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[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Housing

Roe v Wade

Life expectancy

Mass shootings every day

Student debt relief plan was shot down

Supreme Court is filled with right wing judges ruthkanda-forever

Credit card delinquency rate

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nice, you got most of em. The inflation one made my jaw drop too. Like rent and food prices in the US have gone up like 20% every single damn year.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If not for the existence of Barack "Drone King" Obama, Paul Krugman would be proof positive as to the abject worthlessness of Nobel prizes.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Krugman always makes me think of this one from one of Lenin's best diss tracks:

The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Damn had I read this before I would have replied to the tweet with this when I saw it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My partners dad is this type of liberal and he dropped this take on me during Christmas lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

God I hate 538 techno-liberal boomer 🤓 dads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You excluded everything people needed to live.

Come on, Paul.

Golden fucking reply. Which of you lovely lefty trolls did this?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Inflation on food has not budged.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Yeah but TVs are more affordable than ever so thanks Biden!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Food inflation growth rate has decreased but high food inflation for over a year reduced the purchasing power especially as there wasn't much growth in wages.

" Food inflation is a fanum tax on the poor" - Someone

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it still inflation when they're just jacking the prices up bc they can and no one will stop them?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

that's all inflation has ever been

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Why do you think most economic indicators and inflation calculators exclude food?

Let them eat VR!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Libs will believe anything you tell them, if its printed on watermarked vellum with a Sans Serif font.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just adding on to this

45.3 million people have student loan debt, so we helped...7.9% of them. Typical liberal 'help'.

When he's right, he's right though, we sure are 'standing up' for Ukraine and Israel, the admin literally circumvented Congress again to send Israel more guns to kill Palestinians with, and is currently quiet quitting in Ukraine.

Wait, that's not supporting...oh.

The White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security.

lmao, can't make this stuff up.

The admin did also confirm a lot of judges, although maybe it'd be better if they didn't.

Mr. Biden had intended to nominate Meredith for a district court judgeship in eastern Kentucky...Meredith, a well-known conservative in Kentucky, defended the state's anti-abortion laws in court. He also successfully defended a state law that stripped Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of his emergency power to implement COVID-19 restrictions.

Liberals.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

The White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans

surprised-pika

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"The life expectancy of men in the U.S. is nearly six years shorter than that of women"

Odd choice of graphic. Seems to imply the opposite.