Barabas [he/him]

70% of the US working population are full time workers.

30% of the working population are thus excluded, and they are likely all (with some extraordinary exceptions) below the median wage. Which means that 60% of below median wage workers are being excluded (or 51 million people), which is a significant amount compared to the top 1000 people in the above example. Doesn’t say so in the wikipedia article, but easy to tease out when they start weaseling with “fully employed” when a significant amount of the working population are not part time employed by choice.

Median numbers do look a lot better when you remove 60% of below median earning workers, who would have thought.

Yeah, that is where I grew up. Lots of Dutch people.

A lot of people from the Nethelands moving in where I used to live in Sweden for that reason.

Also that it was a dying town with no jobs that is steadily spiraling downwards so people pick up drug/alcohol addictions to cope or move away meaning that housing is cheap. But if you want solitude it is pretty swell.

I’m pretty close with my mum but have had a tendency to not tell her about struggles I have, not because of anything she has done but rather because of shame and not wanting to make her sad. She would listen and is very non-judgemental but I’d rather shoulder it on my own. The only caveat to that is that she is proper anti-drugs.

Dad was a dickhead and he can RIP in piss.

So, just to make it clear, your only issue with what the US is doing is that they didn’t file the correct paperwork first?

Or is it that they weren’t required to swear fealty to Israel before entering?

When supporting the existence of an explicit ethnonationalist state is mandated by law, maybe the law is wrong.

Go and ask the Atlantic Council who keep coping about how it is lies every time a report comes out why it is a big deal.

I don’t really consider rushing someone to a hospital as an especially high bar for genuinely good person. Seems more like the bar for not being a genuinely bad person. Not sure if that means that I’m positive or negative about humanity.

They would come to a mutual understanding and unite against their common enemies.