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And is that where these people live? That can't eat grass because everything is made of concrete?

Those places are called "cities." And the people in question also have a yard, they're renting a house in the country.

And I don't have a yard actually, I just live somewhere that there's living creatures outside aka not a city.

So if Walmart killed them all, but they're too far away from a lot of people, then presumably at least those people would've kept the general stores in business, no?

Goodness. Yeah I hate to be callous, but that sounds less like just having it hard and more like a lifetime of terrible decision making. Whatever the case is I hope they make it happen with their land plans and are able to make their lives easier.

Why do they live like this? I understand you know, some people are just hard up, but eventually you try to sort it out right? Are they both disabled or something?

Yeah the scurvy thing is weird. It's like how antivax people don't think about measles and polio anymore and so don't see the importance of vaccination.

Oh the indignity! I can hear it now. "Eating only things with a nutrition label on the box is a yuman right!"

I eat weeds. Wild weeds from the yard. For fun. They're tasty. You should try it. Most of them are harmless and nutritious, shit, dandelions were an imported food crop from Europe. Double check what you're eating first but they can be really good.

I didn't blame them for not eating grass I said that you should know a thing or two about nutrition if you intend to, you know, survive. I don't know about you, but if I was so poor I was living off of scones alone for 3 months, I'd be looking up wild food and learning about vitamin deficiency, and I'd be entirely willing to eat grass to prevent fucking scurvy.

So that sucks, but I just don't see it being entirely about poverty in this case. There's not a single neighbor of theirs who they could ask "hey, next time you drive to Walmart let me ride with you"? They hit their diet to save money? There's no churches around them doing food pantry days?

Scurvy... You can prevent scurvy by eating literally anything uncooked, including meat. You can get vitamin C from grass. Sounds to me like these people are wholly uninterested in understanding anything about nutrition and diet and don't talk to their neighbors at all.

Dude I feed 3 people a month on $200 with no assistance. And we eat healthy. We splurge a little too.

It's too expensive, sure. It should be half that. And some people live near a dollar store, I get that, they're eating cat food and Vienna sausages. But this meme isn't about those people. There are waaaay too many people complaining about the cost of groceries that won't eat anything that doesn't come out of a plastic package.

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Funny, when the climate change deniers called offsets a scam, everyone dogpiled them. Now that they've been definitively outed as a scam and it is an acceptable narrative among the left, offsets were of course always a scam by the oil industry and politicians.

You don't say.

So the government takes your money and squanders it and doesn't help the people it took your money to help and you don't blame them?

This is all a game of incentive. "Unable to manage things well" and "profitable to not prioritize running things well" are the same thing. Governments benefit from things sucking because then they can ask you for more money to fix them.

What?

I'm talking about bicycles in this particular case, and more generally, dutch people drop plastic wrappers and cups on the ground like it's their civic duty.

Oh the irony.

Because, and we try to tell y'all this often but you don't listen, anything managed by government gets managed badly.

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Man the dutch have a cool bicycle culture but they litter like it doesn't matter! This is what it looks like when both of those aspects of their culture come together.

The problem with this is that the left is not the shining house on the hill anymore. You guys lost the fucking plot.

We aren't talking about civil rights vs lynching anymore. You want me to pick between communism and fascism, and here's the thing: I'm not a centrist. I'm an ideological extremist, I believe in individual liberty to an extreme. It's not down the middle, its as far the fuck away from the both of you that I can get. Draw a picture of that guy turning around and walking away from the fork in the road, that's me. You're both the same.

How so?