“Yeah, but Socialism and Communism!!!”

Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, Seinfeld (and Big Bang Theory as young adult)

I have conservative family members who deliberately go for the biggest SUV with the lowest gas mileage available just to “stick it to the government.” If the government told them that they couldn’t drive a small car, they’d be out there shopping for a small car. It’s incredibly childish.

Right. A lot of European countries use ARMs a lot more. The only other country where 30-year fixed is the norm is Denmark, as far as I know. But Europe just generally has lower interest rates.

What makes Europe free speech more free than ours?

The gist: While free speech is a constitutional right in both the US and most European countries, free speech is now controlled to a large degree by social media companies in the US.

Here’s a good, short recap of a longer study on the subject from a US scholar: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2020/01/11/study-analyzes-american-other-free-speech-traditions-suggests-inevitable-clashes

In the US: Universal healthcare. Having kids and having to think about healthcare even when we’re not sick or injured is such a mental drain.

Denver is one of the more educated and civilized areas of the US.

more billionaires then any other country

And a crap load of people living on or under the poverty live working two or three jobs with zero PTO, crippling student debt ratios, sky high childcare costs, no family leave, and on and on. No, you don’t seem well.

Ffs, America. You’re not well, are you?

Europe is already down to 3.5 percent.

So what America should be saying is, if NATO wants us to continue supporting them and NATO wants us to continue to be a good participant in this military alliance, why don’t you respect American values and respect free speech?

JD, buddy, what you don’t understand is that Europe’s free speech is far more free than the US.

Americans have a tendency to think they have everything and everyone else has nothing. Until we go somewhere else and discover it’s the other way around.

Hilarious that the thumbnail contains a Dollar General sign. It’s obviously not part of the collection of crap in front of it, but just couldn’t be more fitting from a stereotypical point of view.

I work 2x in office, less if I have a somewhat passable reason to not go in. And I can WFH for a few weeks at a time if I need to travel for whatever reason.

For now. Soon it’s going to be: “Well, Amazon is calling people back, maybe we should, too.”

Biggest difference between then and now is that people now know exactly what they will get into with Trump this time around. Back then, a lot of undecided voters and third -party voters were willing to give him a chance.

Adding insult to injury. Nice going, JD.

They are retaining staff by paying more than most other companies, but they also have a reputation for running their workers into the ground by overworking them. Many burn out pretty quickly.

It’s going to be the exact same with the election. He’ll say he won regardless of the results.

That’s what the loser of the debate would say. But Trump says he was the clear winner of the debate, so I’m confused.

Trump is to blame. When someone who half of the country blindly follows starts spewing slanderous venom, his followers will do the same. He’s been doing it for years on other random issues. They follow every time. And he knows it.

Yet, millions of women will still go vote for him in November. Go figure.