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  • Can’t blame them honestly.

    I live comfortably here, but that’s because my income is rather good. Is nice here if you make little or a lot. Anyone else is under huge pressure from taxes and other financial obligations like health insurance, retirement insurance and unemployment insurance. Around 60k - 65k gross income per year is where it hurts the most, where parts of your income are in the 40% tax bracket but you’re still in public health insurance. As a single, you’ll get a little less than 40k net out of that (2022 numbers, now probably worse because health insurance got more expensive). Rent close to the big cities is often over 1000 per month, buying at the moment out of the question.

    All of this gets you… Germany, which isn’t bad but also not Spain for example (where I live / spent time both in bigger cities as well as in a village). Hell, even the Dutch at least have bikable cities. So… it’s not terrible, but it also doesn’t really excel…



  • It’s like everyone after Clinton was bad, not saying Clinton was good but I guess he was mostly lucky with the economy he got

    Bush was a disaster

    Obama bailed out the banks which mid term fucked everyone up big time and did nothing to end US wars from my impression

    Trump 1 was absolute garbage and I’m kind of grateful that COVID might have cost him the first chance at his second term

    Biden was uninspired and didn’t have the guts to fix long-standing issues and just put band-aid on stuff, though I actually think he was the least bad out of the bunch

    Trump 2 is just a whole different league of catastrophe


  • You already replied to it, here the text again:

    I mean otherwise [from context: saying that financing terror groups is a thing peaceful countries do] you could make similar claims about the US. Such a peaceful country! It wasn’t them overthrowing the legitimately elected governments, but local resistance groups! Who trained and armed them? How does this relate to the conversation?

    Here, what Iran does is applied to the US in an ironic manner, because I, the writer, assume that nobody thinks the US is a peaceful country, because I don’t think so either, hence calling them out though indirectly; but again nobody called them peaceful (rightfully so), so there was no need to spell it out, I assumed.




  • You should put something between the link and the semicolon, otherwise it breaks the link.

    It works both on Voyager and the web client for me

    That aside, while that is certainly not very peaceful, it strikes me as not relevant to the context of countries lobbing bombs at each other.

    It isn’t relevant to the bombing really, and if you go back in the discussion you’ll see that I stated this (edit: or rather that I’m against bombing Iran). This was only in response to the implication that Iran is peaceful.