Comments by "Ida Larsen" (@idalarsen2540) on "Brian Tyler Cohen"
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@ivybee347 Exactly!!!
People fail to realize that if they don't step up for other people's rights, even if it doesn't affect them personally - who will be left to stand up for their rights, when their rights are in danger?
People are too selfish these days. They only care when it directly affects them, not even realizing that if we don't fight for EACH OTHER, we ALL lose.
People seem to have forgotten the saying that (I can't remember it entirely correctly, but..) "I may never agree with your belief, but I will die defending your right to excersise your right to hold those beliefs'.. it's a great saying, I hate that I don't correctly remember it, as it's such a great saying.
There's also this saying about "first they came for women's rights, but I didn't speak up. Then they came for lgbtq+ rights, but I didn't speak up. Then they came for poc-rights, but I didn't speak up (then it goes on and on with different examples, you get the drift).
Then they came for my rights, but then nobody even could speak up for my rights." Again, I'm totally not doing that saying justice either, I'm again really paraphrazing, but you get it.
People REALLY need to understand this. We need to fight for EVERYBODY'S RIGHTS, not just the rights that directly affects us.
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@blitzballrusher4993 Fairly true, but practically excusing the repukelikkkunts isn't okay either. They're passing SO MANY laws to ensure the elections are always rigged in their favour. That isn't new either. They've had the odds heavily stacked in their favour for extremely long, and they never win by popular vote - aka actually democratically. If the system wasn't entirely rigged in their favour, they wouldn't keep or gain any power. Repukelikkkunts ARE the MINORITY big time.
Now with that being said, I do really wish the democratic party was a lot stronger and willing to fight for what they campaign on, and what their voters and majority of the population wants. I also really, really wish they wouldn't self sabotage all the time by doing everything in their power to block and discredit progressives. They pretend to be in favour for progressive policies because they KNOW that's what actually is most popular among the incredible vast majority of voters, but completely backpeddals when push comes to show. You can thank corruption for that, as well as corporate media giving them lip service - just like the literal entirety of the repukelikkkunts are corrupt. The entirety of the repukelikkkunt party is heavily corrupt and are working for themselves, their greed, lust for power, and their big corporate donors. Same goes for MOST, but not all of the democratic party - except for PROGRESSIVES. Who are THE ONLY ONES fighting FOR THE PEOPLE, and against corporate interests. These corrupt mofo's don't want any of that - they'll kill democracy if they must to stay in absolute power and be wealthier than most people can't even fathom, no matter the costs to the people or the planet. It's pure, selfish greed.
Now, the repukelikkkunts ARE WORSE. They're FAR, FAR WORSE due to their dangerous, racist, bigoted, sexist, xenophobic, pro-war and nationalist views determining their policies IN ADDITION to the blatant corruption controlling their ENTIRE PARTY.
At least there's a growing movement of progressives taking more and more space in the democratic party, who are able to flex that muscle more and more instead of constantly being forced by the corporates from both within the democratic party, the media AND the opposition to bend the knee. At least democrats aren't ACTIVELY trying to kill democracy - they could surely do HELLA LOT MORE to STRENGTHEN democracy than they are, but they're at least not ACTIVELY legislating democracy's death. Oh and also of course, same can be said about reproductive rights.
The repukelikkkunts are becoming more and more blatant and autocratic by the day, and dangerously so - obiviously. Letting repukelikkkunts win is NOT an option. They're truly anti-democracy, and shamelessly so. They're not even trying to hide it anymore, as they've done FOR YEARS.
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@dontmindme633 The American prison system is so extremely corrupt, holy damn.. I just can't.
(Not to rub it in anyone's faces, but) I'm born and raised, still living here in Oslo, Norway. Many people are aware of how our prison systems work (key word: work - because they actually work). We're ranked to have one of the absolute BEST prisons. Prison is still prison so it will never be a luxury, of course. Still, we believe in human rights regardless of their past and wrongdoings, regardless of the crime. We believe that the punishment is having to serve time and losing your freedom, not in prisons actually serving punishment beyond taking away their freedom. Depending on what type of facility you're in (maximum security, lower grade security and such), you'll have it really good, actually. Most cells even have TV's and proper furniture. Our cells looks for the most part like institutions, not just pure cells. Usually the guards and the inmates gets close to each other, playing cards, board games, watch TV together and stuff like that. Kind of similar to drug rehabilitation facilities/other treatment facilities of high standards. The focus on actual rehabilitation is the main focus, and it works. We have among the best rates when it comes to rehabilitation, which truly is the most important. Most people here who serve one sentence only serves that one sentence. It's very rare to get the revolving door "syndrome".
