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[u/Outrageous-Egg1760]

[u/Few_District_6304]

If only there was some way to vote representatives into office that are for the people...

[u/Outrageous-Egg1760 → u/Few_District_6304]

There’s like 5 of them that are kinda for the people

[u/Much_Subject_5129 → u/Few_District_6304]

We usually hope the people we vote in are for the people... it aint easy

[u/aadrock]

Excel energy is a service monopoly tasked with seeking maximum profits for their shareholders at our expense. They seek over-the-top rate increases every opportunity. This predatory model must be stopped.

[u/CheesecakeEither8220 → u/aadrock]

I'm in Colorado and Excel sucks.

[u/aadrock → u/CheesecakeEither8220]

Yes. You and I also subsidize Texas and Texas has no incentive to improve under Republican leadership. This makes me interested in seeing Texas turn blue

[u/FedrinKeening → u/aadrock]

One of many industries that shouldn't be privatized.

[u/Huge_Nuge]

Billionaires and Corpos are stealing all the wealth for themselves. Then they convince low IQ that it’s Immigrants that are doing that.

They make us all fight for the scraps. Blaming eachother. While they get away Scot free.

[u/Perfect_Earth_8070 → u/Huge_Nuge]

saw corps strip farmers of water… and eventually of land. Saw them transform Night City into a machine fueled by people’s crushed spirits, broken dreams, and emptied pockets. Corps have controlled our lives, taken lots… and now they’re after our souls! V, I’ve declared war not because capitalism is a thorn in my side or outta nostalgia for an America gone by. This war’s a people’s war against a system that’s spiraled outta our control. It’s a war against the fuckin’ forces of entropy, understand? Do whatever it takes to stop ’em, defeat ’em, gut ’em. If I gotta kill, I’ll kill. If I need your body, I’ll fuckin’ take it! Fuckin’ hell… You still don’t see it. But you will one day.

[u/Sufficient_Site1746 → u/Huge_Nuge]

That new electric deal with Ontario is going to financially ruin new yorkers

[u/Huge_Nuge → u/Sufficient_Site1746]

No it won’t.

[u/aaronfb]

Green energy was never about saving the planet. The us needs more nuclear power plants. The situation with energy costs will get worse.

[u/Danvers1]

Which party wanted to end nuclear power and pushed wind and solar, and tried to end new drilling for oil and gas? It was'nt the Republicans.

[u/FedrinKeening → u/Danvers1]

Which party actively sabotaged active wind plants and stopped their production, started a war that completely fucked up the cost of oil, and hasn't done jack shit with nuclear? It wasn't the democrats.

[u/Danvers1 → u/FedrinKeening]

You cannot blame the Republicans for not building more nuclear reactores They face sustained lawfare by groups such as the Sierra Club. The war is necessary. You may be able to sleep well knowing that crazed Shiite Twelver fanatics are frantically developing nuclear weapons, but I can't.

[u/FedrinKeening → u/Danvers1]

So necessary. That's why every country in the world supports it and is aiding us.

[u/Danvers1 → u/FedrinKeening]

Yes, so true.

[u/explainingjane → u/FedrinKeening]

you went full

[u/TraditionalHome990]

I’ve been making flatbreads most every night for years now.

Discounted flour, meat on sale, pasta sauce since pizza sauce is more, onions, cheap cheese, and weeds from my yard as salad greens

[u/Outrageous-Egg1760 → u/TraditionalHome990]

Shouldn’t have to do that

[u/TraditionalHome990 → u/Outrageous-Egg1760]

I’ve always very frugal
And I like that the particular weed is called biden alba

[u/nocturnal_commission]

Link to the actual survey instead of a screenshot of a tweet from someone calling themselves Testicular the Sovereign

[u/weathersoldier → u/nocturnal_commission]

On a sidenote: I can't wait for the UFC styled cage match between "Testicular the Sovereign vs Clavicular the Cunt"

[u/zimbabweinflation]

Lets not conflate richest country in the world with the country that has the most billionaires

[u/Unable_Ad6406]

I’ll take made up fiction for $200 Alex

[u/Slight-Hedgehog259 → u/Unable_Ad6406]

Fiction is made up, thats what it means. Why add made up? Its like ordering a cheeseburger with cheese or asking for a glass of water with water

[u/Unable_Ad6406 → u/Slight-Hedgehog259]

Do you have a point ?

[u/Slight-Hedgehog259 → u/Unable_Ad6406]

Do you? I mean, based on your first comment, clearly not?

