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The elite must be shitting themselves about how much joy us poors are finding out of this.
STOP CALLING THEM ELITE.
The word 'elite' implies they are societies best. These rich dregs keep dragging us down.
Whenever I hear the rich described as "the elite", my brain immediately converted it to ThE eLiTe
My brain converts it to lowers. Their only advantage is their ability to screw people over without it affecting their personal health. Whereas the rest of us would lose sleep being that much a evil shithead.
Meh, the connotation is still clear.
How about we just airquote them? The „Elite“ sounds condescending enough imo
I assumed we always were
Parasite works for me.
Yeah trying to find the perfect words is counterproductive. We just need to eat the rich. We're not literally eating them but everybody knows what that means.
Oligarchs.
I call them the leech class.
True, if you look at people taking power and control in MAGA America, many are there because of their white skin and not resume or skill
Edit sorry if this comes across as racist, the intent is more to highlight how some of these people bring nothing else to the table
Scum floats to the top.
They're rent-seeking parasites
Call them gentry
Lazy parasite class?
Elite in this case refers to the ability to exert power and privledge. Everyone who is in a society does so to some level. (Obviously much less)
It is not a term of adoration.
If corporations can convince people that Coke is better than Pepsi ... or vice versa ... then it will just take time to make people forget about all this. They can market and promote any idea .... just some ideas are more expensive to promote than others ... and it will take them a lot of time and effort to spin this story in their favour .... but eventually, they always do.
I don't like to admit that people are complacent .... but hell, we've all got a great track record for it ... I hope not this time, but I've been disappointed far too many times before.
Everyday we all get up and make capitalism happen. It's up to us to stop making it.
You first. I like food
I do my best and buy about half my food from local farmers (and that isn't easy in northern Ontario, especially during winter) ... a bit expensive, but so is buying from the grocery store too, so it works out.
I live in the suburbs so Sprouts is the closest I get to "local". I keep chickens and a garden but most of my food comes from Kroger. It is what it is.
I gotta go to work.
You can still take steps to undermine the system while your forced participation is taking place. You could try local farmers markets, used goods, and the always fruitful five finger discount.
Very true. You can also decide not to pay for IP which is a lie anyway and freely watch and listen to and read whatever you like, play all the games that are not gambling dens in a box and use libre software whenever you can and most importantly tell all your friends about it.
just Gonna leave this here since you mentioned it... https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream
Thats pretty awesome. Thanks for mentioning it.
Every year I grow more food than the previous year. Someday I'm hoping to grow most of my non-meat items and then fork over the money for local organic meat and freeze it.
I'm no good with crops, but our salad/salsa garden is successful.
If you're allowed them, laying hens are stupid easy to keep. I don't do roasters because we have a 5 bird limit in our suburb and honestly harvesting chickens is messy and time consuming.
E: oh, and free range eggs will absolutely ruin you for regular eggs. It's like the difference in one of your tomatoes and the ones from the grocery.
I've had multiple unsuccessful attempts at a garden but two successful attempts with livestock: Pigs and chickens. It's helpful that they make noise when there's something wrong.
+1 for free range eggs. Plus there's no bugs in your yard. Where I live now I can't keep chickens but I'm allowed to have ducks, so I think I'll do that in the spring.
We ended up with some Easter ducks and now everyone prefers duck eggs. They are more consistent winter layers too.
Gardening isn't all that complicated. Plants need water, nutrients and sun. The chicken manure you have is great for a garden. If you have clean wood ashes, scatter them around. Timing when you plant is also important - too early, when the soil is cold may prevent germination, while planting too late may put plants into a dry spell. Above all, visit your garden for a few minutes each day to see if it needs some action like watering, weeding or bug remediation. Finally, keep your soil loose. Don't over-till though.
BTW, I do not plow, till or do much weeding because I use a sand and mulch approach. It can sometimes be tricky.
Many people do not know this but it is true.
I also like food, which is why I hate capitalism
(Under capitalism it's profits over people. Profits over feeding people. How could you ever justify food insecurity in a country like the US otherwise?)
In a capitalist society, farms produce food to make money, not to feed people.
Watch this...
https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y
I keep scrolling the news to see if they know anything new about him, and they know absolutely nothing. It's amazing.
Or at least they have released nothing.
Which would mean either they don't want to catch him (because even the police hate CEOs), or what they do know makes them look even worse (because he's mocking them, or should be easy to find with what they know).