Fresh out, they’ve all been dropped on Iran.

Hope isn’t the right word for me. But I would very deeply enjoy Trump swinging from a noose of his own make.

Context matters. Someone using profanity more often than they otherwise would in the same context is generally a signifier of stress or excitement.

That’s not mutually exclusive with frustration at the world falling apart around us.

Si vis pacem…

500$ per person is a lot. Like, I don’t consider myself to be living the life of an involuntary ascetic anymore, but it’s over triple what I spend for myself. And I legit waste some food.

In my defense, it’s so fucking easy to buy a bunch of bananas and say “I’ll have a few tomorrow”, but tomorrow you have one, and the day after that you don’t feel in the mood for bananas, and before you know it the bastards have gone mushy

Seperate from groceries, ordering out has gotten crazy fucking expensive. Literally doubling in cost in just the past 5 years or so. Insane shit. I haven’t bought even fast food for myself in probably 2 years at this point.

My monthly food bill is around 150$ since I’ve gotten slightly more financially stable - no more surviving on ramen and cereal! I can buy good bread, fruit, corn, frozen chicken, and cheese. Life is good.

Soda was always a non-negotiable purchase, since I’m an addict, but buying on sale helps. It’s not like it goes bad quickly, after all.

I mean, that’s three people though, not 500$ PER person.

Man, I buy soda and brand name cereal (store brand tastes like sadness 9/10 times) and still don’t hit anywhere close to that.

If you mean romantic as in ‘idealistic’ and not ‘a relationship’

Yeah, but most Americans aren’t eating healthy either. So it’s more of a worst of both worlds situation.

Well, the post was just a joke, but that sounds reasonable.

Sometimes when I hear how much money people spend on groceries, I’m in awe. Who the fuck is spending 500$ on groceries per person per month? HOW the fuck are they doing it?

Like I said, I’m improving. It’s the world falling apart around me that’s making me feel it’s a bit superfluous to be achieving mental stability at this point in life.

Oh who are their enemies?

Most of the Middle East outside of North Africa. Lebanon, Jordan, the Saudis et co, Syria now, hot-cold relationship with Iraq. Israel, obviously; but less obviously, also Fatah. Ukraine, bizarrely enough, which has a dozen IRGC kills to their military’s name.

But geopolitically they’re a pretty good neighbor

Fucking what.

Iran should not have been bombed by this administration. But they’re the only force in the region worse than the Saudis for funding proxies and shipping paramilitaries to attack their enemies.

Apparently, the entire multi-year fight resulting in hundreds-of-billions cut from the military budget by Obama is all forgotten as soon as people want to beat the “DEMS BAD” drum.

MAGA don’t want world war 3. Only Zionists and their neocon puppets in the US government.

… who do you think MAGA are, again?

I don’t think people are cheering them on in general.

I wish that was true, but I’ve seen plenty of people cheer Iran on in general.

Campism is utter brainrot.