geopolitics

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Americans are woefully ill-informed. That’s the only conclusion one can reach from a bunch of new polls that are chronicled in the links section below.

According to a new Harris poll for the Guardian, 55% of respondents think the economy is shrinking, 56% think the U.S. is in a recession, 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, and 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50 year high."

~ Brian Rosenwald

#economy #Biden #disinformation
/1

https://brianrosenwald.substack.com/p/what-you-need-to-know-about-politics-02a

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"A whopping 72% also say they think inflation is increasing.

There is only one problem. NONE of those things is true. The market went up roughly 24% in 2023 and is up another 12% this year. The unemployment rate is under 4%, a near 50 year low. GDP is growing and there hasn’t been a recession since early in the pandemic year of 2020. And the inflation rate is dropping — down to 3.4% in April."

#economy #Biden #disinformation
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wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"This data indicates that it’s very possible Biden could lose in November because people’s perceptions about the economy are flat out incorrect and many voters have little grasp of what is happening in our politics.

The media is almost certainly at fault for the misperceptions about the economy."

#economy #Biden #disinformation #media #MediaFail
/3

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ filmmaker, dies at 53

#MorganSpurlock, a documentary #filmmaker who chronicled a month of watching his body swell & his mood sink from eating only #McDonald’s meals in 2004 Oscar-nominated #SuperSizeMe, died May 23 at age 53.
Spurlock’s family confirmed his death from cancer, but gave no other details.
#FastFood #economy #health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/05/24/morgan-spurlock-supersize-documentary-dies/

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

“Super Size Me” was a study in America’s #FastFood culture & its role in the country’s #economy & #health problems, including #obesity. He put on 25 pounds, had bouts of depression & was diagnosed w/liver ailments during a 30-day stretch of McDonald’s-only fare.

#MorganSpurlock #filmmaker #McDonalds #SuperSizeMe

paninid,
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar

Modi is the Indian version of Trump.

AMLO is the Mexican version of Trump.

Netanyahu is the Israeli version of Trump.

Khameini is the Iranian version of Trump.

Milei is the Argentinian version of Trump.

Putin is the Russian version of Trump.

It’s not just the U.S., it’s a phenomenon.

It’s not just here, it’s everywhere.

There are multiple, overlapping Venn diagram issues happening everywhere, all at once.

The of each of those countries is not monolithic.

wraptile,
@wraptile@fosstodon.org avatar

Been reading r/worldnews for a decade now and lately it has been really revealing what a propaganda machine it has become. Just got perma banned for pointing out that "legal war targets aren't necessarily ethically correct"

With Artifact gone, reddit basically gone - what other sources do you use for ?

hobs,
@hobs@mstdn.social avatar

@wraptile
2/2
Put these on your list and then follow whomever they follow:

@GottaLaff
@rbreich
@JosephMenn
@MikeDunnAuthor @gtconway3
@mike. win
@ClimateNewsNow @DemocracyMattersALot
@mollvoxfff
@augierav

GottaLaff,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

@hobs Thank you! Please eliminate the NFL hashtag. I make a point of telling people to not hashtag NFL, and NFL is only used during live-posting. MANY thanks again. @wraptile @rbreich @JosephMenn @MikeDunnAuthor @gtconway3 @ClimateNewsNow @DemocracyMattersALot

br00t4c,
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

What percentage of U.S. currency today is actually in dollars and coins versus digital?

https://egbertowillies.com/2024/05/19/what-percentage-of-u-s-currency-today-is-actually-in-dollars-and-coins-versus-digital/

18+ Allkinds,
@Allkinds@mastodon.social avatar

@br00t4c
"When comparing the environmental impacts of physical and digital currencies, it’s apparent that both systems entail significant environmental costs."
There are other considerations. When I spend my money with a dollar bill No bank No computer knows what I'm spending it on.
When I spend a dollar digitally There is an electronic record of that and what I spend it on.
What I spend my money on is no 1's business but my own!

David,
@David@setouchi.social avatar

Not so easy today.

