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Selective reality (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, yes, and yes. This is exactly what I'm seeing happen.

Those right leaning folks who were most vocal about how Biden was at fault for the last time egg prices went up are now suddenly fully willing to blame it on bird flu and not worried about it because prices will come back down soon. And already the increasing rate of inflation isn't the president's fault, inflation is high all around the world, there's little the president can actually do to control it, and it's actually Biden's fault. Funny how that works.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

It takes a minimum level of introspection and critical thinking for someone to recognize that they're a low-information hypocrite who parroted back what the media told them until they believed it. Combine that with the type of personality who thinks everyone else is a propaganda-brainwashed simpleton except them, and it brings us to today—where people still justify, argue for, excuse, and defend people acting against their interests.

[–] lobut 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's because stupid gets amplified. The other side doesn't play these games typically with the same energy as the right. Mainly because they're mocking how stupid it is than actually believing it. Then you still have some people in the middle, somehow, or maybe some younger folks that are like: that's a good point!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's a good time to remind everyone that then-VP candidate couch fucker JD Vance stood in front of a display case of eggs saying that they were expensive as $4 when signs behind him clearly show the price of $2.99

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is blatantly false. Clearly MAGAts would never touch an econ 101 book because they're too dumb to be able to read.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And they would 100% blame the current price on Biden. Or Obama

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

They might be doing it right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not Bill Clinton while they're at it.

[–] tempest 3 points 2 weeks ago

They can't remember that far back. It's why they worship Reagan but have no idea what he actually did.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Econ 101 is liberal propaganda. They'd rather use much more trustworthy sources, like uneducated neckbeards ranting on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Or a editorial in the Wall Street journal written by someone paid to be a mouthpiece for capital

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh but they'll readily pretend to recite from it now while holding it upside down none the wiser. Don't forget this is post truth 'Murica, bitches! 🤘

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I reject your reality and substitute my own... MAGAntra

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been using MAGoo since 2016.

For those unfamiliar with his oeuvre

https://youtu.be/t8GTHXTEvIc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nobody but old farts knows Mr. Magoo. MAGAt sounds like maggot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which means the MAGoos know exactly what you are calling them.

Learn to think strategically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

No that’s stereotyping that makes you seem out of touch. Most Trump supporters are younger than that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in my 30s and definitely know who Mr Magoo is. I think they used to rerun it on Cartoon Network when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh, and they tried to cash in on nostalgia with that Leslie Nelson movie...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like using that quote as a "MAGAntra" is an insult to Adam Savage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I forget which one, but there's a b-movie that uses this quote.

I like to think Adam is using it ironically, whereas the MAGAts is it as a battle cry.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's not even exaggerated, here's some on sale eggs.... Basic store brand too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey but THREE packs of cookies for less than the cost of 18 eggs!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Cookies may contain egg, too! Fucking BARGAIN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Man, I never thought I'd appreciate being in a town with a ton of poultry industry.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks Obama...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s frustrating cause even when republicans are complaining, they are already being hypocrites from the shit their politicians did last time.

It’s a vicious cycle fucking cycle of hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's been like this for decades. Republicans wreck the economy, but it takes a minute so the effect isn't seen until a Democrat is in power. The democrats fix it, then the Republicans get back in and fuck it up again.

Only this time the democrats aren't going to regain power.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The price of eggs has nothing to do with the president. Bird flu is literally the explanation.

Over 41 million domestic birds have been culled in the past two months.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah buddy we all know this. We knew it then. We knew he was lying. He promised he would lower the prices of eggs day one. He's a liar. But he made the promise, so as stupid as is I'm going to keep holding him to it. I'mma keep bitching.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean. He is also taunting the NIH, CDC, and WHO. That's gotta account for something, right?

He does have some control there. I'm sure bird flu containment would be a bit better handled without kneecapping the CDC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I agree that's definitely true going forward, but has fucking with the CDC etc. for -- jeezus, it's only been three weeks -- had time to have a material effect on the bird flu epidemiological trajectory yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has the public humiliation of the standard-setters had an effect in 3 weeks?

As someone who has been around OSHA, it usually only takes 20 minute after they disappear before things start changing for the worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but this is more about implementation of policy changes affecting the R~t~ of the virus, lag between the rate changing and the detection of that change in terms of actual measurements of the number of infections, etc. Even if Trump deliberately appointed somebody to send out an edict that poultry farms create the ideal conditions for the virus to spread as quickly as possible, there's still some lag for that appointment to happen, for the edict to be communicated to the farmers, for them to implement it, and then even under those ideal conditions the virus still can reproduce only so fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're absolutely right, it would take way longer if they told them to create the ideal conditions to spread the disease. They did slightly something slightly different though, they said "we no longer care about this regulation" which gets people to start fucking things up quite a bit faster than "change the way you do this for this new regulation"

You're not wrong that they're probably isn't a measurable a difference yet, but I guarantee that it's coming and it's going to come hard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's the joke

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeeaaaaaaah...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-pause-trump-kff-partner/index.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

“This idea that science cannot continue until there’s a political lens over it is unprecedented,” said Anne Schuchat, a former principal deputy director at the CDC. “I hope it’s going to be very short-lived, but if it’s not short-lived, it’s censorship.”