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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago

"What if the reason I lost the fight was because I'm too strong?"

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why do these poors not understand that my stock portfolio is doing great?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Everyime i hear the "strong economy" I'm always enraged that this supposedly "smart" people can't understand such a simple concept that the economy doesn't equally or equitably share its bounty. I hate dumbshits, but i REALLY hate smart fucks.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It really is incredible. The original article implies it is ELITIST to think that poor people thought the economy was doing badly (despite the fact that real wages were lower than when Biden took office).

"Our mechanism doesn’t rely on voters acting irrationally by ignoring the strength of the economy and focusing only on the price of milk and eggs. "

The price of food, famously an irrelevant concern that people would be irrational to be bothered about. (of course, their main evidence that the economy is good is primarily the GDP)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agriculture is only 5% of the GDP so food is pretty much irrelevant

porky-happy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Way for them to tell in themselves as thinking their audience is only rich people.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

stonks-up

This is a strong economy, right?innocence

Have you seen the prices of basic goods? Our wages?yes-honey-left

THE ECONOMY IS STRONG AND ITS BECAUSE OF US, VOTEspongebob-i-fucking-love

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

People who unironically believe in trickle-down surprised-pika - ing when no one else gets the memo that it's working

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

going by the heuristic that "the economy" is code for "rich people's money" then yeah, probably

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strong economy? Well it's clear the rich are doing phenomenal. Profits higher than ever, stock market to new heights, and the highest growth in property values in history. All of these things are bad for workers.

So yes, the dems did lose because the economy is too strong.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Yeah, like you said, the democrats have won cuz they fulfilled their capitalist constituencies and now have shown no difference/demarcation from the Republican Party, in that regard

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

They're literally just doing "Am I out of touch? ...no, it's the voters who are wrong." but unironically.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Opinion | Shut the fuck up matt-jokerfied

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

there have been at least five or six major publication "explanations" about the stomping Harris experienced and these searches have always failed so far:

ctrl-F gaza
no results

ctrl-F israel
no results

ctrl-F genocide
no results

ctrl-F palestine
no results

ctrl-F war
no results

ctrl-F middle east
no results

ctrl-F lebanon
no results

the silence is deafening.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

this is just like that time I was turned down for a date because I am so obviously the total package and they were afraid of how much they desired me.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to say I remember the same exact take with 2016, a year we have never escaped

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Decades where weeks happen

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

goon of the intellect, bust of the will

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Shoulda gone with volcel of the will

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Ground hog year

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

willstencil-ification will continue niko-wonderous

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

It's all so tiresome.

Yes, it's good that inflation is down, but that does absolutely nothing to address prices as they are. Inflation is the derivative of price. You have to reckon with the area under the whole ass curve.

It's also annoying to hear about wage increases as if they go up every pay cycle. Most people I know (myself included) get an annual review and that's the only time pay increases occur. For that matter, I haven't gotten a raise to even keep up with inflation in nearly 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

The adults in the room making excuses for their failure and listing one as just being too amazing for people to understand us really something.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Also if your writing an opinion piece don't make the title a question. Be assertive. A question isn't an opinion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Could the Democrats have run such a good campaign that it caused an integer overflow?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I am so attractive that I intimidate women into avoiding eye contact with me