Well, I don't think they're lying per se. But when you ask a group of people "why is it you all believe this" of course they're going to respond "because we are right." I'm more asking OP why he would even post this guestion here than criticizing the people responding, he's not going to get any semblance of a helpful answer.

I'd like to see these curves adjusted for price inflation, and then also adjusted for both money supply and economic growth.

Dude I feed 3 people a month on $200 with no assistance. And we eat healthy. We splurge a little too.

It's too expensive, sure. It should be half that. And some people live near a dollar store, I get that, they're eating cat food and Vienna sausages. But this meme isn't about those people. There are waaaay too many people complaining about the cost of groceries that won't eat anything that doesn't come out of a plastic package.

I think the solution is trails that run into towns from outlying areas, where there even are downtowns, for cycling or walking or whatever, allowing slower moving motorized and non motorized transportation on rural roadways with minimal restrictions. For really rural areas where there are no downtowns, I don't think you can do anything but let people get around the way they want to.

OK, I get that, but where does the bus go? It goes somewhere right? It's not about "oh look a a bus stop" it's about the actual transportation itself.

I've said this in reference to the UK, but the same applies to the Netherlands. You cannot compare rural Europe with rural north America. Europe is very densely populated by American standards, you can drive a hundred miles here and not see a house. We aren't talking about small towns, you can make small towns walkable, cyclable, I agree. But their size and density makes them easily walkable and cyclable already. The problem is getting from your 5 acres 10 miles away from the downtown. Rural Europe is more comparable to suburban America, which I would totally agree, needs better transportation infrastructure.

The Netherlands is a wonderful place, but you just can't take their model and apply it to Nevada or Wyoming. There are towns of 1 in Wyoming that are 50 miles from the nearest town. You can put a bus stop in if you want, it won't take you anywhere. People don't realize how large and sparsely populated north america is.

But you need cars for those places, which means you need parking lots downtown for those people. That traffic in downtown, where you you think it comes from? Those 1 or 2 cars driving down that dirt road, they're driving somewhere or from somewhere. The dirt roads meet at a main thoroughfare, paved, that takes them downtown.

Yeah, so the plants turn carbon dioxide and water into cellulose and water mostly, herbivores digest the cellulose into protein and carbohydrates we can eat, we eat them and turn that protein and carbohydrates into our bodies and energy using oxygen, back into carbon dioxide and water and expel it. It's the carbon cycle.

In some States those are motorcycle parking. That thing is a motorcycle, or so the owner desperately wants to believe.

Nice to see you swedneck it's been a while. How you been?

Let me ask you, if they were white people, would you feel bad about it?

They don't like you and think they're better than you. Why do you feel bad for not liking them back?

That's another thing, what you said about the media. 5d chess bullshit aside, the guy knows how to spot incentives and frame himself in such a way that his opponents are incentivized to unwittingly help him. That's the common current with all of this stuff. He knows they can't stop talking about him or they'll lose money. Even though they know what they need to do, they just can't bring themselves to do it. They need the money.

I don't think it's that one dimensional. Whether he's getting stronger we shall see, but he was underestimated once before.