Dirk diggler
18 May 2022 #271
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I don't. It wouldn't be such a problem if we didn't constantly coddle them. I don't understand why people are so naive. They've been playing this victim card and collecting billions for all these bullshit programs that don't amount to anything and the money just gets squandered. Look at even the financial records for BLM. Now they're saying it's racist to question how they spent donations because it implies that blacks are bad with managing money.
Europe has a lot of problems like the USA, but they're different sorts of problems. For example, USA is the ultimate land in terms of opportunity and freedom. You can do basically whatever you want, say whatever you want, and it's one of the easiest places to go from poor to well-off. However, in return though we have to deal with things like very uncultured unsophisticated idiotic people (reminds me of a Jay Leno episode where he asked random people things like what countries border the US, name the current vice president, how many oceans are there, where is Iraq located, what's the square root of 100, etc. which people would get wrong) a lot of violent crime mostly committed by blacks who at the same time keep crying victim and stupid white liberals indulge them, a rat race lifestyle if you live in a metro area, etc. Then of course you have the whole forced down your throat lgbt thing, brainwashing of children in schools, low education standards in K-12 i.e. Common Core, extremely high property taxes, etc. Also, if you're a straight white Christian conservative you're basically under attack from all sides in urban areas. Millions would rather you be dead and will victimize you, try to rob you, etc. if they sense they'll get away with it basically forcing you to either live in a bubble with like people or if you can't afford it walk around armed, or both depending on what your day to day looks like. Medical care is much better and although expensive you really don't have to pay medical bills, but other things like college education, real estate prices (in decent areas), the homeless problem, trigger happy police bullies, low labor participation because of welfare incentives, etc.
It's like even right now, inflation isn't going to hurt the poor or the very wealthy. The poor get all their stuff for free from the government - rent via section 8, food stamps, cash assistance, cell phones, etc. so they don't care whether bread costs $3 or $10 or if their rent is going from $900 to $1,500 since someone else is footing the bill anyway. That's why the people who are middle class and upper middle class get hurt the most - the small business owners, the people making low six figures income from a job/business as more of their check disappears because of increased taxes against this bracket, the single parents or even young couples expecting their first child and trying to put money aside... the kind of people that have to work to live and aren't part of the investor class where they can live a wealthy life solely off capital gains..
In Europe, cost of living is high compared to most incomes, making a business is more complicated, there's far less freedoms (no freedom of speech, no 2nd amendment, no free press, etc.) but life is simpler, slower paced, and in many parts the population is still homogenous i.e. Poland so you don't have to worry about feeling like you're an endangered species as a white Christian.
Imo, I think US is a much better place to make money, live while you're young, etc. but not raise kids, retire, etc. Europe is much better for that, at least places like Poland.