Some people, many people think our prisons are too "good". Many think most prisoners don't deserve all they get. Our prisoners not only gets good facilities with work and/or education oppurtunities along with psychological and medical help for free, they get income provided by the government. Their prison grocery stores doesn't have inflated prizes, they're just the same as regular grocery stores. All of our prisons are public, nothing about the criminal sector here is privatized at all. No one is making a profit, so it's good for everyone in the entire country to provide proper rehabilitation, to make it as little likely as possible for people to get reincarcerated. We also have several programs solely designed to help ex-prisoners to get on their feet again, with trying to ensure work, housing and all things necessary to prevent new ex-prisoners from reoffending out of desperation (like preventing them from having to rob someone for survival money etc.).
Some people may think our prisoners gets too much, but considering our extremely high success rates it's very beneficial to literally everyone. The goal should be to prevent crime, right? That's what we're doing.
I've personally had to send someone to prison. Well, I didn't personally actually technically send someone to prison, but I managed to win a case where the offender ended up in prison (thankfully - he was as vile as they can get). I struggled a lot with coping with the knowledge of how good I knew he'd be treated in prison, obiviously. After what he did to me, he deserves to get tortured and burned. Seriously. It was extremely hard for a long time, especially knowing that while the person that took so much from me and hurt me in so many ways, causing me severe trauma and disability had a nice room, good food and a proper bed to sleep on, I was homeless with nothing to my name. Nothing. There's no wonder why I, or anyone elde would find that to be appaling and extremely unfair. Although it was unfair that I got just about no help except a tiny amount of wellfare money to live off of while being sick on the street, that's another issue not really connected. I later on, after finally getting better aid and an apartment, found peace with what I at first found to be extremely unjust. Despite me wishing nothing but the worst on him, I'm still extremely appreciative of our prison system. Although it is extremely hard to swallow, I know it's in the best interest of everyone that our prisoners get treated with respect and decensy. I'm thankful that yes, even him, who in my eyes is the worst human on earth, gets proper rehabilitation. It's not about what he deserves, it's about what the rest of us deserve. That's the important thing to think about. We don't help and treat our prisoners as well as we do for them, we do it for us. We do it to make the lives of everyday people safer. We don't want innocent people getting hurt, and that's exactly why we think it's important to have the kind of prisons as we have. It's not to benefit the criminal. It's done like this for us, the entire nation.
What we do works. Not saying it's perfect or that nobody ends up reoffending however many times it may be, but it actually works. Our success rate is so much higher than at least most of the rest of the world, possibly even the best in the world (I'm not sure how good ranking we have compared to all other nations, but I do know we're among the best, most likely if not on the very top, we're at least among the top five).
America, you have too much to improve. You wanting to call yourself "the best nation on earth" is just silly, grandiose, narcissistic and ignorant. Seriously. Your fasade may be good, but it doesn't take long to notice the tons of injustuces and (to put it mildly), flaws.
I hope that one day, you'll achieve the right to call yourself the best. The entire globe would benefit from that, considering your massive influence globally. Get yourself together. I know most of you americans wants to fight for the better and are working tirelessly towards that, don't get me wrong. Please, all of you good humans out there, continue the good fight for a thriving democracy and prosperity. Please. We all need you. We want and need you to succeed.
Thank you for reading everything if you did. Stay happy and healthy, everyone! 🌸🖤🌸🍃
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@Fly2kill1 Uhm, no. People who blindly follow anyone regardless of their standing or title is moronic. The thing is, NOBODY has said the entire democratic party is good. But just because we don't like EVERYTHING the democrats do, does that mean we should then instead turn around, then do the EXACT same thing you're accusing democratic voters of doing, but just for repukeliKKKans instead?
There's literally SO MANY repukeliKKKans who says point blanc that they vote for whoever it might be, as long as it's not a democrat. Most repukeliKKKans think that as long as their name is associated with an R, they're deserving of a vote. Talk about throwing rocks in a glass house.
I'm liberal and EXTREMELY disappointed about 15 dollar minimum wage not being included in the package. I sure do hope they'll get back to that ASAP. Still, unlike the repukeliKKKans actually found a way to deliver a new stimulus package to the public which is DESPERATLY needed. All repukeliKKKans have tried to do is to BLOCK IT. That's all repukeliKKKans are doing. WHENEVER the bill is democratic, they block it. Remember that McConnell HIMSELF called himself the grim reaper (as in he'll kill every bill the democrats come up with). That's what happens all the time. Democrats try to pass something FOR THE PEOPLE, while repukeliKKKans try to either completely block it or slim it down severly, only to then complain that "the democrats failed the people".
All you do is argue, you have no valid points. Just like the repukeliKKKan party is all talk, no actual helpful actions (unless you're ultra rich). They don't stand for anything other than being on the opposite side og the democratic party. That's all they do. Why would we want such people to have control? People who only deflect and blame everyone else for their own wrong doings, while taking credit for other people's work?
