michaelmrose @ michaelmrose @lemmy.world

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People making 250k are largely on the side of the billionaires. They are reliable votes for the interests of the rich.

Go far enough back and yes the negative things were absolutely true for non-white men. However houses used to cost a much smaller portion of a median earners income and this was true after we started to turn things around for women and minorities.

Let's try 1980 not exactly the dark ages. Median income was $9400 and the median home was 55k. 5.8 years of wages. Someone could actually save up for and potentially actually buy perhaps not a median but a starter home right out. for 3 years of wages.

Median home is now 419k median income is 50k. This is now 8.2 years of wages. You will have to get a mortgage and in fact pay around 22 years of the median wage to pay the bank interest. Worse medical care, college, and rent have also skyrocketed so you may not be able to get up enough to even do that if you haven't already bought in leaving you paying even more to your landlord.

https://dqydj.com/individual-income-by-year/ https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

But both sides! Anti-vax is like40-50% of the right and some fraction of 1% of the left

Wherein your kind is literally ideologically AND the grandchild of our literal enemy as opposed to a certain skin color

It's not nepotism. Nobody is suggesting hiring people based on their personal relationship to decision makers. It is about preferring those who don't have any ties that could be exploited including but not limited to family ties that could complicate loyalty.

We have this mess in America because we are a nation that on average worships wealth and hates intellectualism whilst allowing an insane amount of wealth to interfere with politics to the point where the country is arranged to enrich the wealthy at the expense of everyone else leading to widespread disaffection which has been turned by a poisoned media to hate and blame for the other. For people smarter than the mass of the average. For immigrants. For the poor in need of welfare.

We have hired a despot because he implies that we can bask in his reflected glory and help ourselves up on the backs of this other.

In short we aren't hear because we don't allow the grandchildren of enemy spies with our most secret data.

It's pretty clear that japanese internment camps were illegal and morally reprehensible. There is a vast difference between not allowing someone to take a tiny number of highly secure jobs with the government entirely legally and imprisoning people and herding them into a camp like animals contravening their rights and the law. It's not a slippery slope its standing on the edge of the grand canyon and jumping in.

Being a child of an immigrant isn't kinda depends on where from and whether we are at war with them

Nonsense. Its normal for a small number of highly secure roles to go only to people whose loyalty is beyond and known doubt. This means if you have questonable family you can only be a CEO, scientist, dentist welder or race car driver or you know all the other jobs other than say head of the NSA or part of the team with access to all our secrets

National security isn't fair because its more important than being fair and those who are for any reasons suspect are free to do any of the other hundreds of millions of jobs.

People are absolutely suspect because of their associations.

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The southern and conservative trash has brought us first the confederacy, the folks that supported Hitler in WW2, Nixon who said the president was the law whilst ordering crimes, Reagan who sold drugs to fund death squads, Bush Jr who lied to start a war and normalized torture, now Trump.

Conservationism in America has been on the wrong side of history since monarchists supported a British Kings's right to rule the colonies.

In all of history peace has only ever been achieved by being strong enough to deter would be conquerors. Without deterrence Russia would crush Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine whilst threatening all of Europe. The US would take Canada, Greenland. NK would take South Korea. China would take Taiwan.

The world has never been free of evil powerful men who would take from their neighbors. What you think looks like peace has only ever been most of the situations being stable based in large part on people's willingness to murder people who would come to murder and take from them. If you aren't actually willing to fight you won't find yourself safe very long.

Military aid between nations creates stability by drastically increasing the cost of attacking one party lest an empire expand by taking one bite at a time and becoming strong enough to threaten larger neighbors in the process.

Christianity IS evil. Whilst the possibly mythic progenitor of the religion is supposed to be good its been broadly responsible for many evil acts and given a chance couldn't even speak out against actual Hitler until after he was defeated and dead.

It's not "full nazi" whatever that means in this context to have an accurate understanding that certain groups are not in any way on the right side of things. Some individuals might be but those groups as a whole are on the side of power. They've always been on the side of power. They have never been on the whole or on average good people.

Jesus. I know I'm correcting them and not you but come the fuck on! 92% of able bodied adults on medicaid work and you can't buy prepared food from a food truck with food stamps. You have to make your own sandwiches. Theoretically a food truck selling only cold sandwiches COULD take EBT in some circumstances...they don't for obvious reasons.

It's not a minor point to misunderstand the entire issue. It doesn't mean its not important but it's good to understand the exact nature of the problem.

Almost all the ones who can work are working. The people who will lose insurance are those who can't work in any case

Actually you can get free health insurance for a family of two if living on 500 a week at least in some places. Full time at 12.50 or 25 hours at 20 an hour or anything in between. If that seems like a lot consider 2 people can easily eat $500 in food at present prices, rent can easily cost $1200 for a shitty apartment in a shitty neighborhood. yada yada. This is basically about nothing to live on.

Notably many families have one worker because one has health problems or is needed to do childcare because the amount they would earn is actually less than childcare alone let alone benefits + childcare expenses. Many folks who are disabled in fact receive basically no help of any kind if the other partner works or if they cannot spend years fighting it out in court.

Lots of people already living marginal lives will be effected.

Another example consider older relatives too young to receive medicare but not employable because of some combination of age and health. They might live with relatives but rely on government health insurance.

Another yet consider people who who living with relations providing childcare and relying on the government for health care. They effectively ARE working for board but making them try to compete with 20 year olds to work at McD will likely result in damage to the family and the person who will lose health care if they can't work or the family who will lose childcare if they can.

Russia literally said they want to take an entire list of places where 100M people live and make them Russia. The US said it intended to take CA and Greenland.

Anyone willing to stand up to defend these places would end up in a war. If everyone abandons their neighbors then there is absolutely no reason for Russia, the US, and China to divide up the world between them. These are people with their own plans, nations, cultures who don't want to choose whose boot to live under. The only way to do this is to be able to fight.

You have to spend money on weapons in order to have the privilege of sitting peacefully with those weapons rather than dying on your enemies.

Everyone has a right to go their own way. Everyone has a right to have an opinion on how you go your own way.