• Contrarian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'm gonna keep brining it up every freaking time but that study that everyone throes around when the say this is from Columbia University and included an immediate increase to the minimum wage as part of their projection and then days later the min wage increase gets shot down but everyone kept pointing to the study as if it still holds up. Now it gets repeated as fact, and the study is basically forgotten about. Media manipulation is such a fuck but it's also almost... impressive(?) to see

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        nah you're a liberal.

        it was him saying increasing taxes on the wealthy wouldn’t fundamentally change their lives

        Yeah that's the problem. And the innuendo of his statement is clearly that their power will not change. Not that their wealth wouldn't change. AKA they'll still be on top and poor people will still be serfs.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            No it's just what he implied in his soundbite. Imagine being a rich person in that room hearing Biden say "and nothing would fundamentally change" and think he's literally only talking about a number in your bank account and that he means everything else will fundamentally change. He was at some donor event probably full of rich ghouls. Your liberalism is on full display amigo.

            Here's context:

            "Biden told donors at an event at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday evening that he would not “demonize” the rich and promised that “no one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change,”" - Salon.com.

            He literally says no one's standard of living will change.

      • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        No, I don't feel. Especially since because "you took me out of context" is a rightist youtube trick.

        What context? The context was a bourgeois politician standing in front of a room full of donors reassuring them that he's got their back. That's obvious to everyone, including the wealthy donors he was reassuring.

  • VHS [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    imagine using polcomp talk :cringe:

    also wasn't biden's administration just talking about building a border wall

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Biden wants to finish the border wall so republicans dont use it to get elected or some bullshit like that

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Some recent NPR segment was led by the headline that Biden had cut child poverty in half by an unprecedented manner. Then came a long spiel about the specifics of the legislation. It all ended with a question about how it would last past the end of the year. Good to know that child poverty only exists for the one year where you need to pass pandemic relief bills