• Flying Squid
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    3815 hours ago

    The media is just never willing to admit that price gouging is always a great big factor.

      • Flying Squid
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        55 hours ago

        What good would telling the truth do? Really?

        • @[email protected]
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          04 hours ago

          Yes. When—recently—have you seen “telling the truth” actually make a change? I dunno what year you think it is, but no one is doing anything about anything these days. Companies just do whatever they want, totally unchecked.

          • Flying Squid
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            44 hours ago

            You really operate under the bizarre idea that there’s no point in informing people, so you might as well lie to them?

              • Flying Squid
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                13 hours ago

                If that is not what you meant, what did you mean?

                • @[email protected]
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                  13 hours ago

                  Yelling about the media is like yelling at clouds. What the media says or does not say has very little impact on what people will or will not do in the long run. So the media calls it price gouging, now what? Literally nothing. A few people get mad, but they were probably mad any way. They’ll blame whomever is president or whomever was president, and then go back to where they were before.

                  The media needs to say what people should do, but at this point the only thing left to do is illegal to say. Corporate America isn’t afraid of “protests” and “awareness” because they’re making shit tons of money.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    12 hours ago

                    Still sounds like you’re saying people should be lied to because it doesn’t matter.