got the bratwurst from the back of the grill
got the bratwurst from the back of the grill
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When Americans do nice things in their country ... they destroy it and call it communism or "woke"
When Americans are treated nice in a foreign country, they act confused and wonder why their country can't do the same.
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As an American I know exactly why my country can’t do the same: Because we are ruled by greedy, short-sighted idiots: the voters.
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It's not their fault alone. There are actual people in power -- the closest thing you can get to an actual moustache twirling villain -- actively working to build that world. Additionally, their goals align very well with capitalism's incentive structures.
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I guess none of the other developed countries must be capitalist, because they seem not to not be influenced by capitalism’s incentive structures.
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They have been of course, but have done a much better job of managing it.
Unmanaged, capitalism will spin out of control. A slow and shitty paperclip maximiser.
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Definitely, we need more regulation in the market or it’s only going to get worse.
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Yes but the voters still vote for them because voters are greedy, short-sighted idiots.
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In Missouri, the ballot proposals that people vote for are consistently overturned by the representatives that people vote for. Right now, it's the ballot proposal that people should get sick leave.
People are completely propagandized to vote against their own interests.
Ironically, the sentiment that people are scum and deserve nothing--or rather, that they are greedy, short-sighted idiots--is also held by the villains in charge. So I'd maybe rethink that sentiment if you want to change things for the better.
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I would if I thought things would actually get better.
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Well we're less greedy and less short-sighted than many people, so that proves it's possible. How do we help make a world where there are more empathetic, farsighted people? How do we build a system that incentivises acting in this way?
These are questions which have answers. There won't ever be one right answer for every situation, but there are worse and better answers.
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And if I thought humanity was worth it I’d look for those better answers, but we’re not.
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I'm down with exploring the lower depths of an eschatological philosophy. I'd just rather not die from a bad tooth if I'm going to be forced to be here anyway.
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Good news! You’ll die of cancer from forever chemicals first!
Yay humanity!
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Get out of here with that left vs right nonsense. The voters have no power, we have an electoral college so the popular vote doesn't even matter. What matters is the 1% buying politicians and elections with manufactured consent with platforms like Facebook.
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I left reddit after I realized that reddit was using an algorithm to addict me to endless doomscrolling--not a good combo with the obvious censorship on reddit rn. The equity running reddit can't convince me to go conservative--but they can incapacitate me in helpless outrage that goes nowhere. Despair is its own insidious propaganda.
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This isn’t a left versus right thing. It’s all voters. They’re all greedy idiots. Including me.
Democracy was a mistake. Sentience was a mistake. Embrace fungus.
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Americans have been convinced that government cannot do anything effectively and that they have no ability to change this.
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The sample size that travel are a minority. A large percentage of Americans don't even travel out of the country.
Worse, I thought it was like a specific type of people. But my company did a poll to gauge where we should have our company retreat, and 80% admitted to not having a passport.
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It's a scary thought because I think it's universal in all cultures all over the world. I'm in Canada and when I tell most people I've been to Europe, they assume I'm a millionaire that can afford to travel because even though some of these people have more money than me, they can't even think of the possibility of flying outside the country.
When I visited the UK, we stayed at a place just outside London .. a small town that was about an hour train ride away from the city center called Bracknel. We were just exploring in a rental car (we nearly had accidents about twice a day). We asked people for directions to the next town or a few towns over and they couldn't tell us because they had never been there. When we talked to more people, we realized that most of them had never left town and couldn't think of traveling further than London.
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I think in England a lot of families have lived in a certain area for centuries, catch public transport, go on holiday to European destinations, and literally have no need for that information
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I wouldn't be surprised if 70% of the US has never left their home state, or even their local area.
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"Those that cannot afford to travel do not need a passport" - Sun Tzu.
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"Man who walk past airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok" - Confucius
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Hell, most probably never travel out of their state
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Or it's a feel good news story designed to make things seem less bleak. You know the ones.
Child works crazy hours to raise money for her own cancer drugs.
Mom takes second/third job, despite social services saying they will take her kids, but manages to save enough to pay for camp for one week.
I imagine in this case, they likely didn't have a concept of a billing system. They usually wouldn't bill anyone as that's not how the system is set up. Sure, there are funds moving around in the background, but it's not from the patient.
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