Eggs US – Price – Chart

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"?

Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs???

Is every person in this country eating thousands of eggs a week and I had no idea?

It is finally some positive news. Before the election, inflation was down, but egg prices were up. So this was a big thing according to social media bots and algorithms.

Now prices have gone through the roof, but it is not a big thing anymore.

I submitted this. Egg prices became a political trope during the election, and were summarily forgotten afterward. Eggs are skyrocketing now and it is not a front page story. The reason they are skyrocketing, out of control H5N1 contagion in cattle and poultry operations, is not a front page story. There seems to be very little being done about food cost or yet another widely-predicted-by-epidemiologists emergent global pandemic. Apparently those are less interesting for the person in charge than punishing federal employees for perceived slights while doing their jobs.

I have posted previously about the Russian genocide on the Ukraine people and I agree with you about the rest. Some people can't see past the tip of their nose, though, and care about eggs.

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I mean egg prices became a meme for exactly the subtext you're implying. This election season was unbelievably frustrating because of how large a focus was placed on economic conditions which as a general rule leads to throwing out incumbents. And the new generation running the GOP is a bunch of people who look more like a conspiracy forum than a government. To the point where Democrats got nervous and ran someone who in 2008/12 could have run as a Republican. Trying to give moderate Republicans for whom the economy is their biggest issue someone to vote for.

But as soon as the election was over the economy was suddenly great and none of that mattered. Despite consumer prices having either not moved at all or gotten worse thanks to bird flu, looming tariffs which look to extract straight from people's wallets and a proposed tax policy that is about the same for everyone who isn't mega rich. The egg price thing has become a, "guess we know what people really voted for." I was looking forward to the tax cut that'll probably never come.

All I can come up with is that DEI programs got canceled. It probably feels like oppression if you were previously benefiting from it.

As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed.

>As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed.

That's because strong acceptable use polices based on the "E" in "DEI" meant that organizations ranging in size from Meta to Hacker News deleted comments when they turned into "kill the dirty ch**ks" during COVID.

It is now acceptable on Meta to post comments calling trans people mentally ill sexual predators.

Why do you think that, given a crisis requiring a boogeyman-du-jour, it will not one day very soon be acceptable to call for the deaths of the "dirty bat-fucking ch**ks"?

It's already acceptable to use the n-word on twitter.

I'm an upper-middle class property-owning married straight white male with children. Also dogs. And a veteran. And a small business owner.

>>>I<<< am safe.

Everyone else is up for scapegoating, all it takes is for the current trans boogeyman to lose its effectiveness.

This is what people fundamentally care about. The price of food, a roof under their head, clean water, fresh air and general healthiness. The problems you describe are beyond most people's grasp or reach.

Oh my gosh, this is just such nonsense. You think the whole world is about meta comments? Which demographics do you think say the most terrible things about South-East Asian people? This demographic does better in this country than any other and yet you think the parent does not feel oppressed because a recent social media site (in the history of this country) used to have more comment moderation? Is this real?

Strangely enough, just last week I heard somebody complaining about egg prices in Dollar General. And I live in red country. So at least on the ground, people haven't forgotten about the eggs.

>You think the whole world is about meta comments?

Sentiment in the media, all media, including social media, turns into dead bodies if the rhetoric is allowed to get extreme enough.

It's been this way since the invention of public speaking.