Food Grievances

~ Clarissa

I tell everybody I like sausage but thankfully nobody has taken umbrage so far.

Speaking of food, I’ve spent a long day preparing the talk for my book tour, taking Klara from campus to orthodontist to kids’ gym, making okroshka, and unpacking, only to discover that Red Lobster is filing for bankruptcy. I love Red Lobster. I feel as aggrieved as the sushi professor from the story above but with more reason.

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  1. I’ve moved to the right but the one lefty opinion I still hold is is that financialization of everything in society is a cancer eating our insides. For any society to flourish these people should not have power.

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    1. I completely agree with you. Why wouldn’t your criticism of financialization resonate with the right? The people in charge of this are the elites they should hate. They aren’t doing any real work or producing anything of value.

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    2. The Left has completely abandoned economic issues, so it falls to the Right to pick up the slack. All you ever hear from the Left about the economy is how great Bidenomics is. And that’s very embarrassing.

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        1. @Anonymous: The maga/dissident right will support this but the chamber of commerce wing of the party (which still has all the power) will not. It has been singing paeans to the virtues of the “free market” and corporatization of america when the same corporations have fucked GOP in the ass. They’re still living in the 80s and pretend the last 30 years haven’t happened. Clinton signed NAFTA but it happened with overwhelming GOP support.

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          1. They are also obsessed with urgent need for mass migration. As if every voter who wanted that crap didn’t already have an entire Democrat party to push these policies.

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            1. GOP’s priorities are not america’s priorities.

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              1. I saw some self-styled conservatives bemoan the other day that benefits went to lazy Americans and not industrial illegal migrants. I wanted to scratch my eyes out to unsee it.

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          2. Thank you for the response. Yes, this makes sense. I guess I was thinking about the individual GOP voters, not the party leaders.

            How have the corporations fucked GOP? They have harmed the individual voters but not the party.

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            1. They donate to the Dems. They have massively embraced every liberal fantasy from BLM to 🌈 stuff. The corporate world has moved dramatically to the Left. We complain about wokeness in academia but it’s child’s play compared to wokeness in the corporate world.

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              1. They also donate to the GOP. The wokeness in the corporate world is for show; their main priority is financial. They’re completely aligned with the commerce wing of the GOP and will pursue those policies.

                The culture wars are a distraction as the elites rob us blind.

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              2. Show of what and to whom? Workers of all political persuasions overwhelmingly hate it. Who’s the spectator of the show?

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            2. @Anonymous, let us take Citizen’s United. This was a supreme court decision that was supposed to END DEMOCRACY if you believed what liberals were saying about it at that time. Pure hysteria.

              In the last 10 years, have you heard anyone from the democratic party complain about it? Or even mention it? What does that tell you about which side corporations have taken in the last decade?

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              1. “There’s too much money in politics and we should do something about it”

                Said no dem politician after 2010.

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              2. I hear the left talking about Citizens United all the time. I suppose I would need to pull up data about whether those are elected officials. I’m not conservative and don’t folllow any conservative media.

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  2. The terrifying consequence of the feminist slogan “the personal is political” is that even idle chitchat about food preference is weaponised by random grievance professionals into harmful speech.

    What is to be done? Are we still allowed to talk about the weather or is that also off limits?

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    1. When somebody tells me they like borscht, the last thing that occurs to me is to sue. People truly have lost the capacity to feel embarrassed for doing clearly ridiculous things. So somebody said something that rubbed you the wrong way. Big freaking deal, you gigantic baby. I wonder if this person even has any friends left. Who would want to hang out with a crybaby who freaks out and sues over every casual remark?

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      1. I know! It’s very weird to have people acquire a severe look and lecture one about global warming whenever one makes an innocent comment about the weather. I suck at small talk as it is, and weather is my go-to safe topic. And now even that was taken away from me.

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        1. It used to be safe to compliment a woman (I like your hair, dress, …), but that can be offensive now too, especially if it is hair. Weather is no good, food is no good and do not dare to ask anyone about where they are from. Notice that when people are now waiting (for the elevator, in a line, etc.), everyone is now staring into their cellphones so there is no more small talk.

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            1. LOL I really do not mind, it is just an observation. I am happy to stare at people who stare at their cellphones, it’s pretty entertaining.

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          2. TBH, I am really glad compliments on personal appearance have become distasteful. I have always been disturbed by such compliments, and life is more comfortable now that it is not a standard thing to do.

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  3. professional grievance mongers have indeed made all conversation a minefield of potential microaggressions. So much for “diversity is our strength.”

    Amanda

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  4. I like tabemono and I cannot lie

    You ryōri defenders won’t deny

    That I stuff my face while you must sit in place

    And I get fed

    🙂

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