I think your issue is that you are perceiving them as government workers. In reality they are violent gangs with the backing of the judiciary system and state representatives.

The entire purpose of police in America has always been to protect property and to oppress minority groups. They are the evolution of slave hunters and mercenary groups like the Pinkertons. The monied class of America just found a way to socialize their monopoly on violence.

Lol, there are several comments on this post specifically talking about castration. Simply highlighting one aspect of the paradigm does not mean you condone the other, nor does it mean people are ignoring it.

Sexual violence against women is spoken more about because it is much more common than with men. One out of five women are victims or rape or rape attempts, comparatively only one out of thirty-one men have experienced the same. The same goes for cattle, as the vast majority of cattle are females.

Simply stating that fact does not mean people do not care about sexual violence towards men, nor would someone who cares about the suffering of animals condone the morality of the practices in the meat industry when it comes to male cows.

I would say that’s an example of perfect being the enemy of good. If someone is making a conscious effort to moderate their consumption of meat then how can that be a bad thing when compared to the vast majority of people who make no effort at all?

Any amount of effort is better than not trying at all. Plus, is wager that the majority of people transition into vegetarianism/veganism, and this may be the first step of that journey. Why would anyone be critical of these people when there are people whose main caloric intake is meat?

I knew this guy was going to be a crazed maga dude just because they called him a crazy gunman and not some kind of leftist antifa assassin.

Untrained masked men kidnapping children from schools doesn’t entail political violence?

Enabling or advocating for these actions is a form of political violence itself. Himmler never killed anyone himself, does that mean he disengaged from the use of political violence?

Lots and lots of TRT. It increases red blood cell production and can cause flushing especially if you’re already predisposed to something like hypertension.

Basically, if you see a dude past 45 put on more muscle than they had before they had in their 30s they are getting a lot of trt.

Well, it’s clear we have a disagreement needing real world experimentation.

You get in your tank and I’ll shoot you with a 30mm chain gun for 3 seconds. Then I’ll get in my tank and let you shoot me with your 4 20mm machine guns for 3 seconds.

Easy.

Yes, but big is larger than small.

Maybe back when the US manufacturing was capable of plane factory go brrr noises. Could you imagine what Lockheed martin would charge nowadays to install each one of those rivets?

What happens when someone attempts to answer the question “why don’t they just make the whole plane out of the black box”?

I actually had to look this up, but it’s honestly not as big of a difference as I was originally thinking.

The Corsair with 6x 12.7 would be putting out a combined approximately 4500 rounds a minute compared to the A-10s 30mm at about 3900 per minute.

I think the warthog still may be winning in the dakka race especially when considering the amount of lead being thrown.

I mean tbf… 4x the payload is kinda the most important stat for a tank destroyer. Also I’d be willing to bet the single 30mm chain gun would outperform 4 20mm guns.

There seems to be at least some level of neglect.

Especially since he is claimed to have quite a bit of alpine experience compared to her. That’s really what brings the liability of negligence to the whole scenario.

Alpine hiking at night is already incredibly dangerous, but not ensuring the person with the least amount of experience has the correct equipment and knows how to use it is just wild.

I wonder, though, did she not have a phone? Was there no reception, or why did she not call or signal for help herself?

Well the confusing thing is that they had helicopters overfly them multiple times as they made their climb and both failed to signal and continued their way to the summit. The person on trial claims that she was doing fine until right after the last flyover and then suddenly started to get worse.

As someone with a mild amount of cold weather experience… I don’t really believe this at all. If I were a betting guy I would wager that she was already suffering from the mental affects of hypothermia. You can enter a super suggestive state the colder you get and your mental faculties and decision making ability rapidly deteriorate to the point where you can get lost and just start walking in circles.

Were there other ways to make it through the night?

She did have a bivy sack that could have provided at least a decent amount of shelter, but he didn’t help her set it up before he left her on the mountain.

Tbh it really seems like he was purposely trying to endanger her, or at very least is a huge piece of shit that didn’t care about her well-being. This would be like a scuba diver taking an amateur on a night dive, not teaching them how to operate their regulator, and than abandoning them a hundred feet underwater in the dark. It really is criminal.

Trump is incredibly different from everything in your lifetime. You either haven’t been paying attention, or your a frog in a pot and just didn’t notice the temperature rising.

Did you miss the part where I said worse…?

things were never super great under either party but your country didn’t collapse either. So you’re expecting things to go on like that for the rest of your life.

It has been in perpetual decline for decades. Trump didn’t just happen overnight, nor will America be ghosted overnight, Empires die slow deaths.

It rhymes with guys like Putin, Erdogan, Mussolini, and Hitler.

Not a fan of Putin or erdogan… But I think falsely conflating them with Mussolini or Hitler is a bit much.

Americans won’t stop him because of the false sense of complacency.

Fascism is rising in all western democracies as a response to late stage capitalism. It’s not inherent to America, nor is from a false sense of complacency.

while Americans stick the sand, the rest of the world is noticing. And we don’t see Trump as the cause of the problems, he’s a symptom of the rot in American culture.

Yeah… I don’t think the fascist movements ballooning all over Europe have been made aware they appropriating American culture.

all hoped you would just vote for the black lady and things would have indeed gone back to normal. But that didn’t happen. Americans either voted for fascism or were complacent about it as you are.

Lol, who said I didn’t vote for as you said “the black lady”?

Trade will be routed around the US. Alliances with the US are just paper now, they’re meaningless. The US will be isolated as Spain was under Franco.

