It shows a real lack of empathy. For one thing you could and should Google the rate of working homelessness. You should also understand that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and that definition is literally just having $1,000 in your bank account. Only about 28% of Americans have these 6 months cushion of savings that any financial advisor is going to tell you to get.

The part that I find is disturbing about your post is where you just say it's an excuse. That's a word used in English to dismiss people outrigh.

If you're not a native English speaker though I apologize. But if you aren't understand that when you use the word excuse in english, at least in American english, it's basically an insult.

Anyway as far as transportation system it's got nothing to do with appearing homeless. The problem is that we don't have public transportation. If you try to commute to work using public transit you can expect a 20 minute car drive to be a 2-hour bus ride. Now do that twice a day. And continue to work 60 to 80 hours a week because remember, Americans work more hours to the Japanese now. Look it up.

That might not be a lack of empathy on your part it could just be you don't live in America so you might not understand how bad our transportation system is. Our car companies completely dominated the transportation system and shut down any attempt to build out public transit in order to force people into cars. They also work with the airplane industry for any long-distance travel. That's why Elon Musk came up with the hyperloop, it was a scam to shut down high speed rail in California.

Finally ask for the abuse of parents you're describing that's called generational trauma. Is a difficult cycle to break. That one's kind of global so you really should regardless of the country you live in stop to think about that.

Again though these might be things you don't know if you're not American and might not make sense to you if you're not a native English speaker.

I think you have fallen into a lot of really bad thought patterns but that's not necessarily your fault, there is a lot of propaganda out there that is designed to put you into those thought patterns. You're probably pretty pissed off with me right now for pointing this out especially because I am fairly tactless what would being a nerd.

But you should try to unpack and deconstruct some of the crap you picked up over the years, especially anything from your 4 to 14 age. Google the phrase 4 to 14 if you don't understand what that means... Good luck.

Stop making mother fucking phones without user replaceable batteries. There's absolutely no reason why we should not be able to replace our batteries except it forces you to spend a ton of money on a battery replacement or learn how to use a heat mat and a splurger. You also better have some damn good fingers and eyes so you don't break those itty bitty teeny tiny ribbon cables.

Because we owe most of it to ourselves and the stuff we use overseas is used to artificially prop up the value of the US dollar allowing us to import trillions of dollars of merchandise for a fraction of it's actual value. Essentially imperial tribute.

But you already knew all that right? Because you wouldn't admit to all of slashdot that you have little or no understanding of how the US economic system works would you? You certainly wouldn't admit that you don't understand the difference between a national budget and a personal budget right?

You are right about one thing Trump's debt is going to crash the economy. But that's not because the US government borrowed the money it's because the US government borrowed the money to give it to billionaires going on trillionaires.

You can't keep taking money out of the US economy to give it to the 0.1% and not expect everything to collapse.

It would be like if you went to a building and tore out all the foundation pillars holding it up. It's not going to end well for anyone involved except the people in charge of the demolition.

But again I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know right ?

There's a whole world of religious lunatics that really really really get upset with this research because it contradicts the 6000-year-old Earth. So this was always going to be knocked out first thing.

And yeah literally every single aspect of science contradicts the young Earth nonsense. But the thing about the religious lunatics is they have a lot of money and a lot of time. So they are happy to attack basically all of science.

I know that there was the old gross joke about Christmas cake, nobody wants you after 25. In other words women were pushed into marriage early on so that they could start cranking out babies. But I have no idea if that's a thing. I know from speaking to some Japanese people it was in the 90s and early 2000s but I've been pretty distant from everyone let alone my old Japanese buddies from college.

I can tell you that in America it's not about age it's about economic stability. Gen x does not encourage their children to have kids they can't afford but the boomers absolutely shoved that onto Gen x. Not just economically are there but just plain emotionally. I know for example that I was a makeup baby. My parents were on the verge of divorce and for some god-awful reason they thought another kid would hold them together. It did not.

So I think the pressure in America is to be economically stable though not to be older. It's just that every year you get older and older and older before you can have any hope of economic stability. Because we keep screwing over kids and wondering why they're not starting families.

I would like to see my kid become a dink though. Dual income no kids. I think that's a huge part of why parents push their kids in the marriage is because there's an economic advantage to it and a huge one. You basically can't live on your own in America anymore. A two-bedroom apartment is averaging over $2,000 after all. But roommates are extremely flaky. Also people are constantly having to move for work making that even worse

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Yip, most the "winning" in the USA trickles up, while N. Europe has better safety nets & health, better college funding, and more vacation.

Both Denmark and France are socialist-leaning countries. I didn't think the gov't would get away with increasing the retirement age.

