I’ve seen some random videos of Tucker saying that suicides are way up, economy is way down, addiction and crime are rampant and the cost of living is insanity where nobody can really thrive in this environment.
On the otherside, inflation is slowing, people are working and it feels we’re slowly getting back to some normalcy.
What’s your personal perspective on how life is right now/since 2020? Is that the biggest factor for determining who you will vote for in 2024?
I’ve seen some random videos of Tucker saying
On the otherside
That’s sort of like saying “I’ve seen some random flat Earth videos… but on the otherside…”
The biggest factor in determining who I’ll vote for in 2024 is which candidate is less likely to try to overturn an election again.
I agree, I don’t really watch tucker but I saw him ask pence these few questions. I assume tucker is a personality that american conservatives tend to identify with at a decent level, so I used that as an example.
The biggest factor in determining who I’ll vote for in 2024 is which candidate is less likely to try to overturn an election again.
Do you think Kennedy and Joe Biden have the same likeliness of overturning an election, or different?
Might as well ask me to compare Biden to ‘Deez Nuts’ or some other joke candidate.
You said the biggest factor is that.
So I asked what you thought about 2 democratic candidates qualities on that. You don’t have to be rude about it.
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classic bully, is a dick then complains that everyone else is just a baby when confronted for being a dick
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Me pointing out you’re rude doesn’t make me delicate.
The fact you’re being a dick shows how delicate you are. You don’t need to take offense so much, I just asked you a very basic question, and you still haven’t answered.
The fact that you thought a flippant response to your absurd question was ‘rude’ showed me how delicate you are. Again grow thicker skin or stick to your echo chambers.
Absurd question is me comparing the top 2 democratic candidates?
LOL. You’re just trolling, it’s okay man, don’t worry about me. I’m probably one of the most chill people you’ve ever interacted with online. I think you need to smoke some weed or something and not be so hostile.
Which country? Theres like 193 of those things.
I apologize, reddit is a pretty US dominated site, especially the ‘conservative’ subs. But I’m fine discussing any country you’re in, I didn’t intend for it to be international but that’d be good having different perspectives!
Haha no worries bud, just kinda busting your balls a bit there.
Personally I’m Canadian, although different countries our politics seem to shift and mesh quite a bit from my experiences.
I’m not currently a fan of Canada’s liberal leaning leadership, and there’s been a lot of negatives since 2020 from my perspective and opinion. I don’t think the pandemic was handled very well economically speaking, and continued restrictions and taxes being pushed out after has/is impacting certain trades and agricultural sectors in a direction I don’t agree with.
I do agree with some of their more social decisions however.
Cost of living is running rampant ( from a western Canada perspective), but wages are stagnant for the most part. I think we’re still a ways off from a more normalised state from before 2020. All of that will be influential to me voting.
One big difference, especially in the last few years, is gun regulations, how do you feel about how the government has regulated them thus far?
I also hear a bit about voluntary euthanasia, is that actually an issue you think canadians tend to be concerned about?
How has the economy recovered in Canada since the shut downs?
I’m a bit south of BC, and the cost of living is supposedly insane there, and when I drove through vancouver, there were quite a few depressing areas (which isn’t unique to canada obvi), is the living situation getting worse, better or stayed the same?
I don’t understand much of canada’s politics, is Trudeau up for an election soon?
From my vantage point, things in the US are much as they have been since roughly October, 11th 2001: SNAFU.
Consider the following:
- For the last 30 years, we as a nation have tried all we could to force every child into college, resulting in insufficient numbers of tradesmen/women, huge debt loads on people who are unable to find work that pays sufficiently to pay off that debt, and are all too frequently no smarter than they would have been had they not attended collage. Simply more sure of themselves.
- We have, for the last 20 years engaged in mid-scale expeditionary warfare, to no known profit, resulting in large numbers of returning combat veterans, who, do to a skills mismatch, largely seem to have ended up in police and armed security, increasing the average aggressiveness of these forces.
- Despite the large numbers of collage graduates, there are an insufficient number of doctors, nurses, and mental health professionals at a time when they are needed.
- Due in part to a lack of tradesmen/women, we now face a housing shortage, resulting a significant increase of homeless people who have good paying jobs, but are unable afford a roof over their heads.
- An increase in general fear in the general population has led to an escalation in gun ownership, increased violence, and the increased militarization of police forces, creating a feedback loop.
- The gap between the wealthy and the poor has been expanding at an exponential pace. Put another way, The poor get poorer, the rich are getting richer, and the middle class is shrinking.
- Average pay over the last 80 years has not kept pace with inflation. In the 1980’s, an average truck driver made $135,000 (inflation adjusted) while in 2022 the average driver made roughly $55,000. The same has occurred through out the rest of the economy, though not quite to such an extreme.
- A loud minority of the American population is attempting to force their religious beliefs upon the rest of the population, most of whom do not share the same moral framework.
- We have now had a President who has, in my opinion, actively incited an insurrection against the US Constitution and continues to do so.
I now face a decision on whether to vote for a series of political candidates whose policies may result in the destruction of my nation in 10 years. Or a series of political candidates whose policies may destroy the nation in 100 years. Some choice.
addiction and crime are way up where I live, in a big way. not sure about suicides - maybe the OD’s are intentional? dont care much if brainsick folks want to off themselves, doesnt affect me at all - well, the ambulances sometimes delay traffic, but thats about it. the crime does though - lot of shootings and arsons in my area - a house on my block was set on fire midsummer of last year. my car was stolen from right outside of my house in December, local police told me flat out “we’re understaffed, there’s nothing we can do, here’s your case #”. we need way more police officers that we have, most of the experienced ones left when defunding became politically acceptable during the last local election cycle. but at least Big Daddy Inslee isnt forcing us to wear masks everywhere any more, not that they ever did any good.
for me, life has gotten somewhat better since 2020, excepting the crime issues - stable job (I worked all through the pandemic, mostly at home). inflation made it expensive to buy groceries so I changed my diet, lost a bit of weight. I personally am not registered to vote in the state I live in - registering to vote comes with a lot of downsides that I dont wish to subject myself to - and I’m in a “vote blue no matter who” state, so there really isnt anyone to vote for. electoral college decides the presidential race so I dont bother with that either. fun to argue about it with folks though.
