Political rants

I just rant about my country. Protests happen a lot since 2013, but I won't waste my time protesting because I know it won't do shit. Besides, most protests here are by people who think they must have immunities in a time of economic crisis, SJW shits or a bunch of shit-ass boomers defending politicians. Even in the pandemic protests are happening...

There is a good term for those people who blindly defend politicians in my country: "cattle". And most of our protesting people are comprised of said cattle.

Matter of time before biden calls this an L and goes back on his open border policy, or he could just keep this shit going as many complain. https://youtu.be/OSeLe4SuqIY

Its so fucking weird how russia interfered with 2020 election....and he still lost. I feel like im losing brain cells. Im convinced these people are literally retarded. https://youtu.be/1letgvhRQC0

Didnt they "interfere" with thw 2016 election. So not only did they interfere then but even when he fucking lost by alot they are somehow still tied into his election like this makes zero sense. How tf do you collude with another country to get elected and lose it makes no sense. Why are they reaching so hard?

First its trump begging people to "find votes", then he incited an insurrection, then he commited racketeering, now we find out he had russia "help him" lose. You cant make this shit up.

@nebelstern You will always be Nebelstorm to me, until you specifically ask to stop being called that. But yeah, in my country, we call them boot lickers. @hell_hound7: Alright. Well, I've tried to save the embarrassment, but here. Prepare to correct yourself on a great many things. You see, there's quite a disparity between many of your assessments and the analysis conducted by a UN commissioner investigating various systemic human rights violations at the end of 2017. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533 Most of which went on to be ignored by Trump. In fact, most of his new budget was a kick in the teeth for those of us living in Appalachia. Here's something they don't talk about in that assessment. You see, what do you think happens when you carelessly cut out environmental programs to save money for your rediculously proportioned military budget? Well, there's plenty of acid mines that tend to behave like cartoonishly evil villains every time the republicans get their way. And the run off from their mountain top mines gets into our water stream and causes all kinds of lung cancer issues. ON TOP OF THAT, we owed more in taxes as a result, and there are a lot of people who couldn't even get access to water before the pandemic. So stop. Please, for the love of god, stop handwaving away the nations problems and believing everything Fox News and the Q-fags tell you. I only use Covid because its a more universal example in how his blind negligence costed lots of lives. AND BEFORE you write that one off too with another "Lol, we weren't prepared the first time" VIET-FUCKING-NAMN OBJECTIVELY HAD A BETTER COVID RESPONSE THAN OUR GOVERNMENT DID! @verucassault For the large part there's plenty we agree on, but most people write off the SJW points before they actually know where they are coming from. Shit, if you've seen a boy at an anime con get the piss kicked out of him by a guy at an overlapping redneck wedding, the trans rights stuff starts to make a lot more sense. We called the cops, and they let the guy off because the boy they thought was trans decided not to press charges. Happened at Colossalcon back before they moved to the Kalahari center, I forget what year. And since I can't source that anecdote because it happened so long ago, please move on. LGBT issues are a quagmire that should have never been polarized politically, let's just leave it at that. AND NEITHER SHOULD COVID! Again, I digress. Let me rant about healthcare for a moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ultimately I can't get to a lot of the policy issues I care, about since I'm too busy taking the bait on those issues, so let's just skip all that. So America is the richest country in not just the world, but the history of the world. We have 18 million millionaires. But: Most people in the country have a worse standard of living than other poorer 'less affluent' nations like Germany, Finland, England, or Australia, France. If you look at why, well, it's because they actually invest into their people. Universal health care, social safety net, welfare for all citizens no matter how dusky they are, a lot of things that America as a world super power could easily afford but our taxes simply do not fund them. So of course our services are dog shit. And thus we enjoy less happy lives than those who live in those mentioned countries. But hey, you get what you pay for! Or do we? See, there's a common misnomer about what they pay to have those services, and the fact is we actually pay more in taxes than they do. Canada? They pay 11% of their earnings in taxes. They have free health care. In the UK? It's more like 26%. They still have universal health care. Meanwhile, once you smack on the amount of our health insurance premiums, we spend about 43% of our monthly earnings on taxes. FOR WHAT? A crumbling infrastructure, shameful homelessness, and millions of hungry, neglected children. Oh, there's that ginormous military budget where a lot of it doesn't actually go into the soldiers or their well being, because they would rather sink into black holes research projects and some more armored vehicles that will likely be left to get dusty in a warehouse. Oh wait! We ALSO get hot garbage in the form of the most expensive, the least effective, and the least efficient healthcare in the developed world! Okay, that's an exaggeration, we're ranked 37th. But that's nothing to turn a blind eye to. