America is just completely broken

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In America, you can't even have a kid these days and get bent over the barrel when they want to play a sport because private equity keeps getting more and more involved and is buying up fields, courts, arenas and leagues. Fees constantly go up, because this wouldn't be America unless you couldn't privatize and profit as much as you can off youth sports and activities as a PE firm. Parents who can barely afford to keep things together vecause wages never rise now have to stop signing their kids up to play sports since it is unaffordable. But yeah, let's blame those illegals.

US has declined into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape because of greed, pure and simple.

If all the people who are up in arms about the overblown "men in women sports" issue could focus their anger on private equity perhaps something could be done.

You may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of overlap between the people upset about men playing women’s sports and people upset about PE taking over and en$hittifying everything. Plenty of politically homeless out there.

Just stop with the man playing in women's sports fake issue. I just needs to be ignored before it can be manipulated even further.

I have been on the sidelines at hundreds and hundreds of youth competitions of various sports and ages and leagues. Never has this been an issue. Not one single time.

it is literally less than one athlete per state, but the right would have you believe it is the majority of youth athletes in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you read the outlandish op-Ed’s that NYT has published this month? Starting with Michelle Goldberg yesterday? Bret Stephens.

Until that newspaper is cleaned up and no longer in Prvda territory we do not have a free press or a democracy.

I'm sorry this country is not in the business of cleaning up newspapers. Discard that source of information in your life if you don't like their reporting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In America, you can't even have a kid these days and get bent over the barrel when they want to play a sport because private equity keeps getting more and more involved and is buying up fields, courts, arenas and leagues. Fees constantly go up, because this wouldn't be America unless you couldn't privatize and profit as much as you can off youth sports and activities as a PE firm. Parents who can barely afford to keep things together vecause wages never rise now have to stop signing their kids up to play sports since it is unaffordable. But yeah, let's blame those illegals.

US has declined into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape because of greed, pure and simple.

If all the people who are up in arms about the overblown "men in women sports" issue could focus their anger on private equity perhaps something could be done.

If it is an overblown issue can we agree that athletes will participate in leagues corresponding with their biological sex and move on to bigger problems? Frankly, you can even narrow the compromise to just agreeing that biological males will participate in male leagues. Biological females could be free to participate in either.

I, too, would love to move onto to more important problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many things have gotten so much worse. Shrinkflation and skimpflation. Customer service being replaced by AI that sends you in endless loops and never solves the problem. Endless subscriptions and paywalls. Climate change, global instability, and constant supply chain disruptions causing shortages. Younger people increasingly accept that it’s normal to pay the same price and receive less and less, because they don’t remember what things were like before.

Regardless of the fact that our living standards are still better than a 14th century peasant (for now, until the billionaires have their way), we’ve lost something very vital: optimism. People used to look forward to the future. For a moment after WWII, it seemed like things were possible. Rights were expanding, schools were desegregating, opportunities were opening up for more and more people, and the moral arc of the universe was bending (slowly) in the right direction. The middle class was expanding. Flying cars were just around the corner. Families could get by comfortably on one income. A college education unlocked doors. Kids could just be kids without having to grind year round at sports just to make the high school team. Minority groups started to see themselves represented on TV and in the movies. Workers could get together and demand better conditions. Journalists did their job and reported instead of fawning. We weren’t being constantly surveilled by smart technology.

Greedy rich people, religious leaders, and racists all concluded that this was a bad thing, joined forces, and now here we are, being driven off the cliff by people who very much do not have your best interests at heart.

This is an important misunderstanding of history. America’s post WWII economic dominance which afforded us so much was always going to be temporary. America raced out ahead of the world after the war because much of the industrial base of the world was destroyed. We won because nobody else could compete, not because rod the superiority of our model.

As countries rebuilt their economic bases, they slowly eroded our economic dominance. Slowly at first but then all at once. We helped squander that lead, but it was always going to come to an end. A simple and understandable example is the Japanese automakers eventually outcompeting and destroying the model that made labor unions so powerful and important in the USA after WWII.

A lot of tiger things contributed to the decline, from both the Democrats and Republicans, but the post WII American economy was always going to be a temporary thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In America, you can't even have a kid these days and get bent over the barrel when they want to play a sport because private equity keeps getting more and more involved and is buying up fields, courts, arenas and leagues. Fees constantly go up, because this wouldn't be America unless you couldn't privatize and profit as much as you can off youth sports and activities as a PE firm. Parents who can barely afford to keep things together vecause wages never rise now have to stop signing their kids up to play sports since it is unaffordable. But yeah, let's blame those illegals.

