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This one is kind of depressing/maddening
I didn’t realise I had this many of these.
This might be the entire next dump as well
I also feel the need to say I’m not American so a lot of this does not apply to me
I’m Australian, and we are definitely better than the US.
But not as good as I’d like
From what I’ve seen you guys have been there for a few years
I also spent all day removing watermarks to the best of my ability cause people keep complaining. If I don’t see one thank you I will go back to leaving them in.
Thank you :]
PaperinoVB
Thank you :-)
CirB
Elon isn't Willy Wonka. He's Willy Wanker.
obarey
#4 yes but with public health, brown people can also get free care and that's a no-no.
mksu
#7 16/10 The legendary good cop in the fur
Cornflakes91
[two red buttons "acab" and "all dogs are good dogs"]
4vie
Whoever raised that dog! Give those people more future K9s to raise!
GlenL
#9 It's always astounded me that an EMT in the USA makes about as much as a fast food cashier anywhere else in the world
Puolitettupuolituttu
So, about 300 dollars a month like a Moldovan minimum wage worker? I mean, you did say "anywhere else in the world," and I didn't even go outside Europe.
bingotown
#13 I hate Musk as much as the next guy but that’s comparing apples to oranges. Taxing wealth vs income. We don’t have wealth taxes now. We should but we don’t.
mickjl
Great post. As someone who has lived in the US and elsewhere, the perception of being the best countryin the world and what life is actually like for 90% of people. And even the 99% to 90% are all stressed out trying to be in the 1%.
It's awful and needs a hard reset
Sh1tMovieGroup
#45 that's not true, some people died...
Mooki
#1 Alternate alternate headline: the world is so fucked up that bringing another life into it to feels like cruelty rather than kindness. We don't want to live to be nothing more than a wage slave while the climate and society fall ever further into decline, and we don't want that for kids either.
whyforetho
Reminder that adoption exists, and there are lives which have already been brought into the world and will likely grow into forgotten adults who have no support network to help them through the impending climate disasters.
Godna
Not really an answer to not having enough for ourselves much less children
Richter12x2
#18 The actual answer to this is the same reason that trickle down doesn't work. When you give money to normal people, they pay bills and buy stuff and pay off debt, which stimulates the economy. When you give it to millionaires, they add it to their high score and don't buy anything that they weren't going to buy already, so tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires not only doesn't trickle down, it basically ruins the economy.
RevolutionOnHerLips
I tell this story a lot. When I was in college I was too poor to have insurance. I visited Norway and got really sick while I was there, and my girlfriend convinced me to go to a doctor. The doctor explained that because I wasn't Norwegian, he had to charge me. He saw me on short notice, did some kind of throat swab, prescribed me medicine and filled it from his own store or whatever. All that out of pocket? $33 USD. And the doctor apologized for being forced to charge me.
IceKarma
Canadian who lived in San Francisco and visited their (New Zealander) husband in the UK at Christmas 2000. Came down with strep throat on New Year's Eve. Went to a local NHS clinic, made sure I filled out the paperwork correctly indicating I was a nonresident foreigner, although a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Was expecting to pay a few hundred quid... was charged £6 for the visit and antibiotics.
DietCokeIsMyDrugOfChoice
I keep trying to get everyone in the US to read "The Healing of America" by T.R. Reid. The U.S. gets swindled every day by the healthcare industry.
JadeNB1729
"If those Americans could read, they'd be really upset."
torbtom
It’s not entirely covered by taxes, there’s
a small fee even for locals. Sounds like he charged you this fee - the full price would have been much higher.
CelestialSea
#8 Problem is most of the elected Democrats fall into that centre group.
KrankyKrasnov
Nope. I haven't heard any Democrats saying that they want genocide
CelestialSea
How many Democrats support Israel's genocide? 90% or so? They may not WANT it, but they certainly place more value on their own finances and career.
NearHereThere
#12 "Steals". Not "makes"
Oracklostintheweb
The thing I don't understand is : why the hell american don't riot like we did ? Yes it's unpleasant, dangerous and some will get kill, but if you don't do anything, then just stop complaining ? It has been this way for so long now..
cmykenna
And 3-Police are often equipped with military-grade weaponry & crowd control equipment.
cmykenna
Well, sometimes people do, but there are probably multiple reasons it doesn’t happen more:
1-People have slowly become accustomed to (or were born into) these situations so they don’t notice how bad things are.
