it’s like every southern state is in a furious competition to be the worst place on the planet
Please…
No matter how much US Republicans and trump mess things up, the USA will still be a better place to live than 90% of the planet, even for the persecuted minorities.
Maybe they were referring to the ocean and the poles, like 90% by surface area? Maybe even by volume, as the US is better than living at the Earth’s core?
L.O.L.
You need to actually take a look at all the QOL statistics available out there. The US is better than, say, Mexico or most 3rd world countries but almost every other Western nation is kicking their ass when it comes to most living metrics.
In this summary it gives inordinate value to purchasing power without consideration for things like needing to pay for healthcare and even still gets ranked 12th overall, and that is almost certain to change if your felon leader starts implementing tariffs for everything.
Personally I was shocked to see Canada below the US because as a Canadian I can say without a doubt that every other Canadian I’ve ever met would absolutely prefer to live in Canada given the choice. Housing crisis be damned.
The irony of ya’ll needing a ‘come to jesus’ moment to realize how much of a shithole the country has become is real.
And isn’t the 3rd world most of the planet? The western developed countries are a small minority.
I have the perspective of not being USian and living in the 3rd world.
aren’t we like, close to bottom rung on major things like healthcare? and lower 50 on education?
Tell that to all the minorities that Trump has rounded up and deported without even the most basic attempts at due process.
I agree that that’s terrible and USians should be furious with it.
But living a little bit in the US, even if getting deported/killed later is still a better situation than most of the planet.
I think people tend to vastly underestimate the extreme poverty that is widespread in southern states especially. Very high homeless population with barely any services for them, people living in dilapidated buildings with slumlord landlords, no grocery stores, very high unemployment and wages well below the poverty level being the only jobs around. This is the case in parts of every inner city and many rural towns in the south.
It’s not even a better place to live than 90% of the planet now. How delusional do you have to be to think that the USA is anywhere near the best place to live 😄
90% is an exaggeration, sure, but it still is true for a large majority of the planet.
And is that a good standard, a bad standard, or neutral?
Like, no one in a great situation goes, “Well at least I’m not…” That’s the type of thing one says when they are trying to cope with a poor situation.
And I’d also argue that the dead minorities would disagree with your assessment, give that they are… dead.
Yes, it’s terrible.
But living even a little bit in the USA and dying is still a better situation than most of the planet.
If you do not live in Louisiana, you should be asking your state to require anyone from Louisiana, or who has visited Louisiana in the last four months, to pass a rapid flu test and rapid covid test before being allowed to enter your state.
Your state should not be made to bear the consequences of idiotic public health decisions made in other states.
Yeah, but I’m in Texas so…
Our gvt is probably giving them free rides into the state.
Traditionally, you are correct. But nothing matters anymore, so
The doctrine of the right to travel actually encompasses three separate rights, of which two have been notable for the uncertainty of their textual support. The first is the right of a citizen to move freely between states, a right venerable for its longevity, but still lacking a clear doctrinal basis.
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/annotation11.html
It’s not like we have border checkpoints between states. Maybe you can do something at the airport level, but roads no chance.
Border Checkpoints. Bold.
Let’s set that precedent. I don’t see any issues that could arise going forward.
Rich people are less likely to get sick as well. Why even bother checking? Waste of time. We can set up a fast pass for them. It’s the poors we gotta worry about. Well, specifically, the [Redacted] the [Redacted] and of course the [Redacted]. Degenerates… We need a way to separate them in line… Hmmm. I’m thinking barbed…chain link? Thoughts?
I really don’t understand the actual party pushing these conspiracies
Surely they’re just gonna disproportionately kill off their voters?
Yes, but not immediately, and before then there’s profit to be extracted!
Yes, we all do better when we all do better in the long run. But they want to do even more better for themselves now. Because they know how delayed the find out part of them fucking around can be. They’ll likely be dead. And it might be their children’s problem. But it certainly won’t be theirs.
But that’s even more confusing. What profit is to be made from a bunch of people getting the flu? It makes people miss work and it kills people. Who is pushing this? Big Nyquil?
No, your healthcare is tied to your job, so you can’t miss work. If you’re sick, you can’t risk losing your job.
But yeah, on a smaller scale, disease is profitable. I’m not saying “they don’t cure cancer because it’s more profitable to treat” (cancer is a group of diseases with no magic bullet), but it’s significantly less effort to sell nyquil than to produce an actual pharmaceutical cure for the common cold.
I honestly think southern states haven’t shaken off the notion of mudsill theory.
They might not call it that anymore, but god damn does their entire platform seem to push it.
i’m getting increasingly convinced by the argument that goes as follows. for the past several decades, the republican party was composed of people who gave tax breaks to all their wealthy friends and fucked over the working class, but those people knew those positions would be wildly unpopular so they used the culture war bullshit as a distraction. and it worked. the culture war bullshit ended up being super popular with their base. but now, their previously young base that bought into that nonsense has grown up, and they have internalized all of it. this generation of republicans fully believes all the nonsense they’ve been fed for the past 40 years. or at the very least, they are competing with people who legitimately believe it, so they need to put on a convincing performance.
What will the dipshit RFK say about Louisiana?
Well done MAGA morons.