US has declined into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape because of greed, pure and simple.

If all the people who are up in arms about the overblown "men in women sports" issue could focus their anger on private equity perhaps something could be done.

If it is an overblown issue can we agree that athletes will participate in leagues corresponding with their biological sex and move on to bigger problems? Frankly, you can even narrow the compromise to just agreeing that biological males will participate in male leagues. Biological females could be free to participate in either.

I, too, would love to move onto to more important problems.

Good. Do it starting now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you read the outlandish op-Ed’s that NYT has published this month? Starting with Michelle Goldberg yesterday? Bret Stephens.

Until that newspaper is cleaned up and no longer in Prvda territory we do not have a free press or a democracy.

I'm sorry this country is not in the business of cleaning up newspapers. Discard that source of information in your life if you don't like their reporting.

I have switched to the Financial Times thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you read the outlandish op-Ed’s that NYT has published this month? Starting with Michelle Goldberg yesterday? Bret Stephens.

Until that newspaper is cleaned up and no longer in Prvda territory we do not have a free press or a democracy.

I'm sorry this country is not in the business of cleaning up newspapers. Discard that source of information in your life if you don't like their reporting.

Newspapers are not cleaned up until they tell me what I want to hear. Why should I think for myself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you read the outlandish op-Ed’s that NYT has published this month? Starting with Michelle Goldberg yesterday? Bret Stephens.

Until that newspaper is cleaned up and no longer in Prvda territory we do not have a free press or a democracy.

I'm sorry this country is not in the business of cleaning up newspapers. Discard that source of information in your life if you don't like their reporting.

I have switched to the Financial Times thank you.

Every media source has a bias. That doesn't mean it's not a valuable source of information, but try to understand the bias when you read it or view it or listen to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many things have gotten so much worse. Shrinkflation and skimpflation. Customer service being replaced by AI that sends you in endless loops and never solves the problem. Endless subscriptions and paywalls. Climate change, global instability, and constant supply chain disruptions causing shortages. Younger people increasingly accept that it’s normal to pay the same price and receive less and less, because they don’t remember what things were like before.

Regardless of the fact that our living standards are still better than a 14th century peasant (for now, until the billionaires have their way), we’ve lost something very vital: optimism. People used to look forward to the future. For a moment after WWII, it seemed like things were possible. Rights were expanding, schools were desegregating, opportunities were opening up for more and more people, and the moral arc of the universe was bending (slowly) in the right direction. The middle class was expanding. Flying cars were just around the corner. Families could get by comfortably on one income. A college education unlocked doors. Kids could just be kids without having to grind year round at sports just to make the high school team. Minority groups started to see themselves represented on TV and in the movies. Workers could get together and demand better conditions. Journalists did their job and reported instead of fawning. We weren’t being constantly surveilled by smart technology.

Greedy rich people, religious leaders, and racists all concluded that this was a bad thing, joined forces, and now here we are, being driven off the cliff by people who very much do not have your best interests at heart.

This is an important misunderstanding of history. America’s post WWII economic dominance which afforded us so much was always going to be temporary. America raced out ahead of the world after the war because much of the industrial base of the world was destroyed. We won because nobody else could compete, not because rod the superiority of our model.

As countries rebuilt their economic bases, they slowly eroded our economic dominance. Slowly at first but then all at once. We helped squander that lead, but it was always going to come to an end. A simple and understandable example is the Japanese automakers eventually outcompeting and destroying the model that made labor unions so powerful and important in the USA after WWII.

A lot of tiger things contributed to the decline, from both the Democrats and Republicans, but the post WII American economy was always going to be a temporary thing.

You’re talking about economic superiority which is just one aspect of what PP was talking about. We didn’t need to cut education and infrastructure spending and export jobs like we did. We didn’t need to allow corporate interests to take over our government.

[Anonymous]

America is failing its citizens. Trump has decimated jobs. He blew up the deficit. He is acting like a madman in foreign policy. All these things while also using his office to grift anyone and everyone. Meanwhile his supporters are brainwashed zombies that support and parrot anything is says or does. Truly unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In America, you can't even have a kid these days and get bent over the barrel when they want to play a sport because private equity keeps getting more and more involved and is buying up fields, courts, arenas and leagues. Fees constantly go up, because this wouldn't be America unless you couldn't privatize and profit as much as you can off youth sports and activities as a PE firm. Parents who can barely afford to keep things together vecause wages never rise now have to stop signing their kids up to play sports since it is unaffordable. But yeah, let's blame those illegals.

