• BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        I do not believe that for a second. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any of them are bastions of truth but fox is NOTHING but propaganda. I think the other keep some nuggets of truth in there with the proaganda.

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          Well the other news orgs call it a news org. Wikipedia calls it a news org. The general public calls it a news org.

          But yes, I am very aware that Lemmy doesn’t call it a news org.

          I consider them a news org, and I mod the community, so…

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            22 hours ago

            I promise you, other news organisations do not think of Fox as a news organisation

            But thanks for reminding us to block this community!

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              Well, I promise they do. Even if you don’t like it.

              And yes, please block me and/or the community if you don’t wanna hear from me.

              Thanks, amiko!

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          Well, Biden ordered it. So yeah, I guess that skewed things, but I remember everyone praising him.

          But yeah, that could have skewed the numbers. But doesn’t make the poll wrong. It just provides a reason for it.

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            Everyone? There was a ton of opposition, especially in my area.

            We didn’t do a full lockdown in any sense of the word, we just shut schools down then ended the school year early, required stores to post social distancing rules (enforcement not required), and reduced maximum capacity of stores. Business carried on as usual, and our state did better than many in both economy and better than most in fatal cases (latter isn’t particularly fair due to demographic differences between states).

            Distribution to supply chain completely messed up product availability and hence prices, the stimulus packages juiced inflation further, and keeping rates low (not something Biden has control over) further exacerbated the problem. He did all of that to help relieve immediate strain, but as we can see, that was a very short term treatment and just made things worse long term.

            Honestly, the best plan was probably to largely do nothing, other than push for a vaccine. A lot of people would get sick, and that’s deeply unpopular, but we probably would’ve gotten through it faster and recovered faster than other countries that took more extreme measures. That’s easy to say with hindsight though, but I do think Biden went a bit too far in the “protect people” direction.

            I did vote for Biden, and I was disappointed in his and other Democratic governments’ responses. Printing money has consequences, and we felt that very acutely.

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                yep, and it ignores context to go straight to blaming someone. I would’ve expected better

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                  Did you really expect better from Fox News though? Or any news org?

                  All of them are about clickbait-rage and cash.

                  Thanks, amiko!

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      Did they release the details of their poll though? I mean, they can’t be too far off, Biden did lose both the electoral votes and the popular vote.

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        Harris didn’t lose because of Biden’s COVID policies, she lost because she said she wouldn’t have done anything differently than Biden even with hindsight. Look at the betting odds and polls right after her interview in October where she said that, that’s the point when everything reversed.

        Last year, people wanted change and Harris offered more of the same. That’s why she and Democrats lost.

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          Yeah, her saying that really put the final nail in her campaign. She assumed because she had so much donation in her war chest, that everyone was in love with Biden. She was wrong.

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          The person I replied to said a bunch of Trump supporters were polled. I am wondering what made him think they were all Trump supporters.

          Or did you mean that you don’t understand that the Democrat side lost both the electoral vote and popular vote?

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        That’s only true because Trump would’ve made the same mistakes. He signed the first stimulus bill, after all, and was pushing for weird alternative treatments, so I have no doubt he would’ve had similar policies that would’ve continued to disrupt global supply chains and unbalance monetary policy.

        The problem here is short sighted policies (i.e. win the midterms) that juice things enough to punt problems down the road.

        What we should have done IMO is strongly encourage the elderly to stay home and otherwise keep business as usual. Lots of people would get sick, but we’d get some level of herd immunity quickly and keep the economy moving while protecting the most vulnerable. Both candidates would’ve juiced the economy with stimulus packages, and that directly contributed to inflation.

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    It’s true though. But to keep the economy stable it would have meant standing aside while Russia took Ukraine. Republicans are exactly the kind of people who like to brag about all the things America has done to help the world while not wanting to those things in the first place.