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[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you gotta reframe it. "Don't you miss when people used more traditional ways to get around? Give me a horse or a bicycle any day".

They will agree to fucking anything if you preface it as "traditional"

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ok doomer. That's entirely false. I provided sources showing, as I said, that Dems support RCV and GOP does not. Tell me: which party instituted RCV in North Carolina? And which party repealed it under the guise of "voter security"?

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I don't think that really answers my question. Saying "there is always a recession after an inversion" is incredibly vague. The only scenario that wouldn't happen is if we somehow fixed the economy perfectly & never had a recession every again ever. But if a recession happens 100 years after an inversion, it's farfetched to say the inversion predicted it. Where's the line?

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

3rd parties in the US are impossible while we still have first past the post voting. One party has consistently been the one to support & pass RCV, while the other has consistently repealed & banned it. Guess which is which?

If you want 3rd parties to be a viable option, you need to vote Democrats. And more on the ground activism, I agree with you there

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago
[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. How soon after an inversion does a recession need to happen for it to be considered "predicted"? It looks like the longest in your chart is the recession ~2 yrs after the 1978 inversion. The most recent inversion was July 2022. If we're not in recession by this summer, will that still be "predicted"? 2025? 2026?

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

From this graph, it looks like you're suggesting the 2019 yield curve inversion predicted the 2020 coronavirus recession?

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Does this remind anyone else of House of Usher?

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you explain more- so you want a la carte options, like pay on a per-article basis? And to be clear, you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right? Like, you never could access all articles from the entire history of the NYTimes on demand for free, that was never a thing. The paper for that day was locked in a metal box you had to pay to open, and all you got to see was half the front page.

Or, you know, support libraries...

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

he wasn't trump. That's his whole platform, that's it.

Sorry, but this is one of those hyperbolic, uninformed, useless hot takes the Internet LOVES. You can literally look up his platform online, like so many places.

Here's Politifact tracking 99 of his campaign promises.
27 kept 5 compromised 1 broken 31 stalled 34 in the works

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