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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I focussed on the obesity statistics because that is what you were talking about.

    OK, let’s flip this.

    According to you, people with no money are not only buying junk food, but buying it in quantities to become overweight and obese.

    People with no money are buying large quantities of food.

    Is that what you’re claiming? Is that how the world works in your head?

    I’m saying that people with no money have no money to buy food. You’re saying that people with no money somehow also have enough money to buy large quantities of unhealthy food.

    At this point I can only assume that you’re just arguing bad faith, because there isn’t anything complicated to understand here.




  • Let them eat cake?

    Believe it or not, there are other countries than the US on the internet.

    Also (and I suspect an even more difficult concept to grasp) even within the US there are people with barely enough money to eat anything, let alone junk food.

    Look at the data - 47 million people in the US face food insecurity. Do you think these people are trapsing down to the food bank only when they fancy a change from McDonald’s?

    It’s good to be sceptical when you hear stuff that surprises you, but do a bit of research before dismissing it.




  • You’ve decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?

    FWIW, I didn’t downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?

    I’ll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.

    “Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link”

    “Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link.”

    Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they’re exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.