How important is Happiness?

[OddBeMe]

Cuz…America ain’t got it. We can go on and on about freedoms and capitalism, but after tons of polling…all of Europe is Happier. With their socialized medicine, fewer prisons and harsher gun policies.

I could show a lot of other stats, like infant mortality rates, ease of economic mobility…etc. Funny how Democratic Socialism has more “American values” than America.

Happiness is GDP and a warm gun!

Yeah…maybe we should look to Europe as a model

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[Potteplante]

Quality of life is important - or the ability to have such which does lead to overall happiness.

Also, fun fact about Denmark - we do boost about being one of the happiest countries in the world, while being heavily medicated, more so than ever.

[OddBeMe]

Denmark is heavily medicated? How so? Loose drug laws? Like heroine? Or prescription like oxy condone?

[Potteplante]

Neither, tho - we do have our places where they are quite loose on the drug laws, Christiania and Thy-lejren for instance.

Medicine is better regulated here and not as easily obtainable but a lot is on anti depressants and such.

[OddBeMe]

If you’re not on anti depressants your just poor.

[msc545]

We keep yelling about how the US is the greatest country in the world and how capitalism is the best economic system, but the numbers speak for themselves. As of now, the US is a shithole, and denial of that will not matter a bit.

Perhaps we need to change some things.

[OddBeMe]

It is for those who don’t have money. And that’s more than half. But unfort half of them are dumb enough to vote against their own interests.

[msc545]

like 70% poor. Too dumb to vote at all really.

[OddBeMe]

Unfort liberals are too dumb to vote. We are the worst in keeping monolithic voting blocs. If only we had a left wing Tea Party…. Biden could say to Repubs, “I tried but the Black Panthers want free healthcare. They’re crazy!”

[Sasahara]

I would say happiness is important. And I would say I'm rather happy with were I live. People shouldn't live miserable lives. Just an ancedote, but due to how America seems to handle healthcare, hospital and medicine stuff, I don't think I could afford to live there.

[OddBeMe]

Where are you now?

[Sasahara]

Norway. I don't think I could afford my medicines if I was living in America

[Guy13]

Not ascertainable in this world and if that's your hope, enjoy your best life with Putin, Biden, and Xi. Peace is In Christ Jesus open your eyes to the fallen world around you and the fact that something this fragile was not an accident. From chaos organized can not come. It is mind boggling how someone with abilities can be so obviously deluded.

[OddBeMe]

Fck sake, this is our problem, people! Religious fcks who say suffer in this life and you’ll awarded in heaven. FCK YOU this is the only life we know. Prove your god exists and maybe we’ll come to the table.

[OddBeMe]

I feel I was harsh last we spoke. But the argument still stands.

[Sevenpointfive]

GDP per capita! there's hardly enough population besides who wants to go out in the cold and create misery? i bet one polar bear per capita took that poll

[TheUniqueOne96]

It's the most important thing in life, in my opinion.

[Juxtapose]

If what you are saying is true then why is the UK behind the USA?

Correlation does not equal causation.

[OddBeMe]

True about correlation. I’m simply posting a graph of combined polls taken over a the last few years.

And obvi UK has problems as they voted for Brexit, and like usual, they’re fcked even more.

[Juxtapose]

Wanting to be split from the EU is actually pretty smart. Who wants some bureaucrats you never elected to dictate what you can do?

[OddBeMe]

You’re an idiot if you think that. That’s like Alabama exiting the US. How would that work out for them?

[Juxtapose]

That's.. not at all what that is like. Globalism is bad, countries are fine.

The E. U isn't a country, it is a concept that will lead to tyranny unlike you have ever seen before one of these days. We should be focusing on decentralizing power, not consolidating it.

[OddBeMe]

It’s trade group that makes trade easier for the traders in it. UK just made it harder for their country to trade. Ooops.

[Juxtapose]

That's a pretty small price to pay for your freedom.

[OddBeMe]

What freedom were EU taking away?

