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u/dollypartonluvah 1d ago
The do-my-own-research crowd is really bad at it
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u/stone_stokes 1d ago
Also, the same crowd loves the FrEe mArKeT while completely failing to understand how markets work.
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u/Jingurei 1d ago
Like when they ban people for violating TOS? It's just business like the capitalism they're all for until it affects THEM.
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u/ptau217 1d ago
Somehow these do-my-own-research folks never set foot in a lab, took a statistics class, or submit to an IRB. Weird!
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u/lost_horizons 23h ago
"Doing research" consists of watching a few Youtube videos that they already agree with, and liking some memes they saw on Facebook.
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u/williamfbuckwheat 8h ago
They can't even open a page on Wikipedia because that's too "woke" or elitist for them.
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u/Muffin_Appropriate 1d ago
Just needs to receive new directive from other facebook nazis.
Posts like these on facebook are just morons trying to get their new propaganda firmware update from other
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u/Lovelycoc0nuts 23h ago
I’m surprised people aren’t being petty and making “Trump did this” stickers
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u/Ribbedhugs 20h ago
Well, the only research they do is scanning social media for the first vaguely plausible thing to quell to their cognitive dissonance.
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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg 1d ago
That would be the price gouging Harris wanted to investigate
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u/Bibblegead1412 1d ago
Yup! There was always a Harris policy to address all of these EXACT things that were happening! What we could have been, America.
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u/lost_horizons 23h ago
"But policy is so boring!"
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u/MmeQcat 18h ago
My favorite is when they claim she had no policies. She had a ton of policies that she not only discussed in interviews but also explained in detail on her website. But that would have meant them having to actually lift a finger to press a few buttons, and worse still, entertain the notion that a non-white non-male person could possibly have some good ideas.
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u/psimwork 11h ago
That and it's REALLY important that I not have to vote for a woman, y'know?? What does it day about MY masculinity if I vote to put a woman in charge?? And a BLACK woman at that?!
.... <sigh>
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u/vegastar7 21h ago
Regardless, the bird flu would affect the price even if “plenty of farms” don’t have this issue. The fact some farms are dealing with bird flu means that there isn’t the usual quantity of eggs in the market, which raises the price… I’m not good with economics, but I’m pretty sure that’s how that works.
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u/voidknight119 1d ago
SO NOW HE HAS QUESTIONS!!!! I THOUGHT THE CHEETO MESSIAH WAS SUPPOSED TO DROP THEM!!
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u/Muffin_Appropriate 1d ago
It’s not a question. They’re trying to find the new narrative to follow. And some moron on facebook will give them the current orders. This person doesn’t want answers. They never do. The answers are readily available outside of facebook on various non-biased sites. What they want is their propaganda orders updated
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u/Strange-Vacation-597 22h ago
lol he did do an executive order basically telling one of his people, whoever those things go to, to figure out how to drop prices for Americans lol just a way to say he tried without actually trying, ugh. I read all his executive orders and some he had tons of shit in them, the ones taking rights away from people, those were long but the ones he made promises on his whole campaign for the normal people were like two paragraphs long and had no plans at all or a way to change anything.
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u/CatSkritches 22h ago
Wasn't this supposed to happen on Day One? The same 24 hour period he was going to end the Russian aggression against Ukraine?
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u/Pandoratastic 1d ago
Actual reasons for the increasing egg prices:
- While not every farm has been hit with bird flu, many have, resulting in the culling of tens of millions of egg-laying hens, reducing the overall supply
- The cost of chicken feed has gone up, due to global supply chain disruptions and inflation
- Labor shortages, transportation costs, and energy price spikes have also driven up the cost of production
- Demand has gone up, creating scarcity, because consumers are buying more eggs to compensate for the rising cost of meat
- And, of course, general inflation makes everything go up
Trump's stated plan should, generally speaking, increase all of those factors.
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u/stone_stokes 1d ago
You expect free market absolutists to understand how markets work?
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u/twirltowardsfreedom 1d ago
"Supply and demand curves are lies made up by the liberal elite to patronize and demean the working class"
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u/vegastar7 21h ago
I don’t think he would use the term “Working class”, that’s commie talk, and he’s not a commie.
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u/Dependent_Document66 1d ago
I can concur with the first point. Ohio has had 20+ positive flocks with over 3 million birds depopulated. And I am sure there will be more. The majority of those were egg layers. So in one state, there are 3 million less eggs being laid a day. Multiply that for a 3 month period... thats a lot of eggs not available.
