I dunno man. I found out today that a subway sandwich is $14 now. A shitty subway footlong sandwich that isn't actually 12 inches long and is occasionally made with expired ingredients and was never a great option to start with. I ate those in high school because I was broke and at the mall a lot.

There are poke bowls in my city from a local place for $16. Super fresh fish and veg, warm rice, more than I can eat in one sitting, for the price of a sandwich and a drink at america's most mid-tier sandwich shop.

Someone in another post said (paraphrased) you used to be able to get something mediocre for cheap, but now the mediocre things cost as much as the nice things so why would you?

This is me when I realized I could get a proper bowl of curry from the fancy indian food place for basically the same price as a fuckin McDonald's hamburger meal these days

I heard an ad the other day for a "fantastic deal! Four dollar four inch subway snack sandwich!" And like. I'm sure that would seem like a much better deal I'd I wasn't one of the ones who grew up with obnoxious "five dollar foot long subway sandwich" ads.

A dollar an inch of sandwich. When it used to be 2.4 inches. 240% markup is GOOD? Fucking bite me

Yeah with fast food having delusions of grandeur these days it's really made me appreciate the non-chain food places in my area. The other day I went to the local Hawaiian BBQ place and discovered that they have teriyaki chicken AND Beef BBQ musubi for 3.99. and they come in pairs. PAIRS.

I KNOW.

So I immediately bought an order of each and had 4 delicious musubi and a drink for less than a combo at Burger King.

So yeah, show em we don't need their shit sandwiches.

There's some hilarious irony in that by creating an ad campaign so incredibly catchy and memorable that it entered public consciousness (the dream of any marketing team), Subway ensured everyone of a certain age range would view them as the poster child of fast-food price gouging.

Ever since an Irish court ruled that Subway contained ingredients that made its breads more cakelike, I've been avoiding it like the plague.

ultimately the democrats chose to lose - they would rather lose without a ceasefire than win with a ceasefire, because their party and their donors have legitimate class interests aside from being the party in power. it was made clear that biden's policies were deeply unpopular even among his base, but harris refused to budge on them - or, rather, she budged quite hard to the right, but would not and could not make concessions that would materially harm the position of her party, class, and empire, such as cutting off support for the genocide. trump got 3 million votes less votes this year than he did against biden and still won, because 20 million less people voted for the democrats

And now, they're on the verge of joining the Federalists and the Whigs--16 years after they could have solidified a long-lasting majority. It's time to let the Democrats die on the vine.

"Friends don't let friends support genocide"

Spotted on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway

It's that simple

This is what you're voting for today if you decide to remain inside the two-party system.

Vote AGAINST the NC Constitutional Amendment!

If you vote in North Carolina, you're going to see this on your ballot. Looks pretty straightforward, right?

But it's a trap placed by the GOP. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Voting "For" this referendum will remove the phrase "and every person who has been naturalized" from this section on voter eligibility in the NC constitution. This could place the future voting rights of about 400,000 naturalized US citizens in the state in jeopardy.

Just a reminder - it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote! There's no evidence that this happens in significant numbers anywhere in the country, and North Carolina has restrictions in place against it happening at all, like the voter ID law that's now in effect.

(The voter ID law disproportionately affects POC, as well as transgender voters, both of whom are more likely to vote Democratic as well as lack the needed ID, but that's another post.)

Voting "Against" on this measure will leave the state constitution unchanged.

Here's the whole bill (PDF): https://dashboard.ncleg.gov/api/Services/BillSummary/2023/H1074-SMBK-89(sl)-v-2

Note: edited Oct. 16, 2024 to add large title.

I have every intention on voting against this unnecessary bullshit

In 1937, in response to a Palestinian coalition's plea that a European settler colonial project had no place in a modern, rational, and civilized world, Winston Churchill gave the following statement to the Peel Commission arguing in favor of the Israeli state:

Do not let anyone tell you this was not an intentional genocidal project from its very inception, that it was not explicitly racist in its origin, or that the Palestinian people did not know from the very beginning that they were facing a colonial invasion.

more information here:

There are other resources which are lightly-to-heavily skewed in favor of the reprehensible worm Churchill, which is understandable in the modern sensibilities context; however he was very proud of his words and stood by them, and they should therefore not be redacted in an effort to rehabilitate his name.

Trouble for Mr. Smalls.

Just as INN predicted a couple of years ago, the Amazon Labor Union is now aligned with the Teamsters