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    Weak men do create hard times. Weak men let their insecurity and greed make their decisions.

    Conservatives are weak. The generation that empowered Reagan, Trump, and every red tie inbetween was weak.

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    lol theyre not worried like that. for them, the racism and homophobia and all is all worth it.

    shit, they even learned to romantize that struggle and hard times as something virtuous, for a bigger purpose.

    they will think nothing of it if the people they hate are getting fucked. they won’t regret this and will blame you for trying to fix it, unless it really affects them personally.

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      Even then it’ll still be someone else’s fault. It must be antifa or mole people or something, it couldn’t possibly be their own fault or that of Glorious Leader.

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    Not to mention shut down everything the US has relied on for order. Bro is actually thinking of shutting down FEMA. wtf

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      “Right now is the easy times that strong men like me made” says the man who grew up in the easy times

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      Also sunk cost and all that. After all if they admit they are wrong on this what else could they be wrong about? Nope better to just keep “winning”

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    Good times create weak men who think those good times came out of nothing and want an easy excuse on why they are being deprived of something they thing they are naturally entitled to. This excuse usually ends up being believing those who the good men who created those good times fought against.

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      38, just lost the 12 year old 267k miles car to an idiot my age in a brand new muscle car who was immediately on the phone to Daddy. It was one of the few things of value I had to my name. Was hoping to get 400k out of it. Instead I get a new car payment that I have no idea how I’m going to cover.

      The times are rolling, I’m not sure they’re good.

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    Actual fucking moron pictured who doesn’t understand the current position of anyone “not mormal” in today’s society

    pathetic.

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    Tbh I wanna know why people keep saying this. The NASDAQ is almost back up to its YTD high.

    I know the NASDAQ doesn’t mean much to the normal folks but to the people in charge that is “the economy”

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      because things havent been good outside of the line go up pretend world.

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        I know the NASDAQ doesn’t mean much to the normal folks but to the people in charge that is “the economy”

        Did you read me whole comment or just react?

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          Tbh I wanna know why people keep saying this.

          i answered your question.

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      SPY is up 3% YTD while DXY (which measures the value of a dollar) is down 9% YTD. If you own shares of SPY, then you hold them in dollars, so the real change in value of your stock is [share price] x 1.03 x 0.91, which translates to being down over 6%.

      BUT not only is your investment value down, if you live in the US you presumably get paid in dollars as well. Which means you’ve gotten a 9% pay cut since the start of the year.

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          DXY measures the US dollar against every other currency. So if the US dollar in isolation had a bunch of inflation (e.g. because the US government printed a ton of money), then that would be reflected in DXY.

          But if every major currency printed a ton of money at the same time, then DXY would not change because it’s only relative to other currencies.

          So it doesn’t calculate inflation directly, but it’s generally correlated with it.

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        I thought about using the 5 year charts, but I decided against it because that would include things from the initial COVID lockdowns and I felt that skewed results. But the NASDAQ is up significantly from this time 5 years ago