can we get this data “per trip”

because I have a feeling planes would not look nearly as safe.

no it isnt

i am so glad i already have a terminal illness. this world is fucked.

thats cool. still don’t care though.

Sorry, I mispoke on the healthcare. It is nearly free as they have near universal insurance coverage and their out of pocket costs are extreme fractions of what people pay in the US.

seriously, look at what ICE and trump are doing before you start throwing stones in your glass house.

interesting point about not wanting to go after westerners. I knew the big no-nos so I stuck well clear of those, but there we so many minor offenses that I would be fined to death on in the US that I know China would have just completely ignored.

i wont go into my work, but no the locals definitely didnt get paid as much as me. That really doesn’t change the reality how cheap the cost of living is over there though. If I was making the same as the locals over there when I was there, i’d be living just as comfortably there as i currently live in the states. And considering current inflation, I would argue i’d probably be living even more comfortably.

At this point, Chinas goverment may be no more authoritarian than the US government. And China has a lot more social welfare programs than the US. Honestly, when I was in China i felt substantially more free than I did in the US. Far less policed. Far less restricted. Maybe that jsut my experience, but the feeling was real.

I was there several years ago, working in beijing. Decent apartments were crazy cheap. General cost of living is jokingly tiny in comparison to the US. And the kicker, because I was from the west, they were willing to pay may a salary nearly equivelent to what I was making in the states. I only came back to the US because my wife was there.

I’ve spent a good amount of time in China. Sure, Chinese household earnings would be below the US poverty line, but you also have to consider that things in China cost about 1/5 to 1/6 of what they do in the US. Their purchasing power completely blows us out of the water. They also have great public transportation, fantastic infrastructure, and free healthcare. And they are at this point more cutting edge than we are with regard to pushing the limits of medical science. The US is a failed state. China is prospering and all the US can do to defend against it is run smear campaigns that propagandize against it.

Communism works. Who knew?

you sound like an asshole yourself, sir.

kind of incredible that most people are just sitting back and taking it.

why do we need polls for this?

either that or her check hasn’t come through yet.

Every day I hope he gets Julius Caesar’d. Every day… disappointment.

i don’t believe much of anything coming from the government about his killer. Aside from the fact that the texts, messages on the bullets, etc feel extremely cheap and far fetched – does anyone actually have a direct interview with the parents or friends? I still very much believe that this was a false flag.

His opinions supported and boosted fascism. I wouldn’t care if he was killed for those opinions.

fuck that. I wish harm on fascists. lots of it. so much harm that other fascists are scared to even be associated with the word.