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Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies Wong, who supported Trump in the last election, said he was swayed by campaign promises to reduce grocery costs. But now, as his business struggles to stay afloat, he admits the reality looks very different. Grocery inflation is at a two-year high, and prices continue to climb with no end in sight.

Wong told NPR that virtually all of his products have increased in price since early this year. For instance, a box of mabo tofu sauce — a popular Sichuan dish — has gone from $2.75 last year to $3.95 at the beginning of this year. “We just had this shipment come in yesterday — it’s $5. We cannot catch up. Every shipment coming in, we have to put a new price on it,” Wong said.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You speak as though we support, or like, them

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's nice to hear that someone doesn't.

I voted Biden with full understanding that, at least economically, nothing meaningful would change. It felt important for there to be a cultural victory against Trumpism; However, as we saw this last four years, Biden was a fascist too, and to make matters worse, was very publicly in cognitive decline and no one with the power to meaningful change gave a damn about it.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the take I hear from every single person I have met, in person, about this. They don't vote for the Democrats, they vote against the one thing worse than them. The only thing we can do in this country, right now, is slow damage. We need a revolutionary change, but looking at all the people who organize within communist, socialist, etc. groups, their plans are wishy washy, and while they come off as pretty spelled out, they are shallow, and they do not want to address the questions of what happens when people simply always resist real change. They are more scared of setting off and active revolution, than they are living this way.

Though I do what I can with those who are in my area, the leftist orgs have nothing to show in terms of what they have brought to the benefit of the people. They simply have rhetoric against what is here, and empty promises is not going to pull people away from the establishment they grew up within. We got some, local, changes passed here that demonstrably increased the QOL, however it was never branded with a clear leftist group, so people assumed it was the local Democrats.

On the other hand, you have a bunch of keyboard warriors online that preach violence, and some who even condemn those who haven't taken up arms, as cowards. Meanwhile they have nothing to show. They aren't out there carrying out "action". The only appreciable counter actions, to the MAGA cult of personality, that is playing out in real life, has come the "more like early last century England, not on the level of Nazi Germany" liberals. However, their actions are simply to stop MAGA, as they want to preserve the empire.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Though I do what I can with those who are in my area

This is the only power most of us have at this point, and I make it a point to be active locally myself.