This one is all about libs wanting to scold maga chuds for being "stupid". Chuds believe Trump can magically reduce the cost of eggs, so chuds and trump are stupid and proven wrong. Libs don't care about whether people can't afford eggs, because in their mind if eggs are expensive that's what the market has judged them to be; you can't just stop inflation. To libs there is no solution to reducing the price of eggs and you're stupid to think there is. They are the adults in the room after all.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Libs don't care about whether people can't afford eggs, because in their mind if eggs are expensive that's what the market has judged them to be;
really nailed the lib conception of the market
It is kind of a useful ideological tool for liberals.
It turns structural material issues into personal moral shortcomings, it turns "we have an egg shortage" into "if you work harder and make more money, you too can deserve eggs".
Leftists 
liberals
“Capitalists make the rules.”
It gets so frustrating to explain how BS it is minimum wage can never go up but capitalists can just unilaterally decide for themselves when they want a raise and just do it. But of course “muh property rights!” like porky isn’t leering at what little people have with envy.
Potential tagline?? This is exactly it - Both libs and Trump voters believe in magic that will solve all their ills, while believing the others' magic is their antithesis. I don't see either of them facing reality any more than the other.
eggs were literally the cheap protein
they used to tell you to buy canned tuna and eat that all the time if you were poor, but then we ate all the tuna in the deep blue sea so eggs became the food they told poor people to buy so that we can get the macronutrients we require to not die
now they just laugh
"Let them eat beans."
Mr. Vonnegut, please when are you gonna make Slaughterhouse 6? Or will it be Slaughterhouse 5: 2?
Cheap is a measure of labor cost. Externalities like climate destruction and disease outbreak only matter to the extent that they increase the labor required to produce eggs.
In a sane system of production, a cheap (ie plentiful) protein would be produced after evaluating climate, health, moral, and other considerations besides labor
While the contradictions are cracking in brains everywhere, will they stay separated as white and yolk, transparently acquiescing to the latest mask-off ruling class, or will the masses scramble for a moment of revolutionary potential? At this point it's hard to imagine any return to an over-easy state of affairs.
great bit, i'm poaching it
...they were never not ignoring the material conditions, half of their speeches are "please ignore that you are poor, it will get better soon"
Alternatively, "please ignore that you are poor, but the stock market is doing great!"
"Try looking at the big picture instead of being so self-centered." 
Who do you believe, your own lying eyes or the booming stock market?
ok 
well the u.s. government seems to be playing calvinball, so that tracks
Liberals have substituted opposition for schadenfreude (most of it expressed thru classism) and identity politics for identity schadenfreude or more commonly known as; racism
How they expect to maintain a cross-class and cross-demographic electoral coalition with this disgusting nonsense is genuinely a mystery
They've given up on the carrot and moved to the stick to get voters.
note carrot was just a piece of cardboard looking like a carrot and dems mad people noticed
My random words I chose for my username continue to pay dividends
Honestly I found it rather mean-spirited and alienating and I am not even American!
Same with the whole „Dearborn is quite now“ - like shut your mouth.
What is political Calvinism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Christianity#Predestination
Stemming from the theology of John Calvin, Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. While people are said to retain free will, in that they willfully sin, they are unable not to sin because of the corruption of their nature due to original sin. Reformed Christians believe that God predestined some people to be saved and others were predestined to eternal damnation.
Basically saying that if you voted wrong you are eternally damned for it. That's how I parsed it at least.
I still fail to see how this has to do with Calvinism. Liberals aren’t accusing conservatives of having some inherent essential characteristic of “sinfulness.” Well maybe they are, but they’re criticizing them based on political beliefs and actions. Which is what we do all the time
In addition to @[email protected]'s explanation, Calvinists believed that you could tell you were going to be saved if you were blessed in this life. So if you started a business and made a lot of money, that's a sign you had God's favor. The inverse, of course, is that if you're poor it's because you're a hellbound sinner. To map that to politics, the conclusion is that if you can't afford eggs it's because you didn't vote for the right candidate and don't deserve anything.
I thought election was based on nothing and there was no real way to tell if you were saved?
People didn't really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.
Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
Here's a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/
It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.
Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.
they are bad people though?
Yes, but the liberal analysis ends there, no material analysis, they're just ontologically bad.
Have a friend that works at an egg factory and says they've installed cameras to prevent people from stealing eggs.