• UmeU@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I have always said that so long as McDonalds has a hot burger for a few bucks on every street corner, there will not be a revolution in the US.

    Rather than starving to death, we have an obesity epidemic along with an opiate epidemic, which prevents the revolution from getting up off the couch.

    Not trying to claim a conspiracy here, just the way things are.

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      2 days ago

      McDonald’s is expensive now.

      A double cheeseburger was a dollar a few years ago, sure. But it’s almost that much for a single nugget these days.

      A hash brown is 3.50 at the one by my office.

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      2 days ago

      It only takes about 3% of the population to push effective revolution. That’s still over ten million people. We might be getting close.

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      Just offer free food and specially free opiates if they start a revolution. There’s many means to a end