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Can you link me some reading material about this?

we literally suffered 9/11 because of Israel

I've never once heard Israel come up in the story of 9/11

As a Michigander, I choose this one because I don't like the other option 😅

Where did you learn this communication style? It reads very much like you're trolling, or you're pretending to not be a human being or something lol

Please stop commenting on politics if this is your level of education on the matter. Communism is absolutely not relevant here, because communism is

a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).

You haven't even begun to understand if you think communism is related to this discussion.

I mean yeah, you yourself are here arguing the wrong facts, and I assume you consider yourself educated. You think a high school graduate in Iowa is going to have received financial literacy education? I severely doubt it.

I also am actually going with the fact that the data you gave me is highly partisan in nature. Republicans are in another reality man. I think we'd be doing ourselves a disservice falling for their talking points.

I don't really think that the Gallup poll you linked refutes Carter's point, actually. Gallup and Carter are examining completely different data, and honestly, Gallup doesn't make a claim about what the cause is for these findings.

The poll states that 68% of Americans thought in December that the economy was worsening. But looking a little further, actually 64% of Democrats thought it was getting better, compared to only 8% of Republicans. It kind of feels like this is the actual information we should be concerned with in the poll, and that you're only giving me part of the information for some reason.

Regarding the CPI, it does track food and beverage as a core category.

https://bls.gov/CPI/questions-and-answers/

The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population (U or W). BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services). Included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls.

I agree we have a lot of work to do still, but I'm sure we can also agree that a significant portion of Americans are also not very informed and generally make poor financial choices.

Look I understand where you're coming from, and I kinda agree with you. Also speaking as a white male, though, we would rightly declare someone like Candace Owens an internalized racist if she said the same the thing that you just did but about black people. I don't think it's fair to raise your arms and say "Well yeah some of the people in my group are problematic, so it's okay if we behave inappropriately toward the entire group. I personally don't feel oppressed so why are you mad?"

Like that's pretty silly right? I'm afraid that the divide in political ideology between young men/women is due to years of white-men-bad rhetoric, pushing these young boys to Tate and Fresh n Fit, and it's having the opposite effect that we want. We're no longer educating at a certain point, we're just shaming.

You said the reason people are upset is that

the economy is not good for them. It's really that simple. Shit is expensive and most people did not get pay raises. Most of the ones that did get raises haven't gotten enough to tackle the increases in food, rent, and utility prices.

The article states however that

Even accounting for inflation, wages are higher today than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, and the biggest wage gains have accrued among the lowest-paid workers, resulting in a dramatic reduction in overall wage inequality.

Are you saying that the author is lying? Can you provide any evidence to support this one way or the other? Because your position and the article can't coexist, only one can be true. One is an investigative report and one is a Lemmy comment. You must understand how this looks?

Biden sometimes deserves criticism for sure, but not here.

Just to clarify for others who had to look into this like myself, this is true for unemployed individuals who have not actively sought a job within the last four weeks. If you've filled out a job app in the last 30 days you're being counted.

No it doesn't. Not wanting to be the target of racial or sexual discrimination is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask for. I swear, half the "leftists" on Lemmy are just larping...

Whoever down voted you is coping, this is easily seen all over their products. RCS, headphone ports, charging ports, not allowing you to side load apps, the walled garden, yadda yadda. Apple makes good (really expensive) hardware but the rest is marketing.

Right on, thank you!

New to this depth of phone administration, where are you entering this command? Is there a developer CLI I should be looking for or is this done with a third party app or something?

I do just need to point out that the Doomsday Clock is run by a media organization with no ties to any government. There's no hard facts about what the number represents, it's just a small group of academics who decide how close we are to apocalypse off vibes. While I think the problems they point out are valid concerns you have to remember that their main thing is to drive clicks. Of course this is easier if you're constantly scared.

I know it seems like we're in the worst time possible, but crime and violence is as low as it's ever been and the standard of living for human life in general is also as high as it's ever been. I'd echo the other commenters, sounds like it's time for a social media detox.

This is not in any way limited to left wing social media lol... Donald Trump is the master of name-calling and Truth Social and the like is littered with his euphemisms. Pay more attention.

People are down voting you because you're routinely misrepresenting or misunderstanding them all over this thread. Since your comments are perfectly clear otherwise this is leading other commenters to believe you're acting in bad or trolling.

Actually this very comment of yours that I'm responding to is a pretty good example of that.

Look stranger, no one is saying you're wrong to call out the problems with the economy. Everyone is on your side there.

They're saying that you personally made a mistake, and that's one that other people can and should avoid for themselves. If after 45 years you REALLY TRULY only have like $2k USD in your retirement account then you messed up somewhere. That's almost impossible the way compounding interest works.

Many 401ks are not actually invested by default, it's up to the account holder to assign those funds themselves. Guessing that's what happened to you. Unfortunately this isn't widely known for some reason and companies don't bother to educate employees about it.

Is this not even worse double-dipping? Why would a server who makes $3/hr be expected to tip out the rest of the restaurant? That's the point of being able to pay them $3/hr no?

Wages being disconnected from company earnings is an even bigger reason for us to insist the percentage NOT go up...

I get what you're saying here but there must be SOMEONE reporting on this? I don't know any railroaders so I can't really ask them, you must understand though that it's hard for me to agree with someone based on a "trust me bro", especially on the internet. I also read the entire press release again for what it's worth, they seem to have only stated that Biden was pressuring lawmakers to, well, make laws. Here's the entirety of Biden's thing:

I share workers’ concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member,” Biden said. “I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office and will continue to do so.

Seems pretty reasonable? Idk, all that said I am in support of expanded workers rights and if this is indeed the case I hope it gets more attention soon and can be corrected, because 4 pre-scheduled sick days is pretty stupid lol. I promise I'm not being disingenuous, I'm just really not stoked about the idea of another Trump term and people seem to want to do nothing but yeet us off that cliff. Biden has been a better president than I expected and I'd like to keep democracy goin ya know?

So just to be clear here, the union is taking a victory lap for getting what it wanted, but the union is also mad that it didn't get what it wanted? Can you help me to understand where I can get more information about this pre-scheduled sick time?

I do also just want to note that my understanding is that the president does not make legislation, can you also point me to where he promised to do that?