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This is a clean hit (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 85 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

a big part of the protest is the spike in cost of living, which has spiked due to fuel prices.

it isn't 100% on Iran, but they had a part to play.

that is what happens when you let a rouge terrorist state start wars with US backing only to lose them.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Idk what to tell you, but the US has been a rogue terrorist state for decades now as well

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Israel is doing America’s bidding, not the other way around. They are entirely dependent on US aid for their security and economy, how could they not be a puppet?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    Tail wagging the dog situation. Netanyahu has pitched decapitation strikes and and a bombing campaign to every president since Bush 2, and they all turned him down. Trump fired his military advisors from his first term so there was no one left to explain why that was a bad idea.

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  • [+] -21 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    What has the fuel price done about cost of living so far? UK here and I haven't really noticed anything changing. My mortgage continues to get cheaper relative to inflation, electricity has increased by so little it's also dropped relative to inflation. Not really noticed much change in the price of food either, we still spend less than £30 a week between the 2 of us.

    Almost all of the cost of living is housing with everything else pretty much being pocket change in comparison. Just after I bought house prices appear to have started stagnating which is a bit annoying for the timing of it but should help bring the relative cost down for new buyers if it continues.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Oil has an outsized impact on how inflation is measured, so prices not growing faster than inflation when oil prices are high still leaves lots of room for them to grow rapidly. As well as that, for most people, things going up in price is already a problem whether or not inflation is higher, especially when inflation's so far above the target rate of 2%. If it was just a short blip of inflation being above 2%, then it wouldn't be so bad, but because it was really high for a while, lots of people already burned through any buffer they had.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Even in absolute terms I don't really see much difference in things I buy. Mortgage is much more than everything else combined and its a fair bit lower than it was 3 years ago in absolute and relative to inflation value.

    The only stuff I kinda want that is going way up is stuff like GPUs or memory. Which let's be honest, you can live without just fine.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Yeah what modern person needs a computer anyway?

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  • [+] -8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Exactly. Its clearly a luxury that you can manage without or getting a cheaper lower spec one

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