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Doing something and doing something competently are two separate things.

I think you should have a good long think with yourself about the very personal meaning this statement should have for you

This might make sense if the sentence I was replying to wasn't

Looks like stocking up for wartime...

Which is not occurring.

It's the response of a person who thinks you're having a conversation with someone else that you think you're having with me, based on the not-quite-on-topic nature of your posting.

For instance, my first sentence in this entire comment section is

We’re honestly not at a point where UBI is sustainable.

Worth noting that a gram of coke currently goes for a nationwide average of around 100-150 USD in Switzerland, and about 200-250 in the US, per the data I looked up.

Different supply levels of and ease of access to various drugs make them comparatively more or less expensive. Combine that will a user base of above-average wealth and it makes sense.

I agree regarding the absolute value of the two drugs though. Coke is fine, I suppose, but nothing I want to shell out the money for - but then again, I'm not in Switzerland so who knows.

I'm a big fan of Biden as a human being, and figured he'd do about the job he's currently doing given his skill at working in Congress.

His policies are generally, but not always, policies I agree with, so that clicked too.

Interesting take- Why?

Imagine every major US city having 10% muslims.

It's weird that you think this would scare me. Like do you not get that? That's the central conceit here - we fundamentally disagree on the idea "Muslims are scary"

Besides, the system worked perfectly fine for norwegians

Back in topic, in your own words, your system is a failure to what I see as basic human rights, so no, it didn't work perfectly.

If your culture cannot survive immigrants, your culture has no value. That's what a "war of ideas" is. That's why Iran and North Korea don't allow immigrants.

For clarity, I have said and will say again this exact same thing to every American who disagrees too. If some aspect of "being American" cannot survive immigration, then it doesn't deserve to exist.

I think you should reread this thread.

Joe Biden was my first choice in the 2020 primaries. Clinton was my first choice in 2016. Buttigieg will be my first choice in 2028, most likely.

See the thing is, im part of that majority, and I agree with them.

Yes. I also do not see how this person literally regretting their children can possibly be interpreted any other way

Read up on the resolution of the Chinese Civil War and the (nominal) government-in-exile that is Taiwan

It’s just the way Islam works.

Weird how the US has so many more Muslim immigrants than Norway does yet none of the problems.

It's also kind of bizarre that 3% of your population can break your entire system. Sounds like it was already broken and you just didn't realize it.

So much for your ancestors.

Go nuts man. I don't care at all how you vote

Except they do, because they show the value of fungible, no-questions-asked support

Nah neolibs are dope as fuck.

Also there is no ruling class.

the immigrants in USA actually do less crime than the americans themselves, were in Norway they do more than twice as much crime.

Sounds like Norway needs reforms more than these people need to stop coming.

My hot take here is that Brave New World shouldn't be read by high schoolers because it's too complex for most high schoolers.

The book is most definitely not about how "bread and circuses" distract people from an encroaching dystopian hellstate and the number of grown-ass adults I see parroting that is too damn high. See the other comment to your post.

It's instead about how a lack of agency from ongoing institutions already paves the way for dystopian hellstates, and the industrialization of that loss of agency is the core concept discussed in the first chapter. That's why they just ship the main character off to an island with the other people who have figured things out - the dystopia is such that the machine breaks immediately if anyone questions it, so they just let those people go live how they wish.

It shouldn't be banned though, because no books should ever be banned.

Good. Hopefully this helps the working class to finally own their own homes en masse for the first time in a generation.

Nothing was solved regarding home supply. In fact, the opposite happened. No new construction is ongoing.

Once their economy recovers, prices will again rise.

If interest rates went up, crippling demand for new housing, this is a temporary "burst" at best. Their economy is in the trash can right now, and that means demand is artificially low.

The second their economy rebounds they'll be back in the same situation.