The frenzied moralizing about how lives are more important than the economy is really something when everyone I know is becoming more precarious thanks to the economic effects of this
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Replying to @withoutboats
yeah i was just chatting with someone in DMs about this; I think it's really about the framing. that is, it's not framed as helping those people, it's framed as helping capital. (i see a lot of my family in your comment)
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Replying to @steveklabnik @withoutboats
I've been thinking about this a lot, I have non tech/wfh friends (in states that are handling it worse, to boot) who are already really scared for their future and could be in a bad situation very soon.
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Also, like, folks keep talking of the Republicans throwing their older base under the bus; but I don't see it that way, their base has far more people relying on stonks in retirement accounts (and other forms of capital) for survival.
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I don’t think that can be so easily dismissed. With the margins so slim, it’s easily imaginable that a small amount of demographic change could suffice to flip Florida in November, especially if you add in felony re-enfranchisement.
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Obviously I hope that FL/TX/etc get on board soon so we can prevent a tragedy like that.
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