• WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’m a single man 43, when Donny was reelected my weekly grocery bill was about $80. As of march my groceries have cost me well over $170 and as of last week it is close to $200. So much winning we might get tired of all the winning.

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      And I dont think the other shoe has dropped yet. It takes time for shocks to wring out of the global transit network. Fertilizer is made from petrol these days, and farmers need to plan its order out months in advance. I fully expect things to get much worse to the point im learning to ferment and preserve things. Its not of urgency now, but having these skills before I may need them seems like a prudent use of time.

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        Definitely, I’ve seen were a lot of south East Asian countries have stop planting anew rice crop due to fertilizer shortage and without rice that’s like a large percentage of people’s diet. And as for here in freedom land America, I myself live in a very rural part of the country where everything has to be brought in by truck with the rising cost of fuel rule areas as well as most city areas will be suffering hard if you think Covid was bad Wait till the fuel shortages really grinds this country to a stop. Everybody, I work with and have to deal with our hard-core conservative and fully support. Everything that Donnie is doing. All they talk about is how fuel prices are going to be super cheap by the Fourth of July and how they eat steak every meal and how great everything is going to be in this country very soon.

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      12 days ago

      FREEDOM! WINNING! WOO. MURICA!*

      * terms and conditions apply

  • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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    I was filling up my gas tank the other day and I just stopped because I decided that that was enough money spent on gasoline for the day. The tank wasnt full. I wasnt out of money. I understand that it means i will have to find a gas pump sooner eventually. But, man, it made sense in the moment.

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    I used to buy a lot more. The combination of getting laid off and only finding a shit job that pays shit (thanks AI) and inflation are the big factors.

    Capitalists can go fuck themselves. If they want people to buy they need to pay us.

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    12 days ago

    It’s only 61 percent because 38% have started stealing groceries. The remaining 1% steals from all the others, like it always has.

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      Buddy is a long term regional manager at a national grocery chain. He told me last weekend “shrinkage” is through the fucking roof. They’re shutting down self checkout at multiple locations to stem the tide. Funny enough they can’t hire enough cashiers because no one wants to work for $13 an hour. Geeeere I wonder why?

      Fuck every republican or other fucking moron who voted for this fat pedophile.

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    So glad that PEDOnald the Pumpkinhead is focused on:

    1. Covering up the Epstein files
    2. Distracting from the Epstein files
    3. Starting wars and raising prices for everyone
    4. Kidnapping foreign leaders
    5. Plotting to steal resources (such as from Greenland and Venezuela)
    6. Disappearing gardners
    7. Babbling about “men in women’s sports”
    8. Still fixated on better men and trying to trash-talk them because he has small dick energy (Biden, Obama)
    9. Engaging in obscene levels of fraud and corruption that will possibly set up himself and his crime family to be bankers to the world and deal himself so much money that it would embarrass Putin and make his crime family the richest in the world - https://www.unftr.com/trump-stablecoin (Stablecoin/USD1/GENIUS and Clarity Act)
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      Man, with how dumpy has acted over the last decade, his dick must be fucking microscopic. I don’t know enough about him to say how he acted before 2016, but I’m sure it was still small dick energy

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      staged like 3 shootings recently, to distract from the epstein files, also now the iran war hasnt been resolved, he needs the press to stop reporting that too.

      3-9 is basically distracting the epstein files. something new always comes up about epstein, he needs a distraction again.

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    I’m once again reminded how happy I am to live in Australia

    Your fuel is still cheap in 'Murica, but you insist on owning stupid vehicles

    I’d be unlucky if I spent 'Murican$200 a month on groceries (it’s just me and my dog), but I eat proper food (no convenience food, nothing from a packet)

    It’s usually steak, roasted cuts, proper identifiable bits of animals with vegetables, salads etc.

    No frozen pizzas or any of the processed shit

    And I’m not on a particularly high income or anything

    I have never had junk food delivered

    I don’t think Americans actually understand that they have mostly had a fat lazy life of convenience

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      As an American who visited Australia recently, I can’t really disagree with you. There’s a lot of good there that we should learn from an implement here, but our culture as Americans is about individuality and winning. People feel like they are free if they can be individuals and win, if not then the propaganda is there that “Dream” is within reach if you only work hard enough.

      It’s bullshit, but it’s a pride thing.

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      Me either I might by a pack of ground beef a week. Where I am it is nearly 6 us dollars a pound which translates to about 12 ish dollars for my family for one meal component. Chicken is not a lot better at around 4 dollars a pound.

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        at one point I kinda wanted to give up pork but its both more affordable and lower on the environmental impact.

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        12 days ago

        The shitty chicken they sell you is at that price??? In Spain we are paying 6ish€/kg. And without bleach.

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      Same her. I just swapped out everything to chicken/pork and even pork is climbing in price now. It’s fucking ridiculous out there.