…is this real like wtf lol
I think it was from anti Netanyahu protests in isntreal
Target didnt open in israel because they didn’t want to tempt Hamas into doing something funny
the real “target”Your honor this is a clear case of entrapment.
Cheesy Gordita Crunch the skulls of our Zionist oppressors
Live Ha-mas
That sign should become the new flag of Israel. It’s way more fitting than the star of David anyway, so just make this the new one.
The gulf in humor between the diaspora and the colonists is insane.
what does this even mean?
you think even a semi-conscious government would recognize treats are the only glue holding the tattered remains of american “culture” and cohesion together and would have put a stop to this particular type of gouging (even if just the food sector) using the various tools available
but nope. speedrun this thing lets do it. how about that supreme court case coming up about destroying the concept of unions being legal entities
People act as if “bread and circuses” was this scam the Roman Empire ran to keep the people as complacent sheeps or whatever, without realizing that being fed and being entertained are basically the only two things people care about, and that anyone who provides that is going to avoid collapse
The Roman Empire didn’t fall because it tried to keep everyone placated with bread and circuses, it fell because it could no longer provide that stability to its people
Yeah anytime someone mentions bread and circuses it’s always with the smug aura of “couldn’t be me, I’m too smart to be fooled like that” like removed we’re in the YouTube comment section what the hell do you think the circus is?
without realizing that being fed and being entertained
Not true- they’re just the two things most likely to lead to revolution if they fail! Otherwise you just get silent suffering
would have put a stop to this particular type of gouging
Sorry nope, line go up.
It’s ok comrades, Uncle Joe Biden has sent a strongly worded letter to corporate bosses to please stop with shrinkflation. We are saved
My favorite moment in politics lately was when a reporter asked the press secretary
“Have you considered any actions other than “conversations””
It was about Palestine but it applies to pretty much everything and boy howdy did that question piss off the press secretary. I’m pretty sure the official transcript included sputtering
One of the few things that brings me joy lately is knowing that Genocide Joe himself will likely die of old age without ever facing justice (aside from losing the election) but these little twerps like the press secretaries whose hands are just as covered in innocent blood will live long enough that we can get some payback, someday
Ngl the slop getting more expensive was a significant factor that got me to stop eating fast food. At least when it was cheap I could tell myself there was a benefit to the garbage I was eating, but even the “deals” stopped being worth it.
We joke but now even treats are being taken away from the masses, when the bread is gone I hope the circus is worth it.
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Less doritos in your bag, less oreos in your box
Yeah the fast food staples like wendys, taco bell, mickey ds etc have pretty much lost the purpose of “cheap”
Id rather just spend an extra 2 bucks and go somewhere fast casually like Qdoba or something. Or Sandwich places (jersey mikes da best)
>4 food items
>$25
That’s only true if you buy the items individually which seems to be very common with how many people i overhear the order of in the drive thru.
But I know for a fact that you can get a cheesy gordita crunch, beefy 5 layer, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a medium (+$0.10 to make it a large) drink for $7 (in the taco bell app, it’s the ‘build your own cravings box’). Welcome to what I like to dub the “pizza place monetization scheme”, where prices are inflated to shit and back unless you know or research the magic code and/or corporate advertises the magic code.
Not coming at you personally but I keep seeing this posted when people talk about fast food prices.
It shouldn’t take a dedicated app, advanced planning and signing away your rights to a class action lawsuit to not get charged $8 for 1 item of fast food slop
It’s like if somebody responded to a complaint about grocery prices with a link to that extreme couponing show and said they didn’t know why people were complaining.
Not that I’m trying to take fast food that seriously, just not eating the stuff is pretty easy when there isn’t any of it for 40 miles in any direction but this slop was the closest thing to a creature comfort for a lot of people who are struggling.
This is true and the fact that you need to navigate a bunch of bullshit for an affordable meal seems like it also functions as an anti-homeless measure for the companies
I don’t want fast food dlc. I just want a fucking taco
What’s the name of that TikTok guy who gets paid to share food discount codes but acts like they’re secrets and bugs that the company forgot to fix?
i didn’t know about the build a box shit, that’s new tech to me. I always just got dollar menu items previously
Biden ameria is what Happened… the rise in food pri ces, the defunding of police, the unemployment, sending our taxes to fund Hunter’s war against Putin in Ukraine… it’s all apart of The communist agenda.
