KillingTimeItself

yes yes very funny, please return and comment when you have an actual thought to post here instead of just bloatposting.

Why? He did literally nothing to address it.

What the fuck are you supposed to do? Unprint money???

???

the fed is an independent agency, just look at trumps previous term. He couldn't get them to do what he wanted, even with appointing a guy he liked.

The president may not have the legal authority to dismiss a chairman before the end of a term, although this assumption has never been tested in court.

also this.

Price controls? Ronald Reagan?

price controls may have worked. It's hard to say unless you look at the revenue streams and accounting directly. But then you wouldn't need price controls either so...

Ronald Reagan had some pretty stupid economic policy. Notably removing legislation that would've prevented the 2008 financial crisis. But that doesn't count apparently.

not propaganda wings. The left is too critical of itself. CNN is owned by a right winger, WaPo is owned by bezos. The Atlantic i have no idea, that might not even be US based.

So if neither is asking for my vote or bringing anything i want, why would I show up?

because if you dont vote, you are actively pushing for the party that "repels" you, to be in power.

The truth is that they failed sure, but then the truth is ALSO that you failed as well. You cannot simply ascribe all the blame to one party, especially in an environment as dynamic as today.

If you don't understand the philosophical implications here, or just philosophy more broadly, go play the trolley game, and come back to me.

you sort of inherently have to define yourself under fascism, in a system with fascists, otherwise you are under control of the fascists. Because they can do your game better than you can, because they started first. So you really don't have many options other than holding either, the power, or the intellectual upperhand, which isn't even a guarantee either. Since again, reality doesn't matter to fascists.

People who are in an excited emotional state just aren’t going to do well thinking that stuff through.

i suppose so, but it literally only takes one "is this actually true?" to check to see if it's true. If people are as "skeptical" as they claim to be about mainstream media, i fail to see how they don't understand that google exists and is useful in the 21st century. Though to be fair, it's harder to use now.

I'm definitely not immune to it either, but i operate on a strictly factual basis, so it's really hard for me to get caught up in propaganda.

oh of course the .ml user is entirely uneducated on this topic, surprising frankly.

It’s not even a propaganda problem, per se, because most people aren’t obsessively following the news and economic reports.

i HIGHLY disagree with you.

Even if you're a relatively disconnected right winger, who listens to fox news or the daily wire a couple of times of week, the propaganda is so fucking blatant it will still completely indoctrinate you after a few years.

like to be clear, any right winger that obsessively follows the news is literally ben shapiro or alex jones. There is no "moderate" here unfortunately.

biden getting flak over inflation is fucking hilarious.

The fed is literally irrelevant to the president, the president does not control inflation. Sure maybe his spending increased inflation. But the entire global economy was at a practical stand still. If you think getting a seized ICE working again is hard, try it with a global economy.

You can bitch all you want about inflation, but at the end of the day, nobody really knows what the right solution here was. We could've gone through another great depression event if not for global stimulus. And a few years of bad inflation and high costs will beat literally starving.

rhetorical fascism

aside from this, create a propaganda wing as big as the republicans, and make it accurate. Somehow.

not as representative as trump either apparently.

The far left is definitely in no ways representative of the average democratic voter either.

i mean sure, if you thought i was defining democracy, that's one of the ways you can define it.

I was just making the argument that you shouldn't give a fuck at all if you don't even care to uphold the values of such democracy, yourself.

Also if we're being semantically pedantic here, a democracy is technically just a form of collective enrollment in governance. The people collectively as a unit decide who best represents their values, and then they elect that person to a position they see fit for those values.

fun fact, we call people who are represented by politicians, constituents.