Food was produced to feed people before capitalism, surely. Or to trade, but mostly to feed people, rather than make a profit.

What do you think a profit is? For that matter, why do you think food turns a profit in the modern day, if not its function of feeding people?

God. Touching grass is the most miserable thing, because you realize the people out there really legitimately don’t give a shit about living under a fascist regime. Even if it makes their life worse.

“Well, I don’t know that it would’ve been any better if Harris had won. Who can say? The Dems are just in it for themselves too, you know.”

The conservatives are even more repugnant, though, pretending to not remember being against the idea of OBAMA implementing MARTIAL LAW on ALL MAJOR US CITIES a decade ago, when that was the conspiracy theory du jour.

That was true before capitalism, though.

Police want to be there, brutalizing civilians. When you insult what they’re doing, you ATTACK their ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE

The National Guard just wants to be at the nearest strip club, collecting mental material to brutalize their meat with later. When you insult what they’re doing, they probably agree with you, lmao

And everyday life has the fucking temerity to go on.

Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me. The medieval English King Richard I, ‘The Lionheart’, returned from the Third Crusade reasonably successful, but bad weather forced his ship aground before reaching England. In a hurry to get home, Richard attempted to travel overland to get to the next viable port - typical of his impatience and impulsiveness, he did so through the lands of Duke Leopold of Austria. Both men were stubborn hotheads, and had developed something of a feud during the Third Crusade, ending with Leopold leaving the Crusade in fury after being disrespected by King Richard.

Reasonably suspecting that he may not be entirely welcome after that, King Richard opted to travel incognito, disguised as a simple country knight returning from crusade.

The issue? Richard was a king, and his expensive tastes worked against him - perhaps especially after sharing in the misery of the supply-starved Crusaders in the Holy Land. After a stop in a local inn, he requested a chicken be roasted for his consumption - chicken was not a particularly ‘rich’ meat, but any traveler who should be watching their funds asking for an innkeep to pluck and roast a chicken just for him whilst on the road is certainly no poor man - not even a poor knight!

This raised enough suspicions that word reached Leopold - who was on alert after hearing of Richard’s ship - and Leopold sent a force to arrest the undercover king, holding him for ransom and eventually extracting the equivalent of two years’ income of the entire kingdom of England for Richard’s release.

Quite the price for a roast chicken!

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL!? A SUCCULENT AUSTRIAN MEAL!? THIS IS MONARCHY MANIFEST!

“Holodomor and Uyghur genocide denial are welcome here!” - Way too many fucking people on the Fediverse still, including the admins on dbzer0, unfortunately.

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