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IvyisAngy Jul 5, 2025

What's actually happening?

What's actually happening? - Lemmy.World

I’ve been lurking on r/Conservative to try and figure out why they back Trump so hard, call it research. They say that prices have gone down in stores; I have not seen that, things have remained the same or gotten more expensive in my experience. Gas prices have remained…the same, I haven’t noticed a difference. I’ve noticed that companies that perform services are now using Tarrifs to quote insane prices wether or not they were actually affected by it. I know the main reason is immigrants, the absolutely terrible things we’re doing to them gets thier rocks off. But if they’re so adamant about prices going down and the economy doing well they’d have to be experiencing that themselves? They wouldn’t be saying that so confidently to each other in an echo chamber unless it was happening. So where the fuck are prices going down at? I guess my question is what is actually happening? I want a news source thats going to be honest and not exaggerate for rage bait. Because I now don’t trust either sides news. This is coming from a socialist, not a plant to make you question things. I’m genuinely curious. And I think I’d just get banned if I asked r/Conservative itself.

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ultranaut

How Republicans feel about the economy changes depending on who the President is rather than the actual performance of the economy. Its a phenomenon that began picking up a few decades ago but has become very pronounced in recent years. You’re taking the things they say at face value, which is a mistake and the reason you’re confused by them.
What is actually happening is a kind of fascist revolutionary movement has taken over the GOP, Federal government, and many state governments and is now in the process of instantiating their regime. If you’re looking for news sources, AP and Reuters are a starting place but you should be reading as many different sources as you can. I hate to encourage the use of Google but news.google.com can be a useful resource for quickly finding a bunch of different sources covering the same topic.

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ExFed Jul 5, 2025

How Republicans feel about the economy changes depending on who the President is rather than the actual performance of the economy.

Although it seems they’re particularly susceptible to it, this phenomenon isn’t entirely constrained to Republicans. It’s classic groupthink. Any idea or emotion that reenforces the group is good, and idea or emotion that threatens the group is bad.

If you’re looking for news sources, AP and Reuters are a starting place but you should be reading as many different sources as you can. I hate to encourage the use of Google but news.google.com can be a useful resource for quickly finding a bunch of different sources covering the same topic.

Fully agree on AP and Reuters. They’ve got good journalists. As for aggregators, Google News is good, but I’ve found Ground News is better, and it’s not run by a monopoly, so there’s that.

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ultranaut Jul 5, 2025

Interestingly, the phenomenon with economic outlook I’m talking about actually used to be nearly unmeasurable in Democrats. It wasn’t until recent years that it started showing up significantly for them too, and still to a much lesser extent than Republicans.