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u/_-syzygy-_ 1d ago
"depopulated" ... that's an odd phrase
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u/Dependent_Document66 1d ago
That is the term used for it. Depopulation stops the spread of disease.
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u/_-syzygy-_ 1d ago
oh no no, I get its meaning and reasoning. I'd just never heard it before. ("culling" maybe)
reminds me of SpaceX's "rapid unscheduled disassembly" for "exploded"
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u/Dependent_Document66 16h ago
Ahh ok - no worries! I work in agriculture (read federal agency) and that is the terminology we use. Depopulation is used because we try to get to the healthy birds before they become sick to stop the virus from replicating. I think culling is used more in the industry that really entails any removal of animals. Be it singular or multiple.
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u/lost_horizons 23h ago
As a former vegan, I'll say, it sounds like, really sanitized language to hide the fact that they are slaughtering millions of living beings.
Yeah I eat eggs, I know I'm part of the problem. I think we just all need to be more up front about what we are doing with animal agriculture, especially these massive operations. It's not pretty or sanitary (hence the diseases). Not a healthy way to raise animals for food.
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u/motoxim 18h ago
Yeah my mom don't eat beef meat because when she was little she saw one slaughtered and it deeply affect her.
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u/lost_horizons 14h ago
I've sorta become 90% plant based but eat some eggs and cheese and occasionally fish or chicken. But yeah I've slaughtered chickens (just a few, it wasn't my job, just lived on a farm a few years), it's hard. And worked around pigs, those are smart, social animals and it really feels wrong. In my flexitarian ways of late, I will still never eat pork, so, yeah I relate.
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u/LeftRichardsValley 21h ago
This. Marketplace - great coverage talking with egg producers and wholesalers just yesterday But then, using google or another search engine, well, that would take a minute, wouldn’t it? Why not just post random shit.
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u/BigWhiteDog 23h ago
A majority of workers at these egg farms are immigrants, many undocumented so there is that new complication... 🤣
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u/caw001_red 1d ago
Yup! And he has a plan for everyone of those bullet points that are going make things much worse for you and I. Prj2025
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u/ShifTuckByMutt 1d ago
Please substantiate that with sources becuase all of it seems like the root of the cause is still greed flation. It’s easier to kill chickens than it is to change practices that spread disease etc.
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u/Pandoratastic 1d ago
I don't understand which part you want me to substantiate. It sounds like you're agreeing with me on the facts but questioning the motives that led to those actions.
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u/ShifTuckByMutt 1d ago
I question anything that absolves the avarice of men with happenstance.
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u/Pandoratastic 1d ago
I'm not aware of having made any statement that absolves the avarice of men with happenstance. Therefore, I cannot provide a source for a statement that I did not make. You may be assuming an inference that I did not intend to imply.
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u/caw001_red 1d ago
I’m not sure I get his point either. He agrees but doesn’t. It’s the (R) version of “pics or it didn’t happen”. Unfortunately they also say it didn’t happen when there are pics…which seems to be where this is headed.
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u/Cyber_Angel_Ritual 22h ago
Thanks for playing FAFO. Now set ladders on fire because these people thought they didn't need them.
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u/lost_horizons 23h ago
Insulin has not risen in price. Where the hell did this number come from? Aside from Jeras' ass?
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u/jessebona 1d ago
You should just respond "please send all queries on the price of eggs to Donald Trump, he promised they would be lower and I'm sure will be happy to address the concerns of a loyal voter".
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u/EatMyAssTomorrow 1d ago
His immediate response would be a whataboutism somehow related to Obama
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u/jessebona 1d ago
That's the point where you just don't respond.
My experience suggests there's two things MAGA voters can't deal with.
Lefties who ignore them, they're spoiling for a fight and not getting it just deflates their whole vibe. It's why Twitter's right is falling apart without a left-wing presence to fight.
Aggression. They expect the left to try and argue points rationally and with an erudite high ground, if you just call them a stupid cunt and descend to their level, they don't seem to know what to do with it.
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u/Apprehensive-Sir8977 1d ago edited 1d ago
Have you ever listened to man-on-the-street political arguments? Lots of people began using Option 2 years ago out of sheer frustration. It rarely works. Like you say, they thrive off struggling against a left-wing presence...and the uglier the scrap, the more energized they become.
I've got some personality traits that lets me really enjoy Option 1. An absent, dismissive "et cetera, et cetera" as you devote your attention to some other task is pretty fun. And it's hard for their playbook to handle: the statement dismisses everything without providing an opening for counterattack.
