Get out of here with that left vs right nonsense. The voters have no power, we have an electoral college so the popular vote doesn’t even matter. What matters is the 1% buying politicians and elections with manufactured consent with platforms like Facebook.
I left reddit after I realized that reddit was using an algorithm to addict me to endless doomscrolling–not a good combo with the obvious censorship on reddit rn. The equity running reddit can’t convince me to go conservative–but they can incapacitate me in helpless outrage that goes nowhere.
Despair is its own insidious propaganda.
The sample size that travel are a minority. A large percentage of Americans don’t even travel out of the country.
Worse, I thought it was like a specific type of people. But my company did a poll to gauge where we should have our company retreat, and 80% admitted to not having a passport.
It’s a scary thought because I think it’s universal in all cultures all over the world. I’m in Canada and when I tell most people I’ve been to Europe, they assume I’m a millionaire that can afford to travel because even though some of these people have more money than me, they can’t even think of the possibility of flying outside the country.
When I visited the UK, we stayed at a place just outside London … a small town that was about an hour train ride away from the city center called Bracknel. We were just exploring in a rental car (we nearly had accidents about twice a day). We asked people for directions to the next town or a few towns over and they couldn’t tell us because they had never been there. When we talked to more people, we realized that most of them had never left town and couldn’t think of traveling further than London.
I think in England a lot of families have lived in a certain area for centuries, catch public transport, go on holiday to European destinations, and literally have no need for that information
Or it’s a feel good news story designed to make things seem less bleak. You know the ones.
Child works crazy hours to raise money for her own cancer drugs.
Mom takes second/third job, despite social services saying they will take her kids, but manages to save enough to pay for camp for one week.
I imagine in this case, they likely didn’t have a concept of a billing system. They usually wouldn’t bill anyone as that’s not how the system is set up. Sure, there are funds moving around in the background, but it’s not from the patient.
When Americans do nice things in their country … they destroy it and call it communism or “woke”
When Americans are treated nice in a foreign country, they act confused and wonder why their country can’t do the same.
As an American I know exactly why my country can’t do the same: Because we are ruled by greedy, short-sighted idiots: the voters.
Get out of here with that left vs right nonsense. The voters have no power, we have an electoral college so the popular vote doesn’t even matter. What matters is the 1% buying politicians and elections with manufactured consent with platforms like Facebook.
This isn’t a left versus right thing. It’s all voters. They’re all greedy idiots. Including me.
Democracy was a mistake. Sentience was a mistake. Embrace fungus.
I left reddit after I realized that reddit was using an algorithm to addict me to endless doomscrolling–not a good combo with the obvious censorship on reddit rn. The equity running reddit can’t convince me to go conservative–but they can incapacitate me in helpless outrage that goes nowhere. Despair is its own insidious propaganda.
The sample size that travel are a minority. A large percentage of Americans don’t even travel out of the country.
Worse, I thought it was like a specific type of people. But my company did a poll to gauge where we should have our company retreat, and 80% admitted to not having a passport.
It’s a scary thought because I think it’s universal in all cultures all over the world. I’m in Canada and when I tell most people I’ve been to Europe, they assume I’m a millionaire that can afford to travel because even though some of these people have more money than me, they can’t even think of the possibility of flying outside the country.
When I visited the UK, we stayed at a place just outside London … a small town that was about an hour train ride away from the city center called Bracknel. We were just exploring in a rental car (we nearly had accidents about twice a day). We asked people for directions to the next town or a few towns over and they couldn’t tell us because they had never been there. When we talked to more people, we realized that most of them had never left town and couldn’t think of traveling further than London.
I think in England a lot of families have lived in a certain area for centuries, catch public transport, go on holiday to European destinations, and literally have no need for that information
“Those that cannot afford to travel do not need a passport” - Sun Tzu.
“Man who walk past airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok” - Confucius
I wouldn’t be surprised if 70% of the US has never left their home state, or even their local area.
Or it’s a feel good news story designed to make things seem less bleak. You know the ones.
Child works crazy hours to raise money for her own cancer drugs.
Mom takes second/third job, despite social services saying they will take her kids, but manages to save enough to pay for camp for one week.
I imagine in this case, they likely didn’t have a concept of a billing system. They usually wouldn’t bill anyone as that’s not how the system is set up. Sure, there are funds moving around in the background, but it’s not from the patient.