Polls: Society & Politics

Our test scores keep falling behind other countries. Not because of funding. We spend the most for education. It’s because the curriculum has gotten away from the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic and has become more political such as introducing CRT

I believe this 100%

It takes a weak sad pathetic individual to blame the opposite gender for all of their problems.

I would say mostly B but some of A.

a lot of reactionaries say it's patronizing to black people for the left to say black people can't become as prosperous as white people on their own. Well it's not that we don't think that black people can't "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps", it's that we realize that the government gave out a lot more bootstraps to pull themselves up by to white people (i. e. homestead and federal housing act) than black people. So for white people to say that black people should lift themselves up by their own bootstraps like they did is just pretentiousness.

*But, but, but my ancestors came here from Europe and didn't get squat from the government but they still lived the American dream.
-And there were people born into slavery who became millionaires but we're talking about the systemic problem, not why individuals don't succeed.

*But, but but Asian Americans faced discrimination but they're more successful than white people because they overcame it.
-They overcame the racist immigration quotas that only allowed the most well to do families to move here (i. e. there's a sampling bias).

I had a blue user tell me that the threat of violence has no reason to be unconstitutional while mean words are constitutional because "apparently" mean words can cause *schizophrenia* (LOL) & are just as bad?

"I hate blacks" = protected speech.

"I am going to kill you Joe" = incitement.

Am I alone in thinking this is a really strange false equivalence?

Currently we are ranked last among developed nations and that is 100% plain stupid.

As an American, I want the best Healthcare system in the world!!!

We should find which country has the best Healthcare system and copy it!!

https://www.pacificresearch.org/does-america-really-have-the-worst-health-system-in-the-developed-world/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-health-rankings/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/us-healthcare-most-expensive-and-worst-performing/372828/

Do you fear them?

It just seems such a short jump for Repubs to use this kind of imagery. Obvi not all Repubs are Nazis and I doubt this dumb bitch is really.

On the other hand… all KKK and Neo-Nazis looove Trump.

Joe Biden.

Idc who you voted for. What I want to know is if you approve of his performance, policies, actions up to this point.

Me personally I do not. And no, I’m not a Trumpet, Trumper, whatever you wanna call that category of people. I didn’t vote for either of the two.

But the truth must be said, Joe Biden did in fact criticize the ever living hell out of the previous administration. Even after taking office he still brings up Trump (with the botched withdrawal in Afghan, he basically blamed the previous administration for the chaos that ensued)

His biggest criticism was Trump’s response to Covid. Which he and Kamala both said while Trump was in office that they would not take the vaccine (that Trump pushed for the development as part of “operation warp speed”) and then, they win, take office and all of a sudden they had a change of heart.

Biden’s approval ratings have been plummeting all because within his first 10 months as president he’s proven to be no better.

If you still believe he’s a failed leader, you’re entitled to that opinion. But I will say that I know a lot of people who did in fact vote for him and realized they made a huge mistake

Society A
-Be Rich
-Have The Best Healthcare
-Have The Best Education
-Have The Best Infrastructure
-But Women Get Abortions and Trans Women Playing In Women Sports
-All Drugs and Sex Work Legalized

Society B
-Be Poor
-Have The Worst Healthcare
-Have The Worst Education
-Have The Worst Infrastructure
-Abortions are banned and Trans Women are banned from playing in women sports
-All Drugs and Sex Work Banned

When seeing you for the first time, what do strangers usually assume about you? Positive things, negative things, neutral things or different things each time, or no assumptions at all?

I'm short, quite unattractive looking (ugly), overweight, dark-skinned, etc. So you can assume what I always get from everyone about first impressions, and it's not Option A.

Inspired by @Sonorous 's question here.