• @Valmond
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    -118 days ago

    I’m talking about the economy, which is booming, not about inequality which is down the drain.

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      318 days ago

      You’re talking about the part of the economy that establishment media and politicians focus on.

      That part overwhelmingly measures how things are for the very rich while ignoring key metrics that better reflect how the ENTIRE economy is doing.

      I’m talking about the ENTIRE economy, which in fact has gotten steadily worse ever since the early 70s with the only major anomalies being for the WORSE.

      • @Valmond
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        18 days ago

        Yeah, true. I talk about what 99% of people know as the economy, bnp and all that crap.

        If you want to talk about something else, please do, but you shouldn’t use “economy” for that IMO, and trying to change what virtually everyone thinks “economy” stands for is just muddying the waters.

        If you had said, they are unhappier, there is more poverty etc. I would have said, yes you are perfectly right.

        But that wasn’t what was discussed.

        • @[email protected]
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          218 days ago

          I talk about what 99% of people know as the economy, bnp and all that crap.

          Well 99% of people have been gaslighted into believing a distortion so severe that it’s essentially a lie.

          If you want to talk about something else, please do, but you shouldn’t use “economy” for that IMO, and trying to change what virtually everyone thinks “economy” stands for is just muddying the waters.

          I couldn’t disagree more! To do what you’re asking of me would amount to accepting the lie and reinforcing it. The majority going along with a false narrative makes it MORE important to be clear about what’s ACTUALLY going on despite the establishment narrative, not less!

          that wasn’t what was discussed.

          Wrong again. An economy is “The [entire] system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.”, not just the parts that the establishment has tricked the larger population into focusing on in order to present a false impression that what’s good for their owner donors is good for the country.

          • @Valmond
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            -117 days ago

            Oh, 99% of all people are wrong and only you and a handful of people are right.

            Well I don’t think you are, and so do the vast majority of the whole world. But keep believing if you’re happier that way.

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              17 days ago

              99% is YOUR grossly exaggerated figure. More than 1% of the world knows enough to see through the establishment media and politicians’ lie.

              But yes, framing the small section of the economy that overwhelmingly affects the rich most as “the economy” IS wrong no matter how many people have been gaslighted into believing that it’s accurate.

              It’s the equivalent of basing the statistics of all car sales on how many limousines and Lamborghinis are sold.

              • Doug HollandOPM
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                117 days ago

                Eloquent. Added to my to-be-plagiarized file.

                  • @Valmond
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                    -117 days ago

                    Wow you went on a down vote spred on my comments, how grown up lol. Guess that’s all you have when your arguments and goalpost movings all fall flat.