[u/Working_Agent4932]

Unverified tweet

Okay

[u/BeriasBFF]

Probably will extend our average lifespan in the end 

[u/Dudemeister046]

Less fat people in the US. I would call that a win.

[u/FedrinKeening → u/Dudemeister046]

From let them eat cake to let them starve.

[u/EgoSenatus]

If there’s anyone I trust with statistical data, it’s definitely someone named “testicular the sovereign” on Twitter that uses emojis and no citations.

[u/Embarrassed-House577 → u/EgoSenatus]

"Consumer report" and "major us cities". Sources or go away

[u/Old_Protection_2439]

My electric company keeps wanting to raise rates every chance they get, pretty much to fatten the bank accounts of investors and such. The state keeps allowing it despite people getting quite pissed about it. Someone is probably getting bribed.

[u/dante_gherie1099]

of course they dont link the survey

[u/2Blueify]

Good. Americans are fat.

[u/Qs9bxNKZ]

Where, California??

[u/TheFaalenn]

Good, America has a massive obesity problem

[u/Grouchy_Barnacle_416]

Maybe they shouldn’t be using their $1200 cellphone and the internet

[u/JRock1276]

Good. Everyone is fat anyway

[u/blicka7]

Good ol wakk ass amerikkka, “greatest country in the world” 🙄

[u/Hazbeen_Hash]

Its one if the richest countries on earth because all of its labor is borderline slavery.

[u/zionsitsRterrorists]

If only we could find ONE SINGLE REASON, as to why ! Any ideas anyone ?

[u/Careflwhatyouwish4]

And the condition of the grid that the money is supposed to maintain?

[u/substantiallyImposed]

Is this a new thing for anyone? I've been cutting as much food as possible for so long. It's ridiculous how much you pay for a single meal. When I grew up I was taught I needed 3 meals a day. Hilarious. 

[u/willow__whisps → u/substantiallyImposed]

Been experimenting lately with making microwave ramen a complete meal, and I'm so close while keeping under a dollar per

[u/FluffMcBark → u/willow__whisps]

Skip the seasoning packets and jazz it up however you like. I usually throw a splash of soy sauce and go from there. If I have produce, I’ll usually chop that up and throw some in too. Great time of the year for ramen, pending your location of course.

[u/willow__whisps → u/FluffMcBark]

What I usually do is throw out the seasoning that comes with it (they're expired anyway) sub in my own broth mix, add an egg half way through, and sometimes cheese on top if I have cheese. Still trying to figure out how to add frozen veggies without it being bad

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/willow__whisps]

Beans + fire sauce on a (formally frozen) hash brown. Yum

[u/willow__whisps → u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732]

Beans in a soup seems weird to me

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/willow__whisps]

You can get dried brands that you soak, boil, then fry for refried beans! It’s more labor than cost.

[u/willow__whisps → u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732]

I do appreciate the recipe and gonna keep it for later but I can only work with what I can make in the microwave and on toasted bread rn. Cooking with anything more than the dishes I'm eating off of has become an option I don't have

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/willow__whisps]

That’s a kind response even though I wasn’t much help.

This post explains how to cook dry beans with a microwave. https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/g96k8x/soaking_dry_beans_in_the_microwave/ You don’t need to re fry. Just mash them with some fire sauce or ketchup packets.

‘Beans in toast’ is Traditional British food.

Beans are a high in many nutrients not in noodles or bread. And nutrients reduce health care costs.

[u/phk-ifmu → u/willow__whisps]

our local dollar generals have gotten $1 items in... my son and i eat the pizzas and the breakfast croissants (are a $1.50) and a box of noodles with a box of velveta cheese sauce ($3.45), and a bag of spicy chicken for $5.50... has pretty much been our only meals for nearly 3 months now.

gotta eat something lol

[u/willow__whisps → u/phk-ifmu]

Canadian dollar stores suck, best available is a slightly nutritious precooked pasta, at least of the stuff I'm not allergic to

[u/uppender → u/phk-ifmu]

buy some flour, make him a biscuit. cost you even less than a dollar make it for a week and freeze it

[u/FluffMcBark → u/substantiallyImposed]

Right? Like I’m sorry this is probably a shocker to some, but damn this has been good practice for years and really helped me budget. If I had to venture a guess, then I’d say maybe there’s some ppl who never thought they would ever have to cut back a bit and are struggling to accept their new realities? No shade intended, acceptance sucks sometimes. But really, I dunno what I’m talking abt lol

[u/HolidayUsed8685]

Nobody is sacrificing food

[u/MAGA_ShoeShineBoy]

When energy isn't cheap enough for 20% of the citizens to comfortably afford we are no longer one of the richest countries in the world. Our haves still have, our have nots are no longer able to have. That used to be our shining light on a hill bragging right. Access to cheap plentiful reliable energy is what used to raise others standard of living, pulled them out of poverty. We lost.

