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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nice, you got most of em. The inflation one made my jaw drop too. Like rent and food prices in the US have gone up like 20% every single damn year.

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If not for the existence of Barack "Drone King" Obama, Paul Krugman would be proof positive as to the abject worthlessness of Nobel prizes.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Krugman always makes me think of this one from one of Lenin's best diss tracks:

The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.

Damn had I read this before I would have replied to the tweet with this when I saw it

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My partners dad is this type of liberal and he dropped this take on me during Christmas lmao

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 years ago

God I hate 538 techno-liberal boomer 🤓 dads.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You excluded everything people needed to live.

Come on, Paul.

Golden fucking reply. Which of you lovely lefty trolls did this?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Inflation on food has not budged.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Yeah but TVs are more affordable than ever so thanks Biden!

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Food inflation growth rate has decreased but high food inflation for over a year reduced the purchasing power especially as there wasn't much growth in wages.

" Food inflation is a fanum tax on the poor" - Someone

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it still inflation when they're just jacking the prices up bc they can and no one will stop them?

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

that's all inflation has ever been

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Why do you think most economic indicators and inflation calculators exclude food?

Let them eat VR!

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Libs will believe anything you tell them, if its printed on watermarked vellum with a Sans Serif font.