They're bragging about how rich they are

NAILED IT! Great eye!

I was extremely tempted to say this was aigen, and wrote a whole paragraph explaining that, but a tineye search suggests this image existed circa 2015, which as the world in general knows is before aigen tech was this capable. my primary source of belief that this was aigen was the jarring text, which proves to be a result of translation; the cartoon was apparently originally in russian, and the original text looks much more natural. see tineye results.

We need to Obama-style wedding drone strike that bitch.

But they are all old, probably taste gamey and hard to chew. Can we feed them to the wolves instead?

We've been taught to consume our entire lives, get 'em!

Yeahh kinda bland and too crowded imo.

Yeah, I was about to say, this place looks terrible. Like a regular outdoor cafe where you dress up and I assume pay way too much for the food

Careful. That might be illegal to say. If you want to make sure you're staying within the laws, please watch this helpful psa WKYK put together.

Before I saw your comment that's where my mind went. You'd surely get shot dead, but you could get 2 off easy, unstoppable at that point.

AC-130 training mission.

Wow, I'm saving this. It's so apt.

White glove, Brown nose.

Let me just spend about 6 more months moaning online

Nope.

It is the most bizarre claim that wealthy will leave the US if they had to pay their fair share. If it was true it would be a good thing. Let them all leave, it is not like they pay their share anyways. I will call that bluff.

It's the lighting. There are two light sources off screen with some sort of gobo, but they're at slightly different angles so it makes the shadows overlap.

All of this pomp and ceremony reminds me of that. "Let them eat cake" .... They're so fucking tone deaf its incredible more people don't stand up and do what Luigi was accused of doing. He's innocent, but he was accused of it.

Which means you don't understand poverty.

As a homeless person, it's the most expensive time of my life. Time is expensive, because I don't have a car. I use the bus for most things which means waiting, and delays, and more waiting, and walking 10+ minutes between the bus/train and the destination. And I live in LA.

I'm solo, I don't have kids who are constantly growing and regularly need new clothes. I'm not paying rent. I'm not paying utility bills. I don't pay a car payment, or for gas. I'm getting unemployment, and saving what I can to try to afford something in life that doesn't suck. No car maintenance. I'm lucky that I live in a homeless shelter, but the food is hit or miss, and they're cracking down on what we can actually buy for ourselves. They won't let us buy in bulk like ramen, or cookies, or protein shakes. They want us to only buy things that can be consumed "day of". I got the stink eye for bulk buying multivitamins and fiber pills.

Lots of other people have 1 or 2 jobs, but the jobs barely pay peanuts, plus a lack of benefits. I used to work at iHeartRadio, a multi billion dollar company, and I wasn't permitted to get benefits because I was mandated to a max of 29 hours a week. And often poor paying jobs are further from housing than better paying jobs, which means longer commutes, meaning less meal prep time, less family time, less self care. So cheap food like McDonald's – being extremely calorie efficient for the price – is the regular go to. Or spending a lunch break to get an expensive 7-11 snack.

And even if someone isn't buying McDonald's or 7-11, and they're actually being frugal, many Americans are 1-2 paychecks away from homelessness. Because we have virtually no worker protections, no work-life balance, minimum wages that are stuck 16 years in the past, while inflation and housing and education skyrocket. People are often stuck in their life conditions with little to no hope for their future.

These very people are struggling to survive. They aren't getting a chance to live.

In America, it's easier for a housed person to become homeless than it is for a homeless person to become housed.

Empathy may be beyond your grasp but you might someday reach for perspective.

These people get paid to eat and drink thousands of dollars of the fanciest food while you eat beans over a broken sink. And you are the one paying them.

Kinda like saying you're not worried about housing because a shack in the woods is only a couple hundred bucks lol

Not trying to be argumentative, genuinely interested -- what's a healthy $3 a day diet? Cos I'm trying to cut my groceries bill down and spending like £2 a day and being confident that it'll be healthy would be honestly pretty great peace of mind