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  • socsa@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldSo glad for Trump
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    9 hours ago

    It’s not 50% more though. I track my groceries closely going back almost ten years and it’s more like a 15% increase in staple items compared to 2018. Processed food, luxury meat and frozen food is like 30-60% higher (my data on this is less robust) but milk, eggs and bread is not 50% more expensive unless you are buying the most expensive options.

    You can literally go look at commodity market price history. Wheat is 9% above 2018. Cheese is 6% higher. Milk +17%, rice +10%, eggs +12%.


  • socsa@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldSo glad for Trump
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    9 hours ago

    Eggs at Aldi near me are legitimately not that much more expensive than $1.40. I think it was like $1.89 in store price for the cheapest ones. That’s why I don’t understand this whole thing. Eggs aren’t even that expensive. I feel like the whole country is collectively gaslighting me.



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    9 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter because republican voters don’t actually care about the price of eggs. They only pretend to if they think it will help them win. It’s actually amazing more people don’t understand this considering it has been a pattern in US elections for like 40 years now.









  • socsa@piefed.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldWe did it, guys!
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    2 days ago

    It’s more illustrative of how liberals and progressive consistently suck at messaging and voter outreach because they are always hedging, equivocating or focused on negativity.

    No wonder voters don’t engage with that messaging when it’s pretty apparent that even the most enthusiastic progressive barely gets out of bed to advocate for anything other than the new outrage of the day. And I’m not just pointing fingers here - I am definitely guilty of this myself.