Ask yourself why T and his cult members didn't get anything done with regards to covid for over a year (except make things worse by spreading misinformation, blocking stimulus checks, politisizing masks etc.), while democrats have managed after not even two months to prop up vaccine distribution to make it so that each american adult not only gets the vaccine, but have sped it up to a point where the pandemic can get resolved WAY EARLIER than expected and managed to get to rival companies to work together so that the J&J vaccine could come faster. All that came out from the former administration was lies, deceit and propaganda. Now, after just a few weeks, the new administration has managed a lot more already than what the former administration managed over a whole year.
Remember that it was the T administration that did NOTHING but make things worse as countless numbers of people died and that it is the democratic, Biden administration that made sure to hault this pandemic as soon as physically possible.
Look at every other country on earth and their numbers. Everyone has managed this better than the States. Compotent government saves lives. Incompotent governments stands back and watch people die. Remember that it's been the repukeliKKKans who's called this virus a "hoax" and did NOTHING to help, not the other side.
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It's about time Stacey Abrahms just gets appointed Queen of Georgia or whatever (I know that's not very democratic, buuuuut..), at least for a while, just so that she can make sure that these bad faith repukeliKKKans can't rig the election and suppress democratic voters.
NB!!: I'm not American so don't come after me if I'm mistaken about anything I'm about to say.
Isn't most residents of Georgia black people and/or people of color (I'm not too fond of that term as it divides literally one group of people (white ppl) from everybody else with more (or a lot more) melanin in their skin. That just feels.. segregating. I just don't know of any better way to put it:/ I know POC is a widely used term and I hope it's not offensive, despite it actually being (at least a bit..) offensive. Or am I just being too PC and overreacting? 🤔 Irdk. Just food for thought. I'm white myself (as you can clearly see in my pic where I'm ghostly white lol, can't help it 😅😅), so I'm not one to determine what's offensive or not. BUT ANYWAY, rambling over.
Isn't the vast majority of Georgia's population POC, yet most political representatives white? Also, isn't the vast majority of Gerogia's population democrats/liberals/progressives/all in all left-leaning, yet again, their political representatives repukeliKKKans/conservatives/all in all right-leaning?
Just asking. That's the impression that I've somehow gotten, and I don't know if it's right or wrong, or to what degree it's right or wrong.
I literally just want to learn here, so there's no need to come at me. If ANYTHING that I said is offensive to someone, please tell me. I can't see how a single word, sentence or parapragh would be offensive as this is all rethorical, questions and objective. Still, please tell me if anything, literally anything made your nose wrinkle, and why. I'm curious and want to know.
My thing is, if my first analysis is right, that seems to me to be a definite clear indicator on how undemocratic it is, and have been for far too long.
I understand that there's nuances ti everything, and that just because you're black, doesn't mean that you vote democrat etc. I get that. I'm just speaking in more general terms.
If my analysis or whatever is right, that'd mean there's an even bigger reason to label repukeliKKKans corrupt (I know most of them are, and I know many democrats are as well - most democrats just don't seem AS corrupt), and an even bigger reason to fight hard against these repukeliKKKans bad faith rethoric and clear voter suppression. I don't even understand how that's legal.
In my country (Norway), if anything even remotely similar happened, there'd be a massive uproar. Not that anything like this would happen, because our elected officials literally can't try to rig elections. You get the most votes? You win. Our parliament is shared by MANY parties, not just two. We the people can vote for ANY existing party, and they get seats depending on the percentage of the votes. Unless you're on of the absolute biggest, most popular party, there's not even a guarantee you'll get a seat.
We neither have presidents, we're more similar to the UK. We have a royal family, but they're fairly insignificant, unlike in the UK. For the most part, our royal family just represents our history, and represent us to the world. They really don't have any political influence at all. People barely pay any attention to them, lol. They're kinda just there. Our actual leader is a prime minister (who is a woman! I don't like her all too much because she's part of one of the most conservative parties we have. She's/her party is not too bad tho, they're not the absolute most conservative. Also, even our most conservative politicians/parties believe in free healthcare, abortion rights, social wellfare programs etc. All of that is standard here, not to be messed with). One party "rules all", or I guess it's more fitting to say they have the final say in all matters, but they HAVE TO work with two other parties as a joint leadership. The rest of the parties/politicians that gets certain amounts of seats leads as well, but they're mostly there to vote for those they represent, which they actually do. They all know they have to do what they promise before elections, because there's no way they can rig their way into parliament.
It's not a perfect system, no system is. It's still WAAAAAAAY MORE democratic than America, and we're way more free.
