Oh no, who could’ve guessed!

November 1935 is nearly 3 years into Nazi Germany, nothing pre about it. Don’t for a second believe you’re in a pre-nazi USA, you’re well past the Machtergreifung.

Yes, average healthcare costs per year in the US was $ 13,432 per capita and in Germany was $ 8,441 per capita in 2023 (PPP adjusted). Germany is the third most expensive comparable country, second most expensive was Switzerland with $ 9,688.

UK national healthcare btw. was $ 6,023, so less than half of US costs.

compared to the average healthcare costs in all US-comparable countries of $ 7,393, the US manages to spend nearly double.

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And a happy cake day to you!

And wasps will kill any fly that dares come close. Only thing they like more than sugar is protein.

This gives so much perspective, and feels like not being alone, thank you.

Sometimes I struggle with my own, internalized expectations of masculinity and that the world expects a 6’8" guy who also has 0 external feminine traits to behave “like a man” doesn’t make it easier.

I’m so incredibly fortunate to have found a strong woman who will hold me when I cry and loves me for my sensitivity and empathy.

None of this means I’m gender fluid, I’m… okay, relaxed, not unhappy with my masculinity, sometimes I can even revel in it. But modern sentiments that deconstruct social expectations of gender roles have made it sooooo much easier to just exist, even as a cis man for all the times that I strongly deviate from them. It’s only that societal expectations have been internalized hard by my generation and it can still be such a struggle.

Comments like yours make it easier, because I know I’m not alone in this. Thank you.

First off even for regular checkups I have to pay extra cuz a continues 1/5th of my pay isn’t enough

That is so wild. The US has the most expensive system in the world and often not that great service in return and somehow so many are convinced that their broken system is so much better… I guess that’s partly explained by an also broken education system. That’s something that always has been broken as far as I can remember, but now it’ll get sooooo much worse under Trump.

Plus I’m brown enough to live in fear of getting an accidental deportation parking ticket. Here, you hit the wrong car and they can apparently blast your front door. How does any of that even help me?

Aaaaaand another thing that’s getting sooooo much worse under Trump. And all paid for by your taxes.

I’ll emphasize though, the problem isn’t taxes, it’s a broken political system where 0.01% of the population pay for 50% or more of political campaigning and the people have allowed their representatives to create a system of government that fucks them over for reasons that appeal to their basest instincts.

My Take-Home in Germany is a little less than two thirds of my pay.

The difference is that I’m happy with it, because I get my moneys worth in return. Holy shit healthcare alone is just so goddamn cheap compared to what all my health issues would cost extra in the US.

Yes, rich assholes not paying their fair share is a problem over here too, but far less than in the US and honestly, for my personal happiness it’s far more important that I can see the positive impact my taxes have on me and in my community.

I think that’s the biggest difference, are taxes levied for mutual benefit or to funnel money to the mayors/governors/presidents daughter’s/brother’s/buddy’s company and thus are a means to rob the populace? Over here it’s overwhelmingly for mutual benefit.

I have encountered big american pickups only seven times in my country. They all had some kind of nazi imagery or text attached.

Je mehr Leute den ÖPNV nutzen, desto freiere Straßen, mehr Parkplätze und sicherere Radwege.

I keep repeating myself.

Bernie, AOC, Zohran Mamdani… conservatives shouldn’t be shocked by their popularity, they should be thankful.

Because electing popular lefty politicians through the system and working with the system to change the system is a compromise.

The working class has other means to defend itself from the overreach of the bourgeoisie inherent in the system, and everyone who wants to hold onto the current system should be extremely thankful that the working class doesn’t simply decide to violently overthrow it.

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The more I learn about ADD, the more I feel concerned that maybe I should get someone to check me out.

Kids of today are doing alright, they’ll go to the shitter, look at their phone and smile when Discord pings them with

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The Last Unicorn (1982)

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From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magicia…

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So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as “Kartoffeln” (potatoes)

Pomme de terre

I don’t speak Spanish, but when I heard Colores by Ska-P (“Por la libertad es fundamental la diversidad”) I was instantly in love. The music is great and the lyrics seemed straight up fire.

Then I translated their songs and now they are my second favourite band, after RATM.

A Chitón - On repression and censorship in the name of security

El Vals del Obrero - The Workers Waltz, on unity of the working class

I kicked a decrepit german shepard to death.

I feel called out, you even got an image of me.

Study after study has shown that the ROI for foreign aid is positive and indicative of an overall positive effect for the country giving the aid.

I’m only writing that to express that there are no moral and no economical reasons to reduce foreign aid. Even the right should be in favour of aid, as it lessens the amount of immigration and asylum and has a positive effect on GDP.

The only reasons to reduce foreign aid are populism, a change in political culture of the receiver (for example giving less money to Israel) and to shuffle it around in the budget, for example what Germany did with its infrastructure costs… declaring them a military necessity to be able to increase the military budget to appease Trump while still repairing our roadways.

But that is afaik not happening here… this is stupid populism.