[Juxtapose]

It's actually very simple man. If the European Union has any power over the countries that are composed of it, then the citizens of those countries are subject to the whims of people they never elected.

The less power is consolidated the better.

[OddBeMe]

Anyone we trade with has “power” over us. It’s called life. Quit pro quo trading. The U. K. just voted on a racist bill to stop immigrants who are always the target.

[Juxtapose]

People having power in trading does not nullify the E. U's undue influence.

[OddBeMe]

What influence did UK bridle at specifically?

[Juxtapose]

Unelected officials having say over the citizenry.

[OddBeMe]

What say exactly? And how are UK elected officials overturned by the EU? These are questions for them. Because they don’t have answers. They follow racist trolls like you are.

[Juxtapose]

Would you like NATO to have authority over the United States like the EU had authority over the United kingdom?

[OddBeMe]

How do they have authority? Still haven’t told me. UK prime minister have to suck the EU’s cock? What’s the protocol?

How would NATO control the US then? No one can fckin tell me.

[Juxtapose]

Maybe you can research this yourself?

[OddBeMe]

Got nothing huh? Hope you didn’t stay up all night searching the web. Lol

[Juxtapose]

That's like saying I can't fix a chair because I don't want to fix your chair. It's a base level psychological tactic to get me to do work that I shouldn't have to do.

[Juxtapose]

Stop being lazy and look it up yourself.

[OddBeMe]

“…rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons,” wrote former London mayor Boris Johnson

[Juxtapose]

Well if that is true then there you go, why would you want some huge nanny state that you don't have control of when we are already wrestling with the authoritarianism of our own government?

The United Kingdom is even more authoritarian than we are.

[OddBeMe]

I’m just not seeing the imposing EU laws that would facilitate an exodus. It’s like a networking club. I pay into it, have accountability to everyone in it and benefit from it.

The EU has to have standards for all countries as a trade Union or else it’s chaos.

[Juxtapose]

Once again, I think power is already too centralized as it is. I don't want it to be further centralized in any regard.

[OddBeMe]

And yet you’ve failed to show me how they’re too centralized. But whatevs.

[Anonymous]

Sorry but I don’t read ridiculous illustrations ranking something as intangible and subjective as “happiness” and take them seriously.

[OddBeMe]

could've stopped after “I don’t read”

[Opinion Owner]

Nah I think it’s important to point out to others how ridiculous your posts are. 👍

Some people volunteer at an animal shelter, or go pick up litter or help the homeless. Me? I’m doing the important work.

😉

[OddBeMe]

A lot of unemployed say that.

[gorydetails]

Maybe they don't have to put up with woke assholes

[Sasahara]

We do have wokeness here in Norway, but thankfully they are even an minority online and usually gets called out.

[OddBeMe]

@Sasahara what is woke in Norway? What are the arguments?

[Sasahara]

We have similar people as woke people in other countries, only less of them I guess, since they usually gets called out? Similar arguments as they make in other countries. Only more likely to get called out for it.
We have diversity quotas like media in other countries, and we have people defending them. We have products changing name because oversensitive people didn't like the old name. We have stories getting banned / censored because they include words a few people find bad. A lot of people here still use the old names even if a product has gotten a new name.

To give some spesific examples, last year we had a girl complaining about lack of diversity amoung the characters in Disney comics.

[OddBeMe]

@Sasahara my god. How do we live like this…renaming and diversity. Why god! WHY!

[Sasahara]

We have other types of SJWs here too.
We live like this by calling it out and laughing at the idiots who force these decisions onto people.
Media panders to them for some reason, but most people I have seen both IRL and online seems to think its stupid and pointless.

And again, they are also banning and censoring old stories and songs.

Yeah, complaining about lack of diversity, in Disney comics of all things, is pretty stupid.

Fun relevant fact: last week a journalist self identified herself as woke. And even said she has opinions people find provocative. And then gets "suprised" when people laugh at her and don't support her views 🤷‍♂️