I don't understand how you feel you in America even come close to a democracy. America seems to hide beneath a democratic fasade, but that's it. The rest is corrupt. I'm privileged to not be an American, I must say...
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That's offensive to children, despite me agreeing with the point lol.
The thing is, children are simply ignorant/naive. The GQP on te other hand are just willfully ignorant, but not naive. They know what they're doing. They know better, but refuse to do better. When children know better, they do better. So there's a huge difference.
The GQP is acting foolish, but they know exactly what they're doing. Children act foolish because they're children. At least children learn and grow. They own up to their mistakes, and wants to do better.
RepukeliKKKans are willfully making calculated "mistakes" in order to get their badfaith point across.
I respect children. I do NOT respect the GQP AT ALL. They deserve nothing but the worst, and I sure do hope that karma comes and kicks their behinds so hard, they'll wish they weren't ever even born. Shame on them. Shame.
I'm not even American, I've never been there, never intend to go there. But I still care. I care, because I care about everyone. I care about earth. America holds such great influence globally, whether we like it or not. Hence why I care so much. Me, myself and my fellow Norwegians (as I am Norwegian) may not be directly affected by America, BUT we sure as heck get influenced indirectly. Not only are we in NATO together, meaning that whenever you Americans decide to invade some other country to "make them democratic" (aka STEAL their assets like oil etc.), we must follow and fight together. Not "just" that, but our politics are often greatly influenced by American politics. We've for a long time been called "America's little sibling". Our politicians have a tendency to follow their lead. Say for instance when it comes to drug laws. When Reagan declared "The War on Drugs", we followed. Same thing now. Most of us believe that marihuana should be (at least) legal medically. Many, but not as many, also believe that recreational usage should be legal. Most people in the extreme very least, believe that it should be decriminalized (along with other drugs intended for personal usage). Our politicians never dare to take such big political steps first. For some reason, they insist on always wanting until several other countries have done the same, especially America, and then, and only then do our leaders begin to even just consider change. It's like they want to see other nations/states fail or succeed first, before we implement the same policies. Personally, I think that's foolish, but that's how it goes. Therefore, I am very much interested in your (Americans) politics. They really do affect many more than just your own citizens. They influence the entire globe.
It seems like Americans never think about this. They wanna be number one, the globe's greatest influence and leader, but refuse to even consider how their "lead" will actually end up influence others. You want credit for the good, but refuse to own the bad, and take accountability for the wrongdoings. How selfish and grandiose. If you wanna be leaders, act like it.
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@nehpets216 Absolutely agree! But, drugs shouldn't be illegal either - ESPECIALLY not criminalized, so all illicit drugs should be decriminalized. The fact of the matter is that by at least decriminalizing drugs, there's less harm done to both the individual drug user AND society at large. You know, by having the police, which is funded by tax payer dollars, spend time and resources chasing down, arresting and overall dealing with drug users at all is wasting time, money and resources that could be used more efficiently in other cases. Also, giving fines to drug users and seizing their drugs only harms the user, increasing the risk of them having to struggle even more than they already do with getting ahold of their drugs of need. This obiviously increases the risk of criminal behaviour even more, like theft for instance. Just one example out of several counterproductive effects policing non-violent drug users have. Overall, criminalized drug use harms everyone for several reasons, so keeping it illegal makes no sense at all.
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@msmith53 Germany absolutely learned their lesson, and quickly too. Associating the german population of today, or let alone these past decades after the war (sure, ofc not everyone came around IMMIDIATLY after, and also - MANY germans were also victims of the war, so it's far from like all germans were nazi's), would be hella wrong and ignorant.
Germany is a wonderful country with wonderdul people. I'm norwegian myself, which if you know just the basics of geopraphy, you know that we're very close, almost neighbours. We're (somewhat) divided by the ocean lol, but still, not by much. You can travel there (from Norway at least) on a cruiseship in about one day. You CAN drive there as well, but then you have to go through other countries, and that takes much longer than just taking the cruise. Anyways, I'm getting off track here lol.
My point is, Germany and nazism have NOTHING but history to do with each other, and that's fortunately the way it's been for most of the time after the war until now. It didn't take them long to put up memorials and everything. They've not tried to hide this history, they've 'embraced it', in lack of a better term. Which I wish is what America would've done with slavery for instance. Instead of hiding history and trying to white wash the story, Germany said to "never forget". They have tons upon tons of memorials, they showcase their entire history. It's not like you see memorial statues on every corner, of course not. Still, the last thing they did was to forget it.. they've surely dealt with that piece of tragic history the best way anyone could. I don't know how they could have done it better, really.
