In a sense, it is semantics. It’s mathematically wrong but it’s correct in terms of messaging. If you say that prices increased by 100%, then decreased by 50%, to a lot of people it sounds like they are still higher than the original.
It’s sort of like how the 1/3 pound burger failed in America because people thought it was smaller than the equally priced 1/4 pound burger.
People are dumb is the point.
And if there is one competency Trump has, it’s communicating to dumb people.
It might be correct in a technical sense but it’s first and foremost misleading. If something costs $150 and the seller offers for the price to come down 50%, you’d rightfully expect the price to be $75, not $100. The seller could argue that it’s some 50% markup being removed but would you believe that to be a genuine explanation, or that the seller is trying to mislead or scam you?
I’m pretty sure we’re saying the same thing
Mostly yes, but I take issue with the statement that it’s “correct in terms of messaging”. In short, I’d say that it’s technically correct but incorrect in terms of messaging as pretty much everyone would understand the wrong message.
But being misleading is very much in character for Trump.
It’s also not correct even in a technical sense. For what that’s worth. It’s a made up number to sound really big and impressive, even if it is not true in any sense.
Republicans have consciously targeted a fifth grade educational level for decades now. Trump’s innovation was targeting a third grade level.
but like he could just have said it’s X times cheaper
It’s sort of like how the 1/3 pound burger failed in America because people thought it was smaller than the equally priced 1/4 pound burger.
I’ve never heard of this. What? The average American doesn’t know how fractions work? This country never ceases to amaze me.
A&W tried it in the 80’s and apparently more than half the people in the focus group thought the burger was smaller because 3 is less than 4. They renamed it the 3/9th burger so dumbass Americans wouldn’t feel like they were being ripped off. Americans have been leading the world in dumbassery for the decades at this point.
if anything, 3/9 would be more confusing to me, cuz now I have to “calculate” how much that actually is, as opposed to knowing the amount by heart
Had a guy swear up and down that 2/3 is larger than 3/4. This was brought up because he was telling me he was teaching his son math. Guy was at least 45+.
Damn, that might be one of the dumbest things I’ve read today
Most of today still remains. Give it time.
It’s nearly midnight here. Still dumb.
Wait until they abolish public education, and kids are either homeschooled or go to work. Theyll make Idiocracy look like Mensa.
More evidence for why he threatened to sue if someone leaks his SAT scores.
All this means is that Trump had eggs for breakfast that day.
It was probably about 30 egg mcmuffins.
We all know how much Tubby Tiny Hands loves his McD’s.
Wow, so you’re telling me the idiots still using the Nazi bird site aren’t very smart?
Stupidity highlighted in the post aside - that’s not my country, is it true that eggs now cost $2 when they used to be $8?
$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven’t seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.
I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.
The reasons prices sky rocketted is because the flu killed off the chickens not because of testing.
EPI reports profits hundreds of percents higher, every year. They are nonpartisan.
👍 didnt feel like pulling a real number so pulled a number that was almost certainly below what they did for demonstration purposes.
Tests don’t cost money. Positive tests cost money, because then you have to kill a bunch of chickens to stop the spread of the disease. Stymieing the spread of bird flu requires both higher egg prices and costly culling for farmers. If the admin stops testing, egg prices come down because farmers can’t be told to cull chickens which they don’t know are sick. So egg prices come down. But also bird flu spreads out of control and we might create a new pandemic.
Culling was covered by federal subs. (Whether those subs were sufficient is a different matter)
Bird flu is very deadly for chickens. Testing or not testing doesn’t affect mortality rate. It’s 75%-100% either way.
Not testing would mean they are not culling before it spreads therefore more dead chickens and fewer eggs.
This is not the same as testing cows where there is much lower mortality rate. In cows it results in lower milk production.
Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
I can’t even formulate an argument to your unintelligible drivel. Go back to the flat earth hole you crawled out of.
It’s a lie. It’s always a lie.
In NY, a dozen has come down to $6.99 from $12.99 in March. They were ~$5.99 per dozen under Biden when MAGA could not shut up about them.
atm $3.80/dozen where i’m at.
Ok and just confirming, these same eggs- brand, size, quality - used to cost like a lot more a couple months ago? Where I live prices went up… Stayed there
yup march they were over 8.
Not for long. Y’see, when you roll back regulations and oversight for the USDA, you end up with large and costly recalls. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/recall/cdc-fda-eggs-salmonella-recall-rcna211610
Obviously you should just get rid of the CDC and FDA then. No recalls, no problem!
Ah, yes. The 2020 classic covid server shift. No need to distort what you don’t report!
I would say ‘don’t give them ideas’, but I’m pretty sure that’s already in the works.
I just had breakfast at Tony T’s Coney Island and they paid me $36 to eat a three egg omelette. Of course I had to pay for coffee.
So if I eat 3 eggs that should subsidize one (1) avocado toast(s). Hold on, I think I finally got agrip of these bootstraps!
The coffee was also cursed.
Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I’ll take a crab juice.
The price of salmonella has come down 400 percent.
Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs sickens dozens of people across 7 states
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Uh, what, posts on Xitter need to be approved first?
Those are community notes for crowdsourced fact-checking
