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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I was excited when Biden dropped out and Harris got this huge surge as the new young, not actively deteriorating candidate, then more excited when she announced Tim Walz and got a mid western, blue collar surge, and cautiously optimistic when everyone was briefly focusing on how anti-democratic and un-American Project 2025 was, but then started getting worried when all I saw running up to the election was stories about abortion rights and women voting against their husbands and celebrity endorsements.

    It feels like Obama successfully ran a campaign of Hope and Change, and since then Democrats repeatedly campaign on maintaining the status quo and just not letting it slide too much further. And while it’s possible to win an election on the basis of ‘I’m at least somewhat competent’, it might not be in the US when so much of the population sees how fundamentally broken wealth inequality is at baseline.





  • COVID means everyone needs to work less, that means that every product that is a result of people’s work decreases in availability, and thus, increases in cost.

    This is a fundamental aspect of any major disruption, including the war in Ukraine, that will drive up prices.

    The problem that Democrats and most Liberal governments have is that they just let this happen. The reality of the situation is that the poorer you are, the more of your money goes to necessities, so when the price of necessities rises, the more of your money is lost to inflation. If you only spend 10% of your income on necessities and the rest goes to frivolous things, then you can just cut back on them no big deal, you can shift that money to investments and actually profit off the inflation. But if 90% of your money goes to necessities, than you have no choice and 90% of your money just got less valuable.

    Inflation is a frustrating and abstract word that just hides one of that ratchets that keeps rich people rich. They do not pay the costs of inflation (or pay them last). Every single time there is an inflationary event, be it a natural disaster caused by climate change, a war, a pandemic, etc, taxes should immediately rise on the wealthy to pay for it. If they do not, then, it is a tax on the poor and working class that will be hand waved away as “inflation”.















  • masterspace@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlDrink it!
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    16 days ago

    Go get blown up by a mine in kursk to build Putin another palace, you dumb fucking Russian.

    Hurrr durrr people are discriminating against me just because I started the first land war in Europe for no reason.

    Jesus Christ, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Russia’s best minds have either left or been been shreded by FPV drones.


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    17 days ago

    Nope. It’s a factual statement since Russia invaded Europe, raped and murdered its citizens en masse, and chose to remove itself from the world order, Europe, and being a nation deserving of anything other than disgust and distain.