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The only time I’ve ever gotten it was in my depression era when I wouldn’t shower for like 3 or 4 days at a time. It’s definitely not normal with healthy hygiene. Pretty sure at that point, it doesn’t matter if you’re chopped or not

I have nothing worth taking except my life and freedom. I was born into poverty and, despite 18 years of constantly overworking myself, that hasn’t and won’t change. The systems in place are so stacked against me that I’d rather participate in them as little as possible. I have no idea how people with tougher circumstances than me are getting by in this shithole country. I had a friend a few years older than me, with the same financial situation, who had breast cancer. She couldn’t afford to have it treated. It killed her. She was 28 at the time. If I get cancer, it’ll likely be the same for me. Best case scenario, my partner and I get some kind of inheritance from his side and we migrate to a country that takes care of its people. Maybe the US will swing back to the left at some point, and we’ll have socialized healthcare, but I’m not holding much hope for that.

The high deductible options offered nowadays are way too high. If I have to pay $8k towards a deductible I’ll just go to the ER and ignore the debt collectors for a few more years… I’m in my thirties, so I won’t be buying a house for at least another 20 years anyways, if ever. Credit does nothing for me.

Joke’s on them! I already opted out last year after the last price increases! They wanted almost $900/ month to insure my partner and I. We can barely afford to get by without paying a second rent just to see a doctor a few times a year.

I shower everyday and never have cheese dick… You just pull it back when you’re cleaning it. It’s one extra hand movement. I don’t see how one is easier or cleaner than the other tbh

I’m dealing with the same exact thing. I updated my license with my new address months ago. There was an option to update my vote registration information with that and, of course, I did that. It’s showing my registration is active, but it’s showing my old address and I can’t change it online. The website keeps having unresolved errors when I put all the information in to update it… We moved two hours away, but I’ll sure as shit drive two hours to vote for Talarico and Hinojosa

That makes a lot more sense than "social democracies “stomp Asia”. There is absolutely a global effort to maintain the status quo that keeps many non-western nations suppressed. I don’t think social democracy, as a system, is the culprit. It’s all a big game for the ultra-wealthy everywhere, and most politicians quickly learn they need to play the game to stay in the game. It won’t stop until we create and implement systems that are impossible to corrupt.

Lol, ok.

I’m reeeaaaally not interested in a reddit-style gotcha debate. But, since you seem adamant on persuading me to agree with your opinions; how does social democracy stomp on Asia? How is my assessment of China’s political system wrong?

Nah, I just don’t click on random links. I’m not familiar with tankie.tube.

Not sure exactly what you’re referring to. Who told me what?

Did you start a discussion so you can inaccurately categorize people’s opinions and try to brow beat them when they don’t agree with your false equivalence statements? I’m just telling you what I think would be a good solution. An easy, smooth transfer towards a blend of systems that seem to work well in some Scandinavian countries.

I don’t think you understand social democracy well enough. The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway all have social democracy. South Asia/East does not. Assuming you’re mostly referring to China, since you referenced dengism earlier, China is an authoritarian regime with a strict class system and unevenly regulated capitalism favoring the authoritarian class at the top. That is the opposite of social democracy.

Nope. It’s social-democratic capitalism, or capitalism with massive guard rails. The emphasis is on guiding society to a more equitable default. We would need to prosecute all of the current billionaire class and their bought politicians and have a massive redistribution of wealth, in the form of reparations. People can choose how they want to live their lives from there. A soft reset.

I don’t think it’s wrong for people who want to lead organizations to have more wealth than others, there just needs to be limits to it. It should be illegal to exploit others in any way. You know; life, liberty, and justice for all.

It’s more about allowing vestiges of the current system to exist to ease the transfer to a more equitable system. When systems are ended abruptly, it tends to have unforseen consequences. We need to treat society as the living construct that it is. It’s very ill right now, so we put it on life support by infusing some socialism, let it stabilize, then add more socialism until we have a system that is truly egalitarian.

I don’t think there’s an inherent problem with people having a (reasonably) large amount of wealth. We just need to make it so having that wealth doesn’t harm anyone else, or deter anyone else from gaining wealth. In other words, let money obsessed people have some money, just make it an amount that every human could achieve, if they wanted to, and make it kind of pointless by making sure every living being has the best quality of life possible, whether they pursue wealth or not. Like the Scandinavian model, we need a system that steers society towards altruism, community, and egalitarianism.

We need tax brackets that go up to 100%. If you own more than $100m in assets, everything above that should be taxed 100%. We need to remove the possibility for billionaires to exist. We also need to dissolve massive corporations by enforcing/expanding antitrust laws. Stop the concentration of wealth, in any form. There should be zero incentive to concentrate wealth in the first place, which could be achieved (at least, at first) with a significant amount of socialism infused into our current capitalist systems.

The power bottoms really do a lot of the heavy lifting. I believe in you power bottoms! ❤️

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Millennial here. I have had several unaddressed health issues for at least 5 years. I can’t afford to go through another diagnosis/ treatment process because I’m still recovering, financially, from the unrelated health issues I had diagnosed and partially fixed with surgery a few years ago. I also haven’t seen a dentist in at least 8 years. I work way too much and I’m barely keeping my head above water despite doing everything right and living frugally. I’m hoping whatever is going on with me isn’t something terminal, and that I can last long enough to move to a country that supports its people. The US sure as shit isn’t it.

I haven’t made any assumptions about you. I’ve only pointed out things I saw in your posts in this thread. I haven’t read your posts elsewhere, nor am I interested in doing so. Glad you got it thought!

if they feel that a random man is likely to be dangerous enough that they would prefer a random bear

There it is!

Let me try again: You’re adding a nonsensical element to a thought experiment that doesn’t fit the context of the world we currently live in. Polar bears aren’t likely to become forest dwelling animals in our lifetime, if ever (they’ll probably go extinct first), so that part is irrelevant, and you’re still missing the whole point of the thought experiment. You’re trying to warp something in a stupid way and you seem to believe that you sound really smart while doing it. Check yourself. Your ego is making a fool of you.

Not trying to be mean. Just pointing out that you have some egg on your face.