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GiddyGap ,

“Americans live to work, Europeans work to live.”

How do you deal with being broke?

I’m in my 30s so I should be used to this by now, but this shit is getting so stressful guys. I have no savings, my checking account is drained every month with rent, and if there’s ever a serious emergency I have no safety net, I’m legitimately fucked. I’m one unplanned expense away from absolute ruin. Those in the same...

GiddyGap ,

Sounds like you’re in the US. Most other Western countries have a much better social safety net to actually address these problems.

GiddyGap ,

That’s a pretty sharp increase.

From a very low starting point. Economists generally consider unemployment 5 percent or under to be maximum employment.

GiddyGap ,

Actually, don’t try it. Just encourages hunting.

GiddyGap ,

Some people just look better without hair.

GiddyGap ,

The US is seriously self-destructing in so many ways.

GiddyGap OP ,

Still. Universal healthcare would also eliminate a reason for workers to leave for a competitor with better healthcare options.

Overall, the US healthcare insurance system puts American employers at a major disadvantage compared to global competitors that don’t have to worry about healthcare and other basic benefits.

GiddyGap ,

Fission is today. Fusion is the future.

GiddyGap ,

Well, it comes at a cost, though: apnews.com/…/georgia-power-vogtle-nuclear-plant-b…

GiddyGap ,

Looking at you, Germany…

A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. (bc.ctvnews.ca)

Zhao says having data on how people who did get the money actually spent it is something she thinks will help counteract stereotypes, increase empathy and potentially get skeptics and the public on board with the idea of providing cash transfers....

GiddyGap ,

Have you heard about this place called Europe? Look it up. And while you’re at it, look up how they handle policies related to financial equality while keeping high productivity and very prosperous societies.

GiddyGap ,

Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex - or 2SLGBTQI+ for short.

GiddyGap ,

That “living in paradise” mantra could not be farther from the truth.

GiddyGap ,

All these products have to come to market in order for prices to eventually come down. People need to see that they have viable options to gasoline cars.

In Norway, more than 80 percent of new cars sold are electric. There are many other options that don’t cost $73,000. Rivian is just one option.

GiddyGap OP ,

I already know the answer from conservatives to this one: “SoCiaLisM”

GiddyGap ,

Poland is doing a lot of things wrong on the judicial side.

GiddyGap ,

More than 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway now are EVs.

Which also means that all the talk in the US about EVs not being reliable in cold-weather states is just pure crap from politicians trying to protect oil and the gasoline car industry.

GiddyGap ,

Then don’t vote for Republicans.

GiddyGap ,

But many independent voters who want these policies vote for Republicans. If they want these policies, voting for Republicans will not get them there.

GiddyGap ,

These things require 60 votes in the Senate and approval in the House. Republicans are blocking them in both.

GiddyGap ,

You may be a “responsible gun owner,” but, overall, the US gun culture is completely ridiculous. A society that has people living in such fear that they feel the need to be armed and ready at all time is a failed society in my book.

GiddyGap ,

There aren’t any red cities in the US. Certainly not big ones.

Do you think the crime is lower because the city is smaller or because it’s red?

GiddyGap ,

Crime usually has root causes like poverty, inequality, poor education, etc.

If you look at Europe, the crime rate is much lower than in the US. Gun violence is near non-existent outside of gang-related crime.

Most of Europe would be deep, deep blue if transferred to the US political scale. They have heavy gun control and redistribution of wealth results in much less financial inequality. In turn, it causes much lower crime rates.

I don’t think US crime rates have anything to do with culture. It has to do with rampant inequality and easy access to weapons. Combine that with mental health issues, and you got a real toxic cocktail.

GiddyGap ,

Europe has a lot of petty theft issues. Always have had.

In this thread, we were specifically talking about gun violence, which is through the roof in the US and almost non-existent in Europe. It’s also the most dangerous type of crime, which often turns otherwise non-violent, petty crimes deadly.

And for some reason, conservatives don’t want to look at the tools being used for gun violence. The guns.

GiddyGap ,

As a progressive, I’d prefer to look at the tools that enable the gun violence: The guns. It’s just very clear that the US has an enormous problem with gun violence compared to other parts of the developed world. The thing that stands out is obviously easy access to weapons.

Fresh example: Jacksonville, where a rightwing nut went ballistic with an AR-15 in a racist rampage. Weapons bought legally, since he seemed like “one of the good guys with a gun.”

Sorry, but I’m not willing to sacrifice school kids and my fellow Americans’ lives to defend some “right” invented in a completely different time with very different types of weapons available.

GiddyGap ,

I’m all for an amendment.

I just find it unreal that conservatives defend their guns over the lives of children. Especially after what we’ve seen in Uvalde and Sandy Hook and Columbine, etc. Zero change. Unreal.

GiddyGap ,

Firearms rarely kill children.

So, not reaction to Uvalde, Columbine, Sandy Hook? Nothing? Seems on par.

You seem completely blind to anything outside the US.

Create happy populations and you don’t need any of it. Europeans don’t have guns and they don’t have the violent police forces you see in the US. Yet, they are the happiest populations on earth year after year. Highly productive, highly educated.

Great equality. Create opportunity. Get rid of the desperation.

GiddyGap ,

How do you want to prove it when we haven’t tried it? It works in the rest of the developed world.

GiddyGap ,

Let him rot in prison.

ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!

GiddyGap ,

Forecast models have the storm curving to the northeast toward Florida, coming ashore along the Gulf coast north of Tampa near the Big Benda area and then heading diagonally across the state to emerge again in the Atlantic Ocean near southeast Georgia.

GiddyGap ,

Because it’s part of the underlying condition of a male-dominated world where men try to keep women down and in their place by treating these patronizing, chauvinist acts as “just a little mistake. Move on.” No, it’s time to root this garbage out for good.

GiddyGap ,

Let him rot in prison.

ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

GiddyGap ,

Capital punishment is government sanctioned killing. Outside of war, the government should not have the power to kill anyone.

For these people, death is also the easy way out. Prison time is harder.

Not to mention cost. The complexity, finality, and litigation drive cost through the roof and make it much more expensive than life in prison.

GiddyGap ,

It’s not cheaper to execute. It’s financially and morally very expensive.

GiddyGap ,

Trans Trump is a banned Trump.

TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion (www.nytimes.com)

For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....

GiddyGap ,

The US is all about more lanes for cars and less public transportation. Congestion be damned. Because “SoCiaLiSm.”

GiddyGap ,

Not sure how that’s “detached from reality.”

I’ve moved a ton. It has never cost me anything other than the cost of renting a moving truck and sore legs for a few days. Certainly beats living in a place with no job or some random low-paying job.

GiddyGap ,

Lol what?

GiddyGap ,

All right. Fair enough. I don’t think that I took everyone else for a fool, but I never saw it as a very expensive or hard thing to move. Not in my experience. But others could have a different experience. Thanks for the heads-up.

GiddyGap ,

Makes sense

GiddyGap ,

demanding $2000 a month.

Could be very reasonable or even cheap depending on location.

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