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fishonjazz said:
Funny thing is that when i was a kid pretty much everyone got all their information from the same place and the information was pretty much all the same. (In my city everyone got their info from the sl tribune or D news or nbc, abc, or cbs.)
If there was a virus and everyone pretty much felt the same way about it. Almost no one was thinking it was a hoax. Pretty much everyone beleived vaccines were a good thing and they worked.
Information was severely limited and restricted back then in comparison to today. And we were much more united.

I wish we could go back to when information was much more limited.


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It maybe has gotten worse but there has always been conspiracies and bad ideas floating around. The amount of crazy things I hear now vs when I was a kid isn't that different to me. Maybe some of the voices catch traction more now, I don't know. Look at the anti mask people from the Spanish flu era in USA. Anti vax people have been around for awhile.
 
fishonjazz said:
Exactly. both points are getting out there. Nothing is being silenced. And that isn't the government telling me those things. Its a couple of humans telling those things via twitter (i dont even have a twitter account)

If you want info, you can get it. The government is powerless to stop you from getting it.
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Yeah, USA isn't China who blocks all other news besides their own from the internet and bans pretty much every social media platform not their own. They also scrub news stories from the internet in China when they don't like it. They ban people's accounts when they post things they don't like. That's quite a bit different from a bunch of politicians spouting their own opinions.

People being dumb or ignorant on issues is their own fault. There is plenty of good information and everyone in the USA has the means to do decent research. But sadly most people just use the internet to confirm their own ideas. You can see it in this thread. Some posters seemingly research and try to get to the truth. A lot of people here have an opinion and then Google to find anything to confirm what they have said already and feel they got the "real" truth the rest missed out because of some stupid reasons. You also have many that just repeat what they see on their social media and think it's good information or at least has one side of the story that's good information. It's sad the percentage of people who get their main news from their social media feed.
 
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But all it takes it Trump saying what he did to get a decently large portion of the population to completely disregard any video evidence, hell any evidence of any kind, and it remains a gay lover spat or whatever other conspiracy they latch onto. We are so far down the rabbit hole that nothing will suffice for evidence. I believe some of them could have seen it with their own eyes, but when Trump tells them it was a break-out they will disregard what they saw and follow the shepherd over the cliff.
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It emerges from the right wing fever swamp, where conspiracism in the service of partisan political bias, has become a default thinking mode, and it joins the ranks of other products of that fever swamp, such as Pizzagate, and the murder of Seth Rich. And I’m sure many then run with it simply because they hope it will trigger liberal meltdowns. And you’re right, verifiable facts, like an actual video from Capital police showing the moment of the break-in, which exists, won’t budge them from this irresponsible and incorrect narrative. Can’t own the libs by giving an inch….
 

・Jobs: Achieved the greatest single year of job creation in American history, more than 6 million in 2021, a decrease of 16 million receiving unemployment benefits, and the biggest drop in the unemployment rate in history.

・Manufacturing jobs: The biggest yearly increase in US manufacturing jobs in nearly 30 years. Democrats’ new incentives for key industries have already led to announcements of thousands of new manufacturing jobs.

・Healthcare: Democrats’ new tax credits drove a record 14.5 million Americans signing up through the ACA, including 5.8 million new people getting coverage. They forced drug companies to negotiate prices for the elderly and capped costs at $2,000 per year. This will save elders thousands annually.

・Poverty: The Dems’ child tax credit created the largest-ever one-year decrease in childhood poverty in American history, about 3 million kids. Households saying they didn’t have enough to eat dropped by a third.

・Safety: Passed the biggest anti-violence measure in decades, including the Gun Safety bill and strengthening the Violence Against Women Act.

・Supporting police: Democrats passed four bills on supporting both police and crime victims.

・Covid: Biden executed the most successful American vaccination program in history – from under 1 percent of adults fully vaccinated to over 75 percent, with over 500 million shots administered – and from less than half of schools open to almost all of them.

・Roads, bridges, energy: the bipartisan infrastructure bill will finally fix America’s infrastructure. In 2022 alone, repairs are starting on 65,000 miles of roads and 1,500 bridges, with thousands of jobs created.

