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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

It's weird they do this. Didn't they say that communism is evil because famine and shit? Like look at China now. They are pretty much on top of their game and only growing bigger. They had a famine when trying to advance at break neck speeds, but they get shit for it.

Meanwhile shock therapy in places like Russia that killed as many people as the holodomor (but also over a longer period of time) doesn't get the same crap.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 day ago

Yeah... Every time I mention the looming recession, this is the answer...

"it's just temporary"

We are fucking temporary, you dumbasses!

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

UK here, in austerity since 2008... it ain't temporary this is the economy they want.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

Fuck me? They still have those policies after almost 20 years?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 54 points 1 day ago

I'm old enough to remember Sarah Palin freaking out and eating fried butter* because Obama made a speech where he said Americans should 'eat their vegetables.'

*Deep fried butter is an actual thing that I, as an American, was unaware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_butter

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago

Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

As an American I understand the concept of deep frying as a personal lifestyle choice.

I suppose the best analogy would be the difference between knowing horses were a thing and actually getting on a buking bronco.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I grew being told, playfully, that if fried a shoe would taste nice. But no. Too much of a good thing is bad for you.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's called 'oliebollen' in Belgium and the Netherlands. They also have derivatives with apple inside and some other ones.

Not sure which came first though ( us or be/nl ).

Roasted butter does sound better than the literal translation from dutch ( oil balls ).

Edit: the wiki page references them being invented in the us. The wiki page for the Dutch/Belgian variant mentions Spanish/Portuguese Jews when fleeing the the Netherlands from the Spanish inquisition.

At least I think they're the same as roasted butter

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

Oliebollen are fried batter, which is made of flour, yeast, salt, sugar and some liquid (water, beer, milk). I'm not familiar with the American thing but it sounds like they're literally coating a stick of butter in batter before frying it.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Looks like it's not the same then! I stand corrected.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

If you think about it, butter is actually the freshest cheese you can get. So, it's really just super fresh cheese sticks.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

By that logic, fried eggs are the same as fried chicken

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I think you have some faulty logic there. Fried eggs would be the same as scrambled eggs or fried whipped eggs. It's a different version of the same thing.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Life begins at conception! Or before. A chicken fetus is a chicken, an unfertilized egg is a potential chicken fetus

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

The extreme of that logic is like saying you do eat your vegetables ... because your food originally ate vegetables

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago

Saw an idiot on social media say, "Sometimes you have to knock it down to rebuild", in response to Trump killing the Department of Education. I asked him it he figures Trump has a concept of a plan to rebuild critical institutions.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 19 hours ago

Accelerationist claptrap. These people have given up hope for real progress, so they're going to hand over full control to the billionaires to see if that fixes things.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

I have begun entirely rejecting bullshit mantras that begin with “Sometimes”.

“Sometimes” is dismissive self-justifying word salad. Give a confident, circumstances-based ideology, or shut the fuck up.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Never really thought of the effect that "sometimes" has on a sentence, but now I see your point. God dammit, I think you've infected me with your knowledge. I hope the "sometimes" cop-out is not as wide spread as I fear...

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

It’s 80% of the mantras of villains in fictional media. “Sometimes babies must be killed etc etc”.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Sometimes thinking is too hard

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Still owning the libs though! /s

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

This is the real answer. He's hurting the people they hate and don't understand, like democrats and trans folks. I really, really don't think they care about the long-term health and prosperity of the country.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 35 points 1 day ago

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

until it is about climate change policies and then they drop this rhetoric

[-] CM400@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

What’s the significance of the amputated leg?

As a metaphor I get it, but it seems to be a reference that I’m not getting.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 1 day ago

Shot himself in the foot?

[-] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Could be paying an arm and a leg. He already paid with his leg, doesn't realize that the arms next. Also why he's still optimistic. Doesn't realize that the worst of it hasn't even happened yet. (Also the artist might have just not known how to draw him chained up like the rest with just one arm)

[-] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Not sure, probably meant to indicate the MAGA is someone in need of care, someone on disability or a veteran. Someone who was directly impacted by maga decisions but still drinks the Kool-aid

[-] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Fuck Uncle Sam. He aint on the rack.

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