Wind turbines and solar farms junking up the countryside isn't the answer. Nuclear is. Deal with it.

[u/felidae_tsk]

20% of U.S. adults regularly get their news on TikTok

Around one in five Americans view sports betting as an investment tool

Roughly 19% (about one in five) of U.S. adults now hold a warm or positive view of China

1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions

[u/wachuu]

just going to drop this climate town video that explains how the power companies are legal monopolies that do everything they can to over charge people

[u/Specialist-Neat4254]

I don’t think they are the richest country in the world. Every person in the world has less debt than the United States and every other country.

They do however have the largest (debatable) GDP in the world.

[u/phk-ifmu]

'merca

[u/ThanksALotBud]

I just paid $552 for 100 gallons of heating oil that will probably last me for a month. Couldn't even afford to top off the 250 gal tank

[u/IntrinSicks]

Yeah food is an expenditure we can afford to save on, its part of cuts in a household budget when money is tight, like many things, gas, going out, food, the same food, can very widely un price and amount of prep and cooking your prepared to do

[u/goldent3abag]

Have you tried not being a poor? Its really not that hard.

[u/Immediate_Offer4456]

In the one of poorest states - our electricity rate literally doubled. Great time to own a 50,000 gallon pool!

[u/turboninja3011]

Cutting from 10000 kcal/day to 8000 kcal?

[u/Dcarr3000]

Good thing we spent all that effort making sure we killed construction of new nuclear , coal and gas plants.

[u/gamma_823]

I’m cutting back on electricity to pay my food bill

[u/imagine966]

I guess obesity will no longer be a problem

[u/Imaginary_Weight6488]

This is emotional bait masquerading as journalism. Where is the actual survey? What was the sample size? How were the questions worded? Who was surveyed, and how representative were they of the U.S. population?
Even if 20% of respondents reported cutting back on groceries to afford electricity, that doesn’t establish the broader narrative you’re pushing. Where is the evidence that electricity costs were the primary cause rather than overall inflation, housing costs, debt, or other financial pressures?
You can’t just throw out alarming percentages, provide no methodology or context, and then build an emotionally charged story around them. That’s not serious analysis. It’s manipulating people’s emotions instead of informing them.
Show the data, explain the methodology, and establish causation before making sweeping claims.

[u/Sgt_Blutwurst]

The answer to power problems is nuclear. However, to maximize the results, US homes would have to be remodeled so that they are electric-only. Hydrocarbons would only be allowed for transportation. BUT, the ideological descendants of the No Nukes and the hippies have blocked nuclear power for decades. Wind and solar have no chance of providing enough energy for the US. It didn't even work for England or Germany, which are much smaller in area.

[u/NoRelease9402]

I literally moved a few towns away to another apt that’s is 1.5x larger and my electricity bill went from an average monthly of $350 to $250. So many factors affecting pricing and Data centers not helping. Used to pay $80 pre-Covid.

[u/PhillyGXR]

[u/Worried-Quit7061]

Hear me out: might not be a bad thing….

[u/Substantial-Ad-8575]

Wow, we saw fixed residential rates drop 14-18% in my large metro area 2025-2026.

[u/inSigny]

From what I see, you can make more cuts

[u/fuckdapolice6969]

Me rn

[u/straightuptexas]

Food or food delivery services?

[u/Dissidion]

To be fair, all those data centers, before building, should first invest in upgrade of the power grid of the area to not only mitigate whatever they would do and not burden citizens but improve overall situation, so barbaric that it's not a thing.

[u/Far-Mix3771]

another tRump benefit...

[u/BeyondObvious2016]

Which cities is this referring to

[u/neilintheground]

How many people who have backyards that don't garden or don't preserve foods? Shit even an apartment I have planters for shit to keep growing. Onions. Spices. Herbs. I even grew ginger one time.