I’m willing to bet the corporations in your country still care more about money than they do about policy. America still has a bunch of capital to swing around and in the end that’s really what liberal democracies care about.

I think nations should boycot America, I just don’t really expect them too.

You could’ve just voted in primaries and got some people in power that would tax the wealthy.

When did I say I didn’t?

The US is the wealthiest country in the world, just the wealth didn’t trickle down as Reagan told you it would. But if you thought being a wealthy country with a population indoctrinated into apathy on wealth distribution was bad?

Do you think everyone in America shares a hive mind or something?

The US is fucked and the rest of the world is trying to distance itself from you before it all collapses. But go on and keep thinking everything is going to keep on as it always has.

Again… What do you think everything progressively getting worse means? What do you think a “collapse” actually means? How exactly is a country like Canada going to shield itself from a collapsing America when America is by far its largest trading party?

If you think this problem is just in America, or that canda doesn’t have a problem with income inequality… I really don’t know what to tell you. This is just what happens to any nation who bases their economy on the idea that infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is possible.

My point of contention is largely that the issue isn’t with the will of the voters, and that the direction of policy is largely directed from the top down.

Most American progressives are vastly more progressive than their representatives. It’s just that the DNC’s leadership is filled with thirdway democrats who refuse to support anyone left of center.

Edit: just reread you original comment. I misread it the first time round and thought you had said it was as far left as the people were willing to go. My bad.

Americans expect a lot from their Presidents. But the real problem is Congress.

I mean it’s definitely both… Congress has empowered the executive to an incredible degree, and this has been rarified by the judiciary.

Plus, most people ignore most elections other than when electing a new president. So your presidential candidate has a huge influence over the makeup and political agenda of Congress.

Okay, but the reason we have had centerist presidents is because that’s as far left as the people running the government and the media were willing to go.

Eh… That’s debatable. The modern democratic party being center right is kinda a byproduct of Thirdway politics. Which was largely popularized by the party leaders itself, specifically by the Clinton’s.

Bill Clinton rose to power by advocating for compromise as a way to get through the growing gridlock in Congress. This worked for his career, but it gave the Republican party a huge amount of influence over defining what that middle ground was. They would work with Democratic candidates with policy that served their purposes and completely ignore the ones that served anyone left of center.

This had the overall effect of not only controlling policy in congress, but actually being able to vicariously control the opposition. As time went on the only people who reached seniority in the DNC were those who would compromise with the rnc to create a “mutually” beneficial policy.

Don’t worry… Our next president will be a center right candidate and be declared both a rabid leftist and simultaneously the saviour of democracy. They’ll only predator drone strike a few weddings, thus securing their Nobel peace prize. Everything will return to normal, with just a little shift of the Overton window to the right. But hey, at least it won’t be Trump and full on fascism…

All sarcasm aside, the older I get the more headlines give me dejavu. I can remember article like this after the Gulf war where I felt like other countries were actually stepping away from America’s lead, and then the Clinton’s rose to power to make things better. Then Bush v2 and Afghanistan and then Obama promised to make it all better. Now we have trump and I’m beginning to wonder what kind of centerist compromise the Democrats are cooking up.

History may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme, and seemingly the tune it does it to just gets worse every iteration.

Cool. How many hours must he have had to work to keep his insurance?

You have to work a certain amount of day or make a certain amount of compensation as a performer, to qualify for insurance its a little over 100 days or so 28k and that includes residuals, production, and background work.

How much medical debt had he accumulated before 2025?

As I stated in my original comment, you can still have medical debt while having decent insurance. I’m not saying that the medical system is good, or fair.

And if he was working ‘regularly’ why was he still selling his memorabilia?

For one… I never said he wasn’t in medical debt. Secondly, if I had 6 kids and knew I wasn’t going to be around to financially secure their future I would be hawking memorabilia as well.

I don’t think they are destitute, they still have a multi-million dollar home outside of Austin. I think he was just doing anything possible to maintain their financial norms as much as possible.

can tell you, having gone through the CVS specialty pharmacy stuff for chemo medication specifically, it is absolutely not covered in the way you or they have said, and you absolutely do not pay $0.

It’s dependent on your individual insurance plan and what kind of coverage you have… This is the reason I said the Sag-aftra policy was pretty decent compared to most private insurance policies. The quote I gave is directly from the policy they currently have, which would be different than the policy you have experience with even if you utilized the same pharmaceutical company.

Have you ever had cancer or had a family member go through cancer treatments? Because if you haven’t, you probably shouldn’t speak from a position of authority on things for which you have no direct personal experience with.

Yes, and Im a healthcare provider in a field where a lot of my patients population have been or currently are in being treated by oncologist.

My copay is absolutely not $0 from CVS specialty pharmacy. Usually, for a $9k-12k prescription (Depends on the dosage they decide I need), I end up needing to cover around $2k/month, after insurance. And that’s with having double insurance providers.

While it’s disheartening to hear that, that does not mean that is going to be the same for someone with a different policy than you. Sag-aftra has a very good policy because they have group bargained as a union to get the best care for their members. Which is different than most private insurance policies that are sponsored by workplaces who bargain to get their employees the cheapest policies available.

I’m not trying to make excuses for the American healthcare system of inequality. I was just pointing out that the union provided policy was particularly impressive compared to most. It’s sure as hell alot better than my policy and I work for my state’s largest healthcare provider.