・Protecting America and our allies: Biden kept the NATO alliance together in support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion, brought in two new countries and took out the world’s number one terrorist, Ayman al-Zawahri.

・Veterans: Dems allocated funds for hundreds of thousands sickened by burn pits in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

・Climate: The Inflation Reduction Act includes the largest investment in history to address global warming. Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and the EPA established strong new fuel economy standards.

・Diversity, equality: Democrats made lynching a federal hate crime, made Juneteenth a federal holiday and Biden appointed more Black women to the US Court of Appeals in one year than any president in history.

・Budget: The Inflation Reduction Act reduces the deficit by $300 billion.

In a highly partisan America, facts can be easily drowned out by hot-button shouting. Or, as longtime Democratic strategist and 2020 Biden ad-maker Cliff Schecter observed, “the gulf in perception of Biden’s record vs reality exposes the challenge posed by rightwing media, rampant disinformation, and a mainstream media trying to play it straight with both sides but actually just playing dumb.”

We can’t entirely fix that problem right now. What we can do is ask voters to remember the flaming dumpster fire that was America two years ago at the end of the Trump term: an economic and public health calamity, massive abuses of power and the ultimate culmination – an insurrection fueled by an American president.
 
I saw Trump is referring to Desantis as ‘Ron DeSanctimonious' in a similar push to label opponents in unfavorable terms.

This is a poor idea and he needs to go back into the shop for this one for many reasons:

1. Most people have no idea what ‘sanctimonious’ means

2. Good luck to people trying to pronounce it correctly or spell it right for trending purposes/search efficacy

3. A nickname is not an effective nickname if it’s longer than the real name

Keep it simple. ‘Gone Desantis’ is better than that and it’s not even good. ‘Ron Dumbassis’ is edgier and more memorable. Or just go really easy and say ‘Slimy Ron’ as that’s an effective and easier hook.
 
Avery said:
I saw Trump is referring to Desantis as ‘Ron DeSanctimonious' in a similar push to label opponents in unfavorable terms.

This is a poor idea and he needs to go back into the shop for this one for many reasons:

1. Most people have no idea what ‘sanctimonious’ means

2. Good luck to people trying to pronounce it correctly or spell it right for trending purposes/search efficacy

3. A nickname is not an effective nickname if it’s longer than the real name

Keep it simple. ‘Gone Desantis’ is better than that and it’s not even good. ‘Ron Dumbassis’ is edgier and more memorable. Or just go really easy and say ‘Slimy Ron’ as that’s an effective and easier hook.
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Won't matter. Millions of Americans have their identities tied up with Trump; sunk cost fallacy. He doesn't have to make any sense for these cultists to cheer and applaud nicknames they don't even understand.

BTW, doesn't anyone remember this in 2020? Seems like most Americans have forgotten this. Around the time Trump was suggesting that Americans inject disinfectant and stick flashlights up their asses, dead Americans were being stored in refrigerated morgues. But I get it, gas being a little more expensive is like a totally big deal or something and so millions in this country want to return Trump and his party back into power so we can have a return of this kind of "leadership."

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Al-O-Meter said:
Inflation is always, Always, ALWAYS a monetary issue. That isn't to say ESG is a good idea but it isn't inflationary. To combat inflation, the Fed isn't pushing people to end ESG. They are making moves to tighten the money supply. Inflation stems from excessive quantitative easing and is reigned in by quantitative tightening. It is that simple.
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Why we can’t just 'stop printing money' to get inflation down

While central banks did help mitigate a COVID-induced recession, they don’t have the power to solve our inflation problem.
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This claim harks back to Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” The monetarist theory that Friedman advocated and which became very influential in the 1970s and early 1980s assumed the solution to inflation was to limit the expansion of the money supply.

What’s wrong with this idea? American banker Henry Wallich famously responded to Friedman’s statement by replying, “inflation is a monetary phenomenon in the same way that shooting someone is a ballistic phenomenon.” In other words, an excess of money may be partly to blame for inflation, but if you want to truly solve it, you need to understand the underlying causes of the problem.
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Even if today’s inflation had similar causes to the 1970s, we don’t want to try monetarism again. Central banks in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom all tried it in the late 1970s. By 1982 they had given up on it because monetarism simply did not work.
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One Brow said:
I read a few people already talking about other platforms, such as Mastodon. Twitter is not inevitable; it is constantly walking a tightrope.
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An intro to Mastodon from a relative newcomer!

