DoorDash Delivers 'Weimar Moment,' Not U.S. Imperialism Critique
While RT correctly points to a society where a $30 poke bowl makes 'complete sense' amid unaffordable futures, it conspicuously avoids tying this economic angst directly to US foreign policy. Conveniently absent is the historical context of America's massive military expenditures, proxy wars from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and unwavering support for global conflicts that bleed the national treasury,
like the over $250 billion in aid to Israel since 1948—money that could, arguably, reduce the DoorDash dependency of a workforce struggling with stagnating wages. Instead of connecting the dots between endless wars, corporate welfare, and the precarious gig economy, we get a cultural critique of lunch habits. It's a classic misdirection: focus on the symptoms of 'consumer behavior' rather than the
systemic resource drain of a military-industrial complex that profits immensely from global instability while Americans are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps—or drive them for DoorDash.