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Feels like more and more conservatives are feeling comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.
Except for the fact that she never said any of that, it was Rousseau
It’s almost like that’s what the first line of the title is implying as well.
“So what does it mean that a child doesn’t get a hot meal in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest hot meal in Austria is? It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can’t afford this meal for their child,” he said.
“If I have too little money, I go to work more,” he added in the video, which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg — with no burgers in sight — his conservative People’s Party confirmed to Plus24.
i hope he chokes to death on a piece of rotten cheese in his wine cave
Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child’s nutrition that’s a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.
This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.
lol, in my experience French conservative politicians are equally out of touch. They’re bourgeois fucks, they have no idea what a bus ticket costs. See this compilation from a few years ago
They live on another plane of existence, they can’t do anything themselves so it’s not surprising they don’t know the price of things
‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’
Or even better:
C.J.: It’s not that I wanna don a shroud, I just think the Polly-Anna act’s not wearing well. Sir, I’m worried that at some point avoidance starts to look like maybe we just haven’t noticed. We run the risk of appearing out of touch, like one of those President’s who doesn’t know the price of milk. Sir, do you know the price of milk?
BARTLET: Not precisely.
C.J.: Neither do I. Do any of us?Milk has up to 30% pus in it where I’m from (legal limit). Who buys that crap anyway?
Bananas are less than a dollar per pound.
What country is that?
United States
Oh dear
I’d assume Malaysia (from the @monyet)
well to be fair I don’t know the price of milk and I buy milk at the store. That’s not information I memorise
You probably know the ballpark. They have no idea what the correct order of magnitude is
it’s been harder since the ukraine war as things keep getting more and more expensive rapidly
€3.50 every day would be €108.50 per month for a single person eating a single meal per day
that’s way more than i spend at the supermarket and i eat two meals per day that are way more filling and actually healthy lmao
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I can almost assure you it was one of those gatherings of pretentious snobs that extend their pinky when sipping from their Château Latour.
Did they go looking doe the most smug, I’m-an-asshole expression possible for that guy, or does he just look like that?
Resting Bougface
Are you enjoying your capitalism?
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Idiot. That’s neither healthy nor sustainable. What’s his vision for his country?
Bleeding it dry? There was a thread in Mastodon recently proving there’s a massive supermarket cartel driving prices in Austria higher than in surrounding countries and the government took the side of the supermarkets.
Do you have a link to that? Would love to know more.
The vision of his party is to keep everything the same, they’re conservatives
Except when it comes to businesses, or religion, usually.
ÖVP has been in government for decades. There is nothing they want to change in regards to these topics, because the status quo conforms to their ideas.
Too bad the world keeps changing, huh?
It’s also nowhere near that cheap.
McD is hella expensive, especially if you have to live of of it.
A 8-10€ basic menu is good to fill in a single meal, but while having a ton of calories, doesn’t satiate enough to count even as a full meal (which is on purpose so you order more). At my local prices, you’re looking at 13-15€ minimum, to have a satiating meal out of McDonnalds.
What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my “poor” rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village’s life force happened.
“Communism is when no food”
Capitalism:
Who tf can afford to eat at McDonalds, have you seen their prices lately?
His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can’t even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.
He’s not just a capitalist pig, he’s an out of touch capitalist pig.
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His face is so incredibly punchable
He’s the kind of guy who looks like he could use a quick session of his teeth being on fire.
He looks so smug that I’d be afraid I might get some on my hand.
mcdonalds is not cheap though
Fast food is now treated as a “expensive night out” for us. It’s like $30 for standard cost.
Crazy how fucked the economy has gotten pretty much everywhere lol
: “But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!”
It’s inflation. This is simply what happens when the governments print money.
no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.
And after the delivery services started taking over, it’s not even fast. At my local place anything other than nuggets and fries takes 20-30min minimum.
This is another way to tell people to go kill themselves.
Basically yes.
Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash
The sentiment remains disgusting no matter how factually accurate it is.
“I only have a few dollars to feed my children”
"Oh fuck have you tried giving it to billionaires?“
Is McDonald’s cheap anywhere other than the US? In the US, there’s a bunch of promotions that drive costs way down…
Yeah, I always heard in my youth that McDonald’s is the poor’s restaurant (in the US at least). However it was never really the case e.g. in Hungary. It was always average priced at best. You can eat far better for far less in every moderate-sized town.
In the US you can get a burger and fries for $2 with their in-app promotions. On a per-calorie basis, it’s actually very competitive with cooking yourself.
Dang, it’s like around 10-15 AUD here. Best eating out calories to dollars is probably domino’s cheap line of pizzas
Spicy McChicken + free large fries no salt is sorta fire tho
It’s like $2.80 including tax
Free large fries eh? 🤔
“free” with $2 purchase, but yes
In Denmark you pay DKK 101 (USD 14,20) for a big mac meal with fries and a soft drink. It tastes a lot cheaper than that though.
Is McDonald’s even cheap in the US?
Nothing new for Austria. Lived there for 30+ years, it’s downhill and corruption all the way.
To be fair corruption and keeping people in cellars is about ¾ of our GDP.
Low-income families should eat long pig taken from the rich.
😠
Are you banking on a prion disease to take them out? Because cannibalism is a major risk factor for that.
P sure you just avoid the brain and it’s fine
Brain and spine. Just for the sake of clarity.