We don't have fluoride in our tap water.
Are liberals the only people who drink tap water?
By the way, many areas in your country are suffering from tap water that is polluted with Lead, Manganese, Arsenic, Mercury, Nitrate, PFAS and Pesticide residues, which also can/will affect the brains of children.

The Trump EPA has proposed or made changes that reduce environmental monitoring
and transparency, related to toxins in tap water.

That mom and pop stores and smaller chain stores are mostly demolished by the big corporations and private equity is the same cause for why food has been so expensive. Actually, most of the reason are the monopolies, a small number of mega-corporations, controlling large parts of the food chain.
Mamdani's plan focuses heavily on bypassing monopolies for a specific "core basket" of fresh, perishable staples, by sourcing fruits and vegetables directly
from regional farms in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
There are no choices without consequences.

There are about 6 different topics that he supposedly lied about. In none of these cases did he clearly lie.

March 2020 masks: Incomplete / strategically framed
PPE shortage rationale: Not fully candid initially
Wuhan/gain-of-function: Interpreted consistently with the narrow definition
6-foot rule: Weakly evidenced / arbitrary, but easy to remember
Lab-leak origins: Said that there was no reason to suspect intent
“I am the science”: Rhetorical overreach

It's a stupid inefficient practice, but it seems that hundreds or even thousands of forms for standard appropriations, staff assignments and other low level documents are asking for a director's signature, while that is practically nonsense. It seems that your government agencies have used auto pens a lot. That's mostly your government's inability to solve issues. A mechanical pen device that's rare in my country.
Some government agencies use pre-printed signatures or stamps or digital signatures. Not everything has to be signed by a director, but sometimes they use
the signature of the person who is leading the department, without actually requiring authorization. It's a common long-established practice in the US, because you have
a more hierarchical society. Individual officeholders care about their signature,
as the visible symbol of authority.

Your own president praised him, but now your cult says "Attack him!"
so you do, without having the slightest idea why.
Did you always want to be a DOG?

A contempt vote for using your 5th amendment right?
Maybe he should have just talked about the DOW.
Or got his black book of burns out.

Your president was talking about parasite medicine
and purging people with bleach for fucks sake.
Your media was fearmongering after they were ALL VAXXED.
All your politicians got vaxxed before everyone else.
That's the hypocrisy and dumbassery that Fauchi had to deal with.

And what is Trump doing now? Eliminating all the emergency capacity for the next pandemic, while infections are rushing over your country like never before, because the people who's job it is to prevent that have been cut to breaking point. If Trump was actually a Russian operative planted to destroy your country, he couldn't be doing a better job.

Have you seen the stack of files for just the concept of a plan for Trump's ACA replacement? It got NOWHERE, because his people are not up to the challenge.
All they did was break parts of it.
That's just one small detail of what it takes to run a country.
Just the sheer complexity of working in a bigger company would astound you.
Since you don't have any experience on that, you don't know enough to know
how much you don't know.

It's the list of evil shit done by conservatives, right-wingers and fascists.
Islamic terrorists are conservatives too. You confirm that when you find it difficult
to condemn them for a terrorist attack on gays and queers celebrating their freedom.

The devastation is obscured by the ash clouds, from your mountain?

Do you know how ignorant and arrogant you are for thinking that even a cent of your tax-dollars goes to my 'welfare'. I pay for that 'welfare', for my fellow Dutch people, and I have used almost none of that during my life.

It's also very weird how angry you get about the idea of citizens looking out for each other. How much more should go to the billionaires or trillionaires, before YOUR life is supposed to get a bit better?

I call Trump a fascist, because he is using the EXACT SAME authoritarian playbook that all fascist in history used to gain power and maximize it to absolute rule.
You have been told about tyranny all your life, but you look the other way when
it's staring its dead eyes in yours.

Phart, please, you are trusting the AI system of the "Sieg heiling" billionaire
Trump enabler, who one day tweaked his AI to make it call itself "MechaHitler"
and generated outputs that were wildly antisemitic, racist, and pro-Nazi.
Don't you think that you are being a bit ridiculous?

I already provided the characteristics that are considered to define fascism, and showed you how it fitted Trump for the most part. In the meantime he did lots of more things to make those characteristics fit even more.
At that time, he hadn't started a war yet. Now he attacked Iran under false pretenses, without getting permission from Congress, lying to the public, and committing serious war-crimes. He bombed a girl-school and then bombed the same area again in a second wave, killing first responders. Others include strikes
on homes or civilian neighborhoods, attacks on medical facilities or sites treating casualties, attacks on civilian infrastructure (bridges, roads, utilities), attacks on nuclear facilities (I understand that these are the primary targets, but because of
the nuclear risk to civilians it is considered a war-crime).