Germany surely deserves credit for this. Credit for not trying to hide or minimize any of the terrors that went on. Credit for working hard to write a new and justifiable history. I doubt there's even any german people that even remotely sympathizes with the nazi's (I know I can't think or speak for everyone. Sure, it's absolutely possible that a very small amount of people for whatever reason sympathize with the nazi movement, but no one would dare to even sound like, or cause any suspicion over whether they sympathize with the wrong side of history or not). Were there sympathizers after the war? Absolutely. Did they fade away fairly quickly? Absolutely.
I wish americans would act the same way about their own bad parts of their history. Instead, many people want to erase the bad from their history books. They're for whatever reason to scared to let people get an honest and critical education about their dark history. They only want you to focus on Colombus' "good parts", making him more hero-like instead of telling the whole story. Racism is still far too rapid and blatant (obvs, ughh) in the states. Even by seeing how native americans and black people (America's most oppressed people throughout their history) are STILL getting treated unfairly is just awful.
If you compare Germany and America today, it's clear as day how much better attitudes they have in Germany, and how much faster they were able to progress. I can't remember when Colombus invaded/colonized America or when slavery was abolished, but I know for sure it's hundreds of years. Now, it says a lot when attitudes from the slavery era is still going around in America, despite how long ago it was (especially compared to how "little" time it was since WW2). America's CLEARLY done so much so terribly wrong when it comes to this. Germany at least managed to "quickly" change their attitudes. You have no excuse for these terrible attitudes STILL being prevalent to this very day. Germany managed to do a complete turn around in just a few years (remember, WW2 ended in 1945 which isn't really that long ago), while America, after hundreds of years, STILL want to remove the ugliest parts of their history. Now that's disgusting.
Look, I obvs know there's so much more to American history than just Colombus and slavery, I just picked the two most noteable parts that everyone knows about.
America' it's so far past due time to learn. You can't hide your past. Embrace it, so that you can come out even stronger, like Germany so clearly did. Heck, if anything, it would be far more correct to tie nazism to America than Germany. There's faaaaar more nazi-sympathizers over there than in Germany, or even Europe as a whole. That's scary. Saying neo-nazi would be more correct tho, I get that. I'm very aware of how America was an important ally for us to win the war, but still. That good fact doesn't change the disgusting fact that there are so many proud nationalists, neo-nazi's, white supremacists etc freely and proudly roaming around, shouting their beliefs out loud, with no shame. This has got to stop. Nazism of any kind should've officially ended in every way decades ago. It should have been properly over and done with in 1945. It's time to learn from, value and embrace history, to make the world better for literally everyone. It's clear as day that not hiding your bad past, but learning and growing from it is the much better option. Stop the white washing!!!
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Fr, it's so scary to watch. I'm not even american, and the way things are going, it's not looking good. Heck, it's actually scary stuff. This is the last thing ANYONE wants.
Still.. finally for once, maybe America FINALLY will able to think domestically for once, instead of acting like the world's police, as if you have some sort of moral high ground, giving you the "duty" to "implememt democracy" upon other countries (while all you're actually doing is enriching yourselves on other's pain and resources). It's time to look inwards, maybe you'll finally be able to actually learn something.
The America we once thought we knew is dead. For all I know it may have always been merely an illusion, but now you're not even left with a fancy fasade to hide behind, anymore.. if you continue like this, America, it will only get uglier and uglier.. just like the awful, non-sugar coated truth you're all living with.
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Since I'm nosy and curios.. can anyone just summarize what Crème Lynn/Kremlin said here since all the comments have been deleted? Is it the same poop that Mary (Lynn?.. or whatever the account name was, someone mentioned it here but I can't remember the exact name...) I read the thread where Mary 'something' spewed all the typical anti-liberal nonsense, was it the same thing?
Btw, I don't engage with these people usually, especially when I know it's just another Russian bot or whatever because.. that's EXACTLY what they want, so doing anything else but not reply at all + report the comments is foolish, and since I'm no fool, I don't engage (with fools).
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That doesn't mean I'm not curious tho, and while it's good that the comments gets reported and deleted is good, not being able to read the stupidity for myself kinda annoys the hell outta my (petty,) curious self! 🤓🤡😅😅
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@UCJjyiyIk4nWczsGw6xtWWEQ Lol okay sooooo you're saying FAUX hosts don't have the same inherent emotions everyone on the planet have? 🤔 Hmmmm, mkay then. Makes sense.
Secondly, no. He said that he have a right to know that he won't be exposed to a dangerous virus while on an airplane; essentially that he have a right, like anyone else to be safe. Whether by means of proof of vaccination or a valid, negative test before entering - as long as the public don't have to worry about their own health and safety. It's literally the same principle as eveey other safeguard we have everywhere, like ensuring that nobody brings weapons or drugs etc. Same thing. You have every right to harm or put yourself in danger, just not anyone else. Your right to do "whatever" stops the second that "right" potentially or definitely infringes on anyone else's equal rights. It never seizes to amaze me how hard that is for so many people to understand.
