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[–] 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can we just stop using the word "economy" for the income of the billionaire class?

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This article is spot on. Saying the economy is booming when it’s only benefiting the small fractionthose who have the money to buy into it, leaves a good chunk of the population frustrated and wanting a huge change.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And the change with trump is "get the billionaires some more billions, lol"

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    America is full of idiots. So yes they might not get it but they probably do think trump will do something good. Or they just want worse for the minority. Idk i dont understand all this either.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or they just want worse for the minority.

    The truth that most people know, but don’t want to say out loud.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a disappointed American, you are so right. Im sorry for not voting even if i think it wouldn’t have mattered, if all non voters stood up and voted we could have turned the whole country blue. I personally feel responsible for trump and i hate it

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    ruZZia, China, Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the most important Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt off, are the reasons he won. Let's quit pretending, that without all of the dirty money and influence from foreign countries, this idiot would have won.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except that even with these things in place, they could have won, except that 15m voters chose to stay home. Guess which bloc?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Not that it makes things better but that number is going to be bunches less than 15 million when everything is said and done. Trump is sitting about a 1 million down from his 2020 vote total and Harris is obviously like 11 million down from Biden's 2020 total but California alone still has almost 7 million votes left to count last I looked and there's still quite a few votes left to count across the rest of the states.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why did everyone suddenly start misspelling Russia?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They tag some of their military assets with 'Z' for battlefield identification

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I'm still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Z was being used in ruZZia as a symbol to show support for the invasion. IIRC Z was used by a certain command in that area on tanks and trucks.

    People started spelling "Russia" as "ruZZia" to relate it to the Nazi SS and using Z to do so to show distane for the war. I write it with lower case r out of disrespect 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let's quit pretending, that without all of the dirty money and influence from foreign countries, this idiot would have won.

    I think you're wrong here, as least on the money side of things. Harris out-fundraised Trump 3 to 1, taking in almost a billion dollars this cycle. Democrats didn't lose because of dirty money — they had more than enough of their own to compete.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I agree with your about the religious and economic demographics, but...

    Ethnic? From what I've seen, the only ethnic demographic that wasn't split roughly 50/50 was the black demographic. [correction: Native Americans voted for Trump 2 to 1]

    Gender? At least 45% of voters from each gender voted for Trump.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Because people are fucking stupid.

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