Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Zaknel
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I think the reason people stopped taking measures against COVID is because they realize that to keep doing what they were doing in 2020 and 2021 would make the economy even worse.
marinus18

@Zaknel
When it comes to the standard of living the economy can afford the 2% drop due to covid is nothing. In rich countries like the US poverty is entirely a policy choice.
Zincy
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In Vino Veritas
Generally speaking the economy is doing pretty good.
Grew at a pretty good rate, hiring is still strong, wages have ticked up as fast as inflation has ticked down.
And we managed to do it all without a major spike in layoffs/unemployment. Stocks are doing gangbusters, my 401 is lookin sharp.
BlitztheDragon
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I’m not even talking about the lockdowns and sheltering in place. Yes, that interferes with economic growth. I’m talking more about how masking in public is now stigmatized, and people who do get harassed. Many businesses are banning wearing a mask on the premises, and some local government are making it a felony.
Add to that how all media talks about it in past tense, and people who get long COVID get cast aside and ignored.
marinus18

@Zincy
But that is pretty irrelevant. The economy has been capable of giving everyone a high standard of living and it has been for decades. So unless you’re part of the 0,1% economic stats really don’t matter cause that’s not the limiting factor. Companies have the profit margins to pay higher wages, they just don’t want to. There is more than enough surplus to make all healthcare completely free but the insurance companies just don’t want to.
Zincy
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In Vino Veritas
A business owner in Ohio has come out about death threats and other harassment he has received after defending his Hatian workers.
The guy is a life long republican who voted for Trump twice, but the leopards have turned their attention onto him for daring to question their leaders’ lies.
The guy even got a visit from the FBI saying that several of the threats were credible.
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I doubt too many working class people cared about sacrificing their well-being for the economy.
Anti-Covid measures being impotent can more easily be traced to how the ruling class - on both sides (bleh) - spent the entirety of the pre and post-pandemic days screaming ‘NO! BACK TO THE MINES! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, AND MONEY FOR THE MONEY GOD!’
I believe those were direct quotes, no need to fact check.
Dustcan
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I’m sure Swift is flying her private jet to her other private jet, which she’ll use to fly and go give that guy a piece of her mind.
Give or take a private jet.
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Last year, Kid Rock shot several packs of Bud Light with an AR-15 in response to Budweiser sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney. I bet a bunch of other members of the MAGA cult did the same thing as well.
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