It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
Yuck, imagine asking regular working-class people
But not everyone has broken even at this point, and that could be part of the explanation behind the continued pessimism. On average, pay gains have not fully caught up with the jump in prices since the start of the pandemic
Dog it hasn’t caught up with jumps in prices since the 70s lol
Oh they weren't talking about the covid pandemic, they're talking about Spanish Flu
Real income and CPI caught up in the 60s before trending back to the robber baron age
(Noting this uses averages, doesn't account for labour force participation, uses taxpayer units instead of the entire population, the right hand side is log-scale, and is almost 25 years out of date)
But this process happened much more rapidly since 2020
Why are black people unhappy, we asked three white people who were just told black people exist 90 seconds ago
Charlemagne is black lol. He talks about black people’s poverty being unaddressed as one reason for them turning away from biden, although he also implies it’s partially “memory”.
But he might be white since Joe Biden told him he won’t be black unless he votes for him.
In this absurd scenario the two groups of people represent other groups of people
This is supposed to make you feel insane, but why? Do they really believe this?
They've spent decades destroying useful economic metrics so they had something to boast about every 4 years. Now all those measures say everything is hunky dory, but most people are too broke to believe it anymore
Because covid "era" welfare is gone, real wages were stagnant for two years, the jobs are dogshit, interest rates are unnecessarily kept high.
All that said, U.S. is definitely doing better than EU. EU is super fucked lol.
Much of that is included in the article. But they also include bullshit gaslighting about “negative media” and “nostalgia for better times”
Whitewashing history has that side-effect.
Charlamagne “$26 if you let us run a train on you right now” tha god, definitely my first choice for political insight
I know nothing about the guy, what now?
He’s just known for having absolutely no filter and saying completely out of pocket stuff constantly. I don’t think he has the greatest opinions in the first place, like definitely not really that on board with gay people nor very respectful of women, but I’m also convinced half the reason he does it is because of some “any press is good press” attempt to get people to tune in to his radio show. I’m always taken aback when I see him in mainstream media cause of the things he’s said.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MRdpzrdPUk&pp=ygUaY2hhcmxlbWFnbmUgZnVubnkgbW9tZW50cyA%3D
He's pretty okay with gay people, he cohosted that Catfish spin off show about Trolls, where he was pretty kind to the two feuding gay trolls. He also hosted a few pretty good interviews with a drag queen and challenged Boosie on his homophobia.
I also liked that he platformed Nina Turner, mainstreamed the lady covering LA sheriff gangs, and got a proper prison abolitionist lawyer to grill Eric Adams and make him squirm.
nor very respectful of women
That's a generous take based on what he said in the link
this dude is super into farts lmao
looks at quintile/decile data for income
But what does it mean 
They had no shortage of “regular people” to interview when doing a million “think pieces” on Trump’s 2016 victory.
They're just jealous.
The Failing New York Times
When even Larry Summers has a better take on why sentiment is low, you know you fucked up.