When you are living in a a seemingly unending hellscape, if a coffee and a croissant temporarily give you joy, it is worth every buttery, flaky bite.

People don't want to be miserable, money-hoarding automatons all day every day until their bodies fail and we compost them. They have been secretly having insignificant moments of joy. Why???

Gen Z, and low budget people, are asked to reject ALL the pleasures of a consumer society while also being bombarded by commercial messages telling them buying stuff will make them happy.

No conflict there. Nope. None at all.

😭

If the stream is intact, they don't have touch the fence with their hand

Om nom nom

Pffft

A different trade deal with each penguin

Wait, is hillbilly a slur or no? Someone said it might be

On a related note, I've had success with "People shouldn't disappear, that's not how we do things here" as a protest chant