(21.05.2024) 3/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

jynersolives,
@jynersolives@mastodon.social avatar

@David
Pizza slice country

RebelGeo,
@RebelGeo@mastodon.social avatar

The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along the now abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7

tribeofjesse,
@tribeofjesse@c.im avatar

FOX "NEWS" SLANT
Mastodon Post

Inflation flattens Americans' wealth gains under
Biden: Report

-- FOX "News" headline

Just a thought, but why wouldn't this be

Americans' wealth gains under Biden
flatten inflation

:

:::

nisreen,
@nisreen@mastodon.online avatar

The #economy is the tool. #wellbeing is the goal.

You don’t seek health to work, you seek work to be well.

You don’t try to prevent people going off sick to save the economy god, you use the economy servant to achieve population wellbeing.

Let’s recalibrate, folks!

yogthos,
@yogthos@mas.to avatar

A great discussion on the reasons why the whole "American Dream" idea is dead, discussing what changed, and what the future holds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu7IJ-HDIos

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

As with all of her postings, everything Heather Cox Richardson says today deserves attention. She opens by noting that the Dow Jones closed above 40,000 for the first time in history. But "in comparison to the breathless coverage of the stock market during Trump’s administration, this milestone is getting very little coverage."


/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2024

MugsysRapSheet,
@MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social avatar
RaymondPierreL3,
@RaymondPierreL3@aus.social avatar

Greg Jericho spells it out with graphics… the Australian standard of living has been falling since 2020 and will take years to recover (if at all). All of the noise made about wages fueling inflation is a lot of bull, there is no truth to it and no data to back it up. Don’t believe what most conservative economists tell you. Don’t believe a foolish press medium either. Wages need to move faster than inflation for us to be as well off as we were fourteen years ago (14 yrs… yes, that’s right). Neo-liberal economic policies are all about feeding the greedy at the top of the food chain, period.

Australians have lost 14 years of progress on living standards. A wages breakout? Please. If only https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/article/2024/may/16/australia-wage-price-index-figures-inflation-salary-growth?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

europesays,
@europesays@pubeurope.com avatar

https://www.europesays.com/1214655/ “If you don’t like paying taxes, make billionaires pay their fair share and you would never have to pay taxes again.” —Warren Buffett

ambv,
@ambv@mastodon.social avatar

This is the dumbest self-contradictory set of words describing one booking I have ever seen.

hugovk,
@hugovk@mastodon.social avatar

@ambv "And a special welcome to all our valued passengers in Premium Economy Basic Plus hyphen Mixed cabin."

jezdez,
@jezdez@publicidentity.net avatar

@ambv looks like string concatenation to me, the mixed cabin is the hint for multi stopovers, very lufthansa

europesays,
@europesays@pubeurope.com avatar
iuculano,
@iuculano@masto.ai avatar

Via

Sen. : "When left office, the was secure, the was great, and we weren't at ." (In reality the rate was over 6 percent, 80k were dying each month from , and we were still at war in .)

video/mp4

br00t4c,
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Genocide Fuels Climate Crisis. The Fate of Palestine Shapes Our Climate Future.

https://truthout.org/articles/genocide-fuels-climate-crisis-the-fate-of-palestine-shapes-our-climate-future/

constrict0r,
@constrict0r@functional.cafe avatar

Budget cut

bxllouise,
@bxllouise@ieji.de avatar

The global is "a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and . And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the .”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

bxllouise,
@bxllouise@ieji.de avatar

"In a world beset by a climate emergency, fossil-fuel subsidies violate states’ fundamental, legally binding human rights obligations.”
@stopfossilfuelsubsidies

bxllouise,
@bxllouise@ieji.de avatar

“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The industry has done the same.”

DemDifference,
@DemDifference@mastodon.social avatar

Donald Trump falsifying business records during an election to cover up his porn-star payoff reminds us ...

... that the American economy has added over 15 million jobs under Joe Biden, and unemployment has been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years.

History_of_Geology, German
@History_of_Geology@mstdn.social avatar

May 5, 1818, birthday of German philosopher Karl . His thoughts on & may be well known, but Marx was actually also interested in & copied some geological drawings for personal use - like the basalt cliffs of Staffa, Scotland ⚒️☭

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europesays,
@europesays@pubeurope.com avatar

https://www.europesays.com/1192880/ This is why I go to Business insider for hard hitting economic news

Kurjak, Italian
@Kurjak@mastodon.uno avatar

Market law or market dictatorship?




yogthos,
@yogthos@mas.to avatar

This is a stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html

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