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I can think of a better fix
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People are clowning on you because of the naive electoralism and because you come from a
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The software you’re using was written by a communist lmao. Lemmy was just us and Lemmygrad/lemmy.ml for years before you rddit NPCs decided to freak out over some rddit bullshit and make a thousand reddit clones. Now every once in a while we get to see you basement dwellers accidentally walk outside your echo chamber and freak out.
tacobell really jacked up their prices recently tho. lots of dollar things are now 2,3,4 etc.
Yea as much as we’re dunking on this it really is the thing that gets the vast majority of Americans to actually start thinking in terms of materialism.
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Dollar menuDollar(s) menu
Taco Bell has fallen.
Billions of toilets must be unclogged.
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$6 for way too many calories worth of crunchwrap, burrito, potatoes, and a drink still seems pretty good to me. That’s like two and a half meals if you have self control.
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> picture of taco.
> nearly 200 comments and half as many upbears.Oh no
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i bought 2 chalupa supremes yesterday. Cashier said $13.45. I was like, “Not the combo, just the chalupas.” Not to long ago 13 bucks would feed a family at taco bell. It’s getting ridiculous.
My mystery flavor five for a buck ramen from the dollar store got 10% smaller a month ago. I’m furious. It’s how I keep the lights on while feeding the kids real food.
It’s also technically vegan ramen? Or at least, I can’t identify any animal products in the chemical soup on the label. Oh well, I’ll keep eating that slop.
This is a hexbear thread about food, as such I shall not be reading it. A curse upon all your houses.
Has that thing even been cooked?
From the looks of it, I’m thinking it might have been boiled
it’s a regular American hard shell taco with somehting resembling naan bread wrapped around it for some reason.
I’ve made this at home with better ingedients+the taco bell sauce they sell in groceries. It absolutely slaps. If you’re gonna mock Mexican cuisine, may as well commit.
I think people are just confused by what Mexican dish a “taco bell gordita” is even supposed to be emulating.
Its the “flat tire repair kit” for a failing hard taco…
Tortilla a protein and onion lime and cilantro you got urself a fine supper
Just makes me sad to contemplate.
These people complain about inflation when the real problem is low/stagnant real wages.
Wage growth is totally dogshit but that’s been true for 30 years. This inflation stuff really is fucking crazy. You can barely walk out of a grocery store for less than $60. Everything has gone up damn near 50% in the last two years between prices going up and pirti9ns of literally everything going down.
Enshitificiation really is in full swing.
Yea, i meant, low real wages. If inflation is 10% and wages increase 20% thats still good. but in this case there is no counter to inflation in form of increase in wages.
I think people in the US have been conditioned to expect low inflation forever, because inflation was concentrated on assets and large expenditures like Health, Education, Housing and so on. It’s cultural inertia, really. Down here we are 30 years removed from a hyperinflation crisis, so even media discourse considers wether or not the minimal wage rises above or according to inflation. We also have all the problems you have, like shrinkflation and lowering quality of foodstuffs. And arguably ours are worse. But the discourse of ‘what happened, I used to be able to buy a penny’ is never done with the implication that inflation itself is simply wrong for existing.
You might be overthinking it. Most people call any increase in price “inflation” and leave it at that.
What I’m saying is that the way americans talk about inflation feels dramatic and sheltered. If I didn’t know any better I’d think americans simply have 0 inflation, but I know it’s confined to costs of living which the government doesn’t subsidize. Ie, anything but cars and gas. It’s all very
Homeless population is exploding. I guess in a literal sense, we’re accustomed to being sheltered, but I don’t see what’s dramatic about economic insecurity from stagnant wages and rising prices. “I am genuinely at risk of sleeping under a bridge” seems like a rational fear to me.
I remember growing up and watching a foreign movie from the US and finding it strange that families would do grocery shopping on a weekly basis. That felt like such a waste of gas. It was later that I realized that our own culture of monthly shopping arose after the periods of hyperinflation, especially due to the Volcker Shock in the 80s. There’s a lot of small ways in which long term economic prospects shape our culture at large. And unlike what some romantic writers seem to think, American optimism is not inherent to people in the US. It’s something that came into being out of historical circumstances.
I don’t think american decline or even it’s relative decline is written on stone. But if the post 80s libertarian policies aren’t reversed, I can see a traumatic situation akin to that of Britain’s stagnation. A total cultural shock. As a foreigner that’s what I’m seeing. People surprised at shrinkflation, inflation and even older boomers shocked that the baseline welfare state they voted out of existence does not, indeed, exist any more. This isn’t a criticism mind you. I think we here at the periphery are so used to rational fears, as you put it, that we normalize these things.
Taco Bell has fallen.
Billions must have diarrhea
