It already took a bunch of people “not playing the rigged game” to allow those who played to win by default. Now we’re fucked and can only mitigate the disaster, and since we can’t aggree on how anyway, we can’t do even that. The arc of the moral whatever is slow but it bends towards the destruction if civilization.

To be honest, looking at everything that is happening in the world, we have a uniary choice of being happy that fascism is sometimes slow.
I am not even remotely optimistic fornthe future

It’s somehow complicated but also very simple

The data in the links follows up on exactly that

Looking at some other governmental examples, I am happy to take this drawback. I think stopping another Trump or Putin is more important than improving. It’s obviously important to do both, but if there is a choice…

It might be unpopular opinion, but I firmly believe that Inefficiencies in the bureaucracy is a good thing considering alternatives. It acts like a buffer, redundancies are in effect acting like checks and balances, and it’s way harder to break or subvert than the one without redundancy.
And money that spent on it are such a minuscule percentage of overall spendings, it worth it in the end

I work for German car manufactorer, so my opinion might be biased, but I hate this job so it might balance things.
My experience is that German cars sucks now, but every single other car sucks more.

Well, you’re describing violence inherent to the system. When people talk about cops being bad, they usually mean that cops don’t just uphold the bad law, that’s kind of given, but commit extrajudicial violence

And yet, giving arms to Ukraine is somehow a struggle.

I love Paris with all my heart. And can absolutely agree, it’s a giant tourist trap.

Believe it or not, it was way worse and it’s getting better. The horrors of even 10 years ago, man. Smoke everywhere, cigarette butts all over the place, all the surfaces are covered in yellow grime.

(i hear the uk has a lot of school stabbings)

It is a lot in a sense that every number above zero is a lot, but really numbers aren’t even comparable.
Overall, in UK from 2012 to 2022 there was reported 36k cases of violence in school. Meanwhile, in US 443,990 teenagers fell victim to school violence in 2022 alone

https://www.met.police.uk/cy-GB/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/d/september-2022/knife-crime-offences-schools-august2012-august2022

https://www.brightpathbh.com/school-violence-and-teen-mental-health-statistics/

But it does. His whole power is his ability to stir the conversation.

As far as fast food goes, it’s actually pretty good here where I live. Granted, there are better options, and sometimes way better options, but BK isn’t bad.

At this point it might be their loss. There are so many good games around, you really don’t need to play apex anymore.