Probably also killed a lot of elderly or immunocompromised adults since he lobbied against a covid vaccine becoming open source.

The only one I’d give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he’s been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.

The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture

Cars, heating and meat consumption will do that. Yeah the top .1% taking there private jets around is doing a lot more damage then your average middle class westerner but that person driving there car and eating beef everyday are doing a lot more damage then your average person living in east and south asia.

It is horribly under covered by mainstream press and does have atrocities equivalent to the war on gaza. The Sudanese military has kicked the rapid support forces (rsf) out of most of the east and capital region, but the rsf holds a lot of the west / darfur region except for the city of al fasher which is currently under siege and probably has conditions comparable to Gaza in terms of lack of food and water coming in.

The reason no one is out protesting or trying to raise awareness is because we (the west) can’t do anything about it. We aren’t supporting either side and shouldn’t be, the RSF is worse but the Sudanese military has no shortage of war crimes. So we have no leverage to try and get a ceasefire, whereas in Israel we continue to send them billions in military aid to continue a genocidal war. We could tell them to take peace talks seriously or we cut off aid any day now but refuse to because trump wants a new beach resort.

It’s cutting both ways, Israel is using Sudan for whataboutism. Saw this bill board on the 101 the other day

Saw this scrolling through all. I suppose if your sensitive you probably have this sub blocked but figure better safe then sorry.

You should put a CW up for transphobia. I know it’s a joke but this could seriously ruin someone’s day and bring up some old traumas.

Depends on what your judging life by. For health and economic security living in Cuba is better then being poor in the u.s. life expectancy for Cuba and the u.s. are even, and life expectancy in the US is heavily dependent on income, so your average Cuban is living maybe 10 years more than someone in the US living under poverty.

If your judging life by political freedom and economic mobility , then yeah living in poverty in the US is better.

Yeah by economic statistics you’re “richer” if your in the bottom fifth of the US compared to cuba but you aren’t paying half your income to rent in cuba and you won’t be ruined by medical debt if you get sick.

We have bottle deposit in some states in the u.s. Some do it better than others though, grew up in Michigan and there any place that sold bottles had to be able to return them and a lot of the grocery stores had the machines. Moved to California and it seems like none of the stores are set up for it and the cashier will often turn you to a recycling center.

Housing as an investment leads to real estate speculation which pushes up prices. It creates a class of people who stand to gain when property values, and downstream of that rent, go up.

This class of people are very wealthy and tend to oppose any action that will decrease there property value. That includes things like building dense affordable housing, especially close to them, as that increases the supply of housing and thus decreases there property value.

This is true especially for land lords, even small “mom and pop” landlords. There goal is to raise rent and the value of there investment. Anything that will lower rent or even stabilize it like rent control they will oppose, no matter their scale.

Tl;dr: housing speculation creates a wealthy class of people opposed to housing affordability.

another of these clearly illegal things

They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.

There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.

Interesting that it is a very clear downward trend. Hopefully this is a sign that more and more people realize the two parties are failing them and are ready for a shake up.

In general the president has been gaining power over the past 50 years as congress has become more gridlocked and inept.

Now we’re at the point where a president can bomb a foreign country backed only by the approval of his buddies in a signal chat.

In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole to clean it while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.

Yeah, the u.s. ended up with ~70% of the world’s gold reserves by 1947. In a global economy still mostly using “hard” gold/silver backed currency this was a massive advantage.

if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

That may be true in europe and north america, but catholicism is booming in Sub-Saharan Africa in a lot of countries with younger populations. A lot of those countries also don’t have very progressive views on LGBT people and would be fine with backtracking on that front.

This is why I’m for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you’re moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you’re moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.

Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren’t helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren’t going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.

by perfectly standard measures kokain is way more dangerous then alcohol

No it’s not, by your perceptions of those measures it may be but experts disagree.

Source

You also have to consider deaths from collateral damage, eg. Driving under the influence. Alcohol tops those charts by a lot and causes a lot of innocent deaths.

science defying stupidity

The scientists are on his side. Most drug harm experts agree that cocaine is on the same level as alcohol

A lot of drug harm experts agree

Source

Idk about the claim of it being illegal because it’s from Latin America, but a lot of racism was involved in deciding to make it illegal. There was a moral panic at the time that it was giving black men super human strength and unctrollable lust for white women.