Thats wild I didn’t know that was a mainly Irish-American dish. My mother always makes it every St Patrick’s day I think it’s delicious. Don’t tell me that soda bread isn’t traditionally Irish either??

I think that is especially true in the United States where sharing cultures is so central to the nation’s identity. I think it really comes down to intent. As long as you aren’t doing something in a mocking or condescending way, I don’t think any reasonable person would be offended.

I know this is a little different due to the power dynamic (America being a powerful country) but people around the world love wearing random American stuff like baseball jerseys or whatever. Saw a lot of it in Europe. Probably theres no profound reason behind it, they just like the style. I think it’s cool, I’m not mad that they don’t really know who the Texas Rangers are or whatever.

That’s kind of a weird take. Centrists have not always done that (otherwise society would get steadily more conservative century after century) so you can’t just wave it away as meaningless. Instead I think liberals need to look at what is driving away centrists. (it’s immigration)

Sheryl Crow hehe

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-policing-minneapolis/

This is a really good and even-handed breakdown of what happened in Minneapolis after the George Floyd killing. Leftists can be as high minded as they like on the internet but when the police officers cut back on their patrols/traffic stops the overall reaction from the high crime communities that no longer had a strong police presence was not very positive. I think it is naive to think that you can gut police forces and crime won’t go up.

To be clear I am all for police REFORM and increased accountability but I don’t think less police is inherently better.

Well once they start living here I would say their perception is more valid than pretty much anyone else’s. I get that it’s a subset of people who are predisposed to like the U.S. but considering how overwhelmingly positive that feedback is, plus the sheer number of immigrants who want to come to the US, that means something.

I mean… higher numbers are better yeah, all things equal. America has some serious problems but there’s a reason so many people want to come to the United States. The most patriotic people in America are immigrants which says a lot.

Statistically, yes exactly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Rule34LoL/comments/1devqp2/immortalized_ahri_bobartnsfw/

There you go it’s like the top post of the month haha (NSFW obviously) (yeah its reddit sorry)

Nah the savings came from reduced olives. Olives are expensive, it costs more to buy an olive than to fly it on a plane.

Testosterone. I mean as a straight guy I love strong women but like, there is definitely a correlation between testosterone and muscle mass.

Yep. And never trust information embedded in a jpeg if it doesn’t include a source!

Nah it’s not even CLOSE to true though, that’s what I’m trying to say haha. The influence of the top 1000 on average income is off by at least an order of magnitude, probably more. I don’t like it when people double down on false information by saying “well it still makes a good point/it might as well be true/I would totally believe it if it actually happened”

But none of the numbers in the meme are medians… they’re all averages. If they were all medians they wouldn’t change at all.

Yeah I’m seeing 40k but a bunch of other numbers as well, some above 50k. It really comes down to how you measure it but in any case the numbers in the meme don’t make sense.

BTW though unemployment is not the same as number of people not working. It refers just to people actively looking for a job that aren’t employed.

That’s probably the number that includes people that don’t work though… all the income numbers would shift down in that case

Nah there’s no way this is accurate.

Thats not the source of any of the stats in the meme though? There’s no way the average income outside of the top 1000 is that low. Heck, that’s not even a large proportion of “the 1%”

That can’t be right though… 1000 people isn’t nearly enough to drag the average income down 5k BELOW the median income in a nation of over 300 million. It should still be higher due to the long tail on the high side of incomes.

Proof: Average income in top 1% is 819k https://www.unbiased.com/discover/banking/how-much-income-puts-you-in-the-top-1-5-or-10#:~:text=To be in the top 1%25 of earners%2C you’,earn%20an%20average%20of%20%243%2C312%2C693.

Solve the weighted average:

819 * 0.01 + x*0.99 = 74.5

Where x is the remaining average. X≈66.3k, and that’s excluding the ENTIRE 1% which is over a MILLION people at least, depending on how you count it. America is big.

Again- this isn’t about blaming the individual. I agree individuals are largely not to blame (the exception being people that know they are living an extremely unsustainable lifestyle that harms the planet and they just don’t care).

My point is that, even having been dealt a bad hand, individuals still have the power to make a real difference by making environmentally conscious decisions. Therefore the narrative that corporations are to blame and therefore individual contributions don’t matter is not true.