circuitfarmer

Backing up claims with facts is not “spoon feeding” people reality. It’s the basic mechanism of knowledge transfer and debate.

If you can’t back up the claims, don’t make them. No amount of ad hominem attacks will make your arguments better without factual support.

Saying, but not supporting with facts.

Whew, good thing I didn’t claim that then.

Perhaps you have fallen into the common trap of thinking “better than Trump” equates to “objectively good”.

At the start of his term we were hiding in houses and fighting for toilet paper and by the end of it things were much better.

Hugely disingenuous to claim that a global pandemic ending was a policy change.

And while the IRA was a decent piece of legislation, I’d love to hear how it was the “most progressive bill” since the New Deal. Hint: expensive ≠ progessive, especially when tangible results are hard to pin down.

(Not saying Biden was a bad president, but it’s fair to say he was a mediocre one)

Can you name some examples?

It’s true that there are about $500 million dollars that will come from a pied-à-terre tax on second homes, which effectively is a tax on the rich.

It’s also true that billions of dollars (i.e. considerably more than $500 million) come from deferring pension fund payments, which is generally a bad thing that kicks the can down the road and is not what Mamdani campaigned on.

He campaigned on things like corporate tax hikes and additional taxes on the rich far beyond the pied-à-terre tax. To date, these have not materialized.

I like the guy, and I hope he starts actually doing the things, but we need to hold politicians accountable when they don’t do what they said they would do. If he weren’t a socialist, he wouldn’t be getting a pass here.

He’s got plenty of time to turn it around, but as it stands, I don’t find it controversial to say the reporting on this budget has been a bit more spin than win.

Biden was the best president in my lifetime

This is impossible unless you’re under 18, which is against the TOS of most/all Lemmy instances.

Because it was lower under Biden. We have numbers.

I’m so tired of living in a timeline where we pretend facts don’t exist to avoid upsetting the MAGAs.

My thoughts exactly. Kamala should be off the table. I don’t care what the polls say. She lost. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice JUST STOP TRYING TO MAKE KAMALA HAPPEN