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Kinda had a feeling that’s where you were going with that

Speaking as someone who actually supports unions and working class wages and things that help them, please back up what you’re saying

Like this or this

The best place to live I have ever been aware of in history was the US during the post-labor-movement environment of the 1940s through 1970s (for the white people). We just gotta have a second one of those that’s capable to demand that again, and extend it to all races.

Nothing’s inherently wrong with the US governmental system; the economic system just tends to get out of whack (and also distort the government along with everything else) if there isn’t a strong labor movement keeping it the fuck in check.

I tried to find a Scary Go Round archive with the whole subplot of the communist robots having a party at the bus station and fucking the buses, but it is too old to be available, I think 😢

Yeah makes sense. Good thing that this critical role for our society is done by people who basically have to live in their cars for a few years. No way that could go wrong.

Most people saw an increase in their rent and groceries of 50-100% since 2019.

What is your source for this?

If you genuinely believe whatever anyone on Lemmy tells you, just because they are telling it to you, you'll believe anything

(FTFY, hope that helps)

(Also, what happened to the other person who was saying 200%? Is this like a tag team where everyone takes their turn to send one and exactly one message to me, so that the abandonment of the 200% figure can be replaced with other equally incorrect figures in a way that I then have to disprove afresh as if the whole first conversation hadn’t happened?)

Exactly

Underpaying cops is what leads to Uvalde. Have high standards, throw the fuckin book at cops who abuse their power, and pay the rest of them properly. Cops, teachers, construction, bus drivers, all the people who make things operate should get paid a fuckin living wage, and the jobs that are skilled in addition (I.e. most of those) should be able to demand a higher wage and limit the people who’re allowed to do it to the people who can do it properly.

I am somewhat shocked that teachers could start affording houses if you doubled their pay. Maybe like a house in a shitty neighborhood in conjunction with a partner… maybe. I don’t really know but if I had to guess I would say it’s like $40k income for teachers and $150k family income to afford a house.

Did you not know that planes have pee pees

In reality it is:

5: All good

4: There was some kind of significant issue

3: I am an old person or confused

2: I am an old person or confused

1: 90% chance I am just a super unreasonable person of some variety or other

Dude you guys are having enough fuel problems

You don’t need to have a military vehicle that needs a special place to charge or else to be plugged in to mains for like 12 hours

I mean you can do what you like, but this seems pants on head mentally disabled

Don't forget boogaloo fellas and local cops who have been taken in by some kind of propaganda and left-wing useful idiots who got all spun up on internet nonsense to think that the best way to help the Palestinians is to make sure Trump gets elected. I hope not, but the convention has the potential to be a fuckin atom bomb of colliding toxic forces.

So groceries go up 150-200% and wages go up by 15% and somehow that's a win?

You're misunderstanding the chart -- that's all inflation-adjusted wages. Cumulative inflation (which, again, was follow-on impacts from Covid, mostly unavoidable although I'm sure Trump didn't help) was around 20% in total. So low-wage income went up 33%, high-wage income went up 24%, and so on, and then about 20 percentage points worth of that got eaten back up by inflation.

Basically the working class exceeded inflation by quite a lot, and everyone at least kept pace with it (2 percentage points above inflation means basically no detectable change).

What groceries are you paying 200% more for? Even for the very highest items like eggs, it's been like 40% increase cumulatively.

ETA not to mention inflation being something like 2.5% per year at least

The whole problem currently is that it was way the fuck more than 2.5%, and prices from the spike in 2021-2022 haven't gone back down or anything. Here's the chart. The wages chart I showed was inflation-adjusted.