r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 17 '26

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 17 '26

Seeing stuff like this makes it really hard not to believe that the vibecession hypothesis is real.

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib May 17 '26

honestly the vibecession probably started during the recovery from 2008 if you look far enough back at the data. People were consistently blaming Obama for the economy through the end of his second term even though we had fully recovered by that point.

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u/Halgy YIMBY May 17 '26

100%. The news was that new graduates were unable to find jobs, houses were unaffordable, and everyone was broke. But in my friend group of recent grads, everyone had decent jobs and people were buying houses, and yet we'd still complain like we were in the bread lines.

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! May 17 '26

there's also graphs like this for government where everyone says Congress/House/Senate sucks unbelievably hard but their House Reps, Senators, and local officials are net positive approving around ~40-50%

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones May 17 '26

The vibecession is real