Checkmate America.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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What an odd way to signify 36 eggs
. "Twin cartons of two less a score m'lud" is what the egg valet relayed to me.
It's two cartons of eggs, each container is a dozen and a half. Eggs are normally in units of a dozen so keeping that as a consistent unit across multiple brands and styles makes sense. Costco normally indicates how many things are packaged together more than the overall total. It's useful to know the format.
If it was on tray of 36 eggs the would have used 3 dozen and the indicator to keep it consistent with the standard unit of eggs.
Americans cant do math.
You're telling me a 1/3lb burger is bigger than a 1/4lb??
/s
I wish Trump what he deserves.
I wish his supporters everything they voted for
$50 eggs. I recognize so many citizens actually support these moves. This is a relatively harmless way to draw attention to more of these bad decisions.
By all means, let the price of eggs skyrocket. It’s the least harmless of what we collectively voted for.
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i hope they all tell america to fuck right off. start selling that shit to countries that deserve it
Why? Sell that shit at a premium. Like sell every dozen at exactly 99 cents below the average price. If the capitalist oligarchy doesn't exploit this moment for all it's worth what are they even good for?
the united states needs to suffer lest this festering fascism fall into complete dictatorship.
the average people must suffer in order to wrest the reigns of democracy from the oligarchs hands.
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the best thing for the world right now would be for america to suffer the consequences of its poor decisions. the beatings must continue until we start making better decisions.
I can vaguely remember what eggs used to cost
If trump keep “creating history” for another 50 days like he has been doing for the first 50 days so far, I surely wont remember what an egg look like.
Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.
Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.
Years ago, when Donald Trump was still just a reality TV star, I went to a conference in the US and talked for quite a bit of time with someone from Germany, who had grown up in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell. He said that in his childhood, all the TV news and print media were filled with State propaganda. Nobody believed it. But everyone said they did, to avoid unwanted government scrutiny.
He remarked that the media in the US sounded very similar to the media that used to be in East Germany. And not just Fox News (the Conservative darling at the time). All the US media resembled the media in East Germany back in the day, to some extent. But he was very surprised to realize that Americans believed the media, as long as it agreed to their pre-conceived political beliefs. (And, worse yet, didn't believe the media that offered opposing viewpoints out of hand). Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.
Things have only gotten worse since Americans started getting their news online, from self-selected social media influencers.
Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.
This is true, but I have to nitpick this a little bit. Here in America everyone is constantly bombarded from all sides, every minute of every day, with constant propaganda of all types. People have to choose what to believe now because any story will have at least three conflicting accounts of it being told. There is no reliable source of truth. There are no reliable fact checkers. There are no laws enforced about truth in reporting.
I think this more than anything led to the problems that we have now.
Thanks for sharing this experience.
One mistake of East Germany (and Russia and China) was that their basic education is not that bad so people are able to figure out things don’t add up. America might be immune to this issue as it’s advancing to authoritarian.
Plus there are ultra rich class to assist and fine tune the brainwash technology to micro targeting each individual ( the “self selected“ influencers are not selected by yourself after all)
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Does anyone know what's happening to the tariffs ?
Literally no one. Not even the fuck-wit-in-chief has any idea at this moment.
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Nah, fuck that. Let’s see eggs go to $20/dozen.
What a fucking Jackass