People thinking that American politics needs to dominate every single place of conversation is mildly infuriating at least.

The interest rate isn’t at near-zero anymore so instead of growing with insane leverage, they’re trying to keep the juicy profit margins going by cutting while still raising prices as much as they can. Squeeze is a very apt term here because us peasants are getting squeezed every which way. When the fumes run out from the post-covid squeeze, the decline will accelerate. Government and corporate coffers are getting raided by the rich on the way out.

T-that’s just a coincidence…!

Maybe it’s location based, but I had a mcflurry about a year ago and was given a pathetically small amount of the topping poorly mixed in a terrible filler ice cream. Perhaps the ice cream in the mcflurry was always terrible, but I hadn’t noticed it before when I would get a lot more of the topping. Also, their coffee was better for a time but it has reverted to burnt mud.

Apparently quite a few people have a high tolerance for what they value.

Prices have gone up while portions, service, and even quality (as low as it already was) have gone down. When does “the free market” start improving things for customers instead of just shareholders?

A lot of this is on paper. For example, if they’re calculating potential retirement age based on stock market returns then they may be in for a rude awakening if the longest bull run of all time (minus the covid disruption) ends. But what are the odds of that, right? Surely housing prices will also rise forever too.

I hope he pisses off trump enough to get destroyed.

He’ll use taxpayer dollars to keep it afloat.

Automakers enjoyed huge profit margins with the shortages since they could charge much more for fewer vehicles. Now that supply is back up, there is nothing justifying these ridiculous prices and they’re crying. Too bad. Also funny how they had the government shut out Chinese competition in domestic markets but they’re still losing in the China market even though there aren’t 100% tariffs on their vehicles there.

Pivoting to Biden in 2020 is what really sank the party in 2024. Covid won 2020 for Biden, but he thought he was something special so in 2024 he desperately clung onto power until his mental decline was too obvious for even party diehards to deny and then the party scrambled to push through Harris who was forced to adopt that bonehead’s general rhetoric. Biden would’ve lost things even harder. The party really fucked itself with Biden, but I’m sure the party thinks it was all worth it to prevent a Bernie victory.

The political memes community in particular has silly moderation. My post criticizing the billions in dollars being sent in support of genocide got deleted and when I asked for clarification, I got this explanation (and I quote):

You’re blatant accusing political partition being pro genocide.

This is an opinion.

But I know that no one is PRO genocide. Therefore stating it as such is misinformation. It was removed for this reason alone.