US has declined into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape because of greed, pure and simple.

If all the people who are up in arms about the overblown "men in women sports" issue could focus their anger on private equity perhaps something could be done.

You may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of overlap between the people upset about men playing women’s sports and people upset about PE taking over and en$hittifying everything. Plenty of politically homeless out there.

On the list of things I care about that affect my daily life, trans athletes rank several million spots below “why are toilet paper rolls half an inch shorter than they used to be” and “why am I paying three times as much for a box of Girl Scout cookies that has fewer, smaller cookies made with cheaper ingredients?”

[Anonymous]

Fed Chair Jerome Powell: "There is effectively ZERO NET JOB CREATION in the private sector."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many things have gotten so much worse. Shrinkflation and skimpflation. Customer service being replaced by AI that sends you in endless loops and never solves the problem. Endless subscriptions and paywalls. Climate change, global instability, and constant supply chain disruptions causing shortages. Younger people increasingly accept that it’s normal to pay the same price and receive less and less, because they don’t remember what things were like before.

Regardless of the fact that our living standards are still better than a 14th century peasant (for now, until the billionaires have their way), we’ve lost something very vital: optimism. People used to look forward to the future. For a moment after WWII, it seemed like things were possible. Rights were expanding, schools were desegregating, opportunities were opening up for more and more people, and the moral arc of the universe was bending (slowly) in the right direction. The middle class was expanding. Flying cars were just around the corner. Families could get by comfortably on one income. A college education unlocked doors. Kids could just be kids without having to grind year round at sports just to make the high school team. Minority groups started to see themselves represented on TV and in the movies. Workers could get together and demand better conditions. Journalists did their job and reported instead of fawning. We weren’t being constantly surveilled by smart technology.

Greedy rich people, religious leaders, and racists all concluded that this was a bad thing, joined forces, and now here we are, being driven off the cliff by people who very much do not have your best interests at heart.

This is an important misunderstanding of history. America’s post WWII economic dominance which afforded us so much was always going to be temporary. America raced out ahead of the world after the war because much of the industrial base of the world was destroyed. We won because nobody else could compete, not because rod the superiority of our model.

As countries rebuilt their economic bases, they slowly eroded our economic dominance. Slowly at first but then all at once. We helped squander that lead, but it was always going to come to an end. A simple and understandable example is the Japanese automakers eventually outcompeting and destroying the model that made labor unions so powerful and important in the USA after WWII.

A lot of tiger things contributed to the decline, from both the Democrats and Republicans, but the post WII American economy was always going to be a temporary thing.

It’s not a misunderstanding of history, it’s what actually happened.

Your point that it wasn’t sustainable is well taken, but we also didn’t have to return to the Gilded Age and repeat its mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In America, you can't even have a kid these days and get bent over the barrel when they want to play a sport because private equity keeps getting more and more involved and is buying up fields, courts, arenas and leagues. Fees constantly go up, because this wouldn't be America unless you couldn't privatize and profit as much as you can off youth sports and activities as a PE firm. Parents who can barely afford to keep things together vecause wages never rise now have to stop signing their kids up to play sports since it is unaffordable. But yeah, let's blame those illegals.

US has declined into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape because of greed, pure and simple.

If all the people who are up in arms about the overblown "men in women sports" issue could focus their anger on private equity perhaps something could be done.

You may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of overlap between the people upset about men playing women’s sports and people upset about PE taking over and en$hittifying everything. Plenty of politically homeless out there.

Just stop with the man playing in women's sports fake issue. I just needs to be ignored before it can be manipulated even further.

I have been on the sidelines at hundreds and hundreds of youth competitions of various sports and ages and leagues. Never has this been an issue. Not one single time.

it is literally less than one athlete per state, but the right would have you believe it is the majority of youth athletes in the country.

I’ve said it so many times before, but maga is terrible, TERRIBLE, at risk assessment and statistics.

Trans athletes, voting ID, vaccines…it’s embarrassing to our educational system that they are willing to burn down the country based on fantasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America is failing its citizens. Trump has decimated jobs. He blew up the deficit. He is acting like a madman in foreign policy. All these things while also using his office to grift anyone and everyone. Meanwhile his supporters are brainwashed zombies that support and parrot anything is says or does. Truly unbelievable.

Thanks for nothing maga.