2-Very effective patriotism PR. The myth of the “greatest country in the world” gets repeated over and over again to kids growing up here. Pledging allegiance to our country/flag and reciting how “great” it is is literally a daily morning ritual for kids starting in kindergarten…
moocowincog
my guess is a frog-in-a-slowly-heating-pot situation. It's gotten worse slow enough over a long enough period that we forget this isn't normal. (BTW the analogy is flawed; frogs don't actually do that.)
CatShadowleaf
Our police officers would cry tears of joy at the chance to fire thousands of bullets into a rioting crowd. And they have the weaponry to do it. That's it, that's the difference.
Kennleth
Going to be honest here, guys who are trigger happy are quick to make you bleed, but will not want to take part in anything where they might. Remember Uvalde.
CatShadowleaf
Absolutely, and we're not quite to the point where protests are armed yet. Even people who do wish to come armed are reminded that the stereotypical 2Aer is all for the other side and usually there to cause trouble. But things are getting worse, and we're escalating, too.
TheDreadPirateBoberts
correct, our police are very militarized and notoriously trigger happy. people know they'll get killed.
tantallous
#45 something happened... they murdered the journalist that reported it.
mithiwithi
Nope, the journalist was murdered for trying to investigate an entirely different nest of organized crime.
Also, lots of laws were passed to make what happened there illegal, and lots of people were arrested and prosecuted in places where it was already illegal.
PaleChapter
But that doesn't get talked about, because that might give us the idea that positive change is possible.
mithiwithi
Right. Memes like "nothing was ever done about the Panama Papers" and "Epstein didn't kill himself" were created to demoralize us into thinking that the oligarchs are too powerful to fight.
Which does NOT mean that everyone who spreads those memes is doing so for that purpose. Most of them are spreading the memes to show off how much smarter they are and that they see through the lies.
Of course, I'm doing THAT here in this very thread. The difference is, I'm right.
barbarian818
#31 FWIW, the Monarch hasn't received a dime in tax payer money in decades. HRM travel and security costs as head of state are public costs, but the official residences of Windsor Castle, Balmoral etc are all self supporting. The majority of Crown wealth is entailed, meaning it has a lot of restrictions on how it can be used. Meanwhile, the Monarchy and royal estates bring hundreds of millions of pounds in tourism money to the UK economy.
Cett01
#17 gofundme is already our number 1 Healthcare provider
MayMayz4DayzYo
#7 OK, doggo cops are the only ACAB exception?
NZSheeps
ACAGB (All Canines Are Good Boys)
DietCokeIsMyDrugOfChoice
Well, mostly it's like the situation with pit bulls. They get a bad rap bc of shitty owners. It's not a police dog's nature to be a shithead cop, they're specifically trained (nurture) to be shithead cop dogs. :( So I blame the human cops, not the dogs themselves.
SuperFerret
#7 Weird how attack dogs trained to attack people tend to attack people. Absolutely bizarre.
guitarfourtysix
I'll never find the YT clip, but it's one of those compilations of cop (car) chases . On one segment, a perp being chased bails his car and runs up a grassy upgrade heading for the woods. Four pursuing cop cars pull up and give foot chase. The last unit releases a dog. The dog passes cop3, trips cop2, and tackles lead officer, cop1. Cop4 now struggles to assist cop1 that's still being taken down by his K9. The perp is long gone.
tinydog
#7 My cynicism is making me wonder what they did with the dog after this.
PantlessThunderGoose42
Me too. I think I know, but I don’t want to say it out loud.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
"Retirement"
Madalchemist2018
He is german shepherd so his chances of survival are better than if he was a black lab.
sirbartonslady
tinydog
Bruh. Took me a moment.
Dxoh
Most police dog deaths are caused by the police. Death by heat exhaustion, abuse by the handler, and accidental friendly fire are the most common causes of death.
