Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession: survey
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A majority of Americans wrongly believe that the country is in a recession, a new survey found.

Fascinating little window

  • Almost 60% of respondents wrongly believe that the country is in a recession (it hasn’t been since 2020)
  • 55% believe the economy is shrinking (it is growing)
  • 49% say unemployment is at a 50-year high (it’s close to a 50-year low)
  • 58% said the reason the economy is worsening is due to Biden’s mismanagement
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That should tell you that it’s not some politicized reaction, it’s the actual lived experience of the Average Joe.

That’s one interpretation, yes. There are others.

Right now on front page I see only 3 posts with 20+ comments, and none are about Biden or the economy:

  • Bing outage
  • Microplastic in balls
  • Scientist harassment

(actually, it looks like this comment pushed this post to 20 technically)

So I actually meant the /c/politics “front page”; I should have used some other type of word.

Here’s the list of stories currently on the politics sub:

  • Economics, 23 comments, 56% are repetitions of basically exactly the same comment
  • Housing, 0 comments
  • Biden is out of touch, 30 comments, comments are a big shitshow of “Biden’s the worst” “Trump is worse” “Biden’s the worst” “Trump is worst”
  • Palestine protests, 0 comments
  • Brexit / Trump, 0 comments
  • Restrictions on voting, 0 comments
  • Israel, 0 comments
  • Rudy Giuliani, 4 comments
  • Biden + economy, 12 comments most of whom are calling out the OP article for being shit
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That’s one interpretation, yes. There are others.

Just say you think it’s all a psyop campaign when people disagree with you. 🙄

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