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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

This is false and we know this from the pandemic.

Once you can’t agree on facts, you can’t be right retrospectively.

Millions of people died, if you google US yearly death rate you see a very obvious spike.

To me that is the smoking gun that the pandemic was in fact very deadly.

I haven’t been able to say I told you so to any anti vaxxer.

It’s not about logic, it’s about outrage, and that’s gonna increase moving forward.

[–] DukeHawthorne@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

It's one thing knowing it's going to happen, it's going to be something else entirely when it does.

It's like knowing you're going to die. We all "know" our day is coming, but we don't really appreciate that until we get old or someone close to us passes away.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As much as I enjoy saying "I told you so," which is a LOT, I'm really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The main issue, which I find with conservative voters a lot, is that unless they are obviously and directly impacted by something they will never notice or link actions and consequences.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And even if they are they will redirect it. Was inflation caused by trump printing $7 trillion dollars in one year while forgiving PPP loans made by wealthy businesses? No, it's because Biden passed an infrastructure bill.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Or you can go back 1 step further. Was it caused by Trump firing the pandemic response team and allowing Covid to be the first domestic pandemic in a hundred years, and forcing a shutdown of almost all US business, forcing the Fed to drop interest rates to historic lows to stimulate the economy, and way overdoing that, allowing the wealthy to buy more assets for essentially nothing while the working class worried about if they would lose their jobs while the investor class bought more and more property driving housing inflation while supply chains worldwide were put on hold and then jump started causing everyone to raise price to make up for lost income and increased demand causing inflation in goods. Then with goods being so much more expensive and a ton of freshly printed money driving inflation, did people want to be paid more to continue to exist, driving wage inflation?

No, surely it was Joe Biden being nice to trans people that caused this. People are fucking stupid, and I'm not looking forward to the next 4 years.

Instead of I told you so I might just start saying

I'm really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's been like that for the last 2 months.

Silver lining is that we're looking at a clown-show fascist circus instead of an effective fascist takeover.

[–] groet@infosec.pub 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This might very well not (yet) be the "burning of the reichstag and declaration of the state of emergency" part of the fashist takeover. Trump is incompetent but if he does to much damage the government might just complety collapse and musk and zuck can enact a monarchy.

I am much more afraid of the people in the second row ready to take over than of trump himself.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Looks like it's from the set of Game of Thrones.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Dude I hadn't smoked a cigarette for like 2yrs and then after election day... I'm smoking again.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bro... Governments came and go. Don't let that dictate your health. My aunt died of lung cancer with an o2 mask clamped to her mouth. It is the worst way to go. I'm rooting for you

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I appreciate you bro 💜 my grandma died from lung cancer too, horrible shit. I'm hoping that by the time I'm old, they'll be able to grow clone lungs 🤞

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah. Idk how I feel about this gotcha perspective when trans people and undocumented immigrants are facing state violence on a nearly existential level. Like, is this your response to that? To adopt this smug affect and do nothing? Business as usual for you, I suppose.

You'll have to forgive me for taking this post very literally. I am very scared for what is going to happen to my friends and loved ones in the coming weeks.

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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 177 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Brexit is still delivering all the "I told you so"s. It's less fun than it sounds.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Yep, even though millions died, we are not saying I told you so cause them idiots doubled down on it and got so obnoxious that the I told you so energy died.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, people keep saying "This time they'll see!" But, aside from the occasional "leopards ate my face" moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.

And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.

They're fucking around, and we end up finding out.

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