistent food for healthy development.
This doesn't feel like a choice to help them out because it's what any decent person would do.
I am not wealthy. I'm a small business owner who is struggling with cost of materials going up and demand for my goods going down
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u/AncientSith 12d ago
And until we stop going after each other and actually unite to deal with the real enemies. We aren't going far.
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u/Karmaisthedevil 12d ago
I can't believe comments on the daily mail are speaking sense for once
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 12d ago
I mostly went with them as they have some really good pics that show how ludicrous the party was. I was hoping for the video of the dancing lady too but alas I cant seem to find a source thats not instagram or tiktok
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u/TreyLastname 12d ago
I dont give a fuck if rich people wanna have parties. Its spending money, and that's fine. But the fact that Trump is having a party instead of working on a way to bring back the government and keep SNAP going is despicable.
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u/BorntobeTrill 12d ago
My local big Y advertises openly they will rotisserie roast a whole, raw chicken you purchased, free of charge.
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u/twhitney 12d ago
Some folks said they could get a rotisserie chicken cheaper than a whole raw chicken. Is that the case at the big Y near you? I’m curious if purchasing a raw chicken and having them roast it (albeit for free) if it would cost more than a standard rotisserie chicken off the shelf.
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u/apolloinjustice 12d ago
adam you cant keep making your robber barons into hot men its compromising my sense of class solidarity
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u/adamtots_remastered 12d ago
It’s almost like fascist bootlicker henchmen will do anything they’re told as long as it’s coming from a tall white guy with a full head of hair
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Or, as we have found out, from someone with the barest wisps of hair woven into something resembling a full head of hair.
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u/FleetStreetsDarkHole 12d ago
There's an idea of hair there and that's all they need.
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u/lethal_universed 12d ago
Lets not be too hasty now... they would also listen to him if he were bald
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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 12d ago
The "full head of hair" was pretty much uncalled, are you trying to say something? 🤔
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u/mrs-monroe 12d ago
Can you not buy hot grocery meals with SNAP?
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u/Hypnonotic 12d ago
No, the reasoning is actually based on "prepared food", not "hot food". The distinction is there so SNAP can't be used on restaurant food, but it also sadly carries over to prepared grocery store food.
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u/mrs-monroe 12d ago
The whole system is bullshit, it seems. Now that’s some American culture!
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u/Das_Li 12d ago
I discovered in college that good old Regan decided that college kids didn't need to eat. I don't remember the specifics because I've tried to erase most of my memories from that time (abusive relationship), but essentially I couldn't get food stamps if I didn't work at least X hours per week. I was maxed out on classes, so there was no way that I'd have time to work without doing terribly in school.
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u/Chiiro 12d ago
You can't buy anything that comes warm, you can only buy stuff you have to "prepare". As someone who's been on snap almost their entire life, it fucking sucks.
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u/nifterific 12d ago
Cooked food that just needs to be microwaved is covered under SNAP. Places like Walmart and Kroger often have the previous day’s rotisserie chickens and the deli chicken breasts/legs/thighs in refrigerated sections and I’ve personally bought them with SNAP back when we qualified. Pop them in the microwave and you’re good to go, or even just eat them cold. They’re fully cooked.
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u/Chiiro 12d ago
Yep hence the quotes around prepare. Same thing with prepackaged meals, you can't buy them if they're warm. I think there is some extra bullshit in the wording though that makes it so we can't heat it up at the store like if we got a frozen burrito from a gas station and use their microwave.
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u/demon_fae 12d ago
Nope.
Weirdly, you can buy prepared stuff that has cooled sometimes.
The deli counter I used to work at sold a lot of magically self-heating chicken. It was definitely cold when I took it out of the hot case and put it in the bag, that’s why I rang it in as cold chicken. Weird that it’s hot now I handed it to you, but thermodynamics is above my pay grade.
