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    A case study on attempts to lower the price of eggs.

    Case 1: Liberalism seen in bluesky

    Case 2: whatever happened to this lady’s family

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    Yea, eggs and groceries are always talked about but not housing costs, which rises with increasing interest rates as parasites pass on extra lending costs.

    And there is definitely some level of partisanship to it, day one (more rabid) Trump supporters will start saying how great the economy is under Trump even though nothing changed.

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      You know, if USians weren’t so brainwashed and functionally illiterate, such an opportunity could have been used to radicalise. Alas.

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      They probably have more home owners, right? Since Trump tends to get more of the suburbs and whitey, I’m sure less of them give a shit about rising housing costs except for its connection to homelessness, which I don’t think they even see.

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    On Bluesky the libs are out of control about eggs. There are endless jokes and memes about them. Libs complain that Kamala lost because idiot voters didn’t vote for her because of the price of eggs was too high.

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      Trumps economy sucked, Biden won even though Biden said nothing will fundamentally change

      “I FUCKING LOVE DEMOCRACY”

      Bidens economy sucked, Trump won even without any explanation on how he is gonna fix the economy

      “I HATE THE MEDIAN VOTER AAAAARGH”

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      I remember when “economic anxiety” was a meme among them back in 2016, by saying something like “economic anxiety made this guy racist”. It’s totally not that fascism latches onto economic anxiety.

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      Anything to avoid looking inwards…

      I suspect that the democrat’s goal for the next election is to draw up the ire for Trump so that they don’t have to change thier donor-friendly rightist platform but still win the election and my inner pessimist says it’s going to work.

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        Probably will. Let’s be honest, we know Trump isn’t going to fix any actual problems and will in fact make them all worse.

        I just hope we can build some sort of leftist movement in that time to explain to people why we can’t just ping pong between these two parties when the current one in power doesn’t fix your problems, because neither will. To fix people’s super short memories.

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          i wish i shared your optimism.

          my new found media literacy is making it clear that all legacy and social media (including .world & .ee) are (hopefully) unaware that they’re pushing propaganda so it’s going to require a culture paradigm shift and that usually takes generations.

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        I do think the only reason Biden won was that Trump was such a legendary fuckup, the idea of a return to the status quo seemed appealing by comparison.

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      I mean, in this case they’re right - the question is why didn’t they see that before when everyone always knows people vote based on the economy, and why did they insist everything was okay when clearly it wasn’t to large groups of working-class people? Why didn’t they hammer the causes being corporation price-gouging?

      I’ll give her credit that that she said she would make it illegal in a speech or two, like I think in the debate, but that should’ve been her number one point and stump speech in every rally, town hall, commercial, etc (like Bernie’s H4A and 1% stuff). Not the democracy stuff. It should’ve been abortion and that. And it was only after she said things like she wouldn’t do anything different from Biden in interviews.

      Bit they don’t want to talk about class. Basically only Bernie and Walz sorta did when he talked about fighting “Big Pharma” but then they basically hid him after the DNC for some reason.