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Unemployment when Trump left office - 6.3%
Unemployment today- 3.7%
Seems to me like more people with jobs means less people losing those things under Biden.
Their feelings are more valid than your facts... I couldn't believe I was hearing such non sense from senior Republicans but they were right about their base.
Unemployment level is meaningless if there's no livable wage. Taking 1 full time job and creating 2 part-time is not job growth, and that's exactly what's been happening. How many of those shitty no benefit jobs are being held by one person?
You tell me. You're clearly the expert here.
Its also at a record high
You didn't tell me.
The banks and the rich are squeezing every dime they can out of American working class, but the probable GOP nominee is the absolute wrong way to curb it.
Remember for example when he stole medical supplies and gave them to his criminal friends, who could then resell them for a higher price? During a pandemic..
Medical supplies are your red line, not genocide?
What a great straw man! Thankfully it isn't Biden himself pulling the trigger, nonetheless any GOP candidate is simply not an option.
So if Biden is in the clear for not pulling the trigger, Trump should be in the clear for insurrection for not actually storming the capital right?
He instigated the attack, Biden did not have anything to do with the counterattack on Gaza. These are inherently different things
Biden, multiple times, perpetrated the Zionist lie of beheaded babies, bypassed Congress to get them more weapons, and refused to cut money. He is complicit
I agree, that he is. I think it's more complicated in terms of global security idk though
It has nothing to do with global security, and everything to do with US power in the region
Sure. I implied US influence is global security but I also disagree with myself there
the unemployment statistic only counts people who file for unemployment, and in 2020, a lot of us were able to pull $1200 a week with no look-for-work requirement.
i don't think this is a fair comparison.
Do you have numbers showing that the levels of unemployed people not filing was dramatically different? If not, then this is meaninhless fud.
> If not, then this is meaninhless fud.
wrong. it's only meaningless "fud" if we do have the numbers and they don't support what i'm saying.
No, that's not how it works. If you're making some unsubstantiated claim, can't back it up, spreading negativity, then it's meaningless, anecdotal fud.
If you do have something to back it up, then it's not.
anecdotes aren't meaningless or fud
They aren't useful at all for making claims about large trends.
You were making claims about the full market. Stats or it didn't happen
you can see the u3 trends
huh. would you look at that?
i wonder what happened in march of 2020 to cause this!
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/761/663/868/357/809/original/390e1def2c785d9e.png
That doesn't show what I asked about or what you said.
oh my bad