• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m glad it worked out for you. It worked out for me as well, since I’m fortunate to have a good job. Even so, my grocery bills are up 30% - 40% over the last four years, and I’m not the only one. If I had a wife and family, that would be exceedingly difficult to manage.

    But it seems the majority is getting tired of working multiple jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week in order to be able to rent a roach-infested studio, and they definitely didn’t want to be told to be joyful about it.

    My eighty year-old parents have been borrowing my car for over a year to drive for DoorDash, because if they don’t, this country will render them homeless to make some billionaire asshole richer. The worst part is that is true no matter which party we hand power to.

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      2 days ago

      Things were objectionably better under one president. The entire system is built around making sure the working poor stay there, but I can be happy that folk will come out and see me, and hey maybe they won’t get disappeared by the new SS. I refuse to let people tell me somehow the last 4 years were worse than the absolute garbage we have trudged through and are now just wading back into (that would be gaslighting by the way). Do I think somehow I would be able to afford a house and a car under Harris? Fuck no. Do I have to worry I might someday get disappeared now? It’s definitely close to the docket.

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        I refuse to let people tell me somehow the last 4 years were worse than the absolute garbage

        That’s fine. Your indignation isn’t going to change the reality of inflation or people’s grocery bills, and as much as people love to joke about the price of eggs, it underscores just out out-of-touch Democratic partisans are with working-class people, for whom the increasing cost of basic food staples is a very real threat.

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          9 hours ago

          I AM THE WORKING POOR, where in the entire fucking comment chain did it make you think you were speaking to anyone outside of this?! Don’t tell me about people’s grocery bills, they are my fucking grocery bills. Tell me about the “how much could a banana cost? $10?” Thats out of touch motherfucker, and oddly enough not one of the way too old democrats… and tell me how much those fucking eggs have gone down, my grocery bills keep getting worse thanks to tariff mc taco, hell I can’t even find some shit in my grocery store.