Poll Finds Most Americans Would Swap Democracy For $100 Best Buy Gift Card

https://theonion.com/poll-finds-most-americans-would-swap-democracy-for-100-1847682668/

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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 85 pts · 1y (5 replies)

We already did, Onion. Except it was for a dozen eggs.

EDIT: OH WAIT

Hickman’s Family Farms loses 95% of Arizona chickens to bird flu

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 1y

Which wasn't even "paid out"

joyjoy@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

An egg. My kingdom for an egg!

meco03211@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Worth more than $100 these days.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Guaranteed sans Bird Flu!™️®️

stinky@redlemmy.com · 7 pts · 1y

I didn't vote for him.

tal@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 1y (6 replies)

a $100 certificate they could use to purchase a new Bluetooth speaker or couple Keurig coffee makers,” said Pew pollster Dana Felder, who

I do not for one minute believe that $100 is buying a couple of Keurig coffee makers, unless those guys are going ridiculously hard on the razor-and-blades model.

checks Amazon

Yeah. The least-expensive Keurig coffee maker on Amazon is $60:

https://www.amazon.com/Keurig-K-Mini-Single-Serve-Coffee/dp/B07GV2S1GS

It looks like they go up to $126.

Maybe a couple of Mr. Coffee coffeemakers.

parad0x22@midwest.social · 23 pts · 1y (3 replies)

This article was first posted in 2021 and has not been edited since. Inflation has been considerable in that time.

tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Oh, good catch.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Remember when things were....affordable?

MangoCats@feddit.it · 3 pts · 1y

Not Keurig coffee makers.

MangoCats@feddit.it · 3 pts · 1y

I do not for one minute believe that $100 is buying a couple of Keurig coffee makers

It's not, these are the promises, like cheap eggs, affordable groceries and $1.98/gallon gasoline.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

My ex and I scored 5 at the thrift for $5 each. I'll never understand paying retail, and especially for coffee makers. I did pay "full" price for my Amazon French press. Whatever.

obvs@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Haha! You don't have a democracy to swap!

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

how does a dictatorship and a side of day old fries sound?

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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rovingnothing29@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

I ate this onion quite hard

Rakonat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

Bait was never this believable before.

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I mean, $100 bucks at Best Buy is like $35 at actual market prices. I'd need at least a $200 gift card.

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y

That's maybe two 1.5m HDMI cables.

tauren@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

I mean, this is more or less what happened in November.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

The Americans already did, for the promise of cheap eggs and an ethnostate.

PanArab@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If 5 million USD can buy you a US citizenship, why can’t I sell mine for 5 mill USD? I will gladly do so, and I bet I won’t be the only one.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, is there a sign up sheet?

Jaybird@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

the avg American wouldn't give a fuck, at all. they would shout "gimme that!" not even knowing what they were trading away, thinking it's "just some political bullshit".

KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Sure... plus tax.

Nublets@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Still waiting on my gift card...

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Didn’t this already happen with Elon “paying” people to vote Trump?

spacecadet@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
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DancingBear@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
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melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

I thought it would've been a Wal-Mart gift card.

sqgl@beehaw.org · 0 pts · 1y

Strange closing paragraph.

the highest they’d been since 1996 when 80% of Americans stated that they would live under an Islamic theocracy in exchange for a $50 gift card to Radio Shack.

yournamehere@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y

not loving money more than life is so un-american