• @Astroturfed
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    121 year ago

    I felt like I was losing my mind screaming about all the things the government could of been doing during the insane covid era inflation. What Biden could of done instead of cranking up interest rates… but hey gotta turn the screws on all the poverty stricken folks with credit card debt so they can barely afford to live.

      • @Astroturfed
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        -181 year ago

        Could of not given a fuck less when I read this.

        • @ngdev
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          141 year ago

          oof that’s certainly a way to react to being wrong and having someone provide a friendly correction, they didn’t call you a moron or anything

          • @Astroturfed
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            -131 year ago

            It’s almost like there’s people who don’t care about minor grammatic issues and are annoyed by people who think something hastily typed on a phone needs to be ready for publication.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              Yeah, gonna go out on a limb and say that you typing hastily isn’t the reason you typed out “could of”. Dunno, maybe it’s how you responded to being corrected.

              • @Astroturfed
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                01 year ago

                Ya, cuz grammatical issues don’t happen less often when you type slowly and proof read. You got me I must not know how English good.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  I guarantee I type more quickly than you, on every type of input. I have literally never used “could of” because I know it’s incorrect.

                  You’re just lazy.

                  • @Astroturfed
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                    Yes, I am. Glad we cleared that up.

                    You’re a cunt.

          • @Astroturfed
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            Neither is going around correcting minor grammatical issues. It’s cute that you think that correcting something hastily typed on a cell phone needs to be corrected for grammar. You must have a rich and fulfilling life to go around grading comments on a internet forum.

              • @Astroturfed
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                -111 year ago

                Just strongly believe people who do annoying bullshit need to be told to fuck off more often.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 year ago

                  You mean like taking a correction personally? You’re acting like I slapped your mother.

                  • @qarbone
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                    101 year ago

                    They must be having a really bad day. Or they have some trauma from an old English teacher.

                    Politely correcting spelling and grammar is like telling someone they spilled ketchup on their shirt.

                  • @Astroturfed
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                    -101 year ago

                    I didn’t take it personally. Which is why I think you suck so hard. You would do that to anyone. I know that. It’s why you suck. That’s the whole point I just made. People need to tell you to fuck off more. You haven’t heard it enough.

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        Nitpicking grammar isn’t just pretentious, it’s privileged. The validity of a statement is not determined by how expensive an education the writer’s parents provided them.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          Wtf are you talking about? It’s not obscure grammar that you can only see in expensive textbooks. You just need to open your eyes.

          Why are people so adamant about not being corrected?

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            Man like it’s just so simple like being corrected on an opinion or any observation and it’s just a simple switch from “of” to “'ve” like no one even has to beg for you to use the ’

            Like sweet jesus man I don’t care if people have a different meaning now about this 🧢 that we put on our heads but man it’s such a simple thing to just swing a little bit to the side and use VE like you don’t even have to add a space man I just don’t understand the chaos I’m crying

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          I never said their statement was less valid. Go make up things to be mad about somewhere else.

          • @Astroturfed
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            -121 year ago

            Someone called you an entitled douche so they must be angry. Oh ya, for sure.

              • @Astroturfed
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                Such a solid argument. I don’t like an annoying thing you do, so I’m angry. So angry. Sorry that I had to be the one to tell you that no one gives a fuck about your English degree. It was a huge waste of money, but don’t take that out on the rest of the world by making them read you try to validate yourself.

                It’s almost like you have no original thought. As if you fall back on correcting others grammar and spelling because of how utterly unoriginal and vapid you are.

                • @[email protected]
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                  81 year ago

                  Are we having an argument? I thought you were just venting about how insecure you are about a single grammar correction.

                  • @Astroturfed
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                    -81 year ago

                    Nope, not really I’m just telling you that nearly everyone thinks your the web forum equivalent of a cockroach.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            -71 year ago

            Wait, I don’t get it. Are you saying making a grammar mistake makes someone a shitty person? And not correcting grammar enables people’s bad behavior? Like being ungrammatical is morally wrong or something?

            And let me Google the def of pretentious real quick:

            attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

            Correcting someone’s grammar online is absolutely a pretentious act. You’ve identified a grammatical mistake - which in this case isn’t even a mistake but a difference in dialect - and you feel the need to call them out on it? What possible benefit does that have except to show off your allegedly superior grammar and thus demonstrate your superior intellect, talent, culture, or whatever aspect of life you think grammar should be assigned to?

            • @la508
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              71 year ago

              Misspellings ≠ dialect

            • @daemoz
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              -71 year ago

              I like that you are winning this argument despite the downvotes by a majority of pretentious users.

              Do better lemmy

      • @Astroturfed
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        81 year ago

        Price controls as mentioned in the post, likely one of the most effective things. Aggressively prosecuting companies for price gauging would also send a clear message. When there’s a huge surge of unemployment and companies are making record profits for no reason other than greed there’s a lot of things that can be done but they aren’t “capitalism” so they’re bad.

      • @Goodie
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        31 year ago

        If we’re staying closer to neolibralism than OPs post you seemingly refused to read; winfall tax, uae said tax revenue to provide inflation relief.

    • @[email protected]
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      The president doesn’t control interest rates (though they’d like to). The federal reserve bank independently decides interest rate changes to fulfill its dual mandate. Arguably, they should have started raising rates sooner, but the belief at the time was that inflation was transitory in nature. The executive branch could have tried to do more, but regulatory capture over the past decades has castrated the government’s ability to effectively control business (instead, the inverse is true: business controls government policy). Blaming the corrupt cogs (or, even worse, the “other team”) for a broken machine is useless. Instead, lose your mind screaming about all the things your local government should be doing, educate yourself and get involved in local politics, and start changing corrupt policies to rebuild from the bottom up. The other way is never going to happen, so all you’ll accomplish there is making yourself hoarse.

      • @Astroturfed
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        If you think the president isn’t heavily leaning on the fed and having a strong say in how interest rates go I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

        Early in trump presidency when they should of been drastically cranking up interest rates. They stayed pretty fucking stable because the big orange turd threw a fit about them being raised. Biden could easily exert influence. The fed is way less indepent than it should be.

        • @Zoboomafoo
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          21 year ago

          After 4 years of the fed making poor decisions at Trump’s direction, I’m totally fine with Biden being hands off and letting the experts turn the dials