Honestly even if you don’t give a fuck about the climate, rice and beams will feed you for less than 1€ per meal ✴️
(though you probably should “splurge” on some spices and/or sauces if you plan on eating the same thing for every meal, no matter what it happens to be)
Being vegan is legitimately cheap, I’m not sure why I got downvoted ? It felt like an appropriate place to bring it up, I don’t often mention it online cause I know no one cares x)
My meals legit cost me less than 1€ each.
I agree. We do have to be quite careful about the optics thing, though. It’s not enough to be on the side of the people, the people also have to feel like you’re on your side.
The right has that part down real good, and we’re getting wrecked in many places because of that fact alone.
While this is BS, rotisserie chicken is unfortunately actually quite expensive nowadays 😅
I am very glad to be vegan, even if you only consider the money aspect, the savings are absolutely worth it 😂
The problem of course is that, bad as it may be to think this way, people (including me !) absolutely do think this way by default, unless consciously making the effort not to.
Maybe this can be deconstructed, but until then we need a good dose of “Realpolitik” that takes those biases into account, at least if we want to achieve anything concrete.
There is some truth to the “us vs them” between elites and the people, and the current elite is (somehow) very good at making a big part of the people they oppress think that “actually, you’re part of the elite too !”
Unfortunately, optics are incredibly important to win public opinion. As a radical leftist myself, I have little to no compassion for the man who died ; nonetheless I hope this doesn’t start a pattern.
Many people see these things as entirely vibes-based, so if we don’t look like the good guys, to many people that’s enough to decide we aren’t the good guys.
Truly, the most noble in name are not the most noble of heart.