So now that some of the reliable drumbeat of “5 shocking reasons Biden sucks, you won’t believe #3!” stories are starting to get removed as misinformation, we’re moving to just putting “Biden” “inflation” and “blame” into juxtaposition in the headline while still being plausible-deniable, huh
What are you on about? This is the original title of this article from CNBC.
Headlines from newspapers can be propaganda too.
I mean, the core of what you’re saying I will admit is sorta accurate – I’m knee-jerking a response that may or may not be reasonable. A lot of it has to do with me seeing a pattern of weirdly Biden-shade-throwing stories on Lemmy, not that this one article or headline is anything wild or unreasonable.
But I will say, on CNBC’s side, it would be easy (and more accurate) to just write a story “Here are the reasons behind inflation” without tangentially bringing up the theory that Biden’s involved, and without bringing polls of people who may or may not have a clue what they’re talking about anywhere into it.
Or even just “Businesses are the cause of inflation” if they want to skip the clickbait and get to the point.
Could be worse, though. We could pendulum swing to the full extent of clickbait and make something like “Have beef with Biden? Wait until you hear the truth behind higher prices.”
Biden still sucks. But if anyone thinks Biden is solely responsible for high prices at the grocery store and not the greedy capitalist pieces of crap corporations, they’re idiots.
Biden still sucks
You are, of course, welcome to your opinion on him. I honestly don’t have time for an extended back and forth and I’m not sure it would be productive anyway. People can make up their own minds about what they’re seeing; I’m just putting my observation in about this specific story.
I don’t have time either. But if anyone wants to follow along on holding Biden accountable, this account is a great read:
>twitter
ew
I agree but the info and discourse from this account is solid.
We don’t want screenshots from Shitter any more than we want links. If “the info is solid”, then link it from a reliable source, not Nazi Playland.
Here’s the info directly: https://harrisx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HarrisX-Overnight-Poll-State-of-the-Union-3.11.2024.pdf
But if anyone thinks Biden is solely responsible for high prices at the grocery store and not the greedy capitalist pieces of crap corporations, they’re idiots.
These are the same people who were putting stickers of Biden saying “I did that” on every gas pump when fuel costs were high (conveniently not now that prices have lowered again). Yes these people are idiots. Unfortunately these idiots also vote.
I have bad news for you regarding a large portion of eligible voters.
Here, just for you… https://lemmy.world/post/13043026
It’s not inflation, it’s collusion. You don’t get to have record profits for four years with 20% “inflation”.
Collusion plus the fact that a significant portion of food brands are owned by a handful of companies: https://botcrawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Companies-Own-The-Food-We-Eat-Infographic.png
They used supply chain issues as an excuse to raise the price of all of their products to obscene levels, and then never brought the prices back down after the supply chains resolved, if that even was a real issue in the first place. I guess they figured people don’t really have the option to just not buy food.
Almost as if monopolies aren’t good for consumers. Weird.
…And he won’t do a goddamn thing about it legislation-wise. Hell, he won’t even SAY anything about it.
I really wish we would have elected the guy who - despite what he could or couldn’t have done in office - at least used the bully pulpit to call out the ghouls with dragon-like hoards of wealth that have put us all in a worse place than our parents were 60 years ago.
I’d settle for where my parents were 30 years ago. One middling income, no higher education, and a 2500 square foot house purchased for $350k dollars (in today dollars adjusted for inflation) that’s ‘worth’ $750k now.
Adjusting for inflation, my wife and I combined make as much as my dad did.
