Mr2005
Don't shoot the messenger, give me the gun
- Sep 25, 2018
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I didn't mean for my Orig post to become so divisive. But, I guess I should have expected it. This exact type of discourse is why I hate the state of this country. It has become insufferable.I'm simply hating my country. We have become a nation of guns and hate. We are driven by ignorance, greed, and cling to a racist past and continue the tradition. With this combination it makes sense we are the leaders in mass shootings. Maybe my mental health would improve in a country that's less toxic.
Okay. How would I argue against a divide in the US if you are skeptical of the media?
If Vox stirs up a video on polarization and if a church that actively spreads disinformation is alive and well, then, is the divide really not true?
Spreading disinformation isn't a bad thing. Natural selection'll get those dumb enough to fall for it.church that actively spreads disinformation is alive and well,
Wording in pledges & swearing oaths on the Bible do not correlate with the USA being secular; seperation of church & state's one of the basic premises of the US government.The US is _de jure_ secular. In practice, it is still common practice to swear oaths on the Bible, there is religion in both the Pledge of Allegiance and the Dollar.
Detroit, one of the worst cities in the US in terms of violent crime rates, shouldn't be used here. The US' homicide rate is 7.8 for every 100,000 people.The US also has major cities like Detroit where murder rates are crazy higher.
What is your point? By saying "nice", do you mean that you want me to use them more?Ad hominems already? Nice.
Because people living in shanties & favelas aren't counted as homeless.Double the homelessness population of Brazil
They're trial programs. For a nation of >350 million people, UBI's not economically feasible.If so, then why have trial programs regarding Universal Basic Income been proven to be successful lately?
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Spreading disinformation isn't a bad thing. Natural selection'll get those dumb enough to fall for it.
Wording in pledges & swearing oaths on the Bible do not correlate with the USA being secular; seperation of church & state's one of the basic premises of the US government.
Detroit, one of the worst cities in the US in terms of violent crime rates, shouldn't be used here. The US' homicide rate is 7.8 for every 100,000 people.
Because people living in shanties & favelas aren't counted as homeless.
They're trial programs. For a nation of >350 million people, UBI's not economically feasible.
If you squint, the US is similar. And in all the stats, there's things we don't discuss. Take for example its world-beating jailing of its own people. (Recent stats are unclear & juked; maybe a few countries like Rwanda recently got a higher rate. China has lots of unreported prisoners, so we should double their numbers — but it has far more people, so its rate is still much lower than the US's)Noam Chomsky said:So, a typical Third World country has a small sector of the population which lives in extraordinary wealth and opulence, and they're kind of connected with the ongoing experiments. And they're the ones who write the articles and the books and so on, so they think it's all great, and they advocate it and so on.
For the rest of the population, outside of that small sector — this runs across any Third World society you look at — they live somewhere between suffering and misery. You know, depends on the society. Most of them, it's closer to misery. And as the experiments proceed, it gets closer and closer to that.
Then there's another part of the population which is simply superfluous. I mean, they don't contribute anything to wealth creation, and you've got to do something with them. Like, if it's, say, Colombia, which gets half of U.S. military aid for the hemisphere and has the worst human rights record in the hemisphere, then what you do with them is send out the military forces or the paramilitary forces to murder them. Now they're called disposable people. In other places, you do it in various other different ways, but somehow you just get rid of them.
So, that's a typical Third World society: small sector of great wealth, a large mass of the population facing one or another problem, from down to misery and then disposable people.
That's fairly uniform. And that's been a uniform consequence of these experiments, which, in general, have been going on for hundreds of years. So, the general principle is, designers do great; the ones who cooperate with them do great; the experimental animals, only by accident do they gain anything, mostly they suffer quite a bit.
