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owiseedoubleyou to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s

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Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s

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owiseedoubleyou to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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No money for food? Go to McDonald’s, Karl Nehammer says.
  • space_comrade [he/him]
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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.

    • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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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

      • @TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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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?

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          well to be fair I don’t know the price of milk and I buy milk at the store. That’s not information I memorise

          • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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            You probably know the ballpark. They have no idea what the correct order of magnitude is

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              it’s been harder since the ukraine war as things keep getting more and more expensive rapidly

        • @library_napper@monyet.cc
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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.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            What country is that?

            • @library_napper@monyet.cc
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              United States

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                Oh dear

            • @imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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              I’d assume Malaysia (from the @monyet)

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