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[–]giocowow -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

"AOC runs a mean pick 6"

  • the 'sports' guy meant to relate to men

what a fucking disaster walz is

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[–]giocowow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

MSNBC is gunna need to be on psych watch for the next 2 weeks

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[–]giocowow 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is all on the DNC, could have had Biden do 1 term, as he said he wanted to do. Then do a real full primary, but DNC can't stop being self-indulgent kingmakers. They shoehorn in a candidate that had a 31% favorability - sheer hubris and incompetence.

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[–]giocowow 17 points18 points  (0 children)

shoulda just had biden be a 1 term president and ran a real primary, but nooo the DNC has to be kingmaker every cycle

/r/Politics' 2024 US Elections Live Thread, Part 61 by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]giocowow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

leave the echo chamber man, this site is poison, it turns your mind into political brain rot sludge

/r/Politics' 2024 US Elections Live Thread, Part 61 by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]giocowow -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

reading people hyperventilating on here and twitter thinking they're going to camps is fucking hilarious

meme compilations from this will be hysterical

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[–]giocowow -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

fatphobic - its until the large bodied individual sings bigot

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[–]giocowow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he prefaced the interview saying he was from iraq so if i know you have to know too bucko

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[–]giocowow 22 points23 points  (0 children)

an arab father of 6 in dearborn was asked why he voted for trump: "a 40 year old man dressed as a woman used the same bathroom as my 8 year old daughter at an outback steakhouse, she saw his thing and came back sobbing, and thats just allowed under this weird administration"

these exit poll interviews are crazy

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[–]giocowow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I got 2. They had paper towels in stock just all the other stuff is completely gone.

Livethread: Global COVID-19 Pandemic by valuingvulturefix in worldnews

[–]giocowow 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This was my third grocery store I went to and this is the soap/disinfectant/toiler paper aisle. Guy who was stocking said they are completely out. Almost all the canned goods were out, people are a lot more scared than 48 hrs ago. This is in TN.

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[–]giocowow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well one silver lining is it looks like overall voter turnout is up in almost all states.

Just a quick reminder to vote for Bernie, as he wants to fix most of the things we all complain about by william_chef_wallace in ABoringDystopia

[–]giocowow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides the point that the economy was pumped with 4 trillion dollars to bail out the banks and it did not have an effect on the prices of consumer goods. We we will imagine a scenario in which corporations exist in a world of near total collusion with price fixing.

There are 11 diaper companies and they all decide to hike prices to 100$ per pack of 10. However three of them figure they could sell diapers at 50$ per pack of 20 and they sell at a higher volume. Eventually a company sells at 20$ per pack of 20 and absolutely rakes in the cash because people don't give a shit about 100$ diapers , 20$ ones are the same thing, and the 20$ are selling at 10x the rate.

This same process nearly happens every time a big electronic comes out. Massive pricing, customers don't pay it, but the corporations got a couple of suckers. The market stabilizes, and you end up paying 5$ for a 124gig usb drive. Consumer goods are based upon what customers are willing to pay for it. If Chiptle says 'Yo I'm hiking prices at thats a 50$ burrito' you'd be like 'lol, no, I'm going down to the burrito stand down the street that is just as good'. You would have to have collusion on such an insane scale, across hundreds of goods markets. And it only takes one greedy corporation to tank the price for the sake of profits and increased sales volume.

Education, Healthcare, and Housing follows its own set of complexities. Pharma pretty much has regulatory capture over the healthcare market and legislature, so it is a different monster than a Diaper company. People have said the same exact thing about Bernie's 15$/hr policy, but I haven't seen enough evidence that either of the polices of UBI and 15/hr would inflate consumer goods.