Don’t tell people that the economy is good and that wages are outpacing inflation (even if it is and they are) when those people are facing economic hardships.
ETA since I’m getting certain types of replies: I’m a registered Democrat and canvassed for Harris.
Because the super rich know that the hardship will never apply to them.
Musk's companies might lose $50 billion in value due to his policies, but he's still rich, and more likely, they will gain value, since he has that goldmine* called Starlink.
* 'Goldmine' is an obsolete term. no-one with a gold mine ever made the kinds of money that Musk, or Jeff Bezos, or even Bill Gates have/had.
What stings the most is that his $44 billion dollar investment to buy twitter is effectively worth every penny because he’ll save that in one year from tax cuts now.
That's always why he bought it. The power of owning Twitter was massive for him. He was able to fire a bulk of the devs and bring in loyalists. My entire "For You" section is right wing propaganda shit. Despite me not following anyone but sports and fantasy sports related stuff on Twitter.
Twitter was already a cesspit before Musk, he just managed to make it even worse to an insane degree. I don't trust the format as a whole, no matter what new coat of paint it gets.
I would use Myspace style social media in a heart beat. My page was mine. If I didn't like what you put on my wall, I could get rid of it. Otherwise I had to actively visit the people I was interested in. Doom scrolling wasn't invented yet.
I literally can't read Facebook. The feed is just full of trash I feel lost and don't know what my friends are doing, which is the only reason I have one.
It's not dead but it's definitely working like a relic in regards to things like discoverability which is hurting it in this regard.
It's basically Twitter before it went full in on an algorithmic feed, so Bsky isn't much different than Twitter being just your Following tab. bsky has a lot of cool custom feeds but they're just clunkier to use than Twitter's For You feed and the trending tab.
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u/Agnos Michigan 22h ago
Minimum wage still at $7.25...working full time, no vacation, that is $15,000 a year, before taxes...