@iconridge@ElliscbIV This just reeks of privilege. I'm glad the differences dems have made have no effect on you but they do for a lot of people. I pray you will never have to life off of food stamps and government assistance, but many do, and those wins were only delivered by party dems
@Jaguar081561120@AugustCohen4@ElliscbIV Kamala literally lost because people viewed her as too far left. If you look at polling the majority of the party wants to move closer to the center
@hoff92096@UsugeNoDansei@jarvis_best This still doesn't justify your argument, you are just defining what the PPI is. Where is the price gouging or the grocers being the reason for increases in food costs. Why is the jump in cost of products not rapidly out racing cost to produce? Why are store margins still ~3%
It’s amazing how leftists are totally deluded on the issue of electability. Current Affairs had an article claiming moderates aren’t more electable
Henry Cuellar: Won a Trump +7 district by 6
Jared Golden: Won a Trump +10 district
Mary Peltola: Won statewide office in Alaska twice, outperformed Harris by 11 on the margin in 2024
Joe Manchin: Got 61% of the vote a year Obama lost by 27 then got reelected two years after Donald Trump beat Hillary by 42
Meanwhile, Democrats ran a Medicare for all progressive in a suburban swing district in 2024 and Mondaire Jones was one of only three Democrats to lose a district Harris won. In 2020, Ilhan Omar underperformed Biden by 16 in her district because 9.5% of voters cast a protest vote for the Legalize Marijuana Now Party. 4 years later, Omar only underperformed Harris by six because the Legalize Marijuana Now Party took pity and didn’t field a candidate
This isn’t debatable. The most conservative Democrats are the best performers in general elections and the most left-wing Democrats perform the worse.
This is also true for Republicans, incidentally, but in the opposite direction. JD Vance only won his Ohio Senate race by 6.5 after a pro gay moderate won the same seat by 25 and 31 in the two previous elections, despite Ohio being more Republican for Vance than it was in Rob Portman’s day
@hoff92096@UsugeNoDansei@jarvis_best This maybe be the case but firstly, it has nothing to do with your initial argument that this 40% rise in prices was due to grocers, also, if the cost of overstocking is passed on to the consumer, its clearly not very significant as the margins of profit have remained quite still
@hoff92096@UsugeNoDansei@jarvis_best This doesn't support your claim though. That grocers are raising prices. This just claims they are making more money than 3%
But if you consult the actual data, price gouging on groceries is not occurring, prices are following production costs pretty cleanly
@hoff92096@UsugeNoDansei@jarvis_best Look at the grocer profit margins, they are raisin the prices because the input is more expensive. They are not achieving 40% increased profit
Vladimir Putin is one of the most prolific terrorist dirtbags of the last 50 years.
He has killed at least SIXTEEN THOUSAND Ukrainian civilians with his murderous bombing of schools, restaurants, hospitals and apartment buildings.
Vladimir Putin has turned Russia into a terrorist caliphate so brutally murderous that it would make Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi jealous.
For perspective: ISIS is estimated to have killed ~400 people throughout all of Europe since their founding.
16,000 vs 400!!
Even Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda fails to come close to Putin with their number of 280.
Putin is a nuclear-armed terrorist, plain and simple. An especially cowardly one.
Meanwhile, he has governed his own country so completely incompetently that, despite spanning 11 time zones, it now has an economy significantly smaller than Texas, and — despite all of Russia’s incessant, completely performative, and disingenuous Christian LARPing—now has the largest Muslim population in Europe BY FAR.
In fact, Russia is such a total basket-case of a country that Putin’s own daughter chooses to live in Paris! And quite lavishly, I might add, with money that her father has pilfered from the Russian people.
Americans who knowingly and willingly spread Russian propaganda are no better than those who have collaborated with ISIS. They are sickening traitors to our country.
And they should be dealt with accordingly!
@KyleKulinski The left should be able to say doing a speech in a mao costume is unhinged because it is unhinged.
Hasans reaction to pakman was also unhinged. As well as its a failure on you to support how increaseingly unhinged his community
DSA folks: Democrats are are the enemy
Some Dems: DSA folks view us as the enemy and are therefore not our allies -- they could help wreck the party
DSA folks: Holy shit how could you say that??? Unbelievable slanderlibel
@joeljoel1283028@kirawontmiss so she was super traditional and only wanted to date for marriage but it was clear he didn't want to get married. They broke up like 2 months ago, and apparently months b4 they announced that, and now shes w a new man and Lukeys fans are threatening her and he's playing into it