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Sephiroth1288 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

We throw away almost 50% of the world's banana crop every year because if don't look a certain way they won't be bought in grocery stores.

If they produce, wash, pack, and ship bananas that won't sell, the banana farmers don't make money.

If they give away sub-par bananas, the demand for bananas that aren't free will plummet, the banana farmers don't make money.

If banana farmers don't make money from growing bananas, they will stop growing bananas.

No bananas for anyone.

So maybe that means that capitalism isn't the most efficient system for taking care of our food problems in the world.
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Sweet jebus, the Cuba thing was even worse than I thought. After checking the actual rate of inflation from 1960 to now, 100 dollars then was the equivalent of 837 dollars today. So Batista's stealing of close to a billion dollars there would be like stealing 8.3 billion now. Which may not seem like much when compared to an economy the size of the US, but when compared to that of a tiny place like Cuba that's a huge amount. I can only find GDP numbers for them back as far as 1970 but their entire GDP for 1970 was 5.7 billion. Needless to say, Cuba was fucked the instant Batista and his goons fled the country with their ill-gotten wealth. Then we put the death blow on them with the embargo.

Now is that to say Castro's revolution wouldn't have still turned into the shit show that it did? No. We can't really know that. But it is intellectually dishonest to point to Cuba and say "ha, see socialism doesn't work". The system Castro tried to put in place died in it's crib from all the wealth being stolen out of the system.
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averagejoel posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

averagejoel posted...

Mike_Stanton posted...

justaguy3492 posted...

Romes187 posted...

If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined

Capitalism works because consent exists and contracts are executed fairly. You are willing to pay X, I am willing to work for X.

If I am willing to work for X, and you decide to pay me X-Y, that's no good, especially if we agreed beforehand on the terms.

Ehhhhhhh.

Oh right. I forgot about how Venezuela, Italy, Greece, France, Soviet Russia, India, and Cuba proved that socialism is the proven system that works.

Italy and France aren't socialist, and have never been

the shitshow in the rest of those countries was caused by interference from the US and Britain, not by their own internal politics

Italy and France are far more socialist than the US. There are far less socialist than Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Iceland. Which by the way are all awesome countries to live in and regularly rank in the top 10 countries in the world for things like life expectancy and happiness.

wnat do you mean "more socialist"?

the US isn't socialist. neither are France and Italy. neither are any of the other countries you listed.

Yes I get that democratic socialism does not in fact equal socialism. It's far closer on the spectrum to socialism though than it is the kind of fucked up capitalism we practice here in the US.
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averagejoel posted...

Romes187 posted...

averagejoel posted...

Mike_Stanton posted...

justaguy3492 posted...

Romes187 posted...

If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined

Capitalism works because consent exists and contracts are executed fairly. You are willing to pay X, I am willing to work for X.

If I am willing to work for X, and you decide to pay me X-Y, that's no good, especially if we agreed beforehand on the terms.

Ehhhhhhh.

Oh right. I forgot about how Venezuela, Italy, Greece, France, Soviet Russia, India, and Cuba proved that socialism is the proven system that works.

Italy and France aren't socialist, and have never been

the shitshow in the rest of those countries was caused by interference from the US and Britain, not by their own internal politics

Yeah guys, socialism hasnt had it's fair shot yet

do you really think Cuba wouldn't have done better if the US didn't impose sanctions and try to assassinate their leader literally hundreds of times

Lets not forget that Batista took 300 million in his personal cash (accumulated through graft and bribes from US businesses). Along with he and his supporters that fled into exile with him taking 700 million in art and cash. That's a billion dollars. In 1950s money. It kind of wrecks your entire economy when that much of it's liquidity is stolen. Then your largest trading partner embargoes you because it's businesses are