• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Food desert?

    You first worlders invent fancy words for everything. Try living in a real desert for once, you privileged gringo.

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      You’re falling for a common tactic of the people oppressing both you and the poor in America, making them fight against each other instead of the ones actually causing it. If a homeless person makes more than people in your country by begging, them making less or straight up dying does nothing to help your country either.

      The rich profiting from both those under hard times in America while at the same time raping your country, those are the ones who deserve your ire.

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      I have and it’s fucking easy, because deserts are nature and in nature you can just pick shit you need. You can’t do that in a food desert, because some overly enthusiastic wannabe fascist will boot you down for shoplifting and throw you to jail for some forced labour so the US economy doesn’t fall.

      I didn’t design their economy nor do I live in it. I’m very capable of surviving in the wild where I live. I just don’t need to. I would much rather do that. And build my own house. Unfortunately we have something called “building regulations” so I’m not allowed to construct weird stick-tents like you, so you know, I’ll actually have to pay a person for the materials.

      According to the USDA’s most recent report on food access, as of 2017, approximately 39.5 million people - 12.9% of the US population - lived in low-income and low food access

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_States

      And if you’re using terms like “privileged gringo” you’re probably from the Southside of the US southern border.

      Meaning you’re likely Mexican (or not, but it’s not a bad likelihood). But you don’t acknowledge this as an issue?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_by_country#North_America

      As a result, people of low Socio economic status (SES) ultimately spend up to 37% more on their food purchases.[33]

      a study on urban food environments, participants described the lack of supermarkets as a “practical impediment to healthful food purchase and a symbol of their neighborhoods’ social and economic struggles”.[41] Health outcomes edit

      There are diet and health implications for those who live in areas where nutritious food is not readily available; some claims, such as linking food deserts with obesity in children, are disputed.[21][22][42]

      A summary report by The Colorado Health Foundation concluded that individuals with access to supermarkets tend to have healthier diets and a lower risk of chronic disease such as diabetes.[43] Food deserts are correlated with many poor health outcomes. Other studies find a link between better access to supermarkets and lowered risk of obesity. As well, better access to convenience stores is associated with a higher risk of obesity.[17]

      It’s not my fault you don’t have basic education, ese

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        2 days ago

        Assuming only Mexicans use the insult gringo is racist af.

        But what can we expect from a orsnge skinned uneducated blob from freedom burger eagle shooter land

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          Why would you assume I assume only Mexicans use it?

          You’re speaking English, but probably because you know we have that language in common.

          You don’t even know my skin colour. I can tell you that my hair and skin is such that is sometimes has caused people to ask me where I’ve emigrated from. When my name is essentially the Finnish equivalent of Jack Johnson or the like.

          Voin mäki ruveta omalla kiellellä perseilee mut en ymmärrä et miten luulet et se auttaa mitää?

          So now you’re just cursing Trump? While he’s definitely one cuntry motherfucker who deserves to go, the food desert issue wasn’t created by him. More like the same ridiculous systems came up with both food deserts and a Trump presidency.

          But food deserts still definitely are a thing in NA.