Have a friend that works at an egg factory and says they've installed cameras to prevent people from stealing eggs.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Liberals have substituted opposition for schadenfreude (most of it expressed thru classism) and identity politics for identity schadenfreude or more commonly known as; racism
How they expect to maintain a cross-class and cross-demographic electoral coalition with this disgusting nonsense is genuinely a mystery
They've given up on the carrot and moved to the stick to get voters.
note carrot was just a piece of cardboard looking like a carrot and dems mad people noticed
My random words I chose for my username continue to pay dividends
Honestly I found it rather mean-spirited and alienating and I am not even American!
Same with the whole „Dearborn is quite now“ - like shut your mouth.
This one is all about libs wanting to scold maga chuds for being "stupid". Chuds believe Trump can magically reduce the cost of eggs, so chuds and trump are stupid and proven wrong. Libs don't care about whether people can't afford eggs, because in their mind if eggs are expensive that's what the market has judged them to be; you can't just stop inflation. To libs there is no solution to reducing the price of eggs and you're stupid to think there is. They are the adults in the room after all.
Potential tagline?? This is exactly it - Both libs and Trump voters believe in magic that will solve all their ills, while believing the others' magic is their antithesis. I don't see either of them facing reality any more than the other.
Libs don't care about whether people can't afford eggs, because in their mind if eggs are expensive that's what the market has judged them to be;
really nailed the lib conception of the market
It is kind of a useful ideological tool for liberals.
It turns structural material issues into personal moral shortcomings, it turns "we have an egg shortage" into "if you work harder and make more money, you too can deserve eggs".
Leftists 
liberals
“Capitalists make the rules.”
It gets so frustrating to explain how BS it is minimum wage can never go up but capitalists can just unilaterally decide for themselves when they want a raise and just do it. But of course “muh property rights!” like porky isn’t leering at what little people have with envy.
eggs were literally the cheap protein
they used to tell you to buy canned tuna and eat that all the time if you were poor, but then we ate all the tuna in the deep blue sea so eggs became the food they told poor people to buy so that we can get the macronutrients we require to not die
now they just laugh
Cheap is a measure of labor cost. Externalities like climate destruction and disease outbreak only matter to the extent that they increase the labor required to produce eggs.
In a sane system of production, a cheap (ie plentiful) protein would be produced after evaluating climate, health, moral, and other considerations besides labor
"Let them eat beans."
that doesn't really work, cake was both far more expensive and less available than bread whereas beans are both cheaper and more available than eggs
Except that beans are grainy and gross and eggs are delicious and have a great texture that doesn't immediately make me gag...this timeline sucks.
I disagree about beans when made right theyre delish. But my question is do they want to poor to be farting up a storm constantly? Cuz if we live off beans we are gonna be farting. I know from experience ive lived off beans and rice for a time when money gets tight and omg the farting is nonstop.
I've never met a bean that wasn't a horrid texture. If you have a recommendation for how to prep them so they aren't absolutely disgusting, I'd love to know because it would be nice to expand my food options, especially currently while I'm financially struggling.
Chickpeas are a huge protein source and one of the cheapest foods available. They already have a texture different from most beans/pulses.
- Roast or fry them if you prefer them to be dry and crispy. (Add like 0.5 grams of salt to a bowl of these bad boys and I could eat them for all meals every meal)
- Mix 'em into hamas (hummus) if you want a tasty paste.
- Boil 'em in a curry if you want firm little 'uns.
- Mash 'em, mix 'em and fry them for delicious falafel (though this requires the dry chickpeas, not tinned).
- Get chickpea flour and use it to make lil' protein-filled flatbreads.
There's really no losing. Chickpeas are the ultimate bean (though technically a pulse).
Tinned chickpeas are very easy to throw into any dinner. Dried chickpeas are even cheaper at the shelf (and some say tastier), but require soaking/cooking first.
You can even grow them yourself and eat the leaves for bonus vitamins (but like wheat, you won't get more than a handful without some acreage)
I'll have to give them a shot. I used to hate hummus until I had some at a Greek place that made their own and discovered that it could be good. I'll have to try roasting because I do like crunchy snacks.
For dry beans i brine them then slow cook them and they turn out creamy. Do you like refried beans? Not like canned shit but from a nice mexican restaurant typa thing. Its hard for me to say what your issue is tho i have never been someone who cares much about food texture. I dont even notice it tbh im just there for flavors.
What textures do you specifically find objectionable?
Mostly grainy mushiness, especially if it doesn't feel like it matches the taste.
In theory they shouldn't taste very gritty but it's hard to figure out what's happening.
Roast chickpeas are easy and crunchy, there's lots of recipes online
Yeah, I meant like most beans end up having a gritty texture to them. The one time I had proper hummus it didn't have that issue, so I'd assume properly roasted ones would also be ok.
i've heard that if you let the beans sprout, they cause less gas?
I've dealt with being stupidly sensitive to flavors everyone else likes basically my entire life and you're the first person I've come across to also not like beans in general. I do hate the texture too, but I'm pretty sure that's just by association with me not liking the flavors and if I had liked the flavors I wouldn't have learned to hate the texture.
there are threes of us!
i agree that beans have horrible texture and flavor, but their point about not fitting the mold of the fake quote doesn't have anything to do with relative palatability
Honestly, I'm not sure why I did. ADHD moment where I only processed the part about beans being cheaper and more available and missed the rest of it, would be the most likely one.
Im egg intolerant too so im just like mega losing.
...they were never not ignoring the material conditions, half of their speeches are "please ignore that you are poor, it will get better soon"
Alternatively, "please ignore that you are poor, but the stock market is doing great!"
Who do you believe, your own lying eyes or the booming stock market?
"Try looking at the big picture instead of being so self-centered." 
ok 
While the contradictions are cracking in brains everywhere, will they stay separated as white and yolk, transparently acquiescing to the latest mask-off ruling class, or will the masses scramble for a moment of revolutionary potential? At this point it's hard to imagine any return to an over-easy state of affairs.
great bit, i'm poaching it
they are bad people though?
Yes, but the liberal analysis ends there, no material analysis, they're just ontologically bad.
well the u.s. government seems to be playing calvinball, so that tracks
What is political Calvinism?
In addition to @culpritus@hexbear.net's explanation, Calvinists believed that you could tell you were going to be saved if you were blessed in this life. So if you started a business and made a lot of money, that's a sign you had God's favor. The inverse, of course, is that if you're poor it's because you're a hellbound sinner. To map that to politics, the conclusion is that if you can't afford eggs it's because you didn't vote for the right candidate and don't deserve anything.
I thought election was based on nothing and there was no real way to tell if you were saved?
People didn't really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.
Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
Here's a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/
It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.
Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Christianity#Predestination
Stemming from the theology of John Calvin, Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. While people are said to retain free will, in that they willfully sin, they are unable not to sin because of the corruption of their nature due to original sin. Reformed Christians believe that God predestined some people to be saved and others were predestined to eternal damnation.
Basically saying that if you voted wrong you are eternally damned for it. That's how I parsed it at least.
I still fail to see how this has to do with Calvinism. Liberals aren’t accusing conservatives of having some inherent essential characteristic of “sinfulness.” Well maybe they are, but they’re criticizing them based on political beliefs and actions. Which is what we do all the time