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  • Precisely this. "Hey you need to make money" is what's effectively killed Amtrak, and it killed passenger rail in much of the US (what wasn't torn up by highway building).

  • Mom of 3 'abducted' at gunpoint by 'bounty hunters' in South LA, family says
  • Law enforcement does not have to do anything. A person could walk up to you in front of a police officer and stab you to death in full view of a crowd of people, and the cop is under no legal obligation to stop them.

  • Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
  • Also, unless you've got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.

  • As U.S. braces for Iranian attack, a 'brain drain' weakens its defenses, former officials say
  • While I don't fully disagree, dishonorable discharge is already effectively a sentence to starve to death on the streets. It makes it incredibly tough to get a job in the States, if not impossible in a lot of places. With the death of a thousand cuts to the welfare system and the fact that minorities and poor whites are overwhelmingly represented in the military, your choice narrows down to "either deploy or get beaten to death by cops in 5 years."

  • Shocking video shows dad of three US Marines ‘beaten by masked agents in parking lot’
  • Yeah that tracks.

    Horrible fact for the day: the word they use in official reports for Mexican immigrants is "tonk" (after a lot of people got upset that they used the word "wetback" in official documents). Know why?

    It's the sound a metal flashlight makes when impacting a human head.

    Yeah.

  • Long life and expensive fruits
  • Pretty much this. There's also a physical component - most Japanese people live in cities that are highly walkable or bikable, making that even if you're just walking a half mile to work from the subway stop or whatever, you're still getting exercise. America especially lacks this in most places, and it's subpar in a lot of places that do have it.

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