ProjectDA
this would track based off of how they treat strangers and their SOs.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
ACAB
kyndo
AHCAB
prosper020
I totally believe you; do you have any sauce?
mohavewolfpup
Or the dog lives and you get this: https://kutv.com/news/local/new-details-reveal-davis-county-deputy-punched-k9-multiple-times-after-dog-urinated-inside-conference-room-corporal-timothy-robinson-rolf-handlers-ongoing-investigation
thedudeman519
"In Utah, abuse against a service police dog is classified as a misdemeanor, which differs from the felony charge typical for animal abuse."
What the fuck Utah
drunkbs
wtf, anyone else and that would be an 'assaulting a police officer' charge. But when you're in the club, they just 'investigate' you.
chiefrunswithscissors
#9 I have a paramedical science degree. I looked into wages in the UK and I would make more as a barista in Australia than a paramedic in the UK.i assume the US is worse
Dxoh
Yes. In some places in the US, it is common for EMTs to make the local minimum wage.
chiefrunswithscissors
Insanity
FaerieWalnut
#3 Guys, you gotta stop using "third world" as a synonym for "shithole countries". That's not what it means.
royce32
Correct, its real meaning is kind of meaningless without the ussr though
Hercules99
I wish people would stop comparing mortgage and rent prices. The actual mortgage may be less, but there are a shit ton more expenses when you own a house.
Artebudz
Spent 8k on wall repairs a few weeks in to ownership
Was an expensive lesson
mksu
You also get equity, whereas every rent payment is just tossing money into the abyss.
ScrippyChan
Only if you maintain the house, however.
Kennleth
Most expensive part of owning a house is labour. At least where I live, if you're willing to do the work you're only paying 15-25% the price of a reno.
howwouldyoudescribeyourself
This!! We renovated our whole house for roughly 20k, including 6k PCB and asbestos removal, because we invested SO fucking MUCH elbow grease and time. Both our families helped a ton tho, and we have a lot of professionals from different trades among family and friends.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Thank you for removing the watermarks, man!
😁
nothingunused
Counterpoint: I don't care about the watermarks, man!
Towerman6789
Yes I am allergic to water.
MadHatter69
It leaves a Mark
mifdsam
Are you Wakko Warner?
CatShadowleaf
#1 Okay but to be fair even if they were affordable and supported I still would not want them, and there's nothing wrong with that.
JustinArnold
#8 it started as right: genocide yes. Middle: genocide no. Left: help the people the right wants genocided. It has slid to what the image says
KyleZombie
Simply existing in America is killing my mental health.
thedarkcanuck
Simply existing on the same planet as America is killing my mental health
0RocketCat0
Actually, the real problem for both of you is the internet. Without it, we would all be blissfully ignorant. With it, we're all ragefully stupid. 🤷🏾♂️
KyleZombie
Without the internet we'd still be getting our news from newspapers and TV.
0RocketCat0
That's my point. More than half of americans now say that their primary news source is rumors on social media. Result: rageful stupidity. Why do you think its wrong to get news from news outlets?
LumpPump
fox news err entertainment that that still likes to act like the news, yeah you dont need the internet for the ragestupid when even normal "news" does it with out the internet for the boomers. least with the internet there is more option to try and find unbiased things, most local newsappers and local stations have a lot of obvious bias, and dont forget people that own that news media will feed you what they want you to hear to cause the ragestupid to get people to vote/novote how they want
0RocketCat0
Downvotes don't answer the question. They just hide it. That's what social media "news" is. Why is that better?
ProbablyAlright
News requires greater capital to operate and so will always represent the interests of those who can afford to operate it. Social media requires a device and a network connection. There's still problems like bots and astroturfing, but it lets perspectives otherwise unable to have a serious voice join the conversation.
Also, it lets us see more diverse perspectives. Fewer Americans would know what the rest of the world has, we'd just know what we saw on broadcast and print.
KyleZombie
My answer to your question is my answer to your question.
TripleDane
#20 its my, albeit small, experience that, Americans are not educated to think critically. It seems to me a lot of their education is regurgitating stuff for a multiple choices test, but with no understanding of the application of the material.
This make them easy to manipulate, as their understanding simple falls to Higher number is either better or worse with no critical thinking of context or relevance for a given problem.
IceKarma
This. The US education system is not geared to producing critical thinkers, it's geared to producing good little indoctrinated worker bees. Never mind the prevalence of (pseudo-)Christianity and its anti-critical thinking nature.
GrammarNationalSocialist
#2 lol yall didn't learn that. You were SHOWN that. Big difference.
cmykenna
And on top of it, most didn’t actually pay attention when they were shown so the lesson never stuck.
mithiwithi
Right, we were all shown it. Some of us learned it. Some of us ignored it.
RowanUnderwood
#5 He is correct in the sense that conservatives do report higher happiness and mental health (spoiler: its the ignorance :D)
GlutenFreeCocaineWaffles
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awholelotofnothin
The most ironic part about this self-reported happiness level is the 19% of unhappy conservatives are responsible for 99% of politically based murders in the US and 100% of the current administration's policies of cruelty and fascism.
Dxoh
Of course, the countries rated highest on the happiness scale are social democracies, so I assume that chart is only reporting on Americans.
mithiwithi
It's because these are "self-reported mental health", and it's against conservative principles to admit your mental health isn't awesome.
4etherling
Unwavering selfishness and ego lead to happiness because you refuse to see beyond yourself and you're never wrong in your eyes. Every day you're winning whether you understand reality or not. Killing in the name of at a Trump rally? Why not? Rage wrote that song for conservatives. They claim it as their own without understanding it. This is the perfect example of selfish ignorant bliss.
invadeboiss
Self-reported data from a right-wing thinktank.
iguessihaveto
And even that is a self reported metric so the conservative stigma against a need for help/perceived lack of strength/mental health care being a scam etc couldn't possibly skew it. They're not happy. They're walking around with an expression like a dried apple doll. They're just belligerently opposed to admitting that they're miserable because that would mean they need to take accountability and change something and heaven forbid the neighbors see.
JeezusJuice
Omfg. It’s a lie, though. I spent the first 30 years of my life as a “conservative,” and I would have told everyone my mental health was perfect. In reality, I was angry about everything in the world, I wanted others to suffer like I was suffering, I thought about suicide all the time. Yeah, my mental health was great because I ignored every marker of good mental health because mental health is a communist scam, like all psychology. They really believe that. I was raised to believe that.
wabitgirl
See, when all you know is cognitive dissonance, which breeds internal suffering, when you see others suffer externally, you can easily convince yourself you're doing better than them. But you're not, as you clearly figured out. You're just pushing it down and pushing it down, till it (literally in some cases) makes your heart explode when you're 40.
Bandlith
Can't admit its bad if you believe its wrong to say it is.
Etherealvalentine
This. I'm writing a book about growing up in neo-Christian fascism
ChiLLeCheeze
I'm writing a joke about a Vietnamese American growing up believing the Vietnam war was about Communism. Now I'm going to compare it to the American Civil War and make people squirm because fuck conservative fascists.
wabitgirl
Wait, how does that work? I want to know this comparison, so I can fuck with people too and make them uncomfortable!
nvchad2
Yup. This is why. I was there too. Some of my family is there now. But when asked if depressed or anxious, no definitely not. You must suffer and hide it, that's just how it is for them.
wabitgirl
Accepting that mental health issues are real would be a big blow to the world view of these people. They cannot rationalize needing help with their mental state, just like they can't rationalize someone needing help getting started in the economy (hence bootstrap theory). The cost of acknowledging their cognitive dissonance would cause their entire paradigm to collapse, and they're FAR too cowardly to face that dissolution of self and ego.
Neko421
As I understand it, for many of them it's linked to their religion, the fundagelical mindset, as I understand it, goes something like that: "if God is with me, I'm expected to be deliriously happy, so if I admit that I'm miserable I'm confessing that I'm not a True Christian™."
JeezusJuice
It’s not that for anyone I’ve known. Christians I know don’t generally believe you’re supposed to be happy. They think almost the opposite, that they’re righteously angry; and all their problems are actually the result of society’s general moral decline. Of course, their evidence for this decline is that trans and gay people are not lynched daily.
nvchad2
That's definitely some of it. If you have God, you should have all you need. So admitting you need more help is like a slap to God or admitting you're not devoted enough.
JeezusJuice
Alternatively, god is all you need, and you are restricted from enjoying the earth (carnal pleasures) because it will help gain you greater joy than can be imagined in heaven.
darkdragonempress
Which is really weird when you think about it. The Bible talks about suffering and needing help all the time.