It's all about living a life as a dignified human and a citizen to me. Whether this can be offered or not depends on who you are in a given society and whether that society includes you in their sense of human. Capitalism and communism both dehumanizes people in their own way, but capitalism dehumanizes in ways that are worth mentioning, since we are mostly living in one I would imagine. If people who live in capitalism don't figure out a better, less dehumanizing ways to live for capitalism, and if that doesn't include questioning capitalism itself, then who will do that for us? Communists will figure it out just fine too. They can collapse, or they can sustain, or they can be even stronger. There's Venezuela among socialist countries, but there's also China.From the history what we learned is only capitalist economy works well, all other types fall at some point
Socialist economy may seem good but practically it's a huge failure example Venezuela
Communist huge failure too example Russia
Yes I hate America. I hate capitalism and having to live in this dystopian late-stage capitalist society. I hate how healthcare and higher education are basically businesses and cartels. I hate how people have to become wageslaves to capitalism and the capitalist machine and buy into the pyramid scheme that is this capitalist society. I hate how healthcare is so expensive and basically a robbery. Come on, we all know that the US is broken. It's internal infrastructure is crumbling. The US is decaying as a result of its own selfishness and greed. I hate how everything in this damn country is about money and profit.I'm simply hating my country. We have become a nation of guns and hate. We are driven by ignorance, greed, and cling to a racist past and continue the tradition. With this combination it makes sense we are the leaders in mass shootings. Maybe my mental health would improve in a country that's less toxic.
The Byzantine empire lasted over a thousand years and was a monarchyFrom the history what we learned is only capitalist economy works well, all other types fall at some point
Socialist economy may seem good but practically it's a huge failure example Venezuela
Communist huge failure too example Russia
Literally! I hate consumer culture. It's like all they want us to do is slave away in the capitalist machine and buy things. They just want more money flowing back into the economy. Consume, consume, consume. That's the culture of America. You will be a capitalist wageslave and you will consume. You must buy the latest product, the shiniest new thing.I hate this country as well, but I can tell from your issues with it that we are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. But there are some points I think we'd agree on.
I hate this country because it is ran for profit. Nobody but the rich can afford land anymore. It's commonplace to work 50+ hours a week. Healthcare is insanely expensive, forcing you to pay for insurance, or rely on "benefits" from whatever job you slave away at. All of our culture is focused on individualist consumerism. There is no community, and no more social connection. You buy the latest iPhone, buy the latest car, and then you go home alone to your apartment where you microwave a dinner, go to sleep, and go back to work.
Life as a medieval peasant would be better and more meaningful than this
A monarchy isn't an economic system...The Byzantine empire lasted over a thousand years and was a monarchy
@februaryangels Me, personally? I hate how native americans sacrified their own children up until when we came and civilized them. It was so unfair. https://allthatsinteresting.com/human-sacrificei hate how native americans have been treated, it's so unfair
My point was that modern capitalism is still an infant. But I don't have the energy to argue.A monarchy isn't an economic system...
@februaryangels Me, personally? I hate how native americans sacrified their own children up until when we came and civilized them. It was so unfair. https://allthatsinteresting.com/human-sacrifice
I'm not a fan of a country where this is allowed on national radio yet the people can't even decide whether they've got a good candidate field or not.From the December 21, 2022 edition of "Red Eye Radio": Gary McNamara gets a little too excited recalling his final days of high school.
''When I went to high school...'' (Red Eye Radio, December 21, 2022)
I heard this live as it actually aired. I was on the floor laughing because of how hilarious this was.
ایرانی هستیi cannot begin to tell you how much i hate america. i despise being called an "american."
i'm 1/2 iranian, grew up in iranian culture. that's what i know. yet, i was too "white" and american to identify with POCs in school (until now) and yet too "ethnic" to be american. i was racially discriminated during the 2016 election. i was told that i was going to be deported, my grandparents (from iran) would be deported, i was a suicide bomber, my family were suicide bombers, and to "go back to where i came from."
i have freed myself from the propraganda in america. we have major issues and are being extremely polarized. tbh, i have no idea how long democracy will last in america.
i think it's ridiculous that it is now legal (via the supreme court) to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people and now affirmative action is gone.
i am aware that other places are worse (iran), but i have heard people from these parts of the world tell me that they don't want to live in america.
oh yea, the guns scare me. i've had nightmares about being in a school shooting before.
i am ashamed to be american.
بله،1/2ایرانیهستمایرانی هستی
as i am now in finland, i can 100% say, with full confidence, that i hate america. everything you say is true.I'm simply hating my country. We have become a nation of guns and hate. We are driven by ignorance, greed, and cling to a racist past and continue the tradition. With this combination it makes sense we are the leaders in mass shootings. Maybe my mental health would improve in a country that's less toxic.