Spoiler alert:
It’s not.
Also, pretty much every other country dealt with it accordingly and didn’t lie to the people to prevent, “panic”. Brazil is still in a terrible state because - shockingly - the leader lied about it.
Dude it’s 11:30 here. Ain’t no one moderating the forums right now. Lmao
In America, maybe. In other places it is.
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Yet a very recent study of voters shows majority of Republicans watched Fox News exclusively and were wrong about many facts.
Do you want me to bring it up?
MSNBC is the “liberal” media btw.
CNN is actually shown to be more neutral. It fascinates me many Republicans/Right leaning individuals put it in the left box despite the evidence.
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That’s handy you happen to have friends in all those quoted countries.
Handy and anecdotal.
It depends on what you need, and it’s pretty similar to the US in terms of time (unless you’re quite wealthy).
Says who? The US is the only, “developed” nation that says it’s not. Rights are also possible to be granted as time passes you know.
Of the developed nations, the US has the worst health care - unless you’re wealthy. That’s okay to you?
I mean he’s getting off real easy considering how some of y’all on the right tried to ridicule obama for like 11 people dying from ebola.
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Every form of government taxes the population to provide for the general welfare, such as infastructure or defense.
Taxes != Socialism
If both sides are stupid, then why care?
Why not just remain apathetic and say nothing?
It’s because I work in international business. I’m generally on call 24 hours a day to deal with my co-workers in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London.
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And some of the things taxes are spent on are for the benefit of the community as a whole, rather than the government exclusively.
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I just want the government reduced to a bare minimum. The more powerful you make it the more corruption and corrupt people will gravitate towards it. And those people will enforce their newly gained power on the rest of the nation. I just want people to have freedom and to self organize around what they find important. The problem now is the government is so powerful that half the population wants to enforce their views on the other half. We are all different so let’s not make the government our saviors. Let governance be done at the lowest possible level such that what is important to that area stays in that area. I don’t want a mega government telling me what to do on so many different things especially if the people that are in power at the moment dont hold views that I hold most dear.
I mean, I’m Canadian. I’m more familiar with American politics than my own country, but the times I’ve desperately needed medical attention I got it for free and very quickly.
I have hated CNN with an undying passion since early 2000’s when they were doing “up-to-the-minute” updates on troop movements putting soldiers lives at risk because enemy troops literally only had to watch CNN to get rough ideas of where US troops were.
When I was in the Army we called CNN “Communist News Network”
So unfortunately my opinion of CNN has been tained for nearly two decades and I cannot see them as anything but stock villains.
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The biggest issue that’s gonna come from this new “patriotic education” mandate, is teaching an entire generation of kids your freedom and your rights, only go as far as your wealth.
But it’s ok, you can be a billionaire like Jeff Bezos if you try hard enough. And Johnny Knobhead will be in his 40s, working the same dead end production line job repeating that lie in his head.
Going home to turn on Fox news and cheer at how much he owned the libs today by making barely enough money to live in his suburban home.
As a veteran and a person who’s travelled to some of those countries.
I sat and was seen in a day.
Cosmetic things take awhile yes.
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Is it really fair to compare them to real concentration camps when it was entirely optional for the foreigners who illegally entered the country to do so?
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The issue here, is that many states - particularly, Republican dominated states - would go bankrupt. They rely so heavily on federal funding (usually taken from Democratic states) that they can’t function without it.
The US is a country, it’s not a collection of independent states. Many people want the country to be run as one to make sure it’s as strong as possible.
This is the year that has taken from us. A sense of loss and a feeling of anger have been my prevailing sentiments and feelings all year.