NovaPrime @ NovaPrime @lemmy.ml

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I'm actuality not quite sure about the healthcare system impacts, thought that's something you've now peeked my interest in. Will do more reading.

Re: obesity and poverty: the two are often inseparable in discussions such as this. We know that poorer communities are often food deserts, not because there a lack of restaurants/groceries, but because the availability of nutritious, affordable options is nonexistent (or extremely limited). If an individual has $100 to spend on food for the family, the unhealthy options will generally be preferred because they pack more bang for the buck in terms of caloric impact and ability to stretch the quantity, not to mention the time-savings factor which we can't ignore for individuals who may be balancing multiple jobs and family responsibilities.

If you step back from your "personal responsibility" argument and personal feelings, you'd see that all data points to the fact that eliminating means testing for safety net recipients always produces overall higher rates of success, leaves less people who need help to fall through the cracks, saves money for the government, is far more effective at helping people get back up on their own, and introduces no significant rise in fraud.

You're letting your feelings about how individuals "should" behave (a very subjective and culturally-driven standard) get in the way of what data and numbers from past large-scale experiments have shown us.

So in order to protect the kids...we're going to put their future prospects in jeopardy with heavy handed zero tolerance policy bs? Throw the fucking vape away and move along jfc

You're right, it is unbelievable. Unbelievable that the wealthiest nation in the world, which built that wealth off the backs of those people (ignoring for the moment the colonialism, slavery, and other forms of economic abuse over its brief 250 years of existence), allows them to exist on the fringes of society where a $1000 emergency can be life or death. Unbelievable that there are tools like yourself who still insist this is an individual problem rather than a societal one. Unbelievable that we continue to do nothing about it but turn a blind eye and vilify them as they sink further and further into instability and poverty, and then turn around and wonder why half of society has given up on the very idea of society. And unbelievable that you can say the shit you say with a straight face without someone smacking the taste out of your mouth.

Taste the meat, not the heat.

A related video that's worth a watch for the sheer insanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myM5SY1mHoA

That's anecdotal evidence. Even accepting it as true, which I do, it does not dispute anything I said about the actual, verifiable, systemic brainwashing going on in Israel re: Palestine.

Don't believe me? How about a video of a former Zionist Israeli man discussing just that: https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1731160875308888191?s=20

Amazing 3d affect with the shading and line work around the eyes

Other countries are capable of independent action. Not everything is a conspiracy by Russia.

Because Israelis are raised from birth to view everyone in Gaza as sub-human scum who would kill them at first opportunity if given one. The far right government propaganda has done a number on the population.

Here's an idea: stop eagerly supporting genociders assholes! Maybe try that and see what happens

Correct. The system is fucked. But like it or not, you'll be stuck with one of them

Yeah, but the other guy is actively campaigning on chopping your balls off for laughs and keeps showing up to rallies with a cleaver and a salt shaker...so y'know...you pick your fucking battles.

Because the parties don't represent the people. The parties represent the interests of those with most influence in the party. In the modern system it is those who make the most impactfull and sustained donation efforts. The rest is just marketing used to secure enough votes in the election show according to arbitrary rules they set and change as they see fit.

No way he's making a play for VP. Even DeSantis should know that Trump would never allow a candidate that threatened him (however ineffectively) to get the VP spot. And this time around, Trump doesn't need to feign moderation like he did with Pence. I suspect he goes with Kerry Lake as his VP, and DeSantis makes a play at AG (which is why we saw him fold tail and endorse Trump this week)

Great one to add to the reading list. It'll be interesting to see if and how the spread of the American social/political diseases and discord over the last 5-10 years across Europe will have an impact on these numbers in those countries.

How is this burdensome on businesses? Wouldn't it be as simple as filing the same forms they filed with the secretary of state to register the businesses in the first place? (at least for the small businesses they're all feigning concern for)

Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony's voice?!

Fuck this article. While yes the boomers overall fucked the subsequent generations (and continue to do so with the policies they vote for), the housing crisis is not because boomers won't give up their homes. Where the fuck do these writers expect them to live? In the abundant, affordable, small single family homes being built? Oh wait...that's not being built? Developers and speculators are just churning out the same high-gloss "luxury" shit? And the housing crisis is primarily driven by corporations and foreign investors gobbling up housing stock? And the high interest rates are the result of those same companies raping the economy over the last 15 years and then making off like bandits leaving the rest of us with the bag?

This is nothing more than thinly veiled class division sowing. While the boomers do have a lot to answer for, the real enemy remains capitalism and the capital class that's actively creating and exacerbating this crisis. This is the equivalent of blaming people for using plastic straws while ignoring the massive amounts of pollution generated by global corporations and militaries