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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • tldr: there is the electoral system.

    governments change because of who leads/ represents the people in their governments.

    in the US, “the people” have little to no understanding of their government(there have been studies about this for the last 60 years), and because conservatives campaign on emotional bigotry, which is immediately hard-hitting and compelling versus waiting 2 years to receive a tax decrease(which works, but takes 2 years), undereducated and unsupported American citizens have been put into increasingly untenable situations where they are struggling to survive while working themselves to the bone and receiving lower compensation, and if an emergency arises, they are denied basic services.

    when you have no other options to support yourself, murder becomes an option, since nothing else has worked and they are provided with no other options they are comfortable with.

    there are some civil services, and the government can always change, regardless of what popular opinion fashions, but right now in the US you have a couple hundred million people desperate to survive in a country that provided survival wages, and now that they have reelected Trump and he’s already before even taking the White House began turning against unions and civil rights, those wages will probably lower again, living cost increasing and civil benefits decreasing.

    out of 200 million desperate people, some of them are willing to take the most drastic measure because maybe it’ll make a difference, who knows.

    i mean, lots of people know, but most Americans have been clinging to the edge of a cliff by their fingertips for years or decades, so they don’t have the perspective that others may.






  • “instead of regulating prices”

    literally what they’re trying to regulate with the legislation he introduced

    you can’t just regulate private companies for no reason.

    "Biden wagged his finger and supposedly said “Hey jack, dont fuck people over quite as much” and’

    and it worked and the prices went down.

    Love that you used "hey Jack"by the way, I’ve been really getting into that lately.

    "percentage from a ridiculous all time high.’

    ehgs down from $4 to less than $1 because of a study done that show their price gouging…so… that significant well then

    “someone criticizing biden is NOT automatically defending trump”

    couldn’t care less about this tangent.

    and then it looks like you’re just making shit up after that because you don’t have any evidence, facts or logic to draw on.

    worrrd




  • not even close, that’s all completely off the mark.

    a literal global pandemic happened, and US food production companies were found responsible for price gouging simply for profit because they thought everyone would be too distracted by dying from the pandemic.

    you combine price gouging, which Biden publicly exposed and told the worst companies to stop doing, and they did revert prices, in with shrinkflation, which Biden set up a regulatory committee specifically to combat, with Russia’s War driving up energy prices, and Biden still was able to bring down inflation within a couple years to normal enough levels that the treasury stopped raising interest rates. he brought it down from 14% to about 2.

    Yes, it is good that Biden was able to lower grocery prices and gas prices.

    you wanted lower prices. Biden gave you lower prices.

    Biden doesn’t set grocery or energy prices, but he can bring them down as much as possible despite a service industry attacked by Trump, a pandemic killing and isolating the work force attacked and dismantled by Trump, and an aggressive War from a leading energy producer that will lead to more wars and higher prices with the support Trump has pledged to Putin.

    Trump raised prices.

    Biden brought the prices back down.

    have fun with your reelected markups.