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Items under monthly rationing in Poland, early 1980s

You can trade the cigarettes, vodka, half the meat and half the sugar in the black market to get more of everything else.

I got to know a few elderly people here in northern Ontario who grew up during the war years. They didn't exactly have to ration things but things were definitely in short supply. So they ended up just either not drinking as much or giving up smoking because they were luxury items ... then use your savings to buy more of everything else.

And as an Indigenous person ... my parents grew up with very little. But you could live for months if you had good supply of flour, lard, sugar and tea. There is even a drink we made called tea ploss where you just made really strong tea, then mixed in flour, lard and sugar to make a quick energy drink without much fuss in the cold wilderness. Supplement all that with wild food and you had a healthy long term diet.

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Freud would have something to say...

The biggest problem is not exactly him ... it's the same problem with Trump .... it's the legions of mindless stupid people that follow them.

Kings aren't kings because of their intelligence, strength, ability or even the power or will of God.

Kings are kings because of the stupidity of a community of people

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Something's not math-ing

I'd rather pay higher prices to my local farmer that gives me quality food than a faceless corporation that gives me shitty products that travelled 10,000 kilometers and paid every single worker along that route as little as possible.