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    7 months ago

    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

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        7 months ago

        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.

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          7 months ago

          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.”

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      7 months ago

      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.