Also as a sidenote: just concluding that what you're saying is right by slapping on "for obivious reasons" at the end is stupid. Especially since this is suuuuuuch a difficult issue for you, an issue you just can't stop arguing about, then obiviously, there's no such thing as "for obivious reasons" here. Obiviously.
Then when it comes to the age-thing.. my goodness. Okay, let's just say you're right and this is "old people stuff". Are we not supposed to care about their health and lives? Their rights? 'Cause that's very much what you're saying there in that statement. You're wrong anyway.. sure, in the beginning it affected mostly older people, but far from just old people. Throughout it all, it's affected those with the weakest lungs and immune system, those with other issues and diseases like obesity/morbid obesity, asthma, cancer etc. Although younger people are generally more healthy and older people generally are in worse health, it's far from a reasonable generality to go by, as there are so many not just young people (say 20-40/50), but children, including toddlers with all kinds of health issues. Many of these people simply don't have adequate health to even get vaccinated, especially those who are immunocompromised. That's one of the main factors herd immunity is crucial. Most of us are healthy enough/have "normal" functioning immune systems to handle both illnesses and especially vaccinations. Those among us, who consist of literally ALL AGES, don't have any choice but to rely on the rest of us acting appropriatly, by protecting ourselves, which then automatically protects those voulnerable among us.
We also have to take into account that as the virus have been allowed to get stronger and more resistent, even healthy people face bigger and bigger risks ourselves. There's been a steady increase of young and healthy people becoming very sick, many requiring hospitalization, some even dying. Getting vaccinated and following other basic guidelines like staying clean, coughing and sneezing into a tissue or whatever instead of just out in the open, keeping apporpriate distance etc DOES WORK. We're not just doing this to protect ourselves, but everyone else as well. If only America handled this appropriatly from the beginning, you wouldn't have 700 000 (or so) DEATHS in America alone, and covid wouldn't be able to form stronger variants, like the one domimating now, the Delta variant. If you look at stats from America where the rules have been generally quite relaxed, to other nations that took it VERY SERIOUSLY from start, where the attitude was more 'one for all, and all for one', the percentage of both death, hospitalization and infections, it's clear as day that social distancing methods work, and the super strong efficasy of the vaccines. Those nations that took it seriously from top to bottom have almost no cases anymore, and extremely low numbers of infections, and nearly no deaths and very low hospitalization numbers. It's extremely clear that the health guidelines put in place worked extremely well, and as soon as vaccinations became more and more available, it's almost entirely gone.. at least very close to it. This is pure science and logic.
People like you who only care about yourself, who complained about not being able to get haircuts and such, who refused to wear masks and refuse to take the vaccine are part of the reason why this have been dragged out further. You've only worked against your own interests and wishes by refusing to take it seriously. If you took it seriously from the beginning, you could've gotten back to normal much quicker.. but oh no. Your actions helped covid flourish instead of the economy, your access to a normal life without restrictions etc. With every action comes a reaction, and your actions helped cause the exact reactions you've been protesting against. Congratulations.
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@meoff7602 Absolutely. When people have no other options, they sure as hell will turn to crime. Theft, fraud etc. When people have the oppurtunity to do better, they will. By keeping the poor down, all you're doing is making the rich richer, and the poor even poorer. Investing in the poor and lower middle class equals investing in the good and betterment of and for everyone, from the poor single mother on the corner, to the tiny small business-café, to those on the top. Investing in the poor is an investment in the future for everyone. Having the wage gap only continuing to grow will cause nothing but chaos. More and more people will end up in prison, which serves the rich and corrupt prison owners, allowing the revolving door to continue. This only pushes the poor further down, it causes more and more poor people, while only the ultra rich benefits unfairly af.
America is completely effed up. RepukeliKKKans are doing it on purpose.
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We need to stop calling them pro-life, they're clearly not. They show us this over and over again. If they were pro-life, they'd ensure childcare, PAID maternity and paternity leave, elder care, universal healthcare regardless, covid restrictions like better, appropriate lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, anti-war etc. They just want to control women's bodies, personal and sexual life.
