I'll save everyone a click. Pay is up 2.5%. Food is up 20%. Those are not typos. They're trying to spin this so hard they're making cotton candy out of it.
Some much needed context - the numbers This comment refers to are calculated from since the pandemic - the headline of this article probably refers to the results this year, which are.... Less bad. Not quite good, but less bad.
Lol. It's not like like that inflation went away. It's baked in. Until wages outpace inflation long enough to eat that lead back up. A good way to visualize it is as a race. Inflation gained a huge lead and wages going faster for one lap isn't going to close that lead.
Right, but the headline isn't as ridiculous as your original comment makes it out to be. Folks can easily interpret your comment as the article is trying to spin food prices being up 20%, and wages being up 2.5% as a good thing, when it's not saying that. Things are getting better, but there's a long way to go.
There's been a long way to go since the 1970's. And that's exactly what they're trying to spin. They want people to read the headline, feel okay, and then not understand the numbers.
Landlords absolutely collude over pricing and land is a limited resource so there's no competition allowing them to bleed people dry. We need to put up limits on rental profit and we need it like 5 decades ago.
They provide the data with and without food/energy. Looks like as of Dec 23, including food and energy reduces cpi when compared against excluding it because energy prices have dropped.
I still wonder how many idiots will not only vote for donnie (or sit out) because of Gaza, or - just as stupidly - vote for donnie because "Bidenflation" and little d's supposedly "great policies" I keep hearing he supposedly had.
If genocide isn't your red line you are not a good person. Had this happened under Trump, liberals would be demanding action instead of demanding a vote for the condoner of those deaths.
They would continue on this genocidal path with their own weapons they already have and ones they already produce locally. This is a holy war, with Netanyahu's goal being to cling to power. He's already stated that he doesn't intend to stop; peace isn't an option, and I'm inclined to believe him.
So, Biden simply doesn't have the power or leverage to stop him, even if we leveled sanctions at them (which would never happen, because they're still a geopolitical ally). I agree with the general premise that we shouldn't give them more weapons, but it's disingenuous and reductive to talk and act like Biden is somehow directly responsible for the war crimes.
You're over estimating the arms manufacturing capacity of Israel. Belgium has an arms industry too, but they're not capable of suppling themselves in a prolonged conflict. Israel is in the same boat.
Regardless, we can agree to disagree that using US arms as leverage would work. Maybe leveraging US arms would induce change, maybe not. But why not at least try?
We both agree that shoveling more arms into the status quo should stop. So why not at least try to induce some change? Even if it doesn't work, where's the harm?
The fact that Biden won't do that, or at least stop the sale of arms, is a major issue. Is he responsible for Israel? No. Is he complicit? Yes.
There are degree's of response to genocide. If you think you Trump will have a harsher response towards Israel's genocide than Biden, then you should definitely vote for Trump or not vote for Biden.
But make no mistake: not voting for Biden isn't a condemnation of Biden's response to the genocide, it's an endorsement of how you think Trump will respond.
Biden when people protest at his events: Maybe possibly sometime in the future I should look into this potentially maybe.
Trump when people protest at his events: sends in unmarked police officers with military equipment and federal backing to arrest anyone they want for no reason in the city the protesters might be from.
I like having a President that allows me my Constitutional Freedoms while protesting for change so I can continue bringing the topic up until something happens.
Trump would do the same. There is no choice in the presidential election you can make that will prevent genocide. Biden supports Israel. Trump supports Israel. Not voting means one will get in. Voting third party won't do anything until we can get RCV, approval, or STAR voting to happen.
No, Trump will be far worse. If any of these people actually care about doing something that has any possibility whatsoever of preserving Palestinian lives, they would shut the fuck up and vote for Biden. Then they can spend four years grooming the next progressive candidates that they want to run and support them in the primary.
They want to sit out so they can tell everyone they're better than them because they didn't vote for the guy who's not stopping genocide, when the reality is that their inaction could very well lead to another Trump presidency. Then we go from not stopping genocide, to becoming an active participant.
That's why I think these people (well, the ones who are genuine, not all the astroturfers here that are concern trolling to get people to question their support for Biden) don't actually care about Palestinian lives and are doing this more out of a personal desire to avoid guilt.
One voice turns into a dozen voices which turns into two dozen voices which turns into thousands and millions of voices. This is what ended the Vietnam war
Yeah that's what these people want. They are concern trolling in order to get other people to second guess their support for Biden. They could not care less about Palestinian lives. If they did, they wouldn't be doing everything in their power to get Trump elected.
