It's been a while since I saw a good "and everybody applauded" moment. Thank you for that lol

EDIT: Just clicked and saw the second part, whomp whomp

"Economic growth" = stock market up

Stock market is just the scoreboard for theft of economic value, it is useless as a measure of economic health except maybe inversely (if stock market is up that means more wealth is being extracted and funneled upward)

Its not even hidden, people just give zero fucks about how their magical rectangle works and get mad if you try to tell them.

3 out of 10 Americans are lying 🤣

To take your money then say no when you need healthcare.

Basically, everything is priced arbitrarily high to a comical degree because of insurance so you "need" insurance companies to "negotiate" prices (which are already set for them, there's no actual negotiations - just the goofy "retail" price and the still exploitative "insurance" price) and then if its covered the insurance pays a fraction of THAT (closer to a "normal" price) and its considered settled.

So, even if your insurance won't cover it, you need them so you get the exploitative price instead of the comical price from the provider. There's no way to pay the "normal" price unless you're an insurance company.

Isn't it fun how "the price should just be the price" makes you a filthy commie in 2024?

Welcome to the primary purpose

Straight man calls republicans "filth", says most don't want them here

100% trans genocide is the point.

I'm just some cis dude but I'm in your corner bro/sis/enby buddy ❤️

obligatory mention that it's not "The South," but ~30 minutes outside of any metro area in the US.

With an election coming up, the Schrodingers Leftist dilemma is in full force, even on Lemmy -

Where we're simultaneously both powerful enough to be personally behind every Republican win of the past 20 years, and also so insignificant that we must be ridiculed and bullied at every turn to remind us that we have NO PLACE in their party they blame us for not backing.

The best part is that most of the time people hit both sides of the coin in the same comment.

I don't suffer centrists anymore.

"Both sides are evil!"

First off, "both sides" are still on the right

Second off, one side is a broken status quo, the other side is rolling out public educational standards that say slavery was beneficial to slaves and that women's problems are that they don't smile more.