• jaywalker [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    Do you actually think the Biden admin caused inflation (and the non-inflation increases as well) and that voting for trump will reduce inflation or is this a bit pretending to be the average US voter?

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      Do you actually think the Biden admin caused inflation

      Biden admin pushed for war in Ukraine, probably the biggest shock to global grain prices

      voting for trump doesn’t mean that’d be fixed, but

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        12 days ago

        You honestly think the US wouldn’t have involved itself in the war under a Trump administration? We literally saw evidence of the miliatry complex’s autonomy during his administration.

        But I agree with OP that campaigning on improving grocery prices is a brainmelt level move for Kamala

    • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      The Biden admin certainly contributed to inflation in a massive degree. It’s always a nigh-constant thing under the system, sure, but alongside the Ukraine war (which as someone else mentioned effected grain prices- but more than that has led to the crumbling of the western levers of finance, etc) and his continuation and even intensification of the Trumpian trade wars and antagonizing China, he’s been running off that money printer in what I feel may as well be considered some of the largest wealth transfers to big tech/the MIC… (I’d call it tossing “bad money* after bad” maybe lololol- toilet paper money down the drain to endless corruption because the neoliberal disease is honestly hilarious in how ineffective it is)

      Mind you, Trump was also abysmal. And the contradictions of the system are really closing in on them all so whoever’s next will probably be worse, and so on.

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      12 days ago

      It doesn’t matter what I think or what they did. It’s very very very stupid to say that they’re going to fix a problem that happened under their own administration.

    • The Biden admin’s decisions certainly contributed to inflation, even if they weren’t the primary cause.

      But the main point is that it’s stupid to campaign on fixing the problem that happened on your watch. If you were gonna fix it, why haven’t you already?