Are there data to support this argument though?

The markets went down early on as everything everywhere shut down, then I don’t think had another sustained run of losses? And while trump didn’t do great at the response, his ineptitude didn’t really shine through until after the initial closures etc.

That’s not to say the market is all that matters and I think his lack of response killed many people, it doesn’t seem to have moved markets. (Darkly ironic, as most of the deaths were among senior citizens who have a low propensity to spend, you might perversely argue more seniors deaths led to a redistribution of wealth towards those with a higher marginal propensity to spend thus helping the markets. Obviously super immoral/evil but again, in terms of the markets…)

Ooooh, good answer.

I’m going for accuracy.

You could argue trump’s response maybe made the markets slightly worse but blaming the covid market crash on American stupidity seems pretty far fetched.

Thanks!

Panasonic, Genius Prestige.

That’s actually super cool! (Admittedly, one of my favourite youtube channels is practical engineering so I am not an authority on actual coolness.)

Honestly, carefully looking on marketplace, being willing to travel to the bougie end of town got me a high end microwave for cheapish and I’m never ever going back.

Sensor reheat, just heats my damn food. Frozen food setting, hell yeah, all thawed perfectly.

The rich live better and I’m fine enjoying their leavings.

There’s been a significant, internationally tested drop in functional literacy skills in the last decade or so.

That was a cathartic watch, thank you.

Majority of Google’s revenue is from search. Iirc, average developed world user is worth a few hundred a year.

Want to stick it to them? Change your browser to something like Opera or firefox, default search engine to something like Duckduckgo.

Relatively painless and if a few thousand of us do it, the dollars start adding up.

It’s the only comedy that made me feel nauseous because of how depressingly on point it was.

Ehhhhhhhhh. The things that people notice as getting worse (climate change, political polarization, erosion of democratic norms) are indeed getting worse.

That being said, the lives of billions of the most poor among us are indeed getting, on average, better by almost every conceivable metric.

Nuh uh, idiot!

/s

I was so confused, thank you for explaining.

Well, frankly he’s pretty fucking uncoordinated if he was trying to do a sieg heil. Like, getting shot by the SS bad at it.

Which is the point. By making it close but passable, we freak out, moderates roll their eyes and the Left gets discredited.

I really thought we’d matured beyond falling for stupid shit lile that but I guess I had too much faith in people.

I guess that’s why the internet advice is “DO feed trolls.”

The whole point is to make us scream nazi so that everyone else goes “oh the fucking left, they spent 4 years screaming fascist and then we had another election. Now those idiots are screaming nazi…”

It’s really not complicated and my God are we taking the bait hard. It hurts to watch, we shouldn’t be this stupid and gullible but here we are.

No… You are absolutely missing the point.

Calling the Republicans nazis is going to convince zero people they are nazis. What it will do is make all those Biden-Trump voters, or reluctant republican voters discount what we say when it matters.

If we scream nazi when Elon trolls us, people are much less likely to care when we scream it again about detention centres.

Unlike you, I understand the danger this administration poses and the importance of addressing it in a meaningful way. Letting Musk troll us into throwing temper tantrums ain’t helping.

About 60% of eligible voters, votes in the 2024 elections (slightly more or less depending on methodology.)

But I think your larger conclusions about voters deciding both parties are fascist is unsupported by reality or evidence.

I’d agree they’ve grown disenchanted but that’s very different. Unless, we’re just in this new stage where anything we don’t like is labelled as fascist.

Did you mean to comment on something else?

Just want to make sure you’ve got the right post.

No, it’s checkers. The same checkers I played when I bullied my sister as a kid.

1. Get her angry about something.
2. she flips out.
3. mom and dad get mad at her.
4. success!

Elon:

1. Do something you could interpret as a nazi salute.
2. The Left flips out.
3. Oxegyn/attention goes to that instead of the evil shit in the executive orders. Plus, most Americans do not seem to think trump is actually going to pull nazi shit (gas chambers, attack the world, remove elections.) So we just look like the same whiners who screamed fascism from 2016-2020 until there was another election (not typically a fascist move.)
4. Success!

It’s not complicated, not brilliant but goddamn are we taking the bait like my 10 year old sister did.