To all Americans: please, for the love of everything that is holy on this earth and beyond, VOTE IN THE 2024 ELECTION!! If we are going to have any chance of helping the country, Trump absolutely cannot win the election. I'm begging you to vote.

I see everyone "thank God l'm not in the US" Well, let me tell you about the European "paradise" l live in: under certain annual income you don't need to do your taxes because you're exempt. Nice and fair, right? Well, here's the catch. If you earn that exact yearly income from a couple jobs because you can only get part time, not only do you have to do your taxes, you're taxed around 10%. How do l know? Because l'm the loser who has two or more part time jobs to make ends meet. The system is designed to crush the poor. Maybe even more so in the States, but certainly everywhere else. At this point I just want to watch everything burn.

How about if you dislike Jeff Bezos so much, stop using Amazon. Shop local, keep you high street alive

Dear America, Trump is a corporate shill, the rest of the World can't believe you keep falling for it.

Billionaires should be k*11ëd and their wealth redistributed to people who actually work for a living. America SUCKS.

All in all, the outcome of the (first) cold war told us only one thing: under the given curcumstances of trial, sovietism, often falsely referred to as communism, fails faster than capitalism. It does NOT imply that capitalism is right, the best solution, or even acceptable. It just has something else that, under the circumstances that were there anyway, fails faster. And, to be fair, the sovietish systems failing economically wasn't a suprise by any means. Ronny R, our good old downtrickling con artist, knew very exactly what he was doing, when prior to his presidency, the USA spent about 15 % of their federal budget (not including state or community budgets) on defense, USSR spent almost 50 %. Now, if the US increase that by half, we'd come out at 22.5 %, while, to keep up - considering them to have been somewhat balanced prior - the USSR would have to spend 75 % on arms, or ... cut every other federal cost by half. Of course, that's not possible. So, can we now eradicate the myth of the cold war's ending justifying capitalism? Ok, now that this is off - we need to change stuff. We need to demand the change we need to see, unless we're fine with knowing better while we live in a cardboard box the bank owns. A market based economy works pretty well, as well as it is balanced - an unbalanced one, obviously, works unwell. Now, as housing, for example, is something everybody needs, it shouldn't be hard to understand that this market being balanced is crucial to a society being able to function, or to thrive. Thriving needs to be redefined, take into account that wealth needs to be widespread to be considered a goal or achievemen of society. As the majority, everywhere, of course so, isn't to be considered rich, as most of us struggle or have struggled not too long ago, this is obvious enough. Of course, there's always the stupid drunkard who never gets any done ... of course, there is sort of deserved poverty ... but, if even a supreme education doesn't even allow to expect a decent wage ... why did I go to university again? Ok, it was interesting on top of qualifying me as an engineer, but would I have worked a shiddy job right after school ... I'd be better off, and would have read whatever I care about anyway. I still read stuff about the same topics as when I was a student. I still care, but it's frustrating. Anyway, we need to either wait out the collapse - every worldwide empire collapsed eventually - or, pre collapse, change the way we do. As the world, sort of, is about to get a tad smaller again, with Russia, China and other authoritarian societies slowly being cut off, we should rather decide so directly, consciously, and deal with the little bit of fallout to stock values and such by simply ignoring a minority's issues - the rich will not suffer anyway, they don't need our help. But, reintroduction of actually MAKING stuff like panties and socks and such ... why do they need to come from further away than I ever was in my life? There's no rationally sound reason to, unless wealth coagulation beyond reason or even reasonability is among the goal we all, poor and rich, can agree to share. I don't.