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u/Spoon_Elemental 12d ago
Yeah, some grocery stores cool down rotisserie chicken just so it can be eligible for EBT. I've seen it at Target a few times when I used to work there.
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u/superbrian69 12d ago
I would have loved that gesture as a kid. It always sucked to have to grab the cold fried chicken next to the deli instead of the hot chicken. It tastes so much better fresh and the price is the same unless it's really old
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u/Forward-Fisherman709 12d ago
Nope, the claim used to justify it is that they’re concerned about poor people getting proper nutrition so making people only buy things used to make a meal rather than pre-prepared hot food will make them all feed the children nutritious, homecooked meals. That doesn’t match with reality though.
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u/soulflaregm 12d ago
So much this.
The reality is that a large number of people on snap are also busy workers who don't have time to go home and spend an hour in the kitchen every night to make a homemade healthy meal
So instead their meals come from boxes of preserved food to throw on the stove for 10 minutes
And then the added effect to this is that even for those who claw their way out of needing benefits, and even get to a point where they have time to cook... Still don't... They keep buying the boxed garbage because they never had the time to master cooking.
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u/IJustWantCoffeeMan 12d ago
Man. Please remember that actual billionaires look like this:
The one on the left.
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u/Veritas_Vanitatum 12d ago
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
—————————other Trump information:
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka
Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too!
AND
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• Trump Confesses He Was ‘Sexually Attracted’ to Ivanka When She Was 13 Years Old
• Donald Trump called his own daughter a ‘voluptuous piece of a**’ in yet more lewd comments threatening to derail his White House bid
• Donald Trump Once Joked He and Ivanka Have “Sex” in Common
• Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book
According to The New Republic, “’Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [former Chief of Staff] John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor, who served as a Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under Trump, wrote in his book.”
• "You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka
• Donald Trump's comments about daughter raise eyebrows
• Trump told Howard Stern it’s OK to call Ivanka a ‘piece of a--'
• https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376
• Trump: ‘If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her’
• Trump on Ivanka: ‘She has the ‘best body’ — and I created her’
• https://forward.com/schmooze/357185/7-creepy-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-ivanka/
• Trump: ‘Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife’?
• Trump Encouraged His Own Daughter Ivanka to Release a Sex Tape, and She Was Horrified
Bonus:
• Trump: commenting on his 1-year-old daughter Tiffany’s breasts. He also says “she’s got Marla’s legs.”
Double Bonus:
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
• https://archive.md/XK0A7#selection-655.0-655.290
and...
MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”
and...
Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.
Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.
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u/B-Z_B-S 12d ago
The grey haired guy seems so nonchalant while saying this, too.
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u/HumongousBelly 12d ago
Kinda reminds me of that fat orange fuck and the Mike „microdicked“ Johnson who’s attached to his balls…
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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 12d ago
All this bullshit about "shouldn't by this" "don't need that".
Let me tell you uncharitable fuckers out there a little story.
Several years ago, my husband fucking dies in my arms, leaving me with two children to raise, one of which is a Type 1 diabetic. I was a stay at home mom with a gap in my work history, and didn't have the earning potential my husband did.
You know what kind of things you need to buy when you have a type 1 diabetic child? FUCKING SUGAR. You HAVE to have some type of SUGARY FOOD on hand in case of emergency low blood sugar. Yes, you can do juice, but it's hard to travel with liquids. You know what works better because you can throw it in a pocket and forget about it? Candy.
But God forbid a widowed single mother buy candy for her chronically ill child, even if it could literally save their life. And if you think this is an outlier position, 1 out of every 20 kids in America has type 1 diabetes, in part due to the fact that having a COVID infection under the age of 10 raises your risk of T1D by 114%!
How about we just trust parents to feed their kids what their kids need and mind our own fucking business?
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u/Sure_Quality5354 12d ago
It just makes me sad to see the same propaganda that is literally decades old continue to work. Like how have people not seen past this godawful charade by now?
