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[–] 176 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.

Would that be devastating the economy though tariffs? Or devastating the economy through unemployment? Or devastating the economy through imprisoning our inexpensive labor force? Or devastating the economy through outright theft?

I think the word being sought was exacerbate.

war abroad threatens to wipe out exacerbate some of his key economic accomplishments at home

That reads much more accurate.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    It's CNN; an Epstein-class owned propaganda operation. They are one of hundreds of domestic enemies Americans should do something about before their nazi party murders millions of people both at home and abroad.

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  • [–] 117 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Are the economic accomplishments on the room with us?

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  • [–] 58 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    He has no economic accomplishments

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I know this is an edit but I could definitely see Scooby doo doing this as a skit at least once. Specifically the OG, a pup named Scooby doo, or Mystery Incorporated. Also shout out to the early aughts movies who did some similar gags.

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

    I recently blocked a childhood friend on Facebook over this. They shared one of those stupid Biden stickers with a $5 a gallon price Tag.

    Their point was, of course, the democrats made it worse than Trump ever did. I don't know how this happened. How people got so turned around. Arguing with him seemed pointless. Pointing out that Biden didn't do that. Pointing out that it's going to get worse. Pointing out that democrats in general are just status quo bitches...

    I just blocked him. I can't fix whatever shit has pickled peoples brains.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    We're living in the disinformation age, where people silo themselves in media, including news, that reinforces whatever they want to believe. Eventually their views will run into cold, hard reality, but even then some will continue to live in denial.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yep. I try not to do that. Discussion is good when done in good faith. It's too bad the disinformation age also has AI agents and censorship. Man. It's just wild. The censorship. We educated ourselves and now we have the next generation growing up in slop but not knowing their in slop. Or worse, knowing but having know way to escape it as all methods of escape are cut off. So many sides of digital enlightenment being attacked. I don't know if we'll escape it. Information has become entertainment. Activism is just performance.

    People aren't mad enough.

    I hope you're right though. I hope we find a way. Likely the US is fucked but that doesn't mean humanity is fucked. Action still has inpact. It's hard to remember that, but it does.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Things tend to turn in cycles, and we are experiencing the end of a cycle similar to that which occurred in the late 1920s and led into WWII. Billionaire Ray Dalio put out a nice ELI5 type video a few years back summarizing his book "Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order" that basically puts into the context of history what we are currently going through. I had read his book back in 2022, and things have significantly progressed precisely as anticipated in the 4 years since it came out. In my opinion, things will come to a head this year, probably in the fall. I believe that we are currently in the late stages of excess, similar to the late 1920s, and that we will have a "blow off top" in the stock market and the biggest financial crisis of all time, and I'm not the only one. Look at what has been happening to the price of gold, which is currently over $5K/oz and has been on the greatest bull run of all time, which has largely been driven by purchases from the world's central banks. This is the world shifting away from the dollar as the reserve currency, which will only accelerate as the dollar collapses. My greatest concern is that Trump will use the chaos that erupts to nakedly seize power and dispense with the ruse that he's a president and not a king.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Ironically, sites like this very one we're on now seem tailor-made to enhance that effect.

    Like what someone said? Upvote and respond with supportive comments. Don't like it? Downvote, denigrate, block, defederate. Eventually people sort themselves out into communities where they "belong" and stop seeing what other people are saying, and they start to think that everyone shares their views.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    I try not to lock myself into a community like that. I like data and fact supported by evidence. I tend to filter myself as needed. Federation has a tribalism problem but I haven't seen it as toxicity present in most of the main spaces. The fringe server like hexbear...sure. I keep my nose there too. They're funny. The smart phone and social media in general has wrecked our ability to self regulate in public digital spaces. And the algorithm broke the upvote system that used to help show a level of class solidarity between people in different backgrounds. I can't say how much was intentional and how much we slipped into, but we all need to make an effort to regulate ourselves.

    Tribalism is the enemy of progress.

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  • [+] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Even more ironically, my point is illustrated by my comment itself. It's already getting downvoted heavily.

    Guess that's not an opinion that people want to see here, eh?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    Yeah, I'm tired and got snippy myself. It's late and I should be asleep. There's a thread-bare line between keeping a line of dialogue open and being suseptible to brainwashing. It's hard to self-regulate sometimes.

    Sorry about that. The instinct to just bark at someone online is pavlovian. Trained into us by doom scrooling and positive reinforcement from having the behavior upvoted.

    I wrote a paper on it actually. More people should try to be aware of how many ways they're getting happy chemicals from comments and upvotes.

    I try to keep social media (in general) framed as a casino.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Guess that’s not an opinion that people want to see here, eh?

    There are plenty of reasons to not want to engage with the "other side". Exposing yourself to different viewpoints in general? All well and good. Having a discussion with people who think a fascist bombing Iran means Biden is responsible for rising gas prices? What exactly does that add to my life? Until MAGA cultists can prove they understand basic reality their opinions are useless (at best) cult propaganda lies that should be shunned from public discourse.

    Granted there aren't too many trumpets on the fediverse, but in light of the gas price comment OP of this thread I don't think lemmy shows the echo chamber you accuse it of.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    To be fair, the vote ratio on the comment I above that I said was being heavily downvoted has now recovered; it initially got hammered with nothing but downvotes but now it's at about a 2:1 upvote:downvote ratio.