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Ughh, would people ever even consider to STOP being corporate shills? Jfc, this guy talking up Buttigieg as if he's somehow this amazingly breath of fresh air, star on the rise, fighter for the working class people with these (nowhere to be seen ffs) great and massive achievements that apparantly eeeeeveery single democrat loves, supports and cheers for? Like, I neither have any love or hate for the guy, however he's simply underachieved, massively underexperienced, and of course yet another corporate shill. It's literally only the DNC giving him this great coverage touting bs about the democratic voters rooting for him, despite NOBODY, NO ACTUAL VOTERS really supporting him, putting words in the democrats' mouths, putting it out in the ether, trying to manifest it into our minds that somehow HE'S THE GUY we're all loving and wanting to represent us as either VP or even actual President. It's just the DNC pouring money in his direction, not based on anything but identity politics, pretty much like they did with Kamala Harris. SURE, I would absolutely LOVE to see people of color, people identifying as being part of LGBTQ+ people, women etc. ABSOLUTELY. However, I would MUCH RATHER have say for instance Bernie Sanders - sure, another cis, white, old male, instead of for instance.. well, Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg. A corporate dem is still a CORPORATE DEM, and we'd be far better off with another traditional looking politician that's not corrupted by their owner donors than someone who happens to be gay, black, female, asian, trans, whatever.. as long as you're beholden to your OWNER donors, your skin color or sexuality doesn't really matter. It's just such a cheap shot for the DNC, they really think we're all completely and utterly stupid to the bone. Come on people, don't let them fool you with all the made up, fluff piece-articles shilling for their corporate goons and their "news" using/abusing identity politics to make us think that they're actually listening and caring about what the voters actually want, just by touting yet more of the same old bought up corrupt politicians foiled in new, "woke" wrapper by also corrupting social issues that truly does matter. It's really just a slap to our faces, thinking we won't notice.. sadly, many don't actually notice just how much we're being played.
No, we need TRUE LEADERS, like Bernie Sanders of course, Nina Turner, the Squad, Jamal Bowman, Katie Porter, Cori Bush and so on. People who actually fight for their voters, not corporations. Anyone accepting coporate pack money from all these lobbying puppet masters are a waste of our time, and those are the exact people we need to get OUT of politics. Don't be naive to their tactics, look at people's voting records, their donors aka OWNERS, their record of following through with their campaign promises and so forth, and make sure you're not letting CORPORATE media fool you. PLEASE. Money in politics is literally THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, and continuing to elect the same old trash in new wrapping won't at all help. Follow the money.
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@missy6539 Remember that your situation is not everyone else's. Poor people cannot afford to "pack up and move" either. Why would anyone be against allowing poor - low middle class-people contributing to the economy? They work hard af, paying taxes, yet reep no benefits. If these people struggling to even keep an apartment, how can they contribute to the economy? They can't. People also need to eat, have clothes on their backs, beds to sleep on etc. When all your money goes to rent, you will need assistance through governmental programs like medicaid and such. If people actually had enough money to afford to buy their own, everyone benefits. The only winning people right now are the rich people (and upper middle class - not as much as the rich, but still). If we want everyone to have a fair chance, increasing wages is the answer. Then and only then will even the poor be able to move up the latter, decrease their needs of governmentally funded programs etc. Forcing people to stay down, despite working 2-3 jobs, benefits nobody but the ultra rich. They don't need more benefits and tax breaks. Average people are the ones who need a break. If they get a fair break, everyone will have better oppurtunities to move up the latter. The more money people have, the more the economy flourishes. It's simple math. You'd understand that if the schooling system actually worked.
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Well.. while I do agree that people in prison or jail should have access to food that doesn't make them literally physically ill, whether that means accommodating for celiacs desease, allergies, as well as religious convictions (kosher, halal etc.) ALL ACROSS THE BOARD for every single inmate, M. Traitor. G is the LAST PERSON with the integrity to speak up for that. I'm not saying prison food has to be some kind of four star meal or whatever, however they should be able to eat in a healthy manner. Just because you're in prison doesn't mean you don't deserve at least somewhat of a quality standard food.
Again however, these complaints coming from this abhorrently disgusting literal traitor is rich af. If she legitimately had a consistent stance on humane prison reform for literally everybody, FINE. But she doesn't. She doesn't care about anyone else in prison, ESPECIALLY poc, or democrats overall. It's about reform for all, not "rights for me, not for thee". Stay consistent, at least.. I know that's just too much to ask for when it comed to the GQP, but still. You can't on one hand cry about how your beloved insurrectionist friends/rather political pawns are being "wrongly treated" while you're not only completely fine with the abuse of inmates that you don't politically agree with. You can't have it both ways, where you want harsher punishment and abuse for the people on the other side, but little to no punishment at all for the people who support you and you're cause. I know repukelikkkunts thinks that's how it works, but it doesn't. What a complete disaster.
