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In reply to the discussion: Pete Hegseth's Pentagon spending splurge, 93 billion, in september alone [View all]jfz9580m
(16,912 posts)5. Obscene
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-persistence-of-hunger-in-america/
That too when this is the state of things:
Life in America is hard in a different way than it is over here in the global south. One reason I am pushing back that style of development that I saw encroach here with a criminal lawsuit is, if we have both our organic shittiness and the imported kind, sold as growth, that is not viable.
And over there exploitation results in civil lawsuits. This one will be a criminal lawsuit targeting the ceo and managerial class..greed sends you to prison not celluloid must be the message.
Times change..new kinds of people like me start entering the fray formally and lets see..
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/07/blows-off-its-poorest-shoppers/
One reason I am aborting a 14 year nightmare that will destroy the Indian middleclass while forcing on all the sort of worthless trash the tech industry forced for years but in this case in its most ott form, is that the world is so complex now,
This was largely entirely malicious and cultish or unpardonably stupid and lacking in self awareness or honesty among the average people who enthusiastically signed up. A few overworked truly elite people like my onc aside, there is no excuse for these other people as mediocre as I am who are Indian, female etc lacking at least the common sense I have and then bullying their way ahead, while lying their asses off. I have forgiven a handful. The rest can suck it.
But more importantly once more of these greedy, climbing, innately sleazy and undemocratic types pile on and mire badly off people, it will again be this fraudulent bullying dynamic where these asshole criminals having tricked many low income or desperate people into this race to the bottom (and one without one fucking real product, service or science that is not a pseudoscience and extortionately) will try to break me again into formally accepting it.
Fuck that criminal lawsuit and no turning back.
That too when this is the state of things:
For some 30 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an annual report on the number of Americans living with food insecurity. The Trump administration ended that report, calling it "redundant" and "politicized." But getting rid of the data doesn't erase the problem or the desire to fix it.
At the Community Food Share near Boulder, Colorado, there is a traffic jam of shopping carts. Thirty-three-year-old Shannon Patrick waited patiently. She knows the routine. She's a reluctant regular here.
With the way her 12-year-old is growing, she says her cart of goods may last a week.
Patrick is a single mother of three, working full time as a behavioral technician, helping kids with autism. But despite her profession and her education, she barely gets by on her $2,000 a month salary. Tack on rent, student loans, and clothes for the kids, and there's very little left for food.
"I thought that if I got my bachelor's degree, if I got my master's degree, that that would open up so many doors," she said. "I wouldn't have to rely on the government. But it just seems like it's not like that."
At the Community Food Share near Boulder, Colorado, there is a traffic jam of shopping carts. Thirty-three-year-old Shannon Patrick waited patiently. She knows the routine. She's a reluctant regular here.
With the way her 12-year-old is growing, she says her cart of goods may last a week.
Patrick is a single mother of three, working full time as a behavioral technician, helping kids with autism. But despite her profession and her education, she barely gets by on her $2,000 a month salary. Tack on rent, student loans, and clothes for the kids, and there's very little left for food.
"I thought that if I got my bachelor's degree, if I got my master's degree, that that would open up so many doors," she said. "I wouldn't have to rely on the government. But it just seems like it's not like that."
Life in America is hard in a different way than it is over here in the global south. One reason I am pushing back that style of development that I saw encroach here with a criminal lawsuit is, if we have both our organic shittiness and the imported kind, sold as growth, that is not viable.
And over there exploitation results in civil lawsuits. This one will be a criminal lawsuit targeting the ceo and managerial class..greed sends you to prison not celluloid must be the message.
Times change..new kinds of people like me start entering the fray formally and lets see..
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/07/blows-off-its-poorest-shoppers/
But the cynic in me and Im typically OK with cynicism toward people and corporations demonstrating no limit to their personal greed or avarice for the common good sees the word choice as capitalistically Freudian, a dark reminder that both Amazon and Trump know those price increases were only going to be seen by the companys lowest-income shoppers, most of whom have little other choice in the market.
One reason I am aborting a 14 year nightmare that will destroy the Indian middleclass while forcing on all the sort of worthless trash the tech industry forced for years but in this case in its most ott form, is that the world is so complex now,
This was largely entirely malicious and cultish or unpardonably stupid and lacking in self awareness or honesty among the average people who enthusiastically signed up. A few overworked truly elite people like my onc aside, there is no excuse for these other people as mediocre as I am who are Indian, female etc lacking at least the common sense I have and then bullying their way ahead, while lying their asses off. I have forgiven a handful. The rest can suck it.
But more importantly once more of these greedy, climbing, innately sleazy and undemocratic types pile on and mire badly off people, it will again be this fraudulent bullying dynamic where these asshole criminals having tricked many low income or desperate people into this race to the bottom (and one without one fucking real product, service or science that is not a pseudoscience and extortionately) will try to break me again into formally accepting it.
Fuck that criminal lawsuit and no turning back.
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