Political Memes

The liars who pushed “there isn’t enough for everyone” aren’t pushing it much anymore. They’ve moved on to saying “not everyone deserves basic human needs”—which is what they really thought all along.

The storage unit business is still booming, growing at over 7% annually in NA.
We have so much shit we have to rent units offsite to store our shit.

https://www.misfitsmarket.com/

Buy food that was rejected because of its appearance. It's super cheap, it slows food waste, and it helps out a small company.

What’s also weird is that if you want to get rid of perfectly good things nobody wants it or anyplace that might be able to use it makes it prohibitively difficult to get it to them. Got a functional fridge? Sure, you haul it out of your house, rent a truck, take it to the receiver - oh, and it can’t be more than 10 years old.

I find these posts that complain about waste kinda performative. While they’re not wrong, they ignore the logistical issues, both deliberate and indirect, of getting those things to the people that actually need them.

FWIW I’ve found that putting a “curb alert” for free good items with pictures and a location works pretty well. Some industrious person will usually pick something decent up 75% of the time.

Capitalism depends on violence and deprivation to keep labor desperate and exploitable.

Because the two thousand child raping and killing men who rule over us have deemed it so

We produce enough food to feed everyone, it's just that it's not profitable to do so because the rich are greedy ghouls.

but where’s the profit in that?! /s

I agree about the furniture, electronics and housing part. But food gets spoiled rather rapidly unfortunately. Any effort to give food away to those in need would have to move the goods quick enough.

All that old growth wood furniture.... It always makes me so sad knowing that it's essentially a semi non-renewable resource

I call it The Treadmill. If you're white, able-bodied, educated, motivated to play the game, etc. you can keep from falling off with what feels more or less like an easy walk. Until they speed it up. Or you get sick. Or stop playing the game.

how much food gets thrown away just because it isn't picturesque?

I've tried growing tomatoes, and bub let me tell you, they look nothing like the pristine samples you find in grocery stores

I hate it here. We have answers to all of life's problems, and yet we humans continue to choose the hard way.

I live in a very, very rural part of the country. Land is CHEAP; you can buy 100+ acres of forest for under $2000/acre. There are a lot of vacant houses. Why? Because no one wants to live here. (Obviously not no one, since I chose to move here, but still.) There aren't jobs locally; part of the price I pay for living where I want to live is spending 3+ hours in a car commuting each day. The vacant houses are vacant because the people that lived there either died, or moved because they couldn't get work. They're not vacant because some venture capital real estate company is buying up rural homes just to hold on to them as they rot away.

The issue isn't vacant housing; the issue is where the housing is, and whether it's actually habitable or not.

Capitalism working as designed

Food insecurity isn't always about lack of food, more like lack of logistics.