Comment on "I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020

• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He had some significant accomplishments including the infrastructure bill. With that said, I don’t really care for his personality and all I wanted was healthcare reform (single payer, etc) which we didn’t get. Also he waited until Israel killed thousands of Palestinian civilians before he started addressing it, but once it happened it seems like he did try to stop it.

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  • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and all I wanted was healthcare reform (single payer, etc) which we didn’t get.

    Manchin and (especially) Sinema made that impossible.

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  • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Will you vote for him again?

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    • spader312@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am voting for him again because I don’t want trump or any other of the Republican candidates as my president. But could we have a better democratic candidate? Definitely

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a very real chance the vice president ends up taking charge, Biden does look like he could die of old age any day now

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Could we, though? Who would you propose would be better without scaring off swing voters who are more afraid of imaginary socialism than real fascism?

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• quo@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, among polls of weird freaks who actually answer polls. Plus, do you even know how these are conducted? People under 60 don’t answer calls from unknown numbers, nor do they have the landline phones that pollers call. Traditional media paradigms are dead and polls are now meaningless, it’s time to adapt or die now.

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    • quo@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, you’re defending polling that hasn’t been great for the least few elections and has meant almost nothing except for Trump winning the republican primary (obviously).

        I saw several polls saying that issue 1 in Ohio would barely pass. Definitely didn’t have polls predicting big dem wins this November either.

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      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People should be looking at this and getting involved to make sure younger people vote.

        Or maybe politicians should actually do shit for younger people to make them want to vote for them instead of spitting in their face and assuming they will get their vote because the other guy is worse.

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      • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While I completely agree that people need to get active now and beat down the apathy, focusing on flawed data and developing a defeatist attitude probably isn’t good for the soul.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You sure enough to stake the future of democracy in the US on that?

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      • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What does the validity of polls have to do with staking the future of democracy? If you can’t speak without histrionics, close your mouth.

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  • Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Democrats have been beating polls nationally by 9+ points since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

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  • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *according to a couple of breathlessly recited outlier polls.

    A year is a lifetime in politics, and again, those few polls were statistical outliers.

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s done some good environmental stuff. But we’ll see 😬

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure how many train derailment under his watch. Oh yeah thanks to him rail workers can’t strike.

    And I don’t hear bullshit “He GoT tHeM a RaSiE LaTeR” nonsense. The strike wasn’t just about sick time which got them what 1 day. It was about how the fucking greedy rail companies were endangering lives and not fixing the infrastructure.

    Also Biden sold more oil leases then Trump so naw not good on the environment either.

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    • Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see a salty downvoter doesn’t like facing reality. Truth is we’re not going to get a good candidate, Trump is the front runner and it’s got people riled up. I don’t see “good” in the next election cycle, I just see “shitty and less shitty”. A shitty leader is still a shitty leader, and it’s going to add to the apathy issue we have as well while empowering populist nutjobs.

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      • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m with you brother, hard truths don’t get upvotes, but then again that’s not why you commented, huh

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      • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Finally enough, less crappy over decades still got us way more crappy.

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• ExLisper@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And I think it’s one more thing that Poland will copy from US. People got super exited when the right wing government lost the election but my prediction has always been that the “progressive” government will be extremely meh and in 4 years they will lose anyway.

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