Polls: Society & Politics

I've tried to be sympathetic towards them for so long, but almost all of them are hard-core drug addicts and lazy criminals.

I've stopped giving to them, full stop, since one of them came to me and demanded that I give them my customers food. I refused and drove away, they're very annoying. They need to work and contribute to society, not beg for their next drug fix. And they need to stop hanging around in public, they need to be pushed away by law enforcement.

How do you feel about beggars?

Because it may come down to this. If he is not elected, his cult member will go crazy and start a LOT of trouble.

He pushed NATO countries to spend more on their defense while he was President.

He now looks like he could definitely win the 2024 election and Europe is scrambling to re-build their militaries and increase defense spending just when it is becoming clear that Russian is a threat to Western Europe.

Merkel was wrong… again and Germany was wrong… again. The US Left was wrong… again!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-has-saved-nato-and-the-west/ar-AA1nMd5z

And spare me: It's not our guy; it's their guy! For every example you give me of the other guy being mentally frail, I can give you an example of YOUR guy being mentally frail!

I love this lady’s quote. “Call the Philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested.”

Meet 2024’s latest meme.

Why am I in support? It’s not anti Jew. It’s pro-peace, anti-warmongering. And yes there’s Ukraine. But Israel is acting like Russia.

Yes they have reason to invade, Russia doesn’t. But we can still protest warmongering to possibly save a Palestinian kid’s life. And I still care about Israeli’s children too.

Israel had their 9/11. Their politicans are covering their asses by invading. Like Bish did with Iraq.

They're following Bush W’s trodden path. We’re like Cassandra in Greek mythology. Knowing destruction is coming but no one believes her.

I sure am!

Examples of bad behavior: Stealing, cheating (academic/romantic), information hoarding at work

And finance it by my speeding tickets…. uhg

The last financial crisis in 2008 was a long time ago so by 2017/18 I was on the lookout for signs it was going to happen again. Debt was high again so there could've been another crisis where people defaulted on loans and it caused a chain reaction but nothing happened. Then Covid came in 2019 and I thought for sure now this will be the trigger that causes everything to go up in smoke but no they just borrowed more money. They kept interest rates low way longer than any responsible person would do it. Now inflation is a problem too. I'm just wondering if they keep try and artificially get out of a crisis at some point the walls will be closing in on all sides and there will be no escape anymore.

The question is, wouldn't it be worth it to face a smaller problem earlier instead of punting it down the road and see when this time bomb blows up. I heard somewhere that soon the interest on the national debt alone will be bigger than the entire military budget. And that itself already includes a lot of wasteful spending. Right now I don't even feel like I can predict anymore when there will be another crash because the government will try to step in to try and stop anything bad happening. In theory you can keep doing that for ever until the debt can't be repaid and the dollar is worthless. Of course they won't want it to go that far. But it's practically impossible to judge when they think the right time is to step on the brake economically and stop mortgaging the future for today.

I feel like every economic principal has pretty much been thrown out the window in the last 20 years and now people in charge just do what they feel like doing. Whatever will cause them the least grief and get people off their ass that's the right decision. Doesn't matter if it's actually smart thing to do when you look at the big picture, we don't do that anymore.