Why are progressives so desperate to carry water for criminals?? Criminals suck! They make life worse for everyone else in society.

You might notice that Tokyo is much nicer than literally any city we have in the US.

The students are treated like prisoners because they were ALREADY acting that way.

Use your brain. Schools install metal detectors and hire guards because the kids were getting into fights and bringing guns/knives to school. Acting like adding a metal detector is what causes kids to bring guns to school is insanity.

It wasn’t republicans that trashed California public schools in the name of ‘racial equity.’

Space exploration nay-sayers really are the lamest people imaginable.

So tired of posts vaguely criticizing instead of naming any tangible problems.

I mean, I always was. My rule has always been - if something seems too good to be true, it is.

This is my biggest issue with ‘progressive’ types. They always seem to get drawn in by hype and flash, and neglect to consider 2nd order effects. I’ve had an endless number of conversations with friends of this persuasion where I point out very very obvious problems with some hot new idea they are so enamored with, which they inevitably poo-poo as me being a mean old cynical conservative. And a few years later we end up with articles like above.

Same shit happened when income taxes were first introduced.

The ONLY thing that works is making sure a tax never hits the books in the first place.

God I hope so! Modernity sucks.

Lmao god damn veggies are delusional.

My wife grew up in a country where people would still personally slaughter pigs to roast at major holidays. Didn’t keep her or any of her family from eating meat.

Hence, I oppose ALL tax increases.

The income tax when originally introduced only hit the ‘ultra wealthy’ too, and now look where we are. Why on earth would I ever believe that a wealth tax, once instituted, wouldn’t end up impacting me in a decade or so?

Very immigration officer I’ve ever interacted with has been chilly, it’s not some uniquely American thing.

Pretty much every rail station I went through in Europe had extremely (to my eyes) heavily armed guards standing around. I was also asked to present my passport on several occasions. At one Italian station, it happed twice within a few minutes. I’ve been on multiple trains where some flavor of police comes on, checks people’s papers, and then grab some guy and escort him off at the next stop.

Other than renting a U-Haul and driving 2,800 miles, there weren’t many options. Which I even suggested, to which my parents insisted they were happy to hang on to the stuff until it was easier to do the handover.

>never created any expectation that their childhood home would serve…facility, extended stay facility or even exist.

Sounds like a pretty sad mindset to me. Between me and your kids, I wonder which are happier to visit their parents?

They just recently cleared out the attic and unloaded my childhood stuff on me, and I gladly took it all back.