• @Valmond
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    -13 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 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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        23 days ago

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

          • @Valmond
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            -13 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.

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              First of all, I downvote misinformation and logical fallacies such as the appeals to authority and appeals to popularity (not to mention calling me and everyone else who disagree with you angry anti-US bigots 🙄) that your comments are littered with. That’s not being childish, that’s having standards.

              Second, my arguments never “fell flat”, you just either didn’t understand or pretended not to understand.

              Third, I never moved any goal posts. My argument has been that it’s misleading to the point of disinformation to characterize the aspects of the economy that disproportionately affect rich people as representing the economy as a whole, no matter how many authority figures perpetuate that falsehood and no matter how many people believe it, from the start.

              TL;DR: You’ve been wrong from the start, you continue to be wrong, and no amount of projection is going to change that.

                • @[email protected]
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                  13 days ago

                  Again: I know all that.

                  I’m not ignorant about the ways the establishment distorts and cherry picks economic data to suit their own interests, I’m refusing to accept and participate in the gaslighting.

                  That you STILL don’t get it says a lot about you, none of it good.

                  • @Valmond
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                    03 days ago

                    I know all that too, I’m just using the words for what they stand for. “Economy” isn’t something inherently good, and I don’t like it when peopke try to change the meaning of it. IMO things like PPP is probably way better to measure happiness (but the world still burns), and so on. I’m all for stopping the crazyness aroung infinite growth, and to distribute wealth better. But if we’re going to talk about it, especially on the internet, it’s too easy to not understand eachother if words lose their meaning.

                    Have a good day!