No, I’m extremely heavily laden with debt and barely getting by in one of the most expensive areas of the country, but good try. I get that the CPI isn’t perfect, but there is literally no data from any source indicating that we have experienced 400% price increases, generally speaking, in the last 10 years. You’re just going on vibes, selective memory, and anecdotes and you’re giving ammunition to fascists who try to discredit us by pointing to people like you and saying “see? These people have no tether to reality. Look at any actual statistics and you’ll see they’re wrong.” People like you make us look bad and made uninformed people incorrectly believe that both sides of the political divide are lying and living in their own delusional reality. Do better.

It’s not a little bit of hyperbole, I literally linked to a calculator that uses the Consumer Price Index. OP’s claim isn’t even vaguely in the realm of the actual consumer price increase.

No, instead let’s base our economic reality on pure vibes and the most extreme, specific examples we can personally remember 🙄

The cost of bread, toilet paper, and restaurant meals for the average American may have increased significantly more than $5 -> $6.85, but I promise it hasn’t literally quadrupled. Things are unacceptably bad but this isn’t Turkey yet. Do you have any indication that for the average American the average purchased good has quadrupled in ten years? The responses here are almost as unhinged as the takes over in MAGA world. This is insane.

Yeah except that’s not even close to true. $5 in December 2015 is worth $6.85 in December 2025 (the most recent data available).

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5&year1=201512&year2=202512

Because opposing fascist Russia is “far right” lol

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Wait wait wait, the recent one isn’t on Mars? What the hell???

That’s true, although there are a good number of purple metro areas in red states. That’s where I moved and it’s maybe not as effective as moving to the middle of nowhere, but it’s a hell of a lot better than casting another blue vote in the deep blue area I was raised in.

They willfully refuse to try and understand, then we get posts like this every two weeks.

Lol I know, I know. I’m not a decade in yet, but it’s been a good half decade and it’s definitely… an experience.

As a leftie who moved to one of those red states, please come help. We can flood these places with enough people to tip them, we just need to stop with fatalistic bullshit about how these states are “beyond all hope.” No they’re fucking not. Get out of your comfort zone, do your duty to our democracy, and ffs stop self sorting into deep blue states. Staying where it’s blue is easy but it doesn’t do much good.

Oh good, BlueAnon is here…

Nooooooooo and that artist is more than happy to give you a long list of theory on how Russian imperialism isn’t actually imperialism.

Barbarians.

Oh man I remember when I picked up .hack//INFECTION for PS2 without knowing anything about it. Amazing game

Are you seriously standing with Russian capital and oligarchs over the working people of Ukraine? Based on your above comments you don’t seem to have a problem with the USSR using military occupation to stop satellite states from leaving their orbit. Surprise surprise, you suddenly oppose it when anyone other than Russia does it. In any event, nobody except Russia considers those referenda results even remotely credible. You’re just another pro-imperial campist.

You mean the little green men?

Try not to break your back bending over backwards that hard to justify Russian imperialism.