How does the World view America these days?

  On 11/3/2021 at 3:01 AM, ignatius said:

 

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That's a bit of an unfair comparison.  Perhaps it should be normalized by each country's GDP to make it a more fair comparison.

  On 11/3/2021 at 3:10 AM, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

the american dream is to get fucked by your boss harder than your neighbor does and be proud of it by saying #grind and hope to get more toys in return

ftfy

donald should have 2 halos, while everyone else gets 1 scoop halo.

LOL

They forgot to add the dollar signs. (war is only a way to generate more money for a specific industry)

jfc don't eat so much.  these people have no idea that they are living so well compared to many others in america and the world. 

who buys 12 gallons of milk every week! "you can pick 5 boxes of cereal"

  On 11/4/2021 at 5:22 PM, ignatius said:

jfc don't eat so much.  these people have no idea that they are living so well compared to many others in america and the world. 

who buys 12 gallons of milk every week! "you can pick 5 boxes of cereal"

 

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I mean, they have a big family - so yeah, obviously they buy a lot. But they also probably get some subsidies for adopting those kids.

Inflation will stick for a while as the lag from the pandemic will be around, and energy prices will continue to rise (especially gas), which means downstream goods and services will have a higher associated base cost.

  On 11/5/2021 at 5:03 PM, chenGOD said:

I mean, they have a big family - so yeah, obviously they buy a lot. But they also probably get some subsidies for adopting those kids.

you get subsidies for fostering kids.. not adopting. it's big of them to adopt kids and give them a family and home. more people should do that instead of having more of their own kids imo. anyway... i have 2 brothers, a step brother and step sister. 12 gallons of milk a week is high amount of milk drinking. if they're all having milk w/every meal well.. idk.. how about a glass of fucking water. 

regardless, i'd say they all have it pretty damn well.. those parents look pretty relaxed. that dude looks super chill and i find it weird that they are complaining.. and maybe they wouldn't had CNN not plucked them out of the ether to comment on everything. 

You just never been a cereal addict mate.

Twice a day minimum.

These are my people.

  On 11/5/2021 at 6:02 PM, thefxbip said:

You just never been a cereal addict mate.

Twice a day minimum.

These are my people.

lols.oh, i too been a cereal addict. also chocolate ice cream addict.. i ate like a beast when i was a kid. the proverbial hollow leg and i was a skinny bone rack who never gained wait. 

still, i think profiling a working class family would've been better for the piece.. though i think it's awesome these people adopt and foster kids. it's a big hearted thing to do and i don't blame them and wouldn't give them too much shit about it all ... the reporter the network suck though. 

  On 11/5/2021 at 6:10 PM, ignatius said:

still, i think profiling a working class family would've been better for the piece.

the funny thing is that, at least according to that overview tweet detailing their home/business, they basically are a working class family. at their age, they're living a relatively healthy and happy existence (and yeah i don't think they need to be complaining about milk prices and also yeah wtf/bullshit on the volume of milk)

the problem is that the rest of us/the majority of Americans are fucking poor. almost everyone should be living/working about where they are after some amount of time (obv generalizing heavily here). but for a ~50 year old couple with kids, they're doing okay for themselves sure, but not like rich rich or anything. 

Since covid went down my groceries went from about 50$ to about 60-75$ 

I remember seeing a celery for 7$ instead of 3$ and yogourt at 7$ instead of 4$ and near having a heart attack.

  On 11/5/2021 at 6:24 PM, auxien said:

the funny thing is that, at least according to that overview tweet detailing their home/business, they basically are a working class family. at their age, they're living a relatively healthy and happy existence (and yeah i don't think they need to be complaining about milk prices and also yeah wtf/bullshit on the volume of milk)

the problem is that the rest of us/the majority of Americans are fucking poor. almost everyone should be living/working about where they are after some amount of time (obv generalizing heavily here). but for a ~50 year old couple with kids, they're doing okay for themselves sure, but not like rich rich or anything. 

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yeah true.. i mean.. so many people are on food stamps and public assistance and would love to be able to buy a tenth of the things that family does every week but instead are paycheck to paycheck and stressing about their car breaking down or some other unforeseen expense that throws the whole dance off beat.

Am i wrong to think that if it was about actual poor people tho, comments by Fox/CNN or whatever news channel would be:

''get a fkin job/better job lazy bastard''

''poor people think milk is owe to them, this is what socialism propaganda did to this country''

lol

In America your right to exist is often proportional with your bank account sadly. Poverty/homelessness/unemployement is looked at nearly as a mortal sin. Even by some working class and middle class people, so strong is the brainwashing.

Not of lot of things as sad as a working class person completely bashing a homeless person or unemployed person for example. (happens quite a lot in fact) That always just baffles me.

I will say this, as a hot take not often mentioned: people might have a façade about caring about the poor in theory or in principle but if you tell someone youre unemployed or homeless see the disgust look on their face.

I have had such look from working class, middle class, higher class people. 

Most people consider people with no job as worthless human beings that is the hard truth. And the worst ones are sometimes hustle worshippers, hard working, working class people. They hate anyone that does not live for working/work 40/50 hours a week and live the absolute slave wage life like them. And not only right wing ones. Left wing, centrist, communist, students. name it, the whole social-political range.

If you tell someone you're jobless one of two people from any class will look at you like youre shit.

The whole fucking continent is a Work Hustle Money Cult im telling you.

  On 11/5/2021 at 5:45 PM, ignatius said:

you get subsidies for fostering kids.. not adopting.

https://adoptioncouncil.org/publications/a-guide-to-adoption-subsidies-and-assistance-for-adoptive-parents/

That said, I agree they're drinking a shit ton of milk, and they definitely are not an average working class family. But they're in Texas, so of course they're going to blame Joe.

  On 11/5/2021 at 8:27 PM, chenGOD said:

https://adoptioncouncil.org/publications/a-guide-to-adoption-subsidies-and-assistance-for-adoptive-parents/

That said, I agree they're drinking a shit ton of milk, and they definitely are not an average working class family. But they're in Texas, so of course they're going to blame Joe.

was unaware of adoption subsidies! interesting. 

as for blaming joe.. yeah.. i mean.. it's typical for people not to see all the surrounding complexities of a situation and just focus on a narrative or whoever is in power because the 'buck stops' there. 

most americans and perhaps people in general.. prefer the simpler explanations rather than trying to navigate all the complexities of something like inflation due to a fucking pandemic. 

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What does it saaaay? Jeeeeeesus!!!

Praise the Lord  

The Loch Ness Monster exists.

  On 11/5/2021 at 9:03 PM, beerwolf said:

Give me a J!

Give me a E!

Give me a S!

Give me a U!

Give me a S!

What does it saaaay? Jeeeeeesus!!!

Praise the Lord  

The Loch Ness Monster exists.

 

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is it beer o'clock time, mr. wolf?

His Trump impression is great

great stuff to be teaching to kids - 

https://news.yahoo.com/california-middle-school-removed-history-143236030.html

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• A middle school in California removed a history teacher who said Donald Trump is still president.

• The teacher also claimed President Joe Biden's son Hunter "was having sexual intercourse with his own niece."

  On 11/8/2021 at 6:25 PM, zero said:

great stuff to be teaching to kids - 

https://news.yahoo.com/california-middle-school-removed-history-143236030.html

 

fckn wackado. she also said: 

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"If you have a baby in the hospital, they don't want to give it back if you're not vaccinated," the teacher said on the recording. "This is a complete power control threat."

a shame that FB can't go down like every other day or something. 

Watching Americans play Geoguessr is giving me anxiety.