this series of posts encapsulates how deeply unserious the debatebro facts and logic crowd is
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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You almost never see arguments, just them trying to get their next MCU-ass Sick Burn.^TM^
Like this should be a radicalizing moment, a chud is out here quipping when normal people are making the rightful observation the porks want too much from them, and refuse to pay them right back.
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always quipping. 
I could afford all the food I want if 60% of my income wasn't being sucked out by a parasitical leech who claims its fair to dictate how and when I live in my home. Just a thought.
and the parasites are leeching on every entity between you and the ground your food grew in too.
i cook a lot, but in the US it's increasingly class-income linked to have the time/space and household infrastructure necessary to cook. its sort of bifurcated though. like there are broke people stretching dollars like wizards in the kitchen and there are luxury bozos stunting on each other with premium ingredients.
the food system in the US has pursued individual convenience and speed to the exclusion of everything else and gotten household kitchens to be like school cafeterias: workstations for reheating already-prepared foods or assembling already-processed ingredients from kits into meals.
that pre-consumer processing is a "value-add" for the processor, because they can charge more for the product and the buyer pays more to save time and no longer needs a food processor, a mixer, certain specialty ingredients, etc. they can just casually mix some things in a pan, put a tray on a rack, or put a dish in a microwave. saving the eater time has been the god of the US food system for decades, and marxists know why: get the fuck back to work.
so, everything is orchestrated to have portioned and ready meals.
after one has gotten used to this style of food prep, going back and reclaiming the last steps of processing in an ill-equiped kitchen is a very expensive investment and requires re-developing an atrophied skill. plus all the knowledge necessary to cut through the marketing distraction at the grocery store and reclaim those lost savings strategically, based on what kitchen infrastructure investments are affordable.
none of this is an easy process to navigate and the fact that it is a pain point for so many right now is evidence of a major and arguably rapid shift in the material conditions of homes everywhere.
for example, the only people in my family who knew how to do in the kitchen what i have learned how to do were my parents' parents, who lived during the depression. they're all dead now. i have to explain cost cutting grocery and kitchen strategies to my elderly parents and middle aged sibling all the time. they are all luxury meal kit people.
it blows their minds that i can articulate ingredient costs per portion for all of my common meals, and that some are very low. they used to find it laughably eccentric, but lately they pay more attention. i still don't think they appreciate my insistence that all of this is going to get much, much worse.
In spite of this, I wonder if the most efficient way for society to organize the “last mile” of food preparation would be… communal cafeterias. This assumes several prerequisite changes like spatially denser housing in tighter-knit neighborhoods or campuses where each person is a short walk from the dining hall. Preparing an individual meal is resource-inefficient. Most people probably have fridges less than half-full. Food spoils due to improper storage or inability to finish a jar within ~5 days of opening. Chest freezers don’t get used because they take up a lot of space. Why wouldn’t we take the benefits of industrialization and apply them to meal preparation?
I understand there are practical reasons for each person to have the skills to cook on their own. Certainly in my lifetime I think it will continue to be relevant for all the reasons you stated. But it seems unfortunate that cafeterias are seen either as decadent or for poors, with little space in between.
Pardon my bougie perspective because this comes from experience as a tourist, but I think many communities in non-western countries are already oriented this way. I had minimal daily budget so I found places where I could get a prepared meal for barely more than the raw ingredients, and many local families seemed to be there as a daily ritual, not some decadent dining out experience.
I dont think banks are friendly to handing out money to cooperatives, and laws and regulations arent exactly well established either, but if 12+ people with roughty $10k each could secure a 5% loan they could probably buy a big apartment building with room to spare. If they dont get outbid, and if the bank agrees, they could share resources, share meals, and "rent" on the loan would be much cheaper than paying a parasitic landlord. 120k is 5% of $2.4 million, and ive seen some nice places listed for that price range when I was doing the math. I forget how much monthy costs on the loan would be, obviously depended on the buildings occupancy, but I remember it was much cheaper than anything else.
Retvrn to mead halls
I cook practically all my meals. I don't min/max it to the fullest degree (canned beans / chick peas, expensive fake meat substitutes). But man I was at Aldi the other day and a whole frozen pizza was $6.
That's about as much as groceries for a dinner for 2, albeit we usually have leftovers.
After careful consideration, I have decided to core out your head with an electric rooter
my wife and i eat out maybe once per month. sometimes twice. and its because my elderly father comes into town and buys us a meal.
this just shows this mfer wasnt cooking before
shit is way more expensive now
MY WIFE!
(borat voice)
This guy is obviously a baby brain, but it's not knowing about cooking, I cook almost every day and literally the prices on all ingredients have gone UP.
That taste like burned bean water.
lol yeah I've been calling it mud coffee. I'm thinking about replacing coffee with walmart caffeine pills in bottled water. Bottle water + 1/2 100mg caffeine pill + stevia + lemon juice + tsp chia seeds
I've got an old kegging system laying around and I've been so tempted to figure out how to make my own energy drink with caffeine pills because all the other sources are so god damned expensive now.
This was $4.99 a few years ago. ((Price(now) - Price(then)) / Price(then)) x 100 = %300
Yeah generic folgers is $9.99
unfortunately I live in a lib blue state so the COL is very high
Wonder if the dems are going to run this strat again, surely it will work this time 
Wait, he’s NOT a Republican?
Damn, I was hoping with 4chan and Trump ushering in a red Obama age, chuds would be getting sloppy.
This guy is a Republican. I checked the account and he used to write for Babylon Bee and now works on some Chud content creator's show. But he is basically doing an even dumber version of the Stancil argument that Libs and Biden lackeys were using. "Trump magically fixed inflation right after getting into office, people just haven't realized it yet and the data is wrong"
“Do not correct your enemy when he is making a mistake” - Sun Tzu
When you finally get to suckle on the teet of the petite bourgeois
‘Maybe the affordability crisis is really a ‘my math is stupid as fuck’ crisis’