• P1r4nha@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Idiot. That’s neither healthy nor sustainable. What’s his vision for his country?

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    Did they go looking doe the most smug, I’m-an-asshole expression possible for that guy, or does he just look like that?

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    “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

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      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.

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        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

        https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/pain-au-chocolat-a-10-centimes-ticket-de-metro-a-4-euros-quand-les-politiques-vivent-dans-un-autre-monde_1887529.html

        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

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          ‘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?

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            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.

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    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.

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      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.