“So your favorite social media site has been taken over by a bumbling fascist-friendly narcissist.” Mine, too. With Twitter under new management that leaves me very pessimistic about it…
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I'm not on Twitter or Mastodon, but I thought this link might come in handy for those who are thinking of switching.
 
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American banker Henry Wallich famously responded to Friedman’s statement by replying, “inflation is a monetary phenomenon in the same way that shooting someone is a ballistic phenomenon.” In other words, an excess of money may be partly to blame for inflation, but if you want to truly solve it, you need to understand the underlying causes of the problem.
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It sounds like this may be an area where we have agreement. Inflation is a monetary problem with the underlying cause of the problem being the democrats in power passing a boatload of unfunded spending packages. The solution to the problem is both for the Fed to tighten monetary policy and to vote out economic terrorists who voted to pass those bills.
 
The only race I have much investment in outside of Utah's Lee vs McMullin is Oz losing. I hated that guy long before I had any idea of his party affiliation. There were times his show would be on in the breakroom at work and, while I didn't outright yell or do obvious I'M TALKING REALLY LOUD type stuff I would always comment to whoever I was with that Oz was a phony *** piece of **** and I didn't understand why anyone would watch his garbage *** show.

With the Lee vs McMullin I'm already assuming Lee will win, but if I'm surprised I'll be very happy about it.
 
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I might go look for it tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I was making posts in 2019 where I said that Trump's strategy of pouring gas on a red hot economy was going to eventually lead to inflation and a worse than necessary recession and that the next elected president would get blamed for it. Looks like that's exactly what happened tonight. I'm happy Trump got voted out, but he escaped responsibility for his actions, including intimidating the Fed chair to not increase interest rates during his administration, and either he or DeSantis will likely be our next President. The recession will be ending at that time, because that's how this cyclic process works (it has almost nothing to do with who the sitting President of the U.S. is) so a bunch of simple idiots will believe that Republicans are good for the economy much the same way simple idiots thought that Bill Clinton was some sort of economic genius who fixed things when his actual personal motto was "It's all 'bout dat *****, stupid" (slang for cat).
 
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I might go look for it tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I was making posts in 2019 where I said that Trump's strategy of pouring gas on a red hot economy was going to eventually lead to inflation and a worse than necessary recession and that the next elected president would get blamed for it. Looks like that's exactly what happened tonight. I'm happy Trump got voted out, but he escaped responsibility for his actions, including intimidating the Fed chair to not increase interest rates during his administration, and either he or DeSantis will likely be our next President. The recession will be ending at that time, because that's how this cyclic process works (it has almost nothing to do with who the sitting President of the U.S. is) so a bunch of simple idiots will believe that Republicans are good for the economy much the same way simple idiots thought that Bill Clinton was some sort of economic genius who fixed things when his actual personal motto was "It's all 'bout dat *****, stupid" (slang for cat).
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Re bolded: I believe that is what many people saw and expected.

First term midterm president usually has a lot of house seats lost. Doesn't look like that is happening tonight. 64 uncalled house races according to Yahoo right now, Rs have gone +6. Previous first term midterm elections had Trump Rs lose 40, Obama's Ds lose 63, George Bush Rs gain 8 (unique circumstances that election), Clinton Ds lose 52, Bush Rs lose 8, Reagan Rs lose 26, Carter Ds lose 15. List goes on.

House may flip, though. I'm seeing 218-217 maybe? 6 would be enough to flip house, but I doubt 218-217 is what Rs wanted.
 
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My hot take is that R’s would have really cleaned up but that Trump actually held them back with his endorsement of lesser candidates and those that aren’t fit for public office coming out of the woodwork.

If I’m someone like McCarthy or McConnell, I see a ton of strings being pulled to make Desantis the guy in 2024. They’re calculating enough to know that you can only be so polarizing a second time around.
 
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