• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    Congratulations America, the 1% is nearly done taking all your money. I’m excited to see what comes next.

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    The company behind brands like Heinz, Kraft and Philadelphia is now cutting prices (2) on some products that had grown too expensive, increasing promotions…

    Yay! Prices are actually going to drop a little?!

    …and rolling out smaller package sizes at lower price points.

    Fucking jackals.

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    Who would have thought that if all wealth is in the hands of a few billionaires, there is no wealth left for all that can be milked…

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    I’m doing my part helping put McDonald’s out of business. They aren’t cheap anymore and somehow the quality has gotten worse. I went from going once a week many years back to once a month then a few times a year to never. Every time I go I’m disappointed.

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      It’s not even really any more expensive to go to a proper sit-down restaurant and order actual real food, anymore.

      • That was the reason I stopped going to Carl’s Jr years ago. Got to be about the same price as a real restaurant, albeit their burgers were still pretty big and not terrible. But when your best thing used to be advertised as being as good as a sir down burger but for only $6 and it goes up to the same price as a sit down burger, I might as well go get the sit down burger.

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      Everytime I go I’m disappointed.

      It makes me feel ill. The entire following day I feel tired and bloated.

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        I had lunch at Booger King last year for the first time in a long time. The whopper and fries were actually surprisingly good, freshly cooked and tasty. But god damn did I feel like shit after eating it. I suppose it was all the salt. And it was $16, and that was without a drink even.

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      I go for only one thing - a Sausage Egg McMuffin, maybe once a week. That’s all.

      They screwed up my last two orders. One didn’t have an egg, and one didn’t have the sausage or cheese.

      Is it that hard?

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      I’m doing my part too! Haven’t been to a McDonald’s since 2024, and working hard to convince everyone I know to stop going there too.

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      I think I’m doing my part but the extreme discounts in the app every two weeks mean I’m still visiting. It is a nice break from ramen.

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        I totally get that! When I visited the most was when they had the dollar menu and I honestly used it to survive back then. These days it’s the app and only sometimes but same thing.

        You couldn’t beat $3.75 for 2 sandwiches and a small fry when I had $20 to my name that had to somehow last me the work week!

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      The 1% accounts for 60% of spending. But they are all over leveraged or waiting for the inevitable crash so they can buy everything cheap and increase their hoard.

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      But billionaires aren’t the main consumer base for these brands. They buy boutique appliances and health foods more than they buy sodium laced chipped meat products and mom-and-pop’s favorite dishwasher.

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    You mean the parasite class is having money trouble because the peasants aren’t buying? How dare they opt for cheaper options when they can barely afford rent! Don’t they know it’s paramount to society that they slave away to engorge those who already have too much???

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      Yeah it’s the parasite realizing that they went overboard with sucking the blood of their host and now the host is dying.

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    Make your slop cheaper or fuck off. These people really are stupid. They are greedy and lack basic positive human traits but otherwise they are just stupid.

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    Wait so trump’s 5D chess economics plan to lower prices by making everyone run out of money is working!

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    The best indicator other than waffle house on how ducked this country is gonna be in a year or two

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    Oh wow, some awareness! It just doesn’t matter till it hits the bottom line of course. Don’t confuse it with compassion.

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    who’d have thunk people drowning in debt wouldn’t have any money for luxuries. WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!

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    Fox News: Wow! Lord God President of all the Universe His Holyness Emperor Trump has gifted us with such an AMAZING economy that people have SO MUCH money they can’t decide what to spend it on!! They get decision paralysis and end up buying nothing! We’re so winning!! Thank you Lord God Emperor Master of the Universe King Trump!