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Yes, and when I said so, at least I made a point afterward. I guess even you are smart enough to realize when you've been so thoroughly beat.

Why would I try again considering all you've done is misrepresent what I, and others, have said. Yes, in your fantasy world, what I've said is incorrect. But that's just your fantasy world, not the real one. The only one ignoring anything here is you.

Holy shit, you came back to write this? lol Amazing. And, no, I don't feel stupid because nothing that is happening now has changed anything about what I was talking about a year ago. The fact that you think it does just reveals how much you lack in critical thinking skills.

I can't remember a time that I've heard a more obvious projection, especially when it makes no sense. Who would read my post and get "triggered" from it? Lol

Look at the grammatical errors throughout their post. The cherry on top being the statement at the end being terminated with a question mark.

They also just recently had a question that includes them being on a pip.

I get the feeling that this person should be grateful that this doctor is only making enough more than they are that they would use the word "twice" to describe the salary discrepancy.

Rittenhouse is an idiot who shouldn't have crossed state lines to go play police officer in another state. I have no problem that his life has been ruined, and if he had been convicted, I wouldn't have shed a tear. Not to mention he is a fucking twat (if what the sister says is true) for not helping them out considering it was his stupidity that put this crosshair on their back. So make no mistake about where I stand on this. The guy is an idiot, but I don't think he was "looking for blood."

That being said, the guy didn't just "have a skateboard" we have a video of him chasing a fleeing rittenhouse and attacking him with the skateboard and trying to grab the gun. The other guy is seen chasing a fleeing Rittenhouse when he turns and shoots. Neither of these people just "flinched." They were both clearly aggressors.

Was he justified in shooting them? I'm not so sure. I tend to lean towards "no." But the fact that you're grossly misinterpreting what actually happened leads me to believe that you are not so sure either. One who is confident that the facts support claim doesn't feel the need to grossly misrepresent the facts.

You waited 12 days to respond with this garbage? lol I would have just moved on. It's like your desperate to remind everyone how dumb you are.

The whole debate is over the definition of a word so of course it's going to be pedantic. Lol I'm not even sure you understand what that words mean.

"OMG we're in a recession"

"Well, no not technically because the definition you are using is not the actual definition"

"OMG you're trying to tell me the economy is french silk caramel!"

"Uh that's not what they're saying"

It this is "pedantry" then surely you don't understand the term.

Except noone of substance is telling you anything is french silk caramel. Your whole position is based on a incorrect premise that is the result of what appears to be a false dichotomy.

If you're position is this detached from reality, it's no surprise you're being accused of being uneducated or something equally insulting.

I’m just not that against it when people think it feels like a recession to them. The brunt of this soft landing is not even. It really does feel like it for a lot of lower class people being laid off or struggling to find work. I know of whole warehouses that have closed up in the last year or 2.

This is the problem tho, it's all anecdotal. Recessions aren't individual things, because there are always going to be losers in any economy. Unemployment is at all time lows. Wage growth is beating inflation (and some of the biggest beneficiaries of this have been low wage workers). Inflation back down near desired levels. There's tons of reason to be optimistic about the state of the economy. Don't get me wrong, there is a long way to go to make up for what was lost over the pandemic and the subsequent inflationary period, but economic outlook looks good now.

The doom and gloom is being amplified by Republicans in an attempt to hurt Biden's chances of re-election. I wish people wouldn't repeat their lies and help Trump get elected at the same time.

My point is that it’s a term that has no solid definition.

The world is a complicated place. The fact that one can't precisely define something and there is a grey zone doesn't make any claim, even those that fall clearly outside of that grey zone, valid. "It's complicated, so any opinion is valid" is just not something we should get behind, as it justifies all kind of nonsense, like climate-change denial.

I absolutely agree that it's weird and it's not fine right now. All I responded to was the oft-repeated and false claim that they changed the definition of recession, and then attributed that to some conspiracy theory to silence them.

It will absolutely be talked about, but just as likely as how it was a huge win for the fed if the soft landing happens, and that appears more and more likely at this point.

It's not arbitrary. It's just that, as you note, a nuanced question without a simple answer. The "two quarters" thing is just something that we tend to see with every recession. But there are a lot of other things we tend to see too: unemployment rising, consumer spending retracting, income dropping, industrial output retracting... and we didn't see any of the other factors that we've seen previously.

It would have been one of the weirdest "recessions" we've ever seen, that bucked numerous other recession indicators. . .all in favor of two quarters of negative GDP growth. How does that make any sense?