doublehelix

joined 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

I think I'm going to just have to tune out social media and the internet in general for the next couple years. Focus on offline stuff and hope things don't go to completely to hell. It's sad but the best case scenario is that trump passes more tax cuts for billionaires and loses interest in everything else like he did last time. But yeah, on an emotional level this is even worse than 2016. It just makes no sense to me that so many people decided to just sit this one out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Grocery stores are making record profits. Do they really think they are going to voluntarily cut prices? They know there will be no oversight under trump (not that Biden did anything about price gouging). Prices are going to go up even higher.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

That's not going to work. Biden got 5.2 million votes in NY in 2020. Harris just got 4.1 million. Trump did about the same both times. There was a huge enthusiasm gap on the left. Moving people around won't work. If people aren't going to come out to vote in NY, they aren't going to do it in bumfuck Indiana.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago

Your reading comprehension needs some work. I was basically agreeing with you, but you seem more interested in being outraged, so whatever...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carnage

  1. (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.

It also has slang usages, but I agree that in this context it shouldn't have been used in the headline.