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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I laugh at these embedded fact-checking mechanisms liberals assumed would stop Trump and Q-anon in their tracks, being used to undermine Biden. Must suck to suck.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Our fact checkers, their RuZZian dezinformatsiya

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Stop trying to make “Bidenomics” a thing, it’s never going to be a thing

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least Abenomics rolled off the tongue. Please respect the aerodynamics of my tongue liberals.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Abe

Oh, Abe just rolls off somethingthe-doohickey

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Donezo Byebye

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yooo, we have the Shinzonator as an emoji? This site keeps gettin' better and better

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It would've worked in the 40s or whatever boomer era Biden is from.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Idk what you mean insisting to the 2/3rds of Americans living paycheck to paycheck that the economy is great and if you dont agree you're a Trump supporter seems like a really great electoral strategy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pretending to give a shit about the economy worked for the Republicans for decades. I honestly think enthusiastically insisting that everything is fine and it's all in your head is a smart strategy for the Dems.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

the community notes are such a fucking banger. no need to retweet, just tag and shame

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wages... is higher

Is our children learning? no-oil

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

a quote that lives in my brain forever

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

linking a post to reddit where it is screenshoted from Twitter where someone added context to it from another website to contest the claim. pretty much making it impossible to find the source. perfectly sound to draw the conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it's not hard to find the sources, it's an incredibly prominent BLS measurement.

They are correct, march 2020 to now there has been a slight decrease in real average wages (which isn't even the best measure tbh but it's what biden used). Sure, if you go back earlier, to the months before the pandemic, then it's a slight increase, but not by a whole lot.

More to the point: Biden, in my opinion, implies a sort of economic recovery, as though the pandemic tanked wages and now his policies are have brought them through to recovery. That is not the case. Here's what the graph looks like:

we are back where we started, essentially. nothing has fundamentally changed.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

nothing has fundamentally changed.

Say what you want about Biden, but he's a man who keeps his word

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

top response when searching for “right now real wages @potus”

I’m not making fun, relearning how to use search engines because of the new internet is some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It's called advanced dynamic posting, it's a sage level inception technique designed to remind the viewer that sources are for nerds

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

wages is higher