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Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending li

by vkou 2y ago

Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending like none of that was a part of her campaign. Anyways, it's telling that everyone who was anxious over $3.50/dozen eggs in November is deathly silent over what's been happening in the past few weeks. All of a sudden, all of those people are now in the 'we have to be patient and get through the pain, there's definitely a payoff at the end' boat. (Milk's $11/gallon at my grocery, by the way. Unless I buy 5 gallons at a time.)

itsdrewmiller 2y ago
What kind of milk and what grocery store? That claim beggars belief.
gs17 2y ago
> Milk's $11/gallon at my grocery You should shop somewhere else, unless you're in Hawaii or something. That's not a normal price for most of the country.
- vkou 2y ago
  $5.50 for half a gallon of lactaid at my local QFC. ($5 for it at the Safeway that I'd spend another 25 minutes getting to and back from) https://imgur.com/9rpmfr2 https://imgur.com/9rpmfr2 All the sub-$5.50 options were sold out when I went last week. The gallon jugs only hit a good price point at 'buy five'. I suppose I could move to some flyover shithole where milk is cheaper and I'd get paid one third as much, and my wife would be denied medical care by a government small enough to fit in her reproductive system, but I'm not sure that would be as big a win as one would think.
csa 2y ago
> Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending like none of that was a part of her campaign. Part of that is because there were tons of ads focusing on taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners (funded by pro-Trump orgs): https://youtu.be/kQEMn1yRYVU https://youtu.be/kQEMn1yRYVU I have friends and family in Georgia, supposedly a swing state. They said that they could not escape seeing this add multiple times a day on tv or internet. Regardless of what one believes about the underlying premise of the ad, it is incredibly narrow in terms of scope, and that narrative stuck. I have a feeling this is one reason why many folks weren’t aware of her plans.
- vkou 2y ago
  I mean, sure, if their source of information about her policies is attack ads ran by her opponent, that says more about the media they watch than it does about her. She doesn't control the press, if it won't cover the policies, what is she to do?
  - csa 2y ago
    > that says more about the media they watch than it does about her According to my family member who notices such things (and is not MAGA or conservative), Trump controlled most streaming ads/narratives, while Harris had more of the broadcast ads/narratives, especially for sports (minimally political). I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as a media silo issue.
    - johnnyanmac 2y ago
      That sounds exactly like a media solo issue. Except the fact that it's billionaire new media choose who gets to see what ad. I would be surpsied if part of big tech's choices on ads wasn't based on the leaders' own preferences. Especially in swing states
      - disgruntledphd2 2y ago
        That would require a massive, massive conspiracy that would be difficult to hide.
        vkou 2y ago
        Why would it? It's not that people are forced to say things that they don't want to say. It's people who say the things that shouldn't be said don't get hired in roles where they can speak. Do you really think that, say, CNN, or WAPO will ever pay people to broadcast views that are actually, credibly threatening to the financial well-being of their owners? Or ones that will make their viewers uncomfortably challenged? The marketplace of ideas in American mass media has always been quite narrow and orthodox in its offerings. Sure, you can say anything you want, but it takes the support of someone with power to be able to say it in a place you will be heard. And the more media consolidates, the smaller and less diverse that field of patrons gets.

by vkou 2y ago

itsdrewmiller 2y ago

What kind of milk and what grocery store? That claim beggars belief.

gs17 2y ago

> Milk's $11/gallon at my grocery You should shop somewhere else, unless you're in Hawaii or something. That's not a normal price for most of the country.

vkou 2y ago
$5.50 for half a gallon of lactaid at my local QFC. ($5 for it at the Safeway that I'd spend another 25 minutes getting to and back from) https://imgur.com/9rpmfr2 https://imgur.com/9rpmfr2 All the sub-$5.50 options were sold out when I went last week. The gallon jugs only hit a good price point at 'buy five'. I suppose I could move to some flyover shithole where milk is cheaper and I'd get paid one third as much, and my wife would be denied medical care by a government small enough to fit in her reproductive system, but I'm not sure that would be as big a win as one would think.

csa 2y ago

> Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending like none of that was a part of her campaign. Part of that is because there were tons of ads focusing on taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners (funded by pro-Trump orgs): https://youtu.be/kQEMn1yRYVU https://youtu.be/kQEMn1yRYVU I have friends and family in Georgia, supposedly a swing state. They said that they could not escape seeing this add multiple times a day on tv or internet. Regardless of what one believes about the underlying premise of the ad, it is incredibly narrow in terms of scope, and that narrative stuck. I have a feeling this is one reason why many folks weren’t aware of her plans.

vkou 2y ago
I mean, sure, if their source of information about her policies is attack ads ran by her opponent, that says more about the media they watch than it does about her. She doesn't control the press, if it won't cover the policies, what is she to do?
- csa 2y ago
  > that says more about the media they watch than it does about her According to my family member who notices such things (and is not MAGA or conservative), Trump controlled most streaming ads/narratives, while Harris had more of the broadcast ads/narratives, especially for sports (minimally political). I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as a media silo issue.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    That sounds exactly like a media solo issue. Except the fact that it's billionaire new media choose who gets to see what ad. I would be surpsied if part of big tech's choices on ads wasn't based on the leaders' own preferences. Especially in swing states
    - disgruntledphd2 2y ago
      That would require a massive, massive conspiracy that would be difficult to hide.
      - vkou 2y ago
        Why would it? It's not that people are forced to say things that they don't want to say. It's people who say the things that shouldn't be said don't get hired in roles where they can speak. Do you really think that, say, CNN, or WAPO will ever pay people to broadcast views that are actually, credibly threatening to the financial well-being of their owners? Or ones that will make their viewers uncomfortably challenged? The marketplace of ideas in American mass media has always been quite narrow and orthodox in its offerings. Sure, you can say anything you want, but it takes the support of someone with power to be able to say it in a place you will be heard. And the more media consolidates, the smaller and less diverse that field of patrons gets.