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  • Brauchli has publicly encouraged people not to cancel their Post subscriptions in protest.

    “It is a way to send a message to ownership but it shoots you in the foot if you care about the kind of in-depth, quality journalism like the Post produces,”

    The two sentences that made me lol. Of course the consumer is shooting itself in the foot not subscribing to a journal whose integrity is in question after one of the oligarchy decided it needed to suppress an endorsement. If the consumers weren’t shooting themselves, who else could it be? Certainly not the great Bezos!











  • Kroxx@lemm.eetoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comKnow your nazi
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    Everyone of the people I know who have the sticker/tattoo aren’t Nazis, they are big into guns and tend to be anti-government though.

    Three percent is from the population% that supported the American revolution at its inception, at least that’s what I’ve understood of it.

    I’m sure there are plenty of Nazis that also claim to be 3%ers but I’ve never known it to be a Nazi thing, maybe they have tried to claim it.

    Similar to the OK hand sign I will never see it as a symbol of nazism/white supremacy.

    Most of those stickers aren’t Nazis



  • For reference here are inflation rates YOY since 2017:

    2017 2.10%

    2018 1.90%

    2019 2.30%

    2020 1.40%

    2021 7.00%

    2022 6.50%

    2023 3.40%

    Just to make up for the last three years of inflation they would need +16.9% instantly. Assuming +2% inflation over those 4 years (which is the average but not right now) that means from 2020 to 2028 inflation rose 26.3% so if they started a +25% increase over 4 years this year, the workers would have the same spending power they had in 2020.

    Data is from the bureau of labor statistics



  • Most of his reform so far has focused more on making the current paths that existed more obtainable, ex: public service loan forgiveness. So he has made student loan forgiveness where you meet specific qualifications much better, which is very helpful, but not everyone qualifies.

    Blanket student loan forgiveness hasn’t happened, because it was successfully blocked by the Republicans (after like 4 attempts). I assume this is referring to blanket forgiveness.

    Could be wrong on all this, if anyone spots something incorrect just say it.