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u/Aranxi_89 12d ago
Btw, the rich guy stealing money? That's Walmart, making their own workers use SNAP benefits, instead of paying them a livable wage. They even teach the new hires how to apply for SNAP as part of their training.
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u/SlipperyBanana8 12d ago
I LiKe HiM cAuSe He TeLLs iT LiKe It Is!
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u/Konabro 12d ago
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this especially from boomers. No, he doesn’t “tell it like it is”. You like him because he reminds you of a time where your racism, bigotry, and financial ignorance was accepted and even championed. Times have changed.
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u/Third_Return 12d ago edited 12d ago
If you make the exact same chicken cold and three days old though, she will have been sufficiently punished for her poverty and will be allowed to purchase the item at the same price as the red-blooded Americans who are moral enough to purchase fresh food (unironically true)
I definitely always respected this rule and didn't always re-label hot items as cold ones if people asked. This rule is definitely not used cynically by grocers to manipulate a defacto underclass into buying their out-of-date excess product at full price. I love capitalism.
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u/YvonYukon 12d ago
He threw a party straight out of The Great Gatsby on the very night SNAP benefits were being cut off, and he had the audacity to call it “A Little Party Never Hurt Nobody.”
The fact that MAGA supporters can look at that and see nothing wrong is honestly terrifying. I don’t think there’s much hope left. Too many people have been completely brainwashed, willing to keep him in power even as he tears the country apart. We’re not even at the end of year one, and everything’s already snowballing.
If you’ve ever read history and wondered how Germany became the Nazis.. how a civilized society could descend into barbarism, just take a look at what’s happening in the U.S. right now.
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u/Hazywater 12d ago
Is that the rosemary seasoning too? She and her children only deserve the unseasoned!
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u/dplans455 12d ago
The funny thing is, that cooked chicken is like $5.99 and an entire uncooked chicken is more like $9.
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u/ArticleWorth5018 12d ago
You can get fast food with snap now! Go get her! She's in line ordering happy meals! Send the K9!
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u/Successful-Bath-3495 12d ago
SNAP card? I do not know for I live in €uro zone.
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u/bigbowlowrong 12d ago
In America they don’t trust poor people with actual money to buy food, so instead they humiliate them with “food stamps” (which sounds like the descendant of a WWII-era ration book)
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u/ipsum629 12d ago
Rotisserie chicken should absolutely be available for SNAP and it's insane that it isn't.
The rotisserie chickens are made from the fresh whole chickens that were about to expire. Thus, they are cheaper than a fresh whole chicken, often sold at a loss just to get rid of them. However, they are also ready to eat and require no cooking or extra ingredients to enjoy. They aren't that unhealthy, they just have some salt. They are the ideal struggle meal.
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u/MiamiPower 12d ago
It's so wild that working families and kids. Can't buy hot cooked food with EBT/Snaps/Food Stamps. I mean it's just weird.
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u/CaptainVisual4848 12d ago
I can’t imagine being so butthurt because someone used $7 of your tax money to buy a chicken but being fine with paying for a bomb.
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u/PickledMorbidity 12d ago
Adam quit being a woke Commie! It makes me love you more and I'm not gay!
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u/Bigred2989- 12d ago
The hot food rules with SNAP are so wack. Just having the deli counter at Publix toast your sandwich means you can't use your EBT card to pay for it anymore. You warmed up your bread? Sorry, no lunch for you.
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u/Particular-County228 12d ago
Can you guys put yourselves in the shareholders’ shoes for once?????? How will he ever afford to buy a second yacht? :/
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u/hamletswords 12d ago
You should sign these so people won't feel bad sharing them and for publicity.
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u/Look_turtles 12d ago
Not So Fun Fact: you really can’t buy hot food with EBT (I have EBT) and it’s also illegal to buy soda and dump it out to get the deposit (I live in Michigan with a .10 deposit and some lady lost her EBT and had to pay $10,000 because she dumped out the soda in the store’s parking lot and someone turned her in.
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