• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Unfortunately, this kind of ignorance comes from a weakening of our education system. It’s not just on them that this has happened, and its only going to get worse if we don’t try to stop it.

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      17 hours ago

      Unfortunately one of the stated plans is for trump to completely and utterly eliminate the department of education entirely.

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        17 hours ago

        This!!! I don’t actually expect our K thru 12 education system to inform the average people about macro-economic policy impacts. This is about being gullible, hearing what you want to hear, refusing to listen to opposing opinions with an open mind, and hero worship.

        So if there’s anything to blame on our education system (and society culture at large) it’s a lack of critical thinking education and an excess of magical thinking education that emphasizes blind agreement with authority.

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      19 hours ago

      Hey, exactly! The fact that we are even allowing this nonsense is a true testimony to how extremely important education is! If you remain ignorant, you are more easily persuaded to believe anything because you aren’t taught what “bullshit” is, and have no real ability to think for yourself.

      Education is freedom from ignorance.

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        18 hours ago

        And that’s why red states are slashing school budgets en masse and continue to have consistently terrible academic performance.

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      14 hours ago

      Trump voter “Nuh, uh. My taxes are slightly lower and if it weren’t for all this Biden inflation I would be able to afford things!”

  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    It’s sad to see that the people that do the most honest work are always being played by people doing the most dishonest one.

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      39 minutes ago

      We could be getting played by some random person on tiktok showing an unsubstantiated claim from another random person.

      I’m not saying it’s definitely fake but don’t just blindly believe this when spreading stories without evidence is the EXACT sort of shit dishonest people do. They’re eating the dogs, etc.

  • SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Those tariffs are going to be a bitch. On the bright side, collecting aluminum cans is going to be way more lucrative.

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    3 hours ago

    Some companies have already said they’re going to pass the extra cost onto consumers, so while the companies will pay more, they’ll make a lot of that back from the consumers that can still afford the products.

    Electronics will probably be the hardest hit, with prices of cell phones, laptops, and game consoles increasing quite a bit.

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      Good thing I got a new computer now. They’ll just blame democrats (who do have a lot to blame for not countering the bullshit of the Republicans over the past 45 years) for it and insist that the tariffs would have brought prices down if they were done without democratic interference…

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      2 hours ago

      Low inflation statistics have been helped significantly by cheaper electronics. So everybody who voted Trump to lower inflation is in for a surprise.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    They don’t need to buy a year of stuff. They need to buy American. It’ll be more expensive, but people should not be cheap. We’re not appliances and Chinese people also aren’t appliances.

    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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      Who’s going to pay for all the expensive American stuff? Nobody, because they already barely afford the cheap Chinese stuff.

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        2 hours ago

        Well that’s because the money is going to China instead of back to Americans.

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          1 hour ago

          I mean, that sounds pretty reasonable. But can you list any countries with isolationist economic policy that are more prosperous than America? I can’t. How do you account for the loss of inflow of foreign money into America after America stops spending money elsewhere? You can’t.

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            1 hour ago

            Well that inflow is from what we’re selling, right? Not buying.

            Also, Denmark? They seem alright. Correct me if I’m wrong about their policy.

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              41 minutes ago

              Denmark just happens to have strong social programs, significantly better than the US has ever had. Free education, healthcare, employment benefits, and wealth distribution through taxes. Not comparable at all.

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                27 minutes ago

                Well yeah, we’re contrasting here not comparing right? Denmark is doing it better IMO. But also Denmark is pretty super against immigration and stuff.

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    19 hours ago

    Trump’s Tariffs are BIDENS FAULT! And they’ll STILL be Biden’s Fault EVERY TIME I vote for the man who LITERALLY campaigned on creating these Tariffs!

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    15 hours ago

    I don’t know if this post is true or not. However, a lot of people don’t know history, civics, & economics. (This is the result of the Reagan & Bushes dismantling of the education system.) I’ve told a lot of people to look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the impact it had on our and the global economy. Tariffs will start a trade war. That’s what happened to our farmers the last time Trump was in office. He ended up having to bail out farmers which cost more than the tariff brought into the government. The Chinese simply bought their soy beans from other countries instead of paying for ours. There were a lot of farmers that lost their farms then.

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      I have been told many times to feel bad for those farmers, that they aren’t idiots, etc.

      I thought I ran of fucks for them but a few more just flew out like butterflies from a dusty chest.

      I hope ever single one that put up those massive Trump signs loses their family farms to big corporations.

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        We need fewer corporate farms, which are dirty as fuck now let alone after they gut the USDA. I hope that they lose their family farm to two gay dudes from Vermont who got really into organic gardening and decided to cash in their b&b for corgis to start growing high quality produce right here in America’s heartland.

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        12 hours ago

        OMFG!!! LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I totally forgot about that. Great memory and response!!! Line of the day!

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      15 hours ago

      I’m sure the corporate farmers were happy to buy up that land and cut the trump admin a nice check for the convenience.

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    17 hours ago

    Ha ha ha!

    This is absolutely delicious!

    I know I’m going to be fucked over hard but it’s still heartwarming to see those adults who put is here also get fucked even harder!

  • lol_idk@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    I grew up in SWPA. Absolutely the most small minded place I’ve ever been. F that place

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    This tells me the information pipe to voters is broken, and hacked.

    People live in their own social media realities. There has always been ignorance, but it’s never been so widely personalized. And Trump and the GoP played it like a fiddle.

    And just watch, the Dems are going to learn precisely nothing from this and campaign like it’s the 1950s again, thinking policy was their problem.

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      The sheer stupidity of the dems is kinda astonishing. The reason why Obama won is because he had a goddamn narrative. Yes we can! Change you can believe in! It’s almost like they were onto something… then they did nothing.

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    2 hours ago

    I posted a meme last week before the election about a lot of my fellow Americans being depressingly ignorant and a bunch of people got pissed off about it.

    I’m just saying…