Gasp! I’m feeling incredibly owned! Quick, someone get me a photo of a child wearing a mask, while learning about critical race theory! With a rainbow flag somewhere in the background!
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This is like weapon grade cringe:
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I should definitely have settled on ‘less information’.
Thank-you, I think.
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Funny, we were talking about cruelly mocking people for situations they can’t help, making it seem as if some moral defect were to blame for the person’s obstacles, and here this.
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Their relatives used Covid as an excuse not to invite them to Thanksgiving.
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People can choose to eat something better than TV dinners. They’re awful and overly expensive
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And if you don’t have a real kitchen to cook in? Or the ability to buy all the raw ingredients to make a nutritious meal?
Sometimes TV dinners are the cheapest way to fill up, based on what’s available at the closest store.
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If you have the ability to cook or microwave a TV dinner, there are better cheaper alternatives usually from the same places. Not even cooking from raw ingredients.
“I don’t see class, I just see people.”
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Hell sometimes you just want one night’s worth of lasagna. I say this as some one who eats almost only home made meals: doing so is a privilege and learning to do so on a budget is a legitimate skill.
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It’s not a social class thing. It’s a survival skill thing. TV dinners are a lack of imagination and care. Even microwavable burritos are a cheaper, healthier and tastier choice.
I will refrain from saying what Ingraham did to Roger Ailes to get her job out of respect for community standards.
But I will infer it unambiguously.
What are you even going on about?
There are a huge variety of microwavable meals out there that could be broadly classified as “TV dinners,” just as there are a huge variety of microwaveable burritos. Both vary widely in terms of flavor, nutrition and cost. It’s nonsensical to make blanket statements suggesting one is always a better choice than the other.
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I think Laura Ingraham is a terrible person. But she is smart, hard working, and competent at telling democracy-destroying propaganda, meaning she is perfect for her current job (even though I wish neither the network nor the job existed). Her being sexually exploited by Roger Ailes maybe the least worthwhile reason to condemn her
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Don’t be knocking TV dinners. They are life saver when you’ve only got 15 minutes between meetings to make a quick lunch. I myself had a lovely frozen Madras Curry I popped into the microwave for today’s lunch. It was quite yummy.
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Or when you’re a working-class stiff who only has a short amount of time to grab something to eat between getting off their day job and heading to a night shift somewhere.
There are absolutely classist considerations surrounding these kinds of meals.
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Except that alongside the relatively insignificant yet snobby trope about TV dinners, the dialog went, “… Snigger snigger white trash…”… “. LOL, trailers…” and when I shuddered, suddenly you started insisting that the little bow tie the elephant in the room was wearing is the point.
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