    The subjects that get "filtered" vary from community to community, but it's pretty easy to find non-political topics where it's clear that there's no desire to "expose yourself to different viewpoints in general" in most Fediverse communities. You can't just dismiss them all as being "well that particular viewpoint is just cultist propaganda" without that being exactly the thing I'm pointing out as a problem.

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  • They're figuring out that the president has both a lot less and a lot more power over oil prices than they ever claimed.

    Drank their own kool-aid.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    ... some of his key economic accomplishments.

    Name one there asshat journalist.

    Also, keep in mind that a fat ego wounded animal and his psycho pack will be lashing out with this kind of news and respond with stuff like passing the SAVE act to save their own skins.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Regardless of what you think about him, gas prices have been great the last few months. That was like the only thing that was going well for him.

    Gas prices affect literally everything else so we can expect costs for groceries to spike as well pretty soon.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    $4.99 for 100ea on Etsy, showing as a 'hot' item and bestseller. I doubt we'll see them in the quantities we saw the Biden stickers but it's pretty funny.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    the reality that Donald Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.

    Jesus fucking christ, name ONE. And by name one, I specifically mean a net positive that would actually be reversed by this new negative, instead of just adding to the colossal overdraft of negatives already accruing on all our accounts.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    While senior Trump aides had anticipated some brief surge in oil prices in the first days of the war with Iran, the size and sustainability of the market reaction caught them off guard, people familiar with the internal discussions told CNN.

    In what world is it a surprise to see oil prices spiking when you launch an attack on an oil producer in the middle east? Iran has repeatedly threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz over the years, which would stop the flow of ~30% of the world's oil. It's one of the very few levers of power Iran has to pull, and anyone with an ounce of common sense knew they'd do it if attacked. Fortunately, we're in a midterm election year, so the catastrophe Trump has teed up will hopefully torpedo Republicans' grip on Congress.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Because an inherent distrust of experts leads to a reduction in expertise which leads to imbeciles being surprised their ideas don’t actually work in the real world.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    This is key to why dictatorships decline and fall. Dictators cast out naysayers and refuse to listen to evidence that contradicts them. So they are eventually surrounded by incompetents or manipulators.

    But being surprised at increased oil prices after bombing Iran like a week ago?

    Are his advisors that deep in their media and social echo chambers? Is this just a line fed to the press?

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    They didn't see this coming?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It was presumably planned to be a three-day special military operation. The people would rise up and support the invaders once the leaders were taken out in the initial decapitation strike.

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago*

    "his key economic accomplishments at home" lol sure, CNN. Maybe you can list those out for us?

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Here's some advice...

    STOP POINTLESS WARS ASSHOLES.

    For a party that campaigned on no WARS, they sure have started lots of them in various ways over the past year. Fucking moron pedophiles.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's not pointless for Boeing, Northrup, Israel, and other "donors". They will make a KILLING

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    He didn't have any economic accomplishments at home, so he doesn't have to worry about wiping said accomplishments out.

    Minimum wage is seven bucks and change an hour; each of those "reasonable" Tomahawk missiles cost two million

    so, no school lunches, times are tight

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Didnt he raid Venezuela to steal their oil? If so he WANTS prices to go up to sell that stolen oil for more $$$

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Remember when they asked Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil infrastructure and Ukraine told them to go suck a fat one.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They are not panicking. Higher oil prices mean they get more money.

    This is all by design.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    The rich benefit in some way from almost everything that happens, that's how being an elite works.

    But that doesn't mean that the regime intented to massively spike oil prices. They'll have so much more voter suppression to do now.

    Yes, they're evil, but they're also frequently stupid. They fuck up a lot.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Just what did these nine dimensional chess players think was going to happen by doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Well what the heck did ya think would happen dumdum

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Oh boy! My neighbor's with their big ass truck are going to get a heart attack:

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    While I can appreciate the shock of the sudden increase to you guys, it does make me chuckle that even the most expensive there is at a price so low compared to the UK that I can’t recall the last time it was even close to that.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Why are some Arcos capitalised and some not?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    My best guess is it’s pulling in Google Business listings. A business, or SEO, either didn’t harmonize the naming schemes for all locations or there are duplicate listings with varied naming conventions that are still out there that get displayed.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder which scandal they’ll be starting to distract from this one

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Bomb Exxon, you dumb twats.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    He will lift sanctions on Russia.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    This Leopard Is Eating His Own Face

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Someone finally remembered the way through this president other than bribes is the stock market.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It's not a "this President" problem, it's the norm. See Citizens United and Super PACs for further details.

    It's not a bribe when it's a legal "donation"!

    both candidates had a billion dollars "donated", and there's so much that we don't often get to see.

    No healthy, functioning Republic would elect Trump. Twice. He's the natural result of decades of corruption (legal though, so it's not officially corruption, wink wink)

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    [–] 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have they tried just TELLING people Prices are Lower? That's worked for Literally EVERYTHING else!

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Administration yes, Trump not so much.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have they tried drinking bleach?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    The thing that sucks about all of this is that, yet again, we're all footing the cost of this.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    I thought Venezuela was just gonna hand it over.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Why haven’t we collectively overthrown these pedofiles yet?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Thank god they’re so incompetent.

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