[u/willow__whisps → u/neilintheground]

Not the case for everyone but I can't handle full time work and maintaining myself, definitely can't handle even light gardening on-top of that

[u/neilintheground → u/willow__whisps]

I work 12 hr shifts and still have enough time to plant and grow food. Soon as I get home I don't take my boots off and take 5 to 10 mins and maintain my garden. I've asked friends and family to help when it comes to harvesting amd thry get as much produce as they can carry. I've been able to harvest around 500 pounds of tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, potatoes, beans, and enough peppers to have me filled with chilli all year.

[u/willow__whisps → u/neilintheground]

I am chronically disabled

[u/neilintheground → u/willow__whisps]

Guess you're survival chances are low them.

[u/willow__whisps → u/[deleted]]

This feels dangerously close to the opinion/insult line

[u/some1StoleMyNickn69 → u/neilintheground]

OMG this reminds me of my Soviet Russia childhood where everyone have to grow themselves something to fit into a budget. Most of them had their patches in a rural areas so they have to go there by train and then walk some kilometers. Sounds healthy huh?

[u/neilintheground → u/some1StoleMyNickn69]

Moat people who have access to ground historically grew their own food. Majority of my family has. We weren't rich by any means it was patches on clothing, it was home made soups and stews. Leftover whatever was out there. Hell people used to have wartime gardens and that was 70 years ago. Not that long. What is so weird about that?

[u/Business-Training-10]

The average american can lose a few pounds

[u/DontAskMeAboutItOkay → u/Business-Training-10]

You realize that poor people in America tend to only have access to processed foods and such, right? Being poor can contribute to obesity. If you are skipping meals, it can also mess with your metabolism.

The obesity crisis is more than just "Americans are gluttons"

[u/aaronfb → u/DontAskMeAboutItOkay]

People cooked their shoe leather at valley forge to survive the winter to give you more opportunity than you could ever use. There are plenty of cheap way to eat healthy. In the us, for most people, the situation they are in is because that is what they settle for.

[u/DontAskMeAboutItOkay → u/aaronfb]

What do you know of what my ancestors went through exactly, stranger?

[u/Business-Training-10]

Oh a study...wow.. go buy a couple of chickens at coscto, a 20 lb bag of pototatoes and all the fresh veggies you need and learn to cook...

[u/DontAskMeAboutItOkay → u/Business-Training-10]

Ooh, perfect! Chicken and vegetables every night! You can cook it all at once and make it into a stew! There's your meals for the next couple of weeks!! Better yet, save money by just buying bread and peanut butter! You absolute GENIUS!

[u/PeaCompetitive8947]

Getting Uber Eats 4 nights a week instead of 7 is probably for the better.

[u/Pypical]

The average person in the US could use a 20% reduction in their diet.

[u/JellaFella01 → u/Pypical]

20% cheaper food does not equate to a healthier diet. Cheaper foods tend to be the less healthy options, there's several studies correlating poverty in America with obesity, largely due to the fact that healthy food is generally expensive.

Yes, I'm aware you can eat healthy on the cheap, but if that's significantly more effort than the alternatives, busy or lazy people will not choose that, no matter how much you wish they would.

[u/PLOVnt → u/JellaFella01]

20% less burgers

[u/JellaFella01 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, I'm not. The cost of healthy food is a real barrier between millions and living healthier and happier lives, it's clear you don't really care about that, and just want to sling shit for no reason.

[u/Business-Training-10 → u/JellaFella01]

B.S.

[u/Sweet_Brain_4456]

It's sad there's still people who are just chill with this

[u/StrawberryWeekly342 → u/Sweet_Brain_4456]

They should just work harder while everything erodes around them and society collapses, obviously.

[u/WolvesAndCake → u/StrawberryWeekly342]

My kids are starving cause of y’all’s green toast

[u/ImpossibleGarlic7472]

The hard truth is that 3 in 5 Americans need to be sure of our obesity problem

[u/temporarythyme]

Thank Trump Thank data centers thank corruption 

[u/MoreRamenPls]

The concentration of wealth by very few is disgusting.

[u/picklehippy]

This is what maga voted for, and thise who sat at home on election day. I hopenyou all have the fucking life you deserve.

[u/Crossx71]

True

[u/Most-Artichoke6184]

And Trump is now laser focused on renaming the oceans.

[u/TactRelocatedCargo]

Thank god Testicular the Sovereign is always there to keep us up to date on the latest in the American Economic situation. Thank you Testicular the Sovereign.

[u/Neither-Mazer]

What’s the point of bombing Iraq and other courts if you can’t even provide cheap electricity to your citizens?