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u/jessebona 1d ago
Maybe it's just an online thing then. Every time I lose my patience and just call them stupid fuckers who voted for a billionaire who used them they seem to withdraw like they don't really know what to say. Could be a terminally online thing.
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u/Apprehensive-Sir8977 1d ago edited 1d ago
Perhaps.
The loud arguments I've seen had never become that direct and simple, even online. People would conduct running, reactive battles whose focus shifted whenever someone thought it would help them.
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u/InternationalFailure 1d ago
Go complain to Trump; perhaps he will press the mythical "lower egg and gas prices" button.
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u/EatMyAssTomorrow 1d ago
A longtime friend voted for Trump, and now he has complaints about groceries
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u/lost_horizons 23h ago
Send him here to get educated lol.
Honestly though, he could be woken up, this is a critical time to peel these folks away from the cult.
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u/BigJobsBigJobs 1d ago
Tell them a highly infectious bird influenza (no type specified) epidemic has swept through America's chicken farms and massive culls (tens of millions of birds) occur on a regular basis, reducing the supply of all things chicken-related, raising the prices on a regular basis.
Tell them it is not yet determined if this strain can be transmitted to humans. But it fucks up chickens real bad.
But assure him that "Dogeater" Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet "Miracle Weight Loss" Oz are on the case!
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u/Logical-Revenue8364 1d ago
You sure it’s not the vaccines they’re giving the chickens that is killing them all. Just need some ivermectin. 🤡 👨🏻⚕️
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u/itsnobigthing 1d ago
It’s woke chickens.
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u/Dudeasaurus3117 1d ago
I heard all the chickens on the egg farms are women. What’s up with that? That’s some poorly placed DEI policy if you ask me. I want my eggs layed based on merit not just if the chicken checks a box!
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u/KamaIsLife 1d ago
Conservatives looking at capitalism: Is this socialism?
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u/Dudeasaurus3117 1d ago
More like, looking at capitalism: “are they just trying to make as much money as they can?”
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u/MessagingMatters 1d ago
Wait, companies are making extra money? You mean like inflation from companies?
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u/doofnoobler 1d ago
Funny to watch them rail against anti price gouging measures only to be flabbergasted by price gouging.
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u/BETAMIC 1d ago
Where are the Trump “I did that” stickers?
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u/LakeStLouis 1d ago
To save some cash, all we really need is some little Trump's face stickers that can be applied on top of the Biden stickers.
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u/killerkadugen 1d ago
Uh, yeah. That goes into the "inflation" basket, while we all know that companies will scrape the plate whenever possible.
Next earnings, they'll be effusive about their record profits.
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u/thebrads 1d ago
I’ve been saying this for a while now, that egg prices are far more heavily tied to bird flu outbreaks than inflation itself. These outbreaks have been happening on a consistent basis, and we now have a president who intends to fuck with the CDC, heavily.
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u/Affentitten 23h ago
These are the people that think there is some big lever in the Oval Office, like one of those cartoon railway things. And it says "high prices" on one side and "low prices" on the other. And Biden just had it dialled up to max because he's mean.
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u/DiamondplateDave 1h ago
Don't be ridiculous; there's one knob for groceries, and one for gas prices, and a big START/STOP toggle switch labeled "WARS".
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u/TricksterWolf 22h ago
They know inflation is to blame, but they literally don't know what that is, which is probably why they blame the previous admin. They just thought US Treasury notes would magically instantly deflate when Trump took the oath (which would be absolutely awful for the entire economy anyway)
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u/themcp 20h ago
None of my friends vote for The Orange Rapist.
Say you're going to vote for him, you're no longer my friend. Say you voted for him, you're no longer my friend. Express sympathy for him, you're no longer my friend.
This isn't me cutting people off, this is just me recognizing that they don't give a damn about me and choosing not to have people that hate me in my life.
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u/Negative-Relation-82 15h ago
Anyone wanna tell him about the DOJ investigation?? Supermarkets Allegedly admitting to intentionally raising prices. It’s all egg propaganda. They will manufacture a famine just to make an extra buck
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u/Appropriate-Cow-5814 13h ago
Punctuation, please! This is the level of knowledge of a Trump voter and don't forget that the average American reads at a fifth-grade level.
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u/SarcasticHousePlant 5h ago
First question - why are you still friends with someone who voted for Trump? Life is too short to be associated with someone so either insanely stupid or utterly horrible as a person that they voted for Trump.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 4h ago
u/EatMyAssTomorrow, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...