AFaithfulNihilist @ AFaithfulNihilist @lemmy.world

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They conveniently underlined all the bullshit.

For example:

Highest rate of economic growth (reflecting even more of the wealth being distributed among the Uber wealthy)

Lowest inflation (not counting housing, healthcare, energy or food)

Strongest wage growth (maybe in nominal terms if you ignore the actual increase in the cost of essential goods and services putting people behind where they were pre-pandemic)

Biggest wage gain among lowest paid workers (who still make less than they did before 2019 and somehow overlooking that almost all the gains in the economy since 2019 went to a few specific billionaires)

Lowest unemployment in x years ( they just keep redefining unemployment so that instead of it meaning 'people who can't find enough gainful employment to pay essential bills', we limit it to people that have no job right now but did in the last six months and have made x number of applications while not collecting any income. It's a damn joke)

They say "accounting for inflation" but then you have to remember their definition of inflation does not count housing, healthcare, energy or food so it's nonsense anyway.

The wealth gap is wider now than 2018. I don't even know where this claim that people are better off or the wealth gap is shrinking comes from... oh they got a 6% raise and inflation in sensible terms (not even counting housing and healthcare but including energy and food) is close to 9%.

And the black unemployment rate much like the unemployment rate itself is a cooked number that ignores most of the people that are black and unemployed/underemployed. It just doesn't give a shit if you can eat, have a place to live or can afford to go to the doctor, it just cares if you have a job right now or if you recently did and are still looking.

I am on my phone so I haven't had a chance to look up the disability unemployment claim, but as someone that lives with and supports people with disabilities, this might actually be real. Remote work is a real social revolution and it is making lives better.

My point is, as long as articles like this used continue to use cooked books to justify rose tinted viewings they will continue to think Americans are just ungrateful and ignorant of how great things are.

Dishonest stuff like this undermines the credibility of revenue driven media and leads to blurring the lines between a community getting high on hopium and Trump's firehose of bullshit.

I wonder if they have a choir, The Hawaii Mormon school music project would be an interesting alternative to the haunting Langley School music Project

I guess we found Limmy's tumbler account

I also like what I call the boomer addendum to hanlons razor, "never excuse to incompetence what results in profit" or put another way, "profit is never an accident".

I don't believe that the state has the right to make examples out of people, unless those people took an oath to the state and used that power to abuse people. Then, the state is obligated to do it.

Example making is a confession of impotence. It's a way of highlighting the fact that you have up until now failed to do what you are supposed to be doing and would like to draw attention to a specific incident where you actually follow through on your responsibilities.

To put it another way, I think you must make examples out of people who abuse power you give them because it's your fault and theirs that this happened. So they have earned being made into an example and you are obligated to make one. You must confess your impotence if you are in power.

Anything less than that is cowardice and corruption.

If you have a problem with the way that police are treated in prison then you have a problem with the way that prisons let people get treated. Under no circumstances should a police officer get special treatment at any step along the way unless that's to make it harsher and more punitive.

Yeah they look like the default character model of a really cheap game with slightly different hair configurations.

I don't know if you've ever met any male strippers or other male sex workers, but they make a lot less money.

We used to get the kind of snow that let you build snow forts and go sledding for months, now the one day we get snow is just a soggy mess and the freeze isn't even long enough to allow for a break in the mosquitoes.

You're right, because hanging a lantern is something a character does to explain something seemingly contrived in the story.

Homeownership.

Too late, the damage is done.

We're funding Israels pogrom and pretending that everything they said about UNRWA is true.

YEAH TOAST!

I totally appreciate the point, And I agree with you for what it's worth.

Imagine if we stop giving aid to Israel just because they tortured and murdered a whole bunch of people? I mean at least that would make sense, right, since it was directed from the top levels of government through the entire official military.

Meanwhile we defund an aid organization because 12 people were suspected (through evidence gained by torture) of some wrongdoing at some point in the past.

The lack of standards for Israel is damning. If ever there was a country that we should have invaded well there it is.

It's not true and the IDF tortured them.

We should be cutting aid to Israel for war crimes, and their treatment of UNRWA employees is a perfect example of why.

There is a pro-Israel candidate with a blind spot for genocide and a pro-genocide candidate with a soft spot for Hitler.

Both willfully support Israel's ethnic cleansing of the native people, but only one of them wants to "finish the Palestinians".

Democrats are a shitty ally but Republicans are an effective enemy.

I wish these articles would contain lists of officers and who the lead was who fucked it up so unbelievably badly that it cost their city 3.7 million.

These people should become unemployable pariahs. They should be humiliated by their peers and mocked openly by the public for being monstrous garbage human beings.

The other parents at the PTA meeting should whisper about them with rude looks and faces twisted with disgust. They should be asked not stay away from public activities out of respect for other people who they might make uncomfortable.

They should be treated like the selfish and reckless addicts that they are. We should be able to build a public list of police officers that unapologetically fuck up.

A friend of mine won the top of the line omen model in a gaming tournament. We went through three of them before we just accepted the thing doesn't fucking work for shit and demoted it to a Super Gengear 64 Station boy advance and stuffed it under the TV.

There's a good book from a former Smithsonian curator called One Good turn that talks about the ancient history of the screwdriver and the screw.

If you went back in time far enough that the people around you didn't know about the screwdriver and the screw, Even a rudimentary knowledge of It's existence would possibly on its own break the timeline.

It just works so well!

Someone should mass print the most common tattoo shapes in temporary tattoos and hand them out at protests or sell them for cheap.

Seems like a great way of just poisoning a lot of data sets