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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SerLava@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I made a substack for this so you can send it to your libbed up friends and family. Also like/comment on the article that would be cool, im sure that helps spread it somehow

Premise: A lot of great socialist and left-leaning people have dismantled the main point of the Bidenomics argument by showing that many millions of people were left behind. This article is coming in to destroy what little remains after that - even the best case scenario is still just wrong and delusional.

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[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Two weeks later and I’m still thinking about this one.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

The thing that really gets me is how hard they were pushing the idea that there was just some kind of information gap that was causing people to not understand why Biden's economy was so good. And this was the reality the whole time

They really think of people as SimCity characters or something

[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

lol the real information gap is PMC libs not thinking about how their DoorDash order gets to their house.

[-] _pi@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The programs you mention expiring along with COVID-era cash welfare, reversed the poverty/food security trend for 2 years and these Dem dipshits literally can't figure out what's going on.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

oh hell yeah I was looking for those grim-ass charts, thank you I'm adding them to the article

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they're pissed that it's gone.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I still remember a couple years ago when a lot of people said the global pandemic was by far the best time of their lives. Just vibing, doing hobbies, finally truly decompressing after decades. They won't ever forget that feeling

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

It feels fucked up to say given how many lives it destroyed, but in some ways, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. It let me start working from home. No longer being under the office panopticon or having to mask (in the autistic sense) for 8 hours a day was a massive load off of my back.

[-] PurrLure@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Same, I didn't realize how exhausted I was masking at work as an autistic person every day until I was allowed to stop doing it.

If anything, I actually get more work done now than pre-pandemic.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.

The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn't throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Having the Red Army located in Eastern Germany surely also helped make the prospect of revolution go from specter to reality.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

It probably helped, though it's not like they were ever getting across the channel.

[-] iie@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

this is great, really succinct, I probably will show this to people

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

ive only read the first handful of paragraphs and this is already going so fucking hard, great post comrade

Death to America

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Care-Comrade thank you!!

[-] PurrLure@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

High quality post, much appreciated king.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

soviet-heart I'm so glad you liked it!

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Outstanding article.

One quick point though: I posted this in a politics chat channel and the resident Zionist turbo-lib was quick to point this out:

Biden didn't give a single person a raise

And referenced this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/22/biden-federal-workers-pay-raise/

Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect

So you may want to adjust that for good measure!

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

excellent thank you I will make that edit now

Edit: good call, it actually ended up making my point even stronger- it basically belongs in that top chart. Turns out they bumped the annual raise from 2.5 percent to 5.2 percent, which didn't match inflation, and then they declared "not happening again next year lmao" in August of this year, nice and close to the election lol

I changed the passage to:

Biden didn't give a workers a raise himself, outside of a modest bump for federal employees that didn’t keep up with inflation, and which the administration recently declared is not happening again in 2025. And maybe he gave a raise to some of the people still defending him, but those two groups still leave us with 99% of the population to consider.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago
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