These beggars are selling a product, though they do not know it.

That product is the approval of your own conscience. Are you the kind of person who can look at someone in need and ignore them?

It's also ingroup solidarity,you can leave comments with others who also gave money.

It's worthwhile to note that socialists despise charity. Government should do everything. That's why they got angry when MrBeast dug all those water wells in Africa. He made the governments look bad.

And never forget that socialism is for workers. It's a workers' paradise. It's not 'free money for lazy people who don't work," no matter how often Trump says that.

I didn't ask if you care about my opinion. I wouldn't ask because I don't care. Why would I? I only care that you use tax dollars to push your shit on children in state run mandatory prison/schools.

You're the standard mindless leftist spewing nonsense daily and thinking you're making a point in your little lefty thought bubble with the other extreme US leftists and Europeans who infest this once great site. You guys just pat yourselves on the back everyday for saying the same mindless crap everyday. Lol, you guys are so twisted, a maniac foreigner like Rsilvergun runs here with excellent karma. The only difference between him and the rest of you is he's more openly honest about how crazy he is. I'm a normal very typical American. Of course most of this site thinks I'm horrible and should be silenced. Their ideas can't withstand any form of scrutiny or debate so they hate me. Expected. I don't come here to karma whore and boot lick the crazies. They do that to each other more than enough. They're so hopelessly stupid that most of their replies are off topic and bizarrely drunken AC one liners. I assume they think they're clever. You're no different, just more wordy. Try meeting some real people outside your bubble, touch the grass, you're really way out there from the bulk of the country.

Talking about your nonsensical social diseases in schools is not the purpose of schools.

K-12 is for core material kids need to either survive life post graduation or as the platform upon which a higher education is built.

At no point do they need to know the 6372 fake genders or about the fake inequality that isn't going on that people like you push.

You live in the most free and open minded era in human history and cry how you can't push your agenda on kids in your state run prison and call it oppression. Ridiculous.

I voted to have people like you shutdown in the presence of children who legally can't escape your grasp. Go fund some Google ads or something if you want to push your crap. You do not get to use my tax dollars for it.

I'm not interested in your advice, your gaslighting, or your worries. Injustice makes me emotional. This is a good and healthy thing. Unfortunately, I can't block people on here, but please don't ever respond to me again. End of conversation.

I agree that Rockefeller should fry in Hades and that his name should be erased.

This being said:
(1) The penalty for possession of small amounts of weed was liberalized to a $100 fine in the late 1970s, likely when you were a toddler.

(2) Under Bloomberg, the NYPD was in the habit of arresting people for possession of small amounts citing "public display", which was a misdemeanor, so didn't affect voting rights.

Pig: turn out your pockets
Joint falls on ground.
Pig: Oink! Oink! It's on public display now.

Most of those cases were dropped in court in any case, judges knew the game.

I'm fine with less assimilation ... hearing different languages, seeing different cultures makes my city (NYC) worth living in. You mean the WHINING of everyday citizens, right? Oh, ohhhhhh, there's food other than meat, potatoes, and burgers. Boooohoooboooohoooboooohoooo!

I'm OK with reasonable enforcement of immigration laws, not with stopping people not engaging in overt criminal conduct on the street and asking for papers like it was the USSR in 1985. (And sometimes, still harassing them AFTER they've shown proof of legal residency or even citizenship.)

Yeah, I have a temper. You've only seen a tiny sliver of it. Be glad.

There are already first-level companies that no longer require a degree for entry-level positions... Google among them. This is only going to accelerate. There will be more things like 3rd party certification programs that to some extent replace traditional degrees. Colleges can either adapt to this change, or be wiped out by it.

You get two stories a week because the current model of education we have is broken beyond repair, and to some extent, obsolete, and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. You don't need to go away to a campus at a debt of six figures (or a cost of six figures to taxpayers) to get an education anymore. If anything, the Internet has revolutionized and democratized education to an extent undreamed of in human history. From the freely available works of the greatest minds in history to real time or recorded remote instruction, people now have everything they need for a first class education at their fingertips. It's all about personal motivation at this point. The resources are there, often at little or no cost. How hard is one willing to work to get the education? That's what it comes down to now.

The old model is going to have to either adapt to this reality, or die out and be replaced. I think some of both will happen. You already have 100+ colleges a year closing in the United States. That will only accelerate with AI now in the mix.

If there's no letter to deliver, they don't need to do a full route, unless picking up mail in the box is also a service.

The problem is that the alternative to government ends up being Snow Crash style corporate authoritarianism. I prefer having a society that's fairly egalitarian ,,, Poland has a much lower GINI than the US or even Western Europe. It's great,

Then it will be time to go after the companies hawking the things, legally or otherwise. Or simply go Cambodian on anyone wearing glasses in public :D

That's a very US centric view ... in many EU countries, there VERY MUCH is an expectation of privacy in public. Set up a doorbell camera in Germany that films anything but your own front yard, and enjoy the lawsuits from your neighbors. Store the footage more than 72 hours? More legal problems. It's great ... they take personal freedom seriously. don't just pay lip service to it.

Then knock the ecahnamy down. Maybe it's not worth saving.

Maybe the solution to having less violence is regulating the tools of violence (a handgun is basically a point-and-click destructive device) and having a functional society that doesn't create an undereducated underclass with a culture that glorifies violence. The things that many EU countries that ALSO regulate surveillance in public also do. Also, 50% of homicides go unsolved because no one cares - it's dismissed as black-on-black crime or chalked up to gang violence and seen as deserved. There's a lack of will to investigate, even if the footage were right there. This being said, I'm fine with some murders going unsolved as a tradeoff for more personal freedom in society ... I'm not one of those who bleats "anything to keep the children safe, nine eleven" several times per day.

Bulk it up a bit, stick it in a bubble wrap flexi-pack?