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What country is doing better?
China? Russia?
When congratulated they replied, "No, really. I can't complain or I'll go to jail."
The social contract has been shredded and sold for parts to private equity vultures who wouldn’t recognize human dignity if it came with a profit margin attached.
Communities became consumption zones, citizens became consumers, and human connection became a luxury item available only to those who could afford it.
When your government serves corporate interests over human welfare, when your economic system treats workers as disposable inputs, when your healthcare system bankrupts people for getting sick, the appropriate response isn’t therapy. It’s a general strike.
Finland is still number one while the UK is in 23rd.
Forty years of neoliberalism and now they're heading towards a police state dystopia.
When Margaret Thatcher declared that “there is no such thing as society,” she wasn’t making a philosophical observation. She was announcing a political program.
The systematic destruction of social solidarity. The privatization of public goods. The transformation of citizens into consumers.
Truth be told it's wealth inequality that probably keeps the U.S.A. down. Nevermind that it is large and by far because it has more than its fair share of wealthy people than more than its fair share of poor people. v_v
Though then again, Sweden is really high up.
America has more mass shootings than days in the year, but somehow the problem is video games rather than the fact that healthcare, education, and housing have been turned into profit extraction schemes.
So says the Society of Foreign Leftist Agitators.
See you tomorrow, Arvaos.
Kind of damning when your country is so wealthy (the wealth gap is ever increasing and the wealth has been transferred from the bottom 90 to top 10% since the 1970s by a lot) and developed, yet you are ranked so LOW on the index.
So many Americans will just dismiss it like it's not based on relevant facts, statistics, etc and instead just scoff at it and say "I don't believe it", call it a day and not refuse to give it any thought or meaningful research just to satisfy their jingoistic/nationalistic confirmation bias.
In fact, I'm surprised the United States is even that high on the index, being at 24. For many Americans, it feels much LOWER than *24*, much lower.
Despite that it's the richest country on the planet and very high gdp per capita etc etc, it sure is a cesspool in some ways.
This country is a cesspool despite it being so rich. And the rich cause many of those problems and neoliberal/conservative policies benefiting the rich cause many of those issues.
Guns being everywhere doesn't really make it any better, it makes it much worse obviously.
A bunch of American hicks and others with guns(most that shouldn't have them in the first place, including so many "law abiding" folks) would prefer to have their guns than cause more children to die of shootings, whether it's a mass shooting, not mass shooting, accidental, etc. That's how selfish these folks are, they think children (and anyone) dying of guns is less important than keeping their guns and not to mention keeping the laws as lax as they are and loose as they are.
Some of these gun people have come out and admitted abotu the violence, which is undeniable anyway but people deny so much with undeniable reality in politics obviously huh, anyway some of these folks have come out and admitted: "yes I'd rather keep guns everywhere and keep the gun laws so lax etc and gun violence and tons of kids dying from gun violence as a sacrifice and cost of that". Not in those words since in those words it's more honest and blunt about the situation, a situation in which "pro gun" types will lie about anyway regardless of the facts, reality, etc. It's just pointless to even attempt to get through to or reconcile with these people when they refuse to admit the reality of it even when they "kind of" admit it.
It's too the US is run by rich millionaire and billionaire thugs and that's who the system and laws and police etc benefit. Rich people have armies of cops at their side to protect their property and persecute the poor with. The war on drugs is a war on poverty and some experts say it has little to do with drugs overall in the grand scheme, and more to do with punishing poverty, controlling geopolitical interests etc. This political system is a
"My guns never killed any kids." Well your desire for the gun laws to exist or be not much more strict than they are causes gun violence. Get this, guns being everywhere and so many people being armed with them, it causes violence with said implements. I hate to explain this really complex, difficult to understand concept. Many guns existing in a place and many people having access to them, sometimes very easily, causes more gun violence.
What a hard concept and pill this is to swallow.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
Yes, people kill people, they also kill people with guns. Ahhhhh, mind blown.
Also get this, knives, clubs, etc are not as useful, effective, do not have the same appeal, etc as guns. Crazy how this would even be a revelation to anyone, although this extremely basic concept is going to be denied also by the "pro gun" types.
Get this, a knife isn't a gun. Ohhh mind blown. A knife is about 5000% less effective than an AR-15 or whatever at least.
Well, some of us have toted guns but sometimes maybe not in many different capacities -- although to a great extent, especially for the sake of this political discussion, it doesn't really matter and ethical or moral judgement is a different concept entirely than some technical concepts with guns, although I shouldn't even need to explain this either. I wouldn't care whether or not I or anyone is even allowed to have any guns, any type of guns, and not only semi autos but any firearms. Anyway, it's also sad and pathetic if any of this is news to anyone but it will still be denied like it's arguable somehow.
I can say I also don't believe in photosynthesis, the planet being round, etc. I can say I "don't believe" in matter existing or that the sky is blue etc.
Get this. The crime/violence outlier with the US compared with other "nice", rich developed countries? The guns. And get this, gun violence is an outlier also.
Let's put two and two together folks.
The USA isn't so nice though I guess as the other wealthy developed nations that I was comparing it to. It's sad that the gun violence is comparable to developing/not developed countries including some maybe where actual wars happen, which is very sad.
Here is a message to any potential tourists: don't come here. It's a cesspool. Damn this country, curse this horrible country and its horrible domestic and foreign policies.
America was heavily influenced by classical liberalism when it was founded.
The United States was largely founded on the principles of classical liberalism, drawing heavily on Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke. The ideals of natural rights, limited government, private property, and individual liberty are embedded in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.