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Comment Re:$3.99 (Score 1) 509

The fuck is wrong with Americans that they see everything as a tax.

Situation: The government wants to stop producing a currency that costs almost three its face value times to make and distribute.
Americans: THIS IS ANOTHER TAX FUCK THE GUBBERMINT AMERICA FUCK YEA RA RA

You people deserve the absolute shitfest that your country is about to become. Your broken politics and collective idiocy have paved the way for the coming storm. I for one am going to enjoy watching your oligarchs burn your house to the ground.

Comment Re:IOW (Score 2) 53

OK let's look into this.

Countries bombed at the direction of the CCP: 0
Countries bombed at the direction of Washington: Lots

Countries invaded at the direction of the CCP: 0
Countries invaded at the direction of Washington: Lots

Democratic governments overthrown at the direction of the CCP: 0
Democratic governments overthrown at the direction of Washington: Lots

Drone strikes on foreign soil carried out at the direction of the CCP: 0
Drone strikes on foreign soil carried out at the direction of Washington: Lots

You may have some opinions on China and why they may be evil, and you're entitled to that. But I put it to you that however evil the CCP is, the regime in Washington makes them look like Care Bears.

Comment Re:Meanwhile, in the EU..... (Score 1) 57

The whole point of this law suit is that a monopolistic business (or at least oligopolistic) was forcing users to use their products. Although, I don't expect you to understand that. And I bet your next retort is that people can just opt out of Android. Which is true. Then go to the only other player on the block, Apple, who also force you into using their products and services.

Comment Re: wow (Score 1) 225

Well, I don't mean "not as good as it could be", I mean proper failure, I'm just looking beyond headline numbers. I'm looking at true measures of social success such as how happy, stable, and healthy the majority of the population are. The majority of the population do not have adequate access to healthcare, rather they live in fear of unexpected adverse medical events. The majority of the population do not have financial stability, rather they live paycheck to paycheck just barely making ends meet in a constant exhausting grind to nowhere. The majority of the population are not living fulfilling lives, they are struggling just to survive.

The image that the US portrays, of a country that is mainly made up of a comfortable middle class, is patently false. It's an image that the rulers there want their population to perceive and also want the rest of the world to perceive. Those Americans who vehemently disagree with my description of their country would do so only because they have had the message drummed into them since childhood: "This is as good as life gets".

Once again, I encourage you to Google "rednote shock". Americans are for the first time seeing what its like to live in a country where you don't have to live in constant fear of an unexpected medical bill. Where being able to walk around safely at night is not a privilege reserved for the wealthiest areas. Where living hand to mouth is not the norm. Where the cost of living is easily met by an average family's income without both parents grinding 60 hour work weeks.

Perhaps you're right. Perhaps "failed" not the correct word, because the cart is still managing to travel down the road. Perhaps the correct word for me to use is "failing", because what I see is a state on the brink of tearing itself apart politically and with a social fabric held together with nothing but the emptiest of false images.

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