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I srsly don't understand US's ID-stuff.. here in Norway we all have bank cards w/name, date of birth etc. and a profile picture, those who drive obvs have drivers licenses, and most of us have a passport - bank cards and driver licenses are the most common, tho, esp bank cards which we ALL have, which are incredibly easy and quick to get. Our bank mails them to us for free as soon as we create our bank account, which we usually do as children from the age of 14, I believe. They expire after x amount of years, and by that time the bank automatically, again for free sends us new ones. If we happen to lose them, the bank will send us new ones within a week. That usually goes quick, because ofc when we lose our bank cards, we have to notify the bank - EASILY done by simply calling the bank to get them to block that card so nobody else will be able to use them, and they routinely ask during that same call if we want a new card, which ofc we do. That's practically "free" it's between 100-150 nok (norwegian currency)/about 11USD-17USD. Not that we even have to have that amount on our account for them to send us the new card. So, that's obvs easy for literally everyone. All these are equally valid to prove our ID at the polling places. So for us, proof of ID is a non-issue. We also have early voting with WAAAY MORE THAN ENOUGH polling places, rarely any lines at all anywhere, and we do have voting options for those who for whatever reason like disabilities, illness etc. can't go to a poll - then we have polling workers coming home to you. Voting is incredibly easy and accessable for everyone, no matter where you live here or your abilities to go outside.
Surely, as long as it's this easy and accessable for everyone above the age of 18 (which literally is the only requirement to vote - that and being a citizen, ofc), requiring proof of ID is of no issue. The problem obvs comes when it's NOT that easy, affordable/free and accessable for everyone. That's the issue. It's just crazy to me that the US makes something SO BASIC as an ID such a hastle. It makes NO SENSE.
Sure, go right ahead and require proof of ID - just MAKE SURE you then in the same breath ENSURES that EVERYONE gets whatever ID necessary to vote FOR FREE. If you're gonna pass those kinds of laws requiring this or that, then make absolutely sure that NO ELLIGEBLE VOTER is AT ALL prevented their RIGHT to vote. That's really the heart of the issue. I HATE these repukelikkkunts who in such bad faith tries these sneaky tricks. They KNOW what they're doing and the effects these voting laws have - which ofc is EXACTLY the reason they do it in the first place. It's not to "secure election integrity" it's the exact opposite. It's PREVENTING "unwanted" voters their constitutional right to vote, and it baffles me how it's seemingly so hard to strike down these laws, as they directly interfere with americans constitutional right to vote.
The US truly makes everything good as complicated and unattainable as possible. Anyone still considering America as "the best country on earth" or even close to it is highly delusional, no joke.
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VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!!!
ANY DEMOCRAT IS ALWAYS WAY BETTER THAN ANY REPUKELIKKKUNT. KEEP CALI BLUE!! VOTE NO ON THE RECALL, THEN BLANK ON THE NEXT QUESTION.
SRSLY - whatever has to be done to keep the repukelikkkunts AWAY from positions of power. Even THE WORST democrat will ALWAYS be SO MUCH BETTER than even "the best" repukelikkkunt (not that there even exist ANY "good" repukelikkkunt, but ya know what I mean..).
There's an election in a year anyway, go through the democratic process THEN instead. The recall election rules are SO EXTREMELY UNDEMOCRATIC. Newsom could get 49.99% of the votes, and LOSE, even if the person who got the most votes after Newsom got like 10% of the overall votes. THAT'S CRAZY AND NOT DEMOCRATIC!!! I don't even understand how that's legal.. so for the sake of DEMOCRACY and HUMAN RIGHTS, including VOTING RIGHTS, REPRODUCTION RIGHTS/WOMEN'S RIGHTS, FOR LIFE - AS IN THE ABILITY TO EVEN PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COVID (JUST LOOK AT FLORIDA AND TEXAS - YOU WANT THEIR NUMBERS OF CASES AND DEATHS IN CALI AS WELL? YOU DON'T! YOU WANT ALL THE HOSPITAL BEDS TO BE FULL LIKE IN RED GOVERNED STATES?? NO YOU ABSOLUTELY DON'T!!!), VOTE NO ON THE RECALL, AND DON'T GIVE ANY REPUKELIKKKUNT YOUR VOTE. JUST VOTE NO TO THE RECALL AND LEAVE THE REST BLANK!!! FOR DEMOCRACY!
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Look. I hate Gov. Newsom. He's one of the worst corporate goons. I'd LOVE for a new, progressive democratic governor, and the fight for that is absolutely crucial. But.. the repukelikkkunts will always be, and have always been the worst corporate goons.
NO repukelikkkunt will ever be a better choice than even the worst democrat.
Look at what the repukelikkkunts are doing all over.. they're ravishing women's (reproductive) rights, ravishing voting rights, leading the way in covid deaths and hospitalizations, completely deny climate change and do everything and more in their power to continue the corrupt collusion with oil companies, tax the poor while cutting taxes for the wealthy, elites and corporations and so much more evilness.
Like Newsom said, NOW is about fighting to KEEP democracy. VOTE NO ON THE RECALL, DEBATE LATER.
Keep Newsom for now, THEN fight for a NEW, PROGRESSIVE governor.
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