• mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    5 months ago

    Dude you’re putting up a spirited drive towards this conclusion you are trying to bolster. Sure. One more message maybe.

    I don’t actually disagree with anything you just said. There are two ways to look at that bleak reality.

    1. One way to look at it is, hey, let’s look at which direction things have been moving recently, and try to do more of the things that produce gains and less of the things that produce losses, because it’s pretty fuckin urgent to fix all that.
    2. The other way it to move the goalposts allllllll the way from “wages never caught up with the giant price jumps from the pandemic” to implicitly blaming Biden for everything that’s happened throughout generations of neoliberal betrayal of the American dream, as a way of disagreeing with an article which is accurately describing some notable successes for the people most in need of help right now including wages catching up and exceeding the giant price jumps from the pandemic

    I’m not into the idea of indefinitely disagreeing with every new location you wanna move the goalposts to. I will agree with you about how fucked things are on a generational time-scale, and the urgency of fixing it.

    Which is why I like identifying honestly when and why things are moving in the right direction

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      implicitly blaming Biden for everything that’s happened throughout generations of neoliberal betrayal of the American dream

      No dude, I have literally blamed Biden for nothing. He has no blame, but also no credit, because he doesn’t control the economy.

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        5 months ago

        New goalposts I do not have time for but fortunately there are a couple of articles which go into why this is wrong pretty comprehensively