• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    Are my eggs in the fridge appreciating? Where’s the break-even on sell vs spoil?

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    What I find interesting is none of the local people selling eggs have increased their prices. They are all $5 a dozen (mostly for ease of payment in a lockbox). They have been that price for almost a decade and are still that price.

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        We have some people in the area offering us some eggs they don’t need ( they have chickens ). I told the wife they could probably sell them for $2 each if we don’t want them…

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    Nobody who voted for Trump actually cared about lower grocery prices. There are racist, bigoted, xenophobes, who only want to hurt people they don’t like. And they love Trump because that’s exactly what he is doing.

    And that’s why this sort of attack won’t work. Because, even for those who voted for Trump, who don’t explicitly hate anyone not like themselves, they are delusional enough to never be able to admit they were wrong and to blame anyone who points it out to them for their troubles.

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      This is completely false. They cared about grocery prices. Trump blamed it on immigrants. Biden said the economy was great.

      They were both wrong but that does not mean the concern did not exist.

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        Biden said the economy was great.

        Virtually every indicator that we typically use shows that it was indeed quite good.

        Now that donvict and fElon are here, I’m sure we all get to find out the Republicans can always turn things into a shitshow.

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      For MAGA types, sure but there are a small yet significant subset of Trump voters who were that dumb and those are the ones that will actually care about this shit. For crying out loud when you have states that Trump won by less than 30K votes, yeah those idiots matter.

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      I agree with this. Every now and then I think I meet someone who really is worried about grocery prices but then I thought well no cause that just means they’re more worried about grocery store prices and they are about race bigotry in xenophobia.

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        they’re more worried about grocery store prices than they are about race bigotry

        So… wouldn’t appealing to their grocery store prices mean something, then?

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        Christ, if you stopped trying to judge the moral rightness of voters for half a minute you might figure out how to actually win an election.

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      This is just a straight up bad faith argument that ignores how colossally the DNC failed in November. There absolutely were millions of Americans who were fooled into thinking that Donald Trump was going to care more about their economic pains than Kamala Harris was. Now, I don’t think any of these people would identify themselves as a Trump supporter, they probably called themselves “Undecided” before the election, and I don’t think these people want fascism. I think those are the people this ad is trying to reach, the ones who voted for him purely out of economic anxiety who didn’t seriously believe the warnings they received of what Trump would really be about. To these people, we call Trump a Nazi the same way he calls Harris a Communist, so they didn’t listen. Maybe they’ll listen now, and we still need their help if we’re to have any chance of getting out of this mess now.

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      Gas has gone up nearly a dollar in my area since the inauguration. I still see bumper stickers saying “if you voted for Biden you owe me gas money” on the monster trucks people drive here.

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      Democrats are fucking idiots and every time they lose an election they pick exactly one thing to learn from it and they wildly overlearn it

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      It’s short and sweet and to the point, and you used to be able to get eggs for like a buck fifty, so it’s an easy target.

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        Sam’s Club used to have 5 DOZEN for 10 DOLLARS

        I don’t think they bother to sell whole eggs at all anymore

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        Prices/inflation are a convenient excuse for voting for Trump. It’s the reason polite people use to justify their vote knowing everything they do so they can continue going through polite society.

        In reality, they’re just bigots, christofascists, etc. (source: my family)

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          Exactly. It was a convenient excuse. Just like how they hate unelected bureaucrats but Musk is somehow fine as an unelected bureaucrat.

          Hypocrisy is an expression of power over others. I get to do this, you don’t.

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        I don’t think that’s actually true. Sure, the people who voted for him are largely also racist, but I think inflation did push many otherwise apathetic voters to oppose Biden (or Harris, if they realized Biden wasn’t running). Those people are probably mildly racist too, but it wasn’t the reason they voted.

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          Valid take but I’ve literally heard some saying “it’s patriotic to pay more because Trump is trying to save us” in response to this kind of shit. They’re literally in a cult and their cult leader can do no wrong in their eyes.

          Maybe some are figuring out, but not enough.

          It’s like that old saying that a conservative would gladly eat a pile of shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath. As long as others are hurting more than them, they don’t care. The cruelty is the point.

          https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

          He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting

          From his previous stint in the Presidency.

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            I agree about those idiots. But Trump got 77.3M votes in 2024 compared to 62.9M in 2016. At least some of the new dummies were influenced by high inflation under Biden and believed - even were counting on - Trump’s promise to not only stop inflation but miraculously reverse the price increases on Day 1.

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      Eggs are both especially expensive due to bird flu and a cheap staple that many people relied on. Everything has gotten more expensive due to inflation but they made an extreme and relatable example.

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    Somehow I think that leaving the WHO, and gutting the CDC, and NIH won’t help egg prices… We’ll just have another pandemic as some super resistant bird flu strain rips through the nation

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    I think the egg pricing is one of the biggest moronic things that Trump fooled his dumb voters into buying.

    Because the egg prices weren’t inflated by corporate greed (least mostly). If anyone cared, the bird flu thing is happening, which is the cause. So, Trump’s entire pitch was that he’ll find someway to lower prices of something that was affected by something else that can’t be fixed and is currently spreading. Since Trump is both a denier of anything so much as a pandemic and a poor economist, he pushed through the promise of lowering egg prices anyways.

    And guess what? It’s been closing in a month since he’s been in and what’s that? Egg prices got higher? Whaaaa?? The Bird Flu is spreading? Whaaaaa?

    Stupid fucking Americans.

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      Everything was highly inflated due to multiple years of >7% inflation. Egg prices are exceptionally for the additional reasons you gave but everything is exceptionally expensive still, not just eggs. They’re not stupid for thinking things are inflated (because they are) which sounds like the point you’re trying to make. They are stupid for not understanding the nuances of why everything is inflated. But give me a voting population that does. 2024 was a devastating year for all incumbent parties globally because everyone is feeling the pain of COVID and corporate greed

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    Related note: There are some good vegan eggs out there to give a try!

    If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there’s stuff you can by like Just Egg

    For baking there’s a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking

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    No, they fucking aren’t. But people like fElon and donvict don’t shop for groceries, so who GAF? Being concerned about grocery prices is something for the peasants to worry about.

    Now that they have the vote of idiot leftist contrarians, horrible racists, clueless low-info voters, etc…they don’t give a fuck. They’ll do just whatever the fuck they want now and the people that sat out or voted for donvict will have to suffer not only his agenda on breaking America, but also very expensive groceries. Unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer along with them…