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Huh. My understanding based on article after article talking to the average voter is that the American economy is garbage, that milk is now $37, and the only wa
by throwaway4736 2y ago
Huh. My understanding based on article after article talking to the average voter is that the American economy is garbage, that milk is now $37, and the only way to reverse it is to elect a convicted felon.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoThe shareholders demand more. > The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market... Europeans live better lives at the cost of being ridiculed line doesn’t go up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681116
- wikidickynuts 2y ago[flagged]
- wpguy 2y agoCan it be any politician and Felon? I'd still elect my dog though. Tuna wouldn't put up with any of this crap.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoThere has to be some alternative besides "elect Donald Trump" (who will only accelerate inflation and the growth of inequality), and "everything is peachy, even though real wages have stagnated, asset prices are to the moon, and it's not unusual for 40% of workers' take-home to go to rent". That is what Bernie represented. Still does.
- DFHippie 2y agoChange how we elect presidents so it's some sort of ranked-choice mechanism and then we have more than two choices.
- renegade-otter 2y agoThis is the result of a decades-long campaign of branding. "Democrats - socialist commie perverts who are bad for national security and the economy". The convicted felon can schtoop a pornstar while signing an executive order exiting NATO and promising to build gulags for his enemies, it doesn't matter. All that matters is the perception, and perception is all about marketing.
- DerekL 2y ago*shtup, or schtup