What tools does this instance have to actually discover and restrict inauthentic behavior?

Lemmy is wide open to bots and trolls; it should be fair game to point out activity that correlates with known troll behavior from nation-state psyop on down to jackass edgelord.

Thanks for the heads-up!

In reality I have never encountered people who strictly define themselves as “leftist”, “liberal”, “progressive”, “socialist”, “democratic socialist”, “communist”, “center-left”, “moderate left”, etc.

seems like an attempt to drive wedges. Remember: We are all for a viable candidate that advances those issues even partially, versus the polar opposite.

Yeah, they own 93% of everything. That’s irrelevant to whether people in the middle class are seeing a better economy. And, which president has helped improve that figure, and which has not?

Nah, that’s not it. I am looking specifically at politics@lemmy.world and seeing posts from earlier today, but not the several from an hour ago.

Odd, definitely gone from my feed, and I have been refreshing for an hour watching them - so I noticed them disappear. Yes, by new

401ks are both voluntary and allow a selection of investments, so what do you mean “it’s not like people have a choice there”?

Pension funds are also mostly invested in stocks, so anyone with a pension also does better.

Like, you are saying the existence of people who are having it tough means the economy isn’t improving, and circumscribing anyone who may be doing better. Of course the economy is bad for people with the worst situations - that’s a tautology. The question is, is the wide middle doing better? Are fewer people in that situation?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/stocks-americans-own-most-ever-9f6fd963

Do you have a source for your assertion?

Is there a Costco near you? Potato chips and deli meat (just random items I priced recently) are 1/3 the price of supermarket. Eggs and milk are about half. Gas at costco is 10% less than a gas station.

Biden has no power to set supermarket chains’ profit targets.

Most americans (61%) invest in the stock market.

61% of adults in the US invest - not 1 or 2%.

Prices on food have been decreasing, and mostly were a result of supermarket chains dialing their profit margin up - look at Kroger and Publix’ YoY profit margin numbers.

Housing prices are currently seeing downward pressure. The zero interest rate is what blew up the bubble - and we’re now seeing the effects of correcting it back to a normal rate.

So by your definition, if you’re not struggling, you’re rich - and any improvement can be disregarded (even insulted)?

I’ve definitely done better in the last 2-3 years, and I am certainly not rich.

Way to beat up that strawman!

Didn’t know I came for the sign language interpreter’s facial expressions!

Blatant bias is surely worse than attempted non-bias.

Pretty much still a thing - Adderall is just slow-release amphetamine.

That sounds like a well run meeting with a concrete agenda.

Shit, sometimes I call my kid the dog’s name and vice versa, and I’m half biden’s age

You get the irony of your call-out, I hope?

Oh my god stop with the “moderates told us” stuff, it’s such an obvious attempt to split people apart.