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I know, people felt like eggs were too expensive and brown people were getting too much of a free ride so they voted to burn the country down.

One might almost infer in this post-truth age of ours that vibes alone aren't sufficient to form an objective model of reality.

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I know, people felt like eggs were too expensive and brown people were getting too much of a free ride so they voted to burn the country down.

The grand summary of America 2025. I don't think anyone has said it better than that in all of media. They gymnastics people run to avoid that simple truth just reveals their rotten core.

Did you know these indices are invented by vibes of other people and are at best objective measurements of subjective values?

You're confusing "vibes" with "data."

If you disagree with the data, present data to the contrary. If you're just insisting that we believe your vibes over others, that would just make for boring conversation.

You’re confusing data with meaning, understanding, and truth.

How many freedom units in the index am I experiencing right now? Will getting more units make me happier?

You can measure data without that data having a meaningful bearing on the topic you care about.

"Egg prices" is part of the left's dismissal over the right's concerns about the economy in general. Using it as the basis of a serious argument hints you have no idea what the right is thinking.

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