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@Eiswald People in many parts of the world would be envious to have this much food available for their families. Somehow people who have less options for food somehow manage to survive. Historically people had less options as well. The kids will just need to adapt.

Too many people do not realize how spoiled we are with the amount of choices we have for food. Many people do not have the luxury to complain that they are eating the same thing every day.

@sickburnbro >Trump voters

It is also well documented that blacks in the south vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

Looking at the map as purely "Red state vs Blue state" reveals either stupidity or intellectual dishonesty, since you have to look at more than just the state as a whole. Even a large number of blue states have millions of Republican voters and vice versa for Red states with Democrat voters.

@Zeb @sardonicsmile That is one way to "solve" the problem. Though that solution is a "burn in all to the ground" solution. Certainly appealing to those who have nothing to lose, though it will have unknowable consequences.

It is basically asking everyone to reroll the dice. For those that got snake eyes, the reroll is certainly appealing.

@sardonicsmile I would be curious about what his solutions are, since he is correct that the buying power for younger generations is far less, which causes a number of problems. What happens too often is the younger generation proves themselves no better than many of the older generation because their solution is to double down on the very policies that caused the problem.

@Gonzo17 Would it have been too much trouble for her PR team to have this message be carried out by a different account? It is really poor optics to wish yourself a happy birthday under pretty much any circumstances when you are a public figure.

Yes, she probably does not run her own account. But you could easily have had any other public figure done this on her behalf, at the very least.

@sickburnbro >Our society could afford it.

If you think that changing the incentive structure across the board will not change any other factors when providing everything "for free," you are just going to proclaim "it was not true communism" the moment your "we should just share everything" ideology.

This is like assuming you will earn twice the profit if you just double the price of a product. You first must consider if everyone will still be willing to pay before assuming such an outcome.

@Max_Imum @PNS >Like anywhere there is places you don't want to go

That's just the problem though. There should not be any places "you don't want to go" due to safety reasons. That is a failure of the government to either fix the problem or allow the people themselves to fix the problem with proper self-defense policies.

In a non-directly political example, I recall the black hockey player that killed someone with his reckless maneuver was given a similar defense by Redditor types who stated, "He said he was sorry, he feels bad enough about what he did, so he should not get further punishment."

I cannot comprehend the mindset of someone who thinks that others should consider "saying sorry" is the same thing as taking accountability.

https://youtu.be/h1ylsXhn3cM?t=916

Timestamp at specific part. I have seen this happen too many other times where "they said they were sorry" is supposed to be enough atonement for whatever horrible act that they did. No, I will not accept the call to "just move on from this" when you know full well that they do not apply this standard to their opposition. The Left never accepts just saying sorry from the Right, but they want it to be different for themselves.

https://channels.im/@usluck/115414726507737102

As if Illinois is not already well known for having a gerrymandered map. So they are just going to do it again, but worse? Okay.

@sickburnbro That is yet another factor for why we such high levels of immigration. People already living in America have debt, so adding more people from other countries to the pool allows for more debt, thus kicking the can down the road. This will ultimately make things worse, as not only will there be more conflict in terms of the numbers of people, but also a worse rug pull when the system can no longer keep going.