• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    Just like… why the fuck would you even bother lying when you could just say the truth and it proves the point you’re trying to make anyway? What a fucking moron.

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      1 month ago

      No matter how many men you put in front of standing desks, or how fancy an AI you give them, they can’t make an egg. Clearly should be many millions per egg.

      /s

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    The ol’ Republican go to— regressive Fonzie in the 50’s “thumbs up” 🤦‍♀️

    Fucking Happy Days and shit.

    ”Ayyyyyyyyyyyy!!”

    What a tool shed

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      Because the “regular” grocery store he’s standing in is clearly selling them for less than that?

      Seems like a pretty roastable unforced error to me.

      (Also I know not everyone has options around them, but traditional grocers still tend to be cheaper on most grocery items than Walmart or Target, there is in fact a cost to the one stop shop)

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        I mean yeah, but not every store sells for that price. The price he mentioned isn’t a lie, it just isn’t true in that exact store.

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          Well sure, you can always find examples of something being sold for more than average (whether that’s because of greed, human error, quality of product, or market strategy), but it doesn’t make his statement accurate.

          And again, yes I understand that Walmart is selling eggs at around that price point. I’m just saying that if I can regularly find eggs at my local Kroger-owned grocery store for $1 less than Walmart, when Kroger itself is a wannabe monopolistic entity, then Vance is probably stretching the truth as best, if you’re uncomfortable saying he’s lying.

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      LOL, if you scroll down, you can see they can’t even boil an egg properly. 😆 🤣 🤣

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    1 month ago

    That’s a painfully bad headline.

    We have white house candidates talking about egg prices? Come the fuck on Michael, what could they cost, $12? Like I supposed to believe JD Vance has stepped inside a grocery store AND had to tally the prices in his head?

    I want a new season of schitts creek I feel like this dumbass would be a great villain for their little podunk town, maybe he is buildimg a Walmart! Yeah he looks and sounds perfect for that role. He’s gonna make us do a cheer every shift. Someone pants Vance. Make him the joke he is.

    Hi fbi it’s me Stan, just a joke, on a rhyme, call me if ur concerned, bro

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      I mean the video was filmed inside a grocery store, claiming that eggs cost $4 with a sign directly behind him saying 2.99/24.

      So yes, he’s stepped in a grocery store- at least once. but I’m pretty sure that actually makes this worse.

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    When there are so many very legitimate reasons to make fun of these people, I think we’re getting a little nit-picky here. I know, the fact that he says it while standing in front of eggs priced $2.99 is low hanging fruit, but I just bought eggs yesterday at the cheapest store in our city and they were $3.76, so he’s not actually far off the mark.

    I think the more important thing would be to find out if egg prices are suddenly being artificially inflated by poultry farmers in an attempt to influence the election. If so, smack those fuckers down hard post-election.

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      It shows his blatant disinterest in fact checking or making the bare minimum effort to try to speak truthfully. He does not care if what he says is true, only if people will believe it.

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      If you aren’t going to call them out for blatant lies like this, then you can expect them to lie every time it would be to their advantage. Why on Earth would you give them a pass on this? I’m tired of this kind of lie being considered normal. This should not be considered normal.

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      Agreed. Someone also made this little graphic to demonstrate how nit-picky it is. The discussion in this thread is also about how we should be critiquing his claims about why egg prices are the way they are.

      https://lemm.ee/comment/15021404