Trump attacked Venezuela and kidnapped their president Nicolбs Maduro, who is still in custody with a trial date for June 1, 2027. Venezuelan government is now controlled by the US, the US has taken control of oil-related revenues, valued around $13 billion for an almost bankrupt state, and there are part of the money is suspected to be transferred to private offshore bank accounts.

The sanctions on Cuba are causing a complete collapse. Fuel shortages have caused repeated nationwide blackouts. Citizens are facing shortages of food, medicine, and basic goods. The situation is getting desperate.

Add this to the record that was already checking off most characteristics of fascism, and only your side still denies it.

I will agree that making this a success is the most difficult thing that he is attempting.
However, the building is the easiest part. A city can lend money at low rates (2.5%), buy a building and use it at no profit. Grocery Stores often have to pay rent at cap rates between 5.5% and 6.7%, to some private equity firm.

Rich people are allowed to buy in these stores too. No card, ID or anything required.

The previous administration left Mamdani with a $12 billion budget deficit.
As of July 2026, the administration announced that the current budget deficit
has officially been brought down to zero ($0) and the budget is fully balanced.

If the job isn't too complicated.
Running a garage? Sure! Running a country? NOOOOOOOO!!!

Does anyone remember The Crusades, The Inquisitions, Native American genocide, Slavery, The American Civil War, The Gilded Age, The Holocaust, Jim Crow and Segregation, Ku Klux Klan lynchings, McCarthyism, the Korean and Vietnam Wars,
The First Gulf War, The War in Afghanistan, The Second Gulf War and The Iran War?

The ramblings of a complete lunatic. You have no self-respect.

"taxing the rich to feed the cheap scates" is how serfs became citizens.
You're indoctrinated by the wealthy with deeply un-American ideas.
You probably have The Constitution printed on your boxers,
but you have no idea what these words mean.

The Declaration of Independence is pretty clear about it:
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

If you want to interpret it to fit your view, maybe you should read what the founding fathers intended with it.

James Madison (1751–1836) was one of the principal architects of the United States Constitution and later became the fourth President of the United States. In 1787–1788, while the American states were debating whether to adopt the new Constitution, Madison wrote a series of essays known as The Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius.” In Federalist No. 51, published in 1788, he explained the principles he believed were necessary to preserve a free republic. The essay remains important because it describes a central vision of the American system: freedom requires that power must never become concentrated and unchecked.

Madison began from a realistic view of human nature. He argued that people who hold power will naturally have interests of their own, and therefore a free society cannot depend on the virtue of those in authority. His famous statement, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” expresses the idea that every form of power needs limits. The purpose of constitutional design was therefore not simply to create government, but to create a system in which power would restrain itself.

Madison also recognized that society would always contain different interests, groups, and classes of citizens. People would differ in wealth, beliefs, occupations, and goals, creating competing forces within society. He did not believe these differences could or should be eliminated. Instead, he argued that a healthy republic must prevent any one group from becoming powerful enough to dominate others. As he wrote, “It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”

The broader principle behind Madison’s vision is that liberty is threatened whenever power becomes concentrated without effective checks. The founders were concerned not only with preventing government tyranny, but with ensuring that no faction, class, or institution could gain enough influence to override the rights and independence of ordinary citizens. This principle remains central to debates about how a republic should balance freedom, power, and the protection of its people.

Being an asshole to white people too, doesn't make a KKK member NOT racist.
Sometimes they do their job, most times they are being racist fucks.
Probably they are not even ALL racist fucks. It's a job that pays well,
so there are likely people doing it who are decent people.

A Canadian, who STILL wants to be in the US, and then attacks another girl for wearing a 'USA 250 anniversary' shirt? I don't buy that for a second.

