Post #2914561

2024-12-16 22:09 UTC

"Who on average spend 10% of their pay on groceries, the lowest in the country’s history, not to mention human history. Who are lashing out at others at the slightest inconvenience, because they want to lash out at others." That "ancient, compelling, and evil" force to which Buckle refers: it's the ravenous need many of us have to hurt someone else, to blame someone else, to eschew responsibility to anyone but ourselves. #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /7

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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-16 22:13

Trump has given us — and by us, I mean largely the people at the top of the economic ladder, corporate leaders, their media lapdogs — permission to indulge that urge to cruelty while pretending we're "rebuilding" a "great" America and a "great" American economy. We're now going to see media and other leaders kowtow to Trump big-time, and as that happens, we'll see a lot of cover-up of the real price we're all paying for indulging ourr cruelty.. #Trump #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /8

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@tyggna@mastodon.social 2024-12-16 22:15

@wdlindsy@toad.social https://www.axios.com/2024/02/27/price-food-us-inflation-data-groceries Actually, we're at a 30-year high right now at 11%, but go on and post to social media without data so people who already know you can blindly agree with you and vilify people like me who read something and say, "Oh, that's interesting. I wonder where I can find source data to support that?" and then go looking only to find this is utter nonsense.

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