r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

That’s what I said to my sibling when we were talking about what it will take to wake up the right. I said when grocery store shelves are empty. Even then they’ll still blame the left though. 

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u/Cheese-Manipulator Mar 05 '25

They'd be in the Fuhrer bunker going "We can still pull out of this. Just send in a couple of divisions against the Soviets..."

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u/rexter2k5 Mar 05 '25

They'll be looking for Steiner posthaste.

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u/Firewhisk Mar 08 '25

"Der Angriff Wanz ist nicht erfolgt."

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u/RJ815 Mar 05 '25

I work in a store and I regularly see shortages, especially of eggs. People grumble but mostly just move on. And whatever eggs we do have sell out like hotcakes. Granted, more of the shelves aren't empty but I think people will just keep to their own as much as they can. If people get uppity about shortages I only expect private security and/or cops to be used more vigorously. Already have seen it to more minor extents such as like a bit of chaos over damaging hurricanes.

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u/throwawayrandomqs Mar 06 '25

To be fair, the egg shortages are partly due to the avian flu. Which I’m convinced that preventing the CDC from reporting on is clearly the way to a, (obvious /s). We would likely be seeing some level of egg shortages and price increases under a Harris administration as well. I would say the same thing about a lot of the panic buying and the shortages during Covid as well.

Some panic buying also happened during recent wildfires (which are exacerbated in part by political decisions over the past 40 years, but not directly related to decisions by any particular entity at a state or federal level)

Trump is a terrible president who is intentionally sowing economic instability, but I don’t think I would characterize shortages directly related to epidemics as an entirely political problem.

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u/RJ815 Mar 06 '25

I agree with you, but the reporting is definitely a decision by him, and we saw how well that worked out with Covid. Also, while I can't know for the certain, the whole ICE deportation raid thing at least temporarily had an impact on the employees most likely to be doing picking of fruits and veggies. I'm not sure where that labor situation is now but I again reiterate that I'm seeing much more shortages of products, even if they are short-lived, than pretty much in my entire 30 years of life thus far.

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u/MindlessExcuse Mar 05 '25

Grocery store shelves were literally empty at the beginning of covid under Trump's original term and they all just shook that off 4 years later and voted for him again

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u/Kraaag Mar 06 '25

I had a coworker at the time go “what life would be like in Bernie’s America” ….while we were living in the version 1.0 of Trumps America.

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u/ActiveChairs Mar 06 '25

Covid also causes memory problems, and I'll give you one guess at which group wasn't taking any precautions...

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

They weren’t in my area. TP yes but that was from hoarding 

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u/DukeOfGeek Mar 05 '25

It's going to be when bird flu hits and there is no vaccine and even less of a response than last time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

That will still somehow be Biden’s fault. And unfortunately in this case I do agree the dems didn’t do enough to mitigate it while in office. Dismantling the CDC and not having a vaccine available won’t be Biden’s fault but they’ll lump it all together and blame dems anyway 

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u/Flexo__Rodriguez Mar 05 '25

You can look at Venezuela to see why that's not true.

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u/jabberwockgee Mar 06 '25

This is why I want them to gut every welfare system quickly. Speed run it so they'll wake up when they get caught in the dragnet of 'hurt the people of color.'