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  • Yes the Biden years have not been some sort of economic triumph, but if you take the question at face value, how were things four years ago? They were horrible. Unemployment was record highs. Stocks had tanked. Hundreds of thousands of people were about to die. Etc etc etc.

    That’s the problem with the binary decision, about the role of president, who doesn’t even make a lot of the critical economic decisions anyways.

    The economy is not “good” but many indicators have been improving or are better than expected. But mishandling an event like a pandemic will certainly tank the economy, just like neoliberal policies will generally lead to a good stock market and little else.


  • It’s the same reason Republicans are asking “are you better off than you were four years ago?”

    Anyone with an existing ideology probably knows who they are voting for. Swing voters are emotional.

    Republicans are whistling to those just willing to judge the economy based on a Democrat being in office.

    Biden is trying to thread the needle by pointing out there have been positive indicators without shirting on his own policies or advocating straight up anti capitalist messages.

    After the primaries, the race is always a race to the middle.


  • neptune@dmv.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMisinformation?
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    3 months ago

    Not sure the angle here.

    Yes potentially there was “mutual rape” or whatever you want to call it.

    The point of the poster is that a) rape charges against men are often prosecuted, b) going to parties to find “easy women” who are to drink to legally consent, even if you are also at the same level of drunkeness, isn’t a great idea.

    If the poster is sexist, it’s mostly just trying to market to its audience and the legal realities.

    This is a poster trying to get 18 year olds to moderate and consider their behavior, not be a treatise on law or gender studies.