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I know. But the two party system does prevent everyone from ever being able to vote on a better alternative unless an insurmountable number of people vote for some third party.

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Not really. The EU has many representative democracies. Not every country here is cut from the same cloth, with better or worse representation for multitudes of political idealogies. But there is still significantly better representation than the US.

The United States doesn’t have a left wing. Only a right wing that’s slightly less extreme right wing than the extreme right wing.

Your two party system has fucked you over for a whole century.

Compared to Europe they’re right-off-center.

In other words, America has no left. Only right and extreme right.

Ah yes. The Roman Empire from 2004.

That’s called being a class traitor.

Andrew Tate is so successful because there already existed the conditions to radicalise young people for quite some time.

Cult leaders or radical leaders don’t have a platform if everyone is just fine. No-one in a healthy environment wakes up in the morning and decides “let’s start some hateful shit, because it’s just so much fun!”

Yes… It’s because of the few loud-mouthed, salty, misogynists that men are generally lonely.

Maybe if this wasn’t the attitude towards men all the time, there’d be less young boys listening to twats like Andrew Tate.

Ah. I’ve just recently gotten that message. I kind of just ignored it.

What’s the significance? Is it Lemmy’s first spam bot?

Hey, have you seen those Japanese? They have curved swords. Curved… Swords…!

Well let me think…

I know a few local supermarkets sell frozen chickpeas in bags of 500 grams. And I think, off the top of my head, the price ranges between 15 dkk ($2.24) and 40 dkk ($5.97), depending on if there’s a sale on and which supermarket I go to. I know that Rema 1000 is on the cheaper end, and frozen vegetable products tend to go on sale pretty often, but it’s never the same products, so it’s very unpredictable when chickpeas go on sale. These prices include tax, as tax is not excluded from products in stores.

That means that 3 kg of frozen chickpeas would be between $14.44 (uaually when on sale) or $36.02.

Now, I can get dried beans and peas in much larger bulk from the various Arab stores in Copenhagen, but buying bags of dried goods from those stores comes with the risk of getting pantry moths. I’m still battling those little fuckers from the time I bought a large 5 kg bag of really high quality rice two years ago.

I live in Denmark.

There’s no Amazon in Denmark. Basically anything bought from Amazon either comes from Germany or the UK, which makes Amazon probably the worst, most expensive option for any reason.

I can buy oats and flour on the cheap around here, but chickpeas and dried beans? That’s very quickly sounding like $10 a day.

The choir. This is preaching to the choir.

Grandfather paradox.

I always torrent large FOSS projects where possible. It’s faster and doesn’t tax the servers of the project.

That’s not piracy, though, so I’m not sure why it’s being talked about here…