(March 5, 2018 at 5:56 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:  USA ranks 10 on the human development index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...ment_Index

The only countries they are behind are a small handful of western European countries that spent centuries plundering the rest of the world.

Ah yes, Australia and Singapore, those well known Western European countries.

(March 5, 2018 at 5:56 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:

(March 4, 2018 at 12:34 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Donald Trump is president. How'd that happen?

Damn,  you are on top of breaking news, aren't you?

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(March 4, 2018 at 9:22 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I've always wondered why America lags behind other industrialized countries in terms of standard of living. Are religion and guns the prime suspects?

I don't think that's a true statement at all. Only way it can be called true is if you classify 'industrialized countries' as those specifically with higher standards of living than America.  USA ranks 10 on the human development index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...ment_Index

The only countries they are behind are a small handful of western European countries that spent centuries plundering the rest of the world. I'm in southern Spain right now, and there is no way it has a higher standard of living than the USA.

Heh, since you are in the hood, come to Portugal. Good food, places to see and prices comparatively are cheaper (wages also are lol). Its rainy but its much needed.

(March 5, 2018 at 7:16 am)Sal Wrote: I would bet that if Bernie Sanders won the nomination, there'd be a democrat in the White House today.

Lol, since Bernie isn't a democrat, obviously not.

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(March 5, 2018 at 8:49 am)LastPoet Wrote:

(March 5, 2018 at 5:56 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Damn,  you are on top of breaking news, aren't you?

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I don't think that's a true statement at all. Only way it can be called true is if you classify 'industrialized countries' as those specifically with higher standards of living than America.  USA ranks 10 on the human development index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...ment_Index

The only countries they are behind are a small handful of western European countries that spent centuries plundering the rest of the world. I'm in southern Spain right now, and there is no way it has a higher standard of living than the USA.

Heh, since you are in the hood, come to Portugal. Good food, places to see and prices comparatively are cheaper (wages also are lol). Its rainy but its much needed.

I would love to go to Portugal, everyone speaks very highly of it here, but I ended up with a bike, and visas limit my time, I'm biking from Malaga to Barcelona. I've been getting hit with the same rain!

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(March 5, 2018 at 8:39 am)Cod Wrote:

(March 5, 2018 at 5:56 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:  USA ranks 10 on the human development index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...ment_Index

The only countries they are behind are a small handful of western European countries that spent centuries plundering the rest of the world.

Ah yes, Australia and Singapore, those well known Western European countries.

Lol, wow a whole two countries, one a city state and the other one a super lightly populated, resource rich country with mega strict immigration laws where all the people are from what area of the world?

Do you know what industrialized means?

(March 5, 2018 at 9:12 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:

(March 5, 2018 at 8:39 am)Cod Wrote: Ah yes, Australia and Singapore, those well known Western European countries.

Lol, wow a whole two countries, one a city state and the other one a super lightly populated, resource rich country with mega strict immigration laws where all the people are from what area of the world?

Do you know what industrialized means?

Lol would have been sufficient  

A lot is made of Bernie being an independent, even though he caucuses with the Dems. Though half the country is independent, and the Dems and Repubs make it hard for a proper third party to flourish. So what do they expect Bernie to do, exactly? And why wouldn't the democratic party want to bring in all those independents? You know, aside from being bought off by the corporations....

(March 4, 2018 at 3:04 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:

Quote:Donald Trump is president. How'd that happen?

Large segments of the American public can't deal with change . So they run screaming to the nearest cult leader who promises them a nostalgic fantasy and a return to "the good ol days ". Then said cult leader will point to events that have nothing to do with him and take credit for them .

Yep, the GOP has regressed back to the stone age.

(March 4, 2018 at 3:45 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:

Quote:She lost to Donald Trump and she lost the support of the dems' once largest and once loyal voting base, the Blue collar workers in the Rust Belt and Coal States. She even lost Wisconsin. That speaks volumes against Hillary as a candidate and the dems' campaign strategy of identity politics.

Keep preaching that bullshit narrative

He literally stated facts lol. Like, it's not a narrative; it's what happened.

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Btw I think Sanders would have beaten Trump because he actually gave two shits about the people in the states that ultimately decided the election.

(March 4, 2018 at 12:41 pm)A Theist Wrote: The Dems put up a piss poor candidate and lost one of their largest voting bases to Trump. Their identity politics campaign didn't resonate with those voters in the Rust Belt and Coal States.

Yeah, don't even blame the fact that your party also put up a piss poor candidate.

(March 5, 2018 at 10:52 am)Aegon Wrote:

(March 4, 2018 at 3:45 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Keep preaching that bullshit narrative

He literally stated facts lol. Like,  it's not a narrative; it's what happened.

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Btw I think Sanders would have beaten Trump because he actually gave two shits about the people in the states that ultimately decided the election.

We must agree to disagree on that

(March 5, 2018 at 11:23 am)Shell B Wrote:

(March 4, 2018 at 12:41 pm)A Theist Wrote: The Dems put up a piss poor candidate and lost one of their largest voting bases to Trump. Their identity politics campaign didn't resonate with those voters in the Rust Belt and Coal States.

Yeah, don't even blame the fact that your party also put up a piss poor candidate.

It isn't that we put up a piss poor candidate, Hillary was still a far better Candidate and would have made a far better president regardless.

It is more along the lines that she made key mistakes, but also had been a target for 20 years. 

If she had hit the swing states in the last days and not assumed, and if she had picked Bernie and not Tim for VP we'd be saying Madam President right now.

Anyone can say what they will about Hillary, but she would not be shitting on entire nationalities, religions or intel much less war heros.