It's seems that there are some companies sneaking price increases now that the public is used to price increases!

That's how it works. Inflation is not a force that acts on all prices. It is a measurement of a weighted average change in prices. One thing can be up a lot while another thing is flat, or even cheaper.

What has gotten cheaper?

Gas went down since last month.

But the point isn't specifics. The point is that the existence of some things that went up by more than 8.5% over last year is not meaningful evidence that the 8.5% number is a lie.

Gas is still up for the year and only went down after hitting it's record peak, and it's the first month to be down after that crazy near 2 year run up from $1.80~

Name one other thing that went down. Literally everything is 20% more expensive.

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Not being pedantic and yes I know monthly inflation fluctuates, some things are seasonal. I'm mainly talking about yearly inflation. Name one thing that is cheaper this year.

I'm genuinely curious because looking through my expenses there's not a single thing I can see that has.

> Name one other thing that went down.

Christ. I didn't expect the third degree about an abstract statement. Surely you agree that sometimes there are things that go down in price, at least temporarily (since it apparently doesn't count as "going down in price when something goes up and then goes down but not as much as it went up). The entire point was that inflation is a weighted average, not a statement about the specific price change of any particular good.

> Literally everything is 20% more expensive.

If you are going to be so pedantic about my post, at least be pedantic about yours. It is absolutely not the case that everything is 20% more expensive.

My rent is down about 10% from pre-pandemic prices.

In Central Texas, gas is down from $5/gal in June to under $3/gal now.

In Southern California gas is down from $6 to $5.50

It's so much worse if you compare it to ten or fifteen years ago. Or even five.

c. 2005, a $100 shopping cart was overflowing.

2022, a $100 shopping cart may still have space left before you have to start stacking things. More like $300-$350 if you fill it up.

What the heck are you buying? Piles of steak? Alcohol? I have never spent $100 on a single shopping cart, whether you're talking about 2005 or 2022. I'm not even trying to be frugal, just seems physically hard to load up that much if you're buying actual groceries and carrying them home in bags under your own muscle power.

Point taken. Has anything not gone up?

Hey, even Spring 2020. I remember taking over grocery duty during the early days of the pandemic and stocking UP for the whole month. And it would be like 200-250. I'm talking cart overflowing, meat for the freezer, wine, etc.

If I look at my amazon history from around 2015, clothing was insanely cheap for a while there. Prices have gone up, quality is down.

or fifty!!

Careful with that last line. Toward the end Trump was making some serious moves towards not accepting the outcome of the election, and the idea that the election was "stolen" is still the going line in Trump circles.

Say what you will about the Biden administration, at least it's not threatening to burn the house down out of spite.

Really? Cause democrats are openly talking about abolishing the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court currently.

Same shit different day, different faces.

I'm not sure how anyone could honestly support the filibuster. It's extremely undemocratic and has mostly been used to prevent civil rights legislation and keep racism enshrined in law in the US. It wasn't even an intended mechanism of law in the constitution - it was introduced by accident, and only "discovered" as a mechanism to delay government action decades later.

You're equating using the levers of power as defined by our laws and constitution to trying to overthrow the results of an election. And you'll find far more Republican supporters of overthrowing a duly elected government than you'll find Democrats who want to end the filibuster. We have real evidence based on numbers that indicate this. You can't "both sides" your way out of attempting to overthrow democracy.

Clinton told the Biden he should not concede in 2020 if the results showed he lost.

Not to mention Stacy Abhrams in 2018 and Clinton in 2016 saying the election was stolen from them.

Not accepting elections and claiming elections were stolen is quite bipartisan.

Some of these things are not like the others....

Which ones?

lmaooooooooo