bpt3

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by bpt3 20d ago
Americans have the most disposable income on earth and a very high quality of life. Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away
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by bpt3 21d ago
> many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself Citation needed
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by bpt3 21d ago
It looks like this is a poor attempt to argue for deregulation in the housing sector? I agree that this is needed, but regulation would be required to compel neighborhoods to allow increased density as well...
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by bpt3 21d ago
If all the things you describe came to fruition, the current residents will have to live with the consequences of their decisions and suffer a lower quality of life (which they don't want to do), and the problem would resolve itself. O
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by bpt3 21d ago
Why does it matter? The data sources are cited and are publicly available. It's basically just documenting the utter stupidity of a trade war with a close ally with whom we are tightly coupled economically.
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by bpt3 21d ago
I assume the data source citations are referencing Census Department API endpoints, I would make the data sources explicit by adding links. You also might want to consider archiving the data if you aren't already given this administrat
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by bpt3 22d ago
Good lord. At what point do we need to just wipe the slate clean and start over?
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by bpt3 1mo ago
> US healthcare system is inaccessible to close to 50% of your population So you have no idea what you're talking about. What is the point of making comments like this that are both verifiably false with about 2 seconds of online re
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by bpt3 1mo ago
No, the problem socialists have is that most people are smart enough to realize they won't be better off under a socialist regime, to the chagrin of the self-selected vanguard.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Yes it's anecdotal for specific statements, but I'm roughly basing my statement on surveys like this one: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-are-sati... I find it hard to believe that pe
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by bpt3 1mo ago
The people who avoid care they need because they can't afford it are a very small portion of the population that gets an outsized share of attention on the issue. Until public healthcare advocates understand this and make actual attemp
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by bpt3 1mo ago
There are many studies from reputable sources (one being the CBO) that say it would result in almost no savings or potentially even higher costs, just like there are many studies like this one that say there will be massive savings with no
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by bpt3 1mo ago
No, that’s the rationalization used by basically every collectivist state to compel individual sacrifice when convenient or desirable.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Of course. Did you mean to reply to the person who blamed capitalism for all of society’s woes without any conditions or qualifiers?
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by bpt3 1mo ago
It's odd that you've spent so much time in the US and have no idea what life is like here, but feel free to hold whatever opinion you like.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
I have no idea why people blame capitalism for things like a lack of socialized medicine (which I support for the record). It's the American emphasis on individual freedom that results in a lack of government mandates for healthcare. N
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Your "argument" is extremely simplistic, and again has virtually nothing to do with capitalism. Also, many homeless people are content, along with those in jails and small children (whether they are well cared for or not in many c
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Right, because socialist and communist states were shining beacons of morality, compassion, and abundance.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
It wouldn't, because the vast majority of people whining about how terrible the US is and how great it is elsewhere aren't welcome elsewhere because they aren't a net benefit to their community.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
> Where is our humanity when people lie homeless and lifeless in stupor on the streets as Waymos glide by? We've decided that those people have agency, and are not willing to force them into a facility against their will. You can di
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Where are you from, and where are you visiting? Nearly everything you said is inaccurate for the vast majority of the US, and it's obvious you have projected a lot of vaguely accurate online news reports across the nation as a whole.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
You see what you're looking for, and that's about it. Because of that, most people see what they feel internally.
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by bpt3 3mo ago
Buy a house below the median cost if you want to live that specific lifestyle. And don't rely on trashy websites for your snarky, invalid arguments: https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/summary/bls
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by bpt3 3mo ago
Large portions of the rust belt, midwest, and deep south for starters. There are many, many lists of the most affordable cities in the US. I see Buffalo, Dayton, and Wichita on them regularly as specific examples.
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by bpt3 3mo ago
It's interesting that some restaurants (and businesses in general) seemed to figured out within the last few years that a surprising (to me) number of people don't want to make any effort to comparison shop at all. The only way to
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by bpt3 3mo ago
You're welcome to move to one of the many, many places in the US where it's still possible.
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by bpt3 3mo ago
The same people who claim they're spending $68 for a 3 person meal at Popeyes or other similar establishments and that there is no alternative (i.e. people who aren't very good with money and/or willing to put even the slight
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by bpt3 3mo ago
Or you can eat much better food all around for much less in other establishments. Businesses charge what they can get away with, and you're actively wasting money if you're referencing prices you actually paid for those meals rece
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by bpt3 3mo ago
I mean I think it's exactly as revealing as I realize, in that I have again explicitly stated that unions are not beneficial to above average workers because they don't need external protections against job loss or substandard wor
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by bpt3 3mo ago
So it's insurance against some nebulous, unspecified catastrophe that if it comes to fruition, unions will be effectively powerless to stop anyway. If that's the best case you can make, they're even more useless to skilled wo

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