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-healthcare-in-the-world We have less hospital beds per capita than countries like Turkey. A lower life expectancy than countries like Lebanon or Cuba. And in the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia? (The corner of the world I live in) Life expectancy is lower than Bangladesh. In fact, remember that UN commissioner I was talking about with Panda? Okay, so quick recap. In late 2017, the UN sent a commissioner down to West Virginia to describe what he saw as "Third World Conditions of Absolute poverty". Check the article I listed for Panda for the full details on how deep a lot of the systemic issues in America actually go. Nebelstorm, as embarrassing as it is to admit, guess that makes us 3rd world brothers or something. Don't believe me? Well, here's a slice of life in Nelsonville. (And that was a year before Covid.) https://www.athensnews.com/news/local/running-waters-a-luxury-for-some/article_6dfc4a1c-8d3e-11e9-aa29-9746783c2f49.html https://d3oj2y7irryo5z.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Copy-of-nelsonville_future_JB_14-2048x1365.jpg We EVEN have a higher infant mortality rate than places like Russia or Serbia! In every single metric across the board, America performs poorly. In Canada, a carton of Insulin costs about 20 bucks. Here, it's 300 dollars. In the UK, it's completely free to have a kid. Here, it costs tens of thousands of dollars. Do you know what the average cost of an MRI scan is here in the states? Somewhere in the thousand dollar range. Let's talk about MRIs for a second, cause my brother had to get a lot of those done over the last few years. Price in Australia? $215! Price in Spain? About a $181. Geoff? Well shit, if we didn't have family in the healthcare industry, we'd have been paying somewhere in the ballpark of $1,200. Do you want to know why healthcare in the states is so expensive? It's because a third of the costs go toward administration. We should be paying that into preventative or long term health care, but instead, no, the middle man that doesn't exist in other countries needs to leech what little disposable income we have as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kll-yYQwmuM Because of these high costs, most Americans tend to avoid going to the doctor unless their conditions completely force them to go, and thus it gets even more expensive. Don't believe me? Go to Gofundme. Look at how many of those are for medical debt. It's like a third of them. America's healthcare is so abysmal that its citizens have to beg strangers on the internet for money so they could get life saving treatments that are FREE in the rest of the developed world. TLDR: US healthcare is hot garbage, and doesn't yield what we pay for, moving on. That's just healthcare. I haven't even gotten to labor or Justice issues yet. And if you want to keep believing the Republicans have the best interests of the American people? Or even the establishment Democrats for that matter? Then why are the progressive candidates the ONLY challenge our healthcare? Oh, I know why, because the lobbyists have way too much power over our politicians. See, that IS something I agree with Panda here. And I've been talking about it for a long time. It's just where he writes off a lot of the problems that irks me. BUT YOU GUYS WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SJWs! Or BLM! Or CANCEL CULTURE! And don't get me wrong, I care about those issues too, because they affect my friends. But damn it! COULD WE STOP IGNORING the more urgent policy shit!

@chocopyro you are a sheep dude idk what else to tell you. Ok trump handled the virus poorly, fine have your win. But tell me who would have done differently? Biden even now isnt doing anything about the immigrants pouring in the border and even CNN is getting in on it. Level 4 fucking countries like literally look https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-mexico This is just mexico alone not even the dozens of countries they are migrating from. Mexico is more developed than most of those places and you mean to tell me i am just bending to other people's words? Blindly believing everything right? Ok tell me who is better. Please im waiting. Did we forget italy was a thing. Did we forget how italy was in a dire crisis. Or how china literally put sick people in a fucking room and left them there no doctors checking on them or anything. But we are the worst right cuz we jumped up and surpassed them. His negligence, his poor leadership. Maybe he isnt the best for the country ok but NAME one guy rn doing anything remotely good for america. Stopping a little land from being upropted or water poisoning people ok. What about the entire mid US having close to no jobs or or or rise in violence in the border states or or or lets thing world wide fucking ignoring genocide of one innocent group of people while bombing to hell another group. Thats all you leftist see the one or two bad things while ignoring the myriad of other REAL and bigger problems.