Thanks I try to achieve at least 30% good and 70% bad comments.
Wow, a lot to unpack here. I will ignore the US centricity.
The idea that people and parties don't somehow interact and in part align is absurd. Besides that parties have working groups and experts for various topics, it is only a special brand of persons who think they can alone in their chamber create better outcome than if they would speak to affected people and experts.
Besides that being in a party means that you are part of a multi faction battle within the party, this means you can asses how a person acts and who they align with (same is true in regards to not being part of opponent parties).
Then plenty of city councils and mayors are quite relevant, even in the small a lot of decision can fuck some people over quite a bit. To further my point you have to deliver some data though, which region are you living in / which region are you talking about when you mean city councils / majors etc. don't matter.
Finally especially in the small big economic issues matter. However in many local elections the two parties lead to results that are bad for workers, marginalized etc. since the parties are right centrists and don't really care how to better the lives for those and how to keep our planet alive. Which would need a switch from the capitalist imperial hegemony we got now.
For more inspiration do go and talk with people from Rojava and read up on Jineology as example.
For questions like that pretty much no newspaper is trustworthy.
However you made a claim that is a known propaganda lie, I gave you sources, yet you do not say: "I was wrong, I will delete that sentence from my post and make a disclaimer to it!", no you try to defend your lie.
You say "while it wasn't specifically true, you could imagine that over 70 years in some countries of 1.2 billion it might've be true somewhere!"
Again, family of mine was prosecuted in the liberal western FRG for homosexuality and sent to prison. 30 years earlier they would've ended up in death camps.
The mother of a friend of mine was homeless in the GDR. She got a flat, she got education, she got work, she got a nice family, she had healthcare, they bought a house. My friend is much worse off now.
That site has yellow fascists / yellow monarchists, "An"Caps listed, they aren't anarcho anything.
That is not correct. Black and red has a variety of meanings, anarcho syndicalist ones being part of them. Anarcho communism is now more common for that combination. I do absolutely agree with you that they would join in and kick the gadsen person and my gay comrades would join in, too.
Just like I would never care about the ends reached by colonialist means.
That is good and yet: Which country are you living in?
I hope you are a young person. Over time you will learn that understanding a field takes time and that you need to spend months to get the required minimum knowledge for it. I suggest to you to actually speak with people who work in the field and do research in the field, then you will have done a short cut and can judge whether you want to help fix the problem, the structures or help individuals or if you just wanted to be right online, no matter the real life consequences for people around you.
In any case you are currently lacking the knowledge to differentiate terms, how they are used and how certain numbers are generated. Instead of trying to become an expert I recommend to you again: Speak with the experts, it is a great shortcut.
Besides that you haven't demonstrated that you are willing to discuss, learn or do your work, which means that you aren't really a person to be argued with online.
Should we always assume that the person to initiate a claim is more credible than lower a commenter? I agree armchair conjectures (by me) arent very helpful but it was more my intention to highlight the questionable lack of support for a claim like America doing a poor job educating people.
That claim is not at all questionable!
However even if the US would do a good job, liberal economic professor Robert Reich does present in this course good reasons that the inhomogenity of the results and who profits from what is a problem in its own that ought to be solved in terms of schooling etc.
Which illustrates her point well. 2/3 were born inside the US then.
Please add a /s to your comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Languages_cp-02.svg
There are even plenty of first language speakers of 30+ languages in the US with hundreds of thousands and millions of speakers. In addition to the people that immigrated.
Spanish – 41.3 million (13.2%)
Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and all other varieties) – 3.40 million (1.1%)
Tagalog (including Filipino) – 1.72 million (0.5%)
Vietnamese – 1.52 million (0.5%)
Arabic – 1.39 million
French – 1.18 million
Korean – 1.07 million
Russian – 1.04 million
Portuguese – 937 thousand
Haitian Creole – 895 thousand
Hindi – 865 thousand
German – 857 thousand
Polish – 533 thousand
Italian – 513 thousand
Urdu – 508 thousand
Persian (including Farsi, Dari and Tajik) – 472 thousand
Telugu – 460 thousand
Japanese – 455 thousand
Gujarati – 437 thousand
Bengali – 403 thousand
Tamil – 341 thousand
Punjabi – 319 thousand
Tai–Kadai (including Thai and Lao) – 284 thousand
Serbo-Croatian (including Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian) – 266 thousand
Armenian – 256 thousand
Greek – 253 thousand
Hmong – 240 thousand
Hebrew – 215 thousand
Khmer – 193 thousand
Navajo – 155 thousand
other Indo-European languages – 662 thousand
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo and other languages of West Africa – 640 thousand
Amharic, Somali, and other Afro-Asiatic languages – 596 thousand
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and other West Germanic languages – 574 thousand
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, and other Austronesian languages – 486 thousand
Other languages of Asia – 460 thousand
Nepali, Marathi, and other Indic languages – 448 thousand
Ukrainian and other Slavic languages – 385 thousand
Swahili and other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa – 288 thousand
Malayalam, Kannada, and other other Dravidian languages – 280 thousand
Other Native languages of North America – 169 thousand
other and unspecified languages – 327 thousand
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1 in 1000 is not really unlikely if it is in regards to your life ending.
However even taking your number it would lead to devastating pictures.
2 married people with 4 grandparents 1 aunt 3 friends and 3 kids means every year 22+-5 out of a small 1000 family neighbourhood will be affected by car deaths.
Assuming that a relevant time period is from the birth of a child till it is 30 and therefore might have had a child of their own, so 30 years we get that around 66%+-10% of families will be affected. Instead of only 1-3 families during that time.
You did not lift the veil of ignorance, you created a new veil of diffusion.
It would mean that two out of three families would lose a close person within a 30 year generation due to cars, instead of only a small percentage. This is the power of the 17 times!
The alternative of train rides would mean that within a generation virtually no family is affected by car deaths.