United Steelworkers officially endorsed President Biden for the 2024 election, after hinting earlier this week they would be backing him over former President Trump. The 1.2 million-member un…
Literally the topic of the OP article is “If you look at what the economic situation is for workers in the US, it’s almost as good as it was pre-Covid which is a goddamned miracle. It’s not perfect, still a lot of people are struggling, but $15/hr being the new more-or-less entry level minimum wage and some increased union membership has produced real progress especially at the bottom end of the scale, when a lot of first-world economies are still struggling to dig themselves out even back to normal. Wage inequality is down, unemployment is the lowest it’s been in decades, etc etc, Biden deserves some credit for that. Here are detailed citations to back all that up. It’s weird that that’s not the popular perception.”
Then, go look at the comments and read them through. It’s literally a nonstop tide of rando user accounts saying “but inflation stacks year on year, they don’t know basic math” and “they just think stocks going up means the economy’s better, they don’t care people are hurting” and “my grocery bill is high things are real bad, I’m suffering, this article’s not true.” It’s almost impossible to read the comments front to back and hold on in your head to the fact that they’re objectively wrong. It’s like Goebbels’s propaganda theory in real time – if you grab out one individual comment and analyze it and really think about it, compare it to evidence, it falls apart. But looking at them all together it really looks like there’s this groundswell of opinion. It also makes it more or less impossible to actually have a conversation about the article because it gets swarmed with people talking discouraging nonsense and being apparently incapable of absorbing anything different.
holy smokes ur right, it’s so bad (or maybe im so weak willed) that i genuinely can’t tell if you are the one full of b.s. or not (no offense to you im just trippin out over this)
I am biased, because I think I’m right and they are wrong, but to me it is instructive to look at an example like this
It removes it from that flood-of-unopposed-propaganda world and puts it into a more manageable context, like here are questions, and here’s how people answer the questions or not.
after much lip biting and teeth grinding i posted a comment which represents my position which i hope isn’t too enlightened centrist. you at least seem good faith so i’d appreciate your opinion lol
What the fuck is going on in the comments here?
It’s even worse here.
Literally the topic of the OP article is “If you look at what the economic situation is for workers in the US, it’s almost as good as it was pre-Covid which is a goddamned miracle. It’s not perfect, still a lot of people are struggling, but $15/hr being the new more-or-less entry level minimum wage and some increased union membership has produced real progress especially at the bottom end of the scale, when a lot of first-world economies are still struggling to dig themselves out even back to normal. Wage inequality is down, unemployment is the lowest it’s been in decades, etc etc, Biden deserves some credit for that. Here are detailed citations to back all that up. It’s weird that that’s not the popular perception.”
Then, go look at the comments and read them through. It’s literally a nonstop tide of rando user accounts saying “but inflation stacks year on year, they don’t know basic math” and “they just think stocks going up means the economy’s better, they don’t care people are hurting” and “my grocery bill is high things are real bad, I’m suffering, this article’s not true.” It’s almost impossible to read the comments front to back and hold on in your head to the fact that they’re objectively wrong. It’s like Goebbels’s propaganda theory in real time – if you grab out one individual comment and analyze it and really think about it, compare it to evidence, it falls apart. But looking at them all together it really looks like there’s this groundswell of opinion. It also makes it more or less impossible to actually have a conversation about the article because it gets swarmed with people talking discouraging nonsense and being apparently incapable of absorbing anything different.
holy smokes ur right, it’s so bad (or maybe im so weak willed) that i genuinely can’t tell if you are the one full of b.s. or not (no offense to you im just trippin out over this)
I am biased, because I think I’m right and they are wrong, but to me it is instructive to look at an example like this
It removes it from that flood-of-unopposed-propaganda world and puts it into a more manageable context, like here are questions, and here’s how people answer the questions or not.
thanks, i do see what you are saying
after much lip biting and teeth grinding i posted a comment which represents my position which i hope isn’t too enlightened centrist. you at least seem good faith so i’d appreciate your opinion lol
Organized election trolling starting to consider Lemmy?
Organized election trolling starting to consider Lemmy
?FTFY
Organized election trolling
starting toconsider Lemmy?i am afraid