I made a substack for this so you can send it to your libbed up friends and family. Also like/comment on the article that would be cool, im sure that helps spread it somehow
Premise: A lot of great socialist and left-leaning people have dismantled the main point of the Bidenomics argument by showing that many millions of people were left behind. This article is coming in to destroy what little remains after that - even the best case scenario is still just wrong and delusional.
The programs you mention expiring along with COVID-era cash welfare, reversed the poverty/food security trend for 2 years and these Dem dipshits literally can’t figure out what’s going on.
oh hell yeah I was looking for those grim-ass charts, thank you I’m adding them to the article
The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they’re pissed that it’s gone.
I still remember a couple years ago when a lot of people said the global pandemic was by far the best time of their lives. Just vibing, doing hobbies, finally truly decompressing after decades. They won’t ever forget that feeling
It feels fucked up to say given how many lives it destroyed, but in some ways, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. It let me start working from home. No longer being under the office panopticon or having to mask (in the autistic sense) for 8 hours a day was a massive load off of my back.
Same, I didn’t realize how exhausted I was masking at work as an autistic person every day until I was allowed to stop doing it.
If anything, I actually get more work done now than pre-pandemic.
Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.
The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn’t throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.
Having the Red Army located in Eastern Germany surely also helped make the prospect of revolution go from specter to reality.
It probably helped, though it’s not like they were ever getting across the channel.
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this is great, really succinct, I probably will show this to people
thank you
ive only read the first handful of paragraphs and this is already going so fucking hard, great post comrade
Death to America
thank you!!
Outstanding article.
One quick point though: I posted this in a politics chat channel and the resident Zionist turbo-lib was quick to point this out:
Biden didn’t give a single person a raise
And referenced this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/22/biden-federal-workers-pay-raise/
Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect
So you may want to adjust that for good measure!
excellent thank you I will make that edit now
Edit: good call, it actually ended up making my point even stronger- it basically belongs in that top chart. Turns out they bumped the annual raise from 2.5 percent to 5.2 percent, which didn’t match inflation, and then they declared “not happening again next year lmao” in August of this year, nice and close to the election lol
I changed the passage to:
Biden didn’t give a workers a raise himself, outside of a modest bump for federal employees that didn’t keep up with inflation, and which the administration recently declared is not happening again in 2025. And maybe he gave a raise to some of the people still defending him, but those two groups still leave us with 99% of the population to consider.
Splendid
High quality post, much appreciated king.
I’m so glad you liked it!
