"My home dialysis machine is broken and none are available because they all rely at least partly on imports."
"Well, maybe your daughter could do without so many dolls."
"And, over here. Sir? Yes, I just lost my job at the port and now my family is going to starve."
"Dolls!"
This constant use of "little girls dolls" as a placeholder for all of world trade, is doing a lot of really weird work here...
May 7, 2025 00:34They are trying to feminize consumption so it won't seem important that real income is going down.
On top of which, there’s something slightly pervy about it.
Theyre meme making for their rank & file.
They had to bring the female gender into it somehow and talk about what “we” would be fine without having.