What Trump did to your USA 250 anniversary is definitely not patriotic.
Here are some ways that made it a big DISGRACE:

1. A milestone that should have united Americans instead became another battlefield in the country’s political war, deepening division rather than celebrating a shared identity.
2. Trump used the anniversary as a platform to promote his own political identity, turning a national commemoration into an extension of his personal brand and presidency.
3. Trump’s anniversary operation redirected money, sponsorship opportunities, and access toward his allies and political network, turning a national celebration into a vehicle for political influence and personal benefit.
4. The celebration’s funding structure drew criticism over the use of public resources, private donations, and sponsorships, with concerns that a national commemoration was being used to benefit politically connected interests.
5. The Trump-backed “Freedom 250” effort displaced the bipartisan America250 process and transformed a national commemoration into a Trump-aligned political production.
6. By tying a national anniversary celebration so closely to his own political identity, Trump alienated artists and participants who did not want their work used to legitimize a partisan event.
7. A celebration intended to showcase American achievement was marred by rushed planning, organizational failures, and an execution that fell far below the standard expected for a 250th anniversary event.
8. Attendees faced basic comfort and planning failures, including inadequate shade, seating, food access, and protection from extreme heat.
9. Operational breakdowns — including technical failures, power problems, and food-storage issues — turned a major national event into a public embarrassment.
10. Extreme weather exposed inadequate safety planning, with failures in preparing for dangerous heat, shelter needs, and crowd management.
11. The anniversary’s imagery, projects, and presentation placed Trump’s persona and legacy at the center of a national commemoration, overshadowing the broader history and achievements of the United States.
12. Instead of leaving Americans with pride in a historic milestone, the celebration became associated by many with division, self-promotion, waste, chaos, and a missed opportunity for genuine national reflection.

As a Dutchman who believes deeply in democracy, impartial justice, and accountable government, this disgrace was a painful reminder that even an occasion of such historic importance was not spared from being turned into a vehicle for division and personal ambition. A 250th anniversary should have been a moment to reflect on the long struggle to build and preserve a democratic society: the belief that no person is above the law,
that justice should not depend on power or privilege, and that government must ultimately answer to its citizens. Seeing such a historic occasion become associated with division, personal glorification, and dysfunction was deeply painful.

Wow, Mark Cuban asked Grok! That settles it then.
Would be the first thing that Mamdani will fail on,
because he is checking off every single one of his promises.

He was completely open about everything, and now he is DOING IT ALL!
That's DEMOCRACY, so I see why you lot don't like it.

You don't know your own laws, dimwit.

Will you say the same about Kyle Rittenhouse? He was HOLDING his gun.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects peaceful speech, assembly, and criticism of the government, including police and federal agents.

Alex Pretti was only talking to them. It was the ICE agents who turned violent.

• Being armed is not, by itself, grounds for being shot.
In many U.S. states, carrying a firearm is legal under state law (subject to restrictions). The use of deadly force by law enforcement is judged by whether the person posed an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, not simply by whether they possessed a firearm.

• Obstructing law enforcement does not authorize summary execution.
Even if someone commits crimes such as trespassing, resisting, or obstructing officers, the legal remedy is arrest and prosecution. Deadly force is not a lawful punishment for those offenses.

• "Brandishing" has a specific legal meaning.
Simply having a firearm visible is different from threatening someone with it. Whether a person "brandished" a weapon is a factual question that depends on the evidence, including video, witness testimony, and forensic evidence.

• The governing legal standard is objective reasonableness.
Under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Graham v. Connor, an officer's use of force is judged based on whether it was objectively reasonable under the circumstances, considering what the officer reasonably perceived at the time.

• Deadly force has additional constitutional limits.
In Tennessee v. Garner, the Supreme Court held that deadly force generally cannot be used against a fleeing suspect unless the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury.

Better protect your rights, or the next one who gets shot by police is you.

They are not, they are criminals. Nuremberg trials for every single one of them.

You don't even know what these terms mean.
Hitler was a fascist, like Trump. Trump has actually cited "Mein Kampf".
And his biggest campaign funder was "Sieg heiling" on stage.

The regimes that called themselves 'communist' were nothing but.
They were authoritarian state-capitalist systems.

Your regime is starving people, and Mamdani is feeding the people.
No Americans would EVER vote for a socialist, if your side would ever do
ANYTHING good for them. You fucked up! That's why you're losing to socialists.

Do you even know that military personnel get to shop in government provided supermarkets? They get their food a lot cheaper.

They only require some $70 million in city funding for startup costs. Afterwards, the costs to the public will be much lower. The plan is not simply "sell groceries 30% cheaper and absorb the loss." The plan is to reduce operating costs in several ways so that the required subsidy is smaller than it otherwise would be. The methods include:
• No profit requirement. A city-owned store would not need to generate returns for private owners or shareholders.
• Reduced real estate costs. The city could use publicly owned buildings or subsidize rent, which is one of the largest expenses for grocery stores in New York.
• Bulk purchasing. Buying large quantities directly from suppliers could reduce wholesale costs, although the extent depends on the scale of the store network.
• Simpler operations. Focusing on staple foods and carrying fewer products can lower inventory, labor, and spoilage costs.
• Public financing. The city can borrow at relatively low interest rates for capital investments.

If that doesn't operate at cost, they will indeed get that money from the rich,
to feed the people who need it.

If you rob from the government, what do they do to you, thank you?
Only wealthy people like Trump and Elon are allowed to steal from the government.

Can you tell this story to the ICE officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti?

Funny! Meanwhile, it makes his 'ratings' go up.
People seam to like it when their need to eat doesn't enrich corporations.
But, maybe that's just what they they think in New York.
In a state like Texas, those crazy socialists don't stand a chance, right?

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Yet another one of those 'dangerous Muslims' running for office.
I'm surprised that I don't hear any fearmongering about him.

"You deserve to go to a good school, get healthcare, and a good job."
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Yep, a crazy radical, for saying what most Americans believe.

Or do you think that I should add some weasel words to make you support it:
"Everyone deserves the opportunity to go to a good school, access to healthcare,
and have the opportunity to get a good job." like all your fake ass bitch politicians do.
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Now he won the Michigan Democratic primary with 49% of the votes,
against Haley Stevens, who was pushed by more than $60 million in total outsider spending, like AIPAC, Super PACs and other big moneyed groups.

The 'targeted intervention' was already in place. Obama and the EU negotiated the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), which placed strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program and required extensive international inspections. The agreement reduced Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, limited enrichment levels and centrifuges, and gave the IAEA broad access to verify compliance. It was built on intelligence assessments that Iran had not made a decision to build a nuclear weapon, and it created a verification system to ensure its nuclear activities remained peaceful. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also issued a religious ruling stating that nuclear weapons were forbidden under Islam.

Of course Israel claimed the opposite, but that is an obvious lie, because
they claimed for DECADES that Iran was MONTHS from having a nuke.

Only AFTER the Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, Iran gradually breached the deal’s limits, increasing uranium enrichment and expanding its nuclear capabilities.

Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA undermined US credibility and made future diplomacy harder. After proving that a signed agreement could be reversed, the US lost leverage; what is being offered now is FAR WEAKER than the strict limits and inspections the original deal achieved.

How it would work, is to NOT elect an untrustworthy FUCK-UP for president.

And that same FUCK-UP is now seeking to help Saudi Arabia develop
a civilian nuclear program, including uranium enrichment on Saudi soil, without requiring anything close to the inspection and restriction regime
that Iran accepted under the JCPOA. Do you remember that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and none were Iranians?

They process everything through very simple patterns:

Complex crisis → uncertainty and fear → simple explanation → identifiable enemy → simple solution

If you understand multiple interacting factors, you see:

Virus biology + human behavior + public health capacity + healthcare systems + communication + economics + political decisions + social trust → pandemic outcomes

I have yet to see anything that leads me to believe that Fauci was doing anything nefarious, other then trying to manage stupid people, by not being fully candid
about everything, all the time.

As a result, they accuse him of killing millions of people, while simultaneously
calling Covid "just a cold". However, the recent charades are just a distraction.
They scored very well with fearmongering, so this is their attempt to regain support.

You fail to understand the poverty in your own country and how big the risk of ending up poor, without any fault of your own. Millions of Americans live one missed paycheck, illness, or car repair away from losing their home. Others are already choosing between rent, medicine, and food. And many people end up there not because they were lazy or irresponsible, but because of things like medical problems, losing a job, disability, or simply being born into poverty.

People voted for Trump, because he promised change. He ended up changing a lot, but nothing in favor of their ability to get out of poverty. His cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and reduction of ACA subsidies. Most Americans cannot pay a $500 emergency expense. What do you think will happen to a family, if a kid needs an operation? A simple procedure costs thousands of dollars. My girlfriend gets treatment worth at least $1000/month now. This is paid by our health insurance, but in your country most people would be fucked. We make close to 3 times the median income, and we would struggle to pay for it.

Why evaluating teachers by test scores is unfair:
• Outside factors dominate: A student's home life, trauma, and parents' socioeconomic status impact scores way more than any teacher can.
• Unequal starting points: One teacher might get a class of advanced learners, while another gets students who are years behind.
• Teaching to the test: It forces teachers to drill exam questions instead of teaching critical thinking, creativity, or life skills.
• High margin of error: Statistically, class test scores fluctuate heavily year-over-year due to random factors, making them unreliable for hiring or firing.

What a fair evaluation method looks like instead:
• The Holistic (360-Degree) Approach: Combining multiple sources so no single bad day or difficult class ruins a teacher's career.
• Structured classroom observations: Principals or peers evaluating actual teaching skills, classroom management, and student engagement.
• Student feedback surveys: Anonymous questionnaires asking students if the teacher explains well, offers help, and creates a safe environment.
• Measuring growth, not just final scores: Looking at individual student progress from September to June, rather than just the final test grade.

Your whole thinking about education, as filling kids' heads with facts and teaching them basic math, writing, and physics is obsolete because AI has turned knowledge into a free, instant commodity. And then you want to focus
the evaluation of teachers on how much they succeed in teaching kids
the exact things that can be easily replaced by AI.

Why the old school curriculum is not future-proof:
• AI excels at memorization: The old curriculum focuses on memorizing facts and formulas, which is exactly what AI does instantly and perfectly.
• Automation of basic skills: Tasks like basic coding, standard essay writing, and routine calculations are already automated before these kids even graduate.
• The "Skill Gap" danger: Schools are training kids to become "second-rate robots" instead of first-rate humans, leaving them unprepared for an AI-driven economy.

What schools should teach instead to survive the AI era:
• The 4 Cs (Human Skills): Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication skills AI cannot genuinely replicate.
• AI Literacy & Prompting: Teaching kids how to co-pilot with AI, verify its biases, and use it as a tool rather than a replacement for thinking.
• Metacognition (Learning to Learn): Because technology changes so fast, the most important skill is adaptability and knowing how to learn new things quickly.

That MAGA joke was not just a joke. MAGA teaches people to be lazy thinkers. You are all trained to think only concretely and suppress your ability to think abstractly. All your media is enforcing concrete, emotionally vivid, identity-based thinking, over complex, abstract analysis.
The development of thinking in children is one of the central topics in developmental psychology, and it does involve a gradual movement from concrete, experience-based thinking toward the ability to use abstract concepts, hypothetical reasoning, and complex analysis. However, it is not a simple switch: adults continue to use concrete thinking in many situations, and children can show surprisingly sophisticated reasoning when the context is familiar.
The problem with MAGA is that it suppresses ADULT thinking.

Your idea about teachers is an example of a simplifying causal model:
Students perform poorly → teachers are responsible →
punish teachers → performance improves

I can do the same for ALL of your ideas:
People not working → laziness → reduce benefits
Crime → criminals → harsher punishment
Economic problems → government interference → reduce government
Homelessness → personal failure → remove assistance
Drug addiction → bad choices → harsher penalties
Poverty → lack of effort → fewer social programs
Inflation → government spending → cut government spending
High housing costs → too many regulations → remove regulations
Illegal immigration → weak borders → build stronger borders
Cultural conflict → bad values → restore traditional values
Political disagreement → enemies within → defeat or silence opponents
Loss of manufacturing jobs → foreign competition → restrict trade
Economic inequality → individual choices → no need for structural solutions
Poor health outcomes → personal responsibility failures → reduce healthcare
School disagreements → ideological indoctrination → remove certain curricula
Climate problems → environmental regulations → eliminate regulations
Social change → decline of tradition → return to the past
Government failures → government itself → privatize services
Media disagreement → bias → distrust all mainstream sources
Public disorder → weak policing → increase police powers
International problems → weak leadership → stronger leaders
Political problems → corrupt elites → replace the establishment
Declining community ties → loss of morality → restore old social norms
Security fears → enemy threat → preemptive strike → war
Disagreement between countries → one side is evil → confrontation → war
Resource shortages → people taking what belongs to us → seize resources
Terrorist attack or provocation → collective blame → military retaliation

The pattern you are always following can be summarized as:
Visible problem → single human cause → punishment / simple or fake solution

And this is adult thinking:
Visible problem → multiple interacting causes → systemic analysis → targeted interventions

And it's impossible to get you there on ANY subject.
Not because you are unable to, but because you have been trained
24/7 for decades to reject it.

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Trump speaks exclusively in 'child mode'.

That's the Reform Party, which is the UK's Trumpian party.
By the way, the UK ain't Europe no more, remember?
The UK split, because they are very much like the US.
They preferred to split with the EU and increase cooperation with the US.
And now they are hurting from it, and not gaining much from relations with the US.

They did become more like the US though. Their depth and severity of poverty have drastically worsened. The UK is not yet as bad as the US, when it comes to overall poverty, but it is closer to the US than almost any other Western European country.

Immigration was one of the major issues in the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign.
The Reform Party, Nigal Farage, was one of the main instigators.

And when Brexit happened, that invalidated EU–UK Cooperation Agreements.
That indeed reduced EU immigration, but non-EU immigration increased significantly.
Net migration rose substantially after Brexit.

The UK and France going to war, would result in a perpetual stalemate.
Both countries are nuclear powers, by the way.

People don't make those choices based on global issues. If they need children to take care of them, when they are old, they will have several children. If they know that some of them might die, because of diseases and war, they will make even more children.
The best way to reduce birth rates is to provide vaccines, so people have more chance that their children survive. If they can have less mouths to feed, they will do it.

High child mortality → high birth rates
Child mortality falls → birth rates eventually fall

If you want women to pump out less babies, then you give them an alternative future, than just being a mother. Don't overdo it, by forcing all women to work, just to make a living, because then you are taking away the option of people to be parents, resulting
in population decline.

Many welfare recipients are children, elderly people, disabled people, or working adults with low incomes. Some benefits are temporary and some have work requirements. Fraud exists, but it is generally a small fraction of total spending.
The US's welfare system is actually limited compared with most European countries. Raising the minimum wage would make most poverty compensations unnecessary.

Your drugs problem is not a cause of your welfare system. Most European countries have more generous welfare systems than the US, but your drugs problem is worse than all of Europe's.

When you have the highest incarceration percentage in the world, a murder rate that is higher than much poorer countries and the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world, you should understand that it is not police and prisons that make you safe.

At least the DSA is willing to TRY something different than repression. Maybe they won't succeed in making prisons obsolete, but they might be able to lower the need to the average of European countries. Do you have any idea of the cost savings and benefits, if young people are working good jobs, instead of wasting their lives in prisons?

'They' don't SEND people to the US. People LEAVE their countries, looking for something better. This is the ranking of nationalities that were coming to the US in 2024:
1. Mexico (proximity, Economics)
2. Venezuela (Economic collapse)
3. Guatemala (Poverty, violence)
4. Honduras (Poverty, violence)
5. El Salvador (Economics)
6. Colombia (Economics)
7. Ecuador (Economic insecurity)
8. Cuba (Political repression)
9. Nicaragua (Authoritarian rule)
10. China (Economics, repression)

Yes, China entered your top 10, because of Covid and Trump's trade war. China pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, by making lots of cheap products for the West. Then they started making better and better stuff, and created competition for the West. That's a threat to our way of life, so we started to push back. Is that fair? That depends on your principles. If you believe in unregulated free trade capitalism, thinking that's the best system, you shouldn't feel threatened by competition from an authoritarian state-capitalist country.

We have a similar immigration problem in Europe, with some different countries:
1. Syria (Civil war)
2. Afghanistan (Conflict, Taliban)
3. Ukraine (Russian invasion)
4. Venezuela (Economic collapse)
5. Tьrkiye (Politics, economy)
6. Colombia (Economics)
7. Morocco (Economics)
8. Bangladesh (Economics)
9. Pakistan (Economics)
10. Mali (Conflict, poverty)

Some people DO try to send their women and children to safety. They are denied
at your borders just the same. To get to Europe, many of them need a boat. Thousands of them drown. There are maritime patrols to try to save them before that happens.
However, there was just an invasion of Moroccans in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave bordering Morocco directly. All those people were saying that there are no jobs in Morocco that they can live on. There is no evidence that the Moroccan government organized or sent these migrants. It can be traced back to a social media mobilization.

"fight for their own countries to be safe and prosperous"? Tell me what that looks like. Literal fighting? Should they pick up guns and fight their government? That's called
"Civil war". It has worked sometimes. In the short term, in Syria, it created only more devastation and the resulting immigrant wave. I hope they succeed in creating something better than they had.

In the current global market, countries cannot win on capitalism. They will only get exploited by the West. China made incredible gains with STATE controlled capitalism.
The result is huge mega factories, in which the lights can be turned off, because robots do all the work. It generated income for the state, resulting in other more welfare and investments that do help people, which is beating your crony capitalism, but it doesn't make people free and independent. It's still centralized power and centralized wealth. For all people to do well, that requires (more) equality in both power and wealth.
And if the wealthy and powerful people don't share, people will need to keep fleeing
from horrible places, looking for a better future.

You never fail to amaze me with your bad plans. Kids in poor areas are already scoring lower, because they are missing lots of resources that kids of rich parents can provide. Poor kids suffer fatigue, stress and often hunger.

It requires the best teachers, with the highest motivation, to make something
of them. Those schools are already underfunded, because of your dumb system of funding. Many teachers are buying supplies from their own money.
And now you want to punish them for the kids they are getting.

You won't get the billionaires, politicians, and war mongers with a virus.
They are always the first ones to get the vaccines.
And then they tell the stupid people to fear them.

Actually, I need to stop fighting their fear of vaccines.
A killer virus might be the only hope for humanity.
China really fucked up with their pansy virus.
And with RFK Jr. at the helm, now is the perfect time.
Благодаря товарищу Трампу мы их достаточно подготовили.

Vaccines are an evil plot from the Illuminati y'all!

Sure, if they score liberal, pay them double, if they score MAGA, pay them half.

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No dumbass, they don't mean abolish all prisons in current society, they intend to improve society so much that prisons as we know then will no longer be necessary. Like Norway, they propose some kind of rehab clinics for criminal behavior.

Yes, they intend to abolish ICE immediately, because it is literally the "jackbooted thugs" force that your side warned about for decades. That doesn't mean that illegal aliens will roam the streets, because they will all get to document for LEGAL stay, a green card or apply for citizenship.

They believe many of the forces driving migration are caused or worsened by global economic inequality, climate change, and U.S. foreign policy. They advocate policies they believe would reduce the need for people to migrate, such as reducing military intervention abroad, supporting workers' rights internationally, and addressing climate change.
If you stop fucking up other countries, people will want to stay there.
Like how I don't want to come to the US, because I'm happy and doing well in my country.

How about a vision of actually improving life for everyone?
What is your idea? Making the US suck so much that no one wants to be there?
It's working! Soon you will need that border wall to keep people IN!

"What the fuck would be left?" You have just described your country as private debt, mortgages, healthcare costs, prisons, the military and ICE. When that is taken away,
nothing would be left. Think about that. Are those the things that define America?

You don't have a welfare state, except for the wealthy.
Billions of your tax-dollars go to Elon Musk, to play with rockets.

What you are doing is CREATING lives of dependency.
When all the jobs are replaced by robots, who buys the products?
If no one is making an income, then they cannot buy anything.
Without people buying anything, the robots are useless.
That will require a Universal Basic Income, to save the economy.
It will mean that EVERYONE will live a life of dependency.

No, it's nothing but bigotry. The frog in boiling water metaphor isn't applicable, because there is no heating of the water going on. Mamdani is giving all the frogs back their pond, while your regimes is turning the pond into a desert.

Immigrants are human lives too. If they are fleeing war or a regime that has turned criminal, then giving them asylum is SAVING lives. That's not accepting the deaths of anyone else, because as I have already showed you, those people are less of a risk to commit violent crimes, than native-born Americans.

Our homicide/manslaughter death rate is 0.68 per 100,000. By YOUR logic,
we should ban those violent Americans from coming to our country. Fortunately,
we understand that they are freedom and science refugees, who are fleeing
a fascist regime, that they don't agree with. Still, we should vet them carefully, because it appears that lust for murder and violence is IN YOUR GENES.

Can you point to a speech, interview, or quote where Kamala Harris actually said that black people should live among themselves?
Maybe that's what YOU want, but Kamala Harris supports that black people have
equal opportunity and freedom of choice in where they live, NOT racial separation.
She has the opportunity to buy a mansion, so she did. And it's a fact of the continuing systemic racism in the US, that there aren’t many majority-black neighborhoods made up of large luxury estates.

She never was some idol of the left. She's just a centrist neoliberal. I told you that.
She would just have been 100x better than Trump. She would have done none of the stupid things Trump is doing, she wouldn't be destroying democracy, she would arrest criminal immigrants in an orderly fashion and not overflow cities with a masked invasion force murdering American citizen. She would have restored Obama's Iran deal, and she would NOT steal from the poor to give to the wealthy. She would invest in renewable energy and electric cars, so you don't lose to China. She would have made your life
a bit better every single day, and you would have hated her for it.

There would have been many better candidates than Harris, but Biden didn't keep his promise to be a one term president, which resulted in Harris as the candidate. Still, if I was able to vote in the US, I would have voted for her in a heartbeat, but as I also explained,
I would vote for a potted plant over Trump. The potted plant would be useless, but that's better than someone who combines more vices in one single personality than anyone
I've ever seen.

How many, how shortly. I think you're suffering from massive confirmation bias.

There can be something wrong with any product that you put in your body. A single can of beans can kill you with botulism, meat can contain deadly parasites, there is an outbreak of Cyclospora parasites right now. 423 people have been hospitalized. And vaccines can indeed contain a contamination or some unlucky bastard can have an allergic reaction. Still, overall vaccines have massively reduced the deaths of infectious diseases. You only still see polio in the bible belt or old people who had it as a child. Many diseases were practically wiped out, but some are now coming back because of vaccine fears.

That fear is not all caused by the government. The media was spreading doubt 24/7, by "just asking questions". Sorry to tell you, but those questions were fucking ignorant or blatant misinformation, for political reasons.

If you haven't stopped taking all pharmaceutical products, you are accepting the same risk of death every day, that you would have had once by getting vaccinated. Most pharmaceuticals have been tested less extensively than the vaccines. Some pharmaceuticals have so many side effects that it is debatable whether their benefits outweigh their risks. All the focus is on vaccines, while they have been proven to be very safe and effective, because the only thing they do is train the immune system. That's much less impact than lowering blood pressure, suppressing inflammation,
or killing bacteria.
You were accepting a much higher risk from the virus itself, because you are not a young, healthy guy. The morgue was full of guys like you, who were afraid of the 'jab'. There were enough guys of my age and weight dying too, so that's why I was careful to not get it. After I was fully vaccinated, I was feeling relieved. Not because I trusted the vaccines from the start, but because many old people got it before me and lived.

Is it the problem that they make regulations that a robot vacuum clearer shouldn't be
a spy device or the fact that most of them apparently failed those regulations?
They won't be banned, because there is no ban against putting WiFi security cameras
in every room of your house either, they just want similar network security precautions
on the robots. It sounds like common sense to me.

Possibly, you can trace this kind of regulation to a single politician, who owns such a thing, and doesn't want it to be used to uncover his dirty secrets.

Nothing related to the Covid pandemic and vaccines is top secret.
Everything is already in public records or can be requested trough FOIA.

You are actually accusing Trump of hiding some conspiracy too now.
Remember that it was him who started Operation Warp Speed.
He was quite proud of that, until you all turned mental.

What are you expecting to learn, if there were those records?
If there were records that would condemn Fauci, would Trump hide it for him?

You don't have questions, you just have a chaotic feeling of distrust.
You think that I trust the government because I don't have the same questions.
It was your MAGA president and my VVD (corporate right-wing) prime minister
handling the Covid pandemic. You think that a socialist is trusting that side more than you? I was annoyed on a daily basis with how they handled it. There were fuck-ups regularly. But if there was some global conspiracy going on, we first need to establish
A GOAL!!! I have heard multiple ridiculous goals from your side, that ALL do not make sense with what happened. You have no idea about a goal either, you just want to believe that something extremely evil was going on. Well, if there was, they were fortunately incredibly incompetent, because the world is basically back to how it was.

The only evil that was achieved is a fucking huge transfer of wealth from the taxpayers
to the wealthy, who got massive bailouts from our right-wing governments.
But they don't need a pandemic for that and you like that, so why are you complaining?

"those deadly shots" I took 3, and I'm still alive.
You're self-programming your brain with nonsense.
That is why leo says that it's pointless to try to argue rationally with you.

Even if your worst assumptions are true, they are still not "deadly shots".
That would mean that we would have lost 5.6 billion people worldwide,
myself and everyone I know (except my brother in law) included.

No one told me something like: "Do you know who died directly after getting the shot? The father of Mark from IT.". Why not? Because, besides my brother in law, I'm hanging around with people who can rationally assess these claims. Even my brother in law didn't know anyone personally who died. He told me about dozens
of unsubstantiated claims from his friend's friends; which are useless rumors.
That's what ALL OF YOU have; nothing but useless rumors.

Your side controls all the institutions now, and you STILL got nothing.
Sure, they make theater investigating Fauci, but that's it.
So, you either have to admit that you're wrong or that your side is the most
useless bunch ever. Democrats would have had piles of evidence by now.

There are now multiple Watergates per week
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He is not participating in this childish perjury trap.

What do you think, that he would just tell you, if there was some massive conspiracy
going on, that your whole administration failed to uncover? Silly goose!

What was Trump hiding, when he pleaded the 5th over 440 times?

One thing that the House Republicans have been trying to do, is to abuse the broad definition of gain-of-function (GoF) research, give him no time to explain what part of that definition was applicable to the international infectious disease research collaborations and which part was not, and then try to point to some made up inconsistency and call it a lie, for which they will try to put him in jail for 5 years. Does that answer your question?

At least one or two were intended to make fun of you. I hope you caught that.

Trump administration demands hospitals share personal emergency room records.
This will require participating hospitals to provide personally identifiable patient information, including names, addresses, diagnoses, and other medical details, to the CPSC's contractor.

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