Right-wing parties have been winning in EU of late, often fueled by anti-Muslim boogymanning, perhaps borrowing rhetoric from our Tinted One by exaggerating and highlighting crime or terrorist events*. I wonder when the anti-Muslim fervor eventually dies down if the leftist parties will adjust the retirement age back down.

* EU desperately need immigrants to keep their population from declining too quickly. They should help Muslims assimilate instead of demonizing them by cherry-picking events.

The Democrat primary voters still wanted Hillary and biden.

For terrible and stupid reasons yes but they still did.

The problem is that we mostly get old farts voting in primary elections and old farts go for whatever is perceived as the safest choice for them personally.

That's why nobody would go up against Hillary and that's why nobody would go up against trump. Both are viewed by a certain class of old fart as a safe choice.

Now Hillary and Donald Trump are anything but safe choices but the old farts choose what the old farts choose and they don't care about logic or reality or facts or any of that shit. They are purely vibes voters and they dominate primary elections because they have a lot of spare time.

The 18 to 24 year olds that the left wing is always helping will save us are too busy working and studying and trying to get laid to save us but the left wing keeps trying to get them out. Never mind all the voters suppression targeted to them

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Democrat here I can explain why we got the two shitty candidates we got.

Hillary was forced on us. She spent decades and literally tens of millions of dollars doing that. She also had the support of a large number of women who are absolutely obsessed with having the first female president. We didn't select Hillary though she was literally forced on us. To be fair when I say forced on us I mean the general voter she did actually win her primary election because old people vote and old people were scared of Bernie. But on the other hand Bernie was the only other candidate because nobody else would run against Hillary.

Joe Biden was just the default. Once Trump was in office nobody thought they could beat him so they refused to run against him leaving us stuck with biden. Once again we got screwed over though because the contingent of the Democrat party obsessed with the first female president forced Joe Biden to select a woman and frankly voters are not going to elect a woman president in anyone's lifetime.

But you know what both candidates could have won if the news media wasn't 120% in the tank for trump. During the first election he got six billion dollars worth of free coverage with absolutely no criticism to speak of. The media bent over backwards to protect him in order to keep the horse race going.

With his third run the one in 2024 the news media created something called sane washing. Joe Biden was relentlessly attacked often disingenuously while Trump was relentlessly protected. Any journalist who struck out against Trump by reporting his clear signs of senality was immediately dog walked. I watched a couple dozen long-term journalists and editors be fired for pointing out the Trump clearly has lost his marbles.

So basically what God is in this mess is a combination of annoying professional women obsessed with that first female president and the billionaires purchasing every single media outlet in existence and turning them all into 24/7 propaganda farms so that they can do much to techno feudalism.

Oh, and voter suppression. Trump could not have won without a shitload of voter suppression. This last election alone 7 million people got prevented from voting. Even with all the things I listed above Kamala still would have won if she had done literally anything about voter suppression besides ignoring it and telling people to make a fucking plan to vote.

Democrats have power but they absolutely despise using it

And neither does anybody here. Assuming you're not just a Russian or you don't live in America otherwise yeah you voted for trump. All three times. Possibly multiple times.

It's always funny to watch you guys deny what you are because you know you're terrible. Like you know you're doing bad things so you deny that you're doing the bad things in order to derail the conversation ala sea lioning.

Dude it's 2025. You won. Civilization will now collapse into brutal techno feudalism like you wanted. You can take the mask off. Everyone disagrees with you still and everyone still thinks you're a weirdo but your side one. Just like the Taliban won and for the same reasons basically

In other news I hope you have the day you voted for.

But they certainly don't give a shit about your petty grievances. Yeah I know right wing media which is now all media can gin up a little bit of grievance inorganically but not to the levels you're at

In other words, yes you are the baddies. No nobody agrees with you except the handful of weirdos you hang out with online. It seems like more people agree with you because those are Russian bots pushing your buttons for political gain and to hurt the country you claim the love so much but always seem to be telling me why it's so shitty and why it has to be made great again...

Genuinely surprised to see anyone openly defending Trump though. It's painfully obvious that he's going to screw you over at this point. You probably live in a rural or suburban community and your hospital will be closing. Those hospitals have a 3% profit margin which is exactly the profit margin from the Medicaid cuts.

You're probably an old fart like me. So you're probably not far off from your first widow Maker. Enjoy the 50-minute drive to the City hospital. That's after the 50 minute wait for the ambulance.

I spent 20 minutes in a bagel shop and got sick for 3 weeks so I'm not going to go into a theater. My back is kind of a mess anyway so... What I'm saying is getting old sucks and so does covid

But by all accounts they made a fun comic book movie instead of a edge fest. DC has been plagued by Zack Snyder making shitty movies because he doesn't like comic books but for some reason we keep giving him comic book movies to make.

I guess they do make money but nobody goes to a Superman movie to watch him kill people. They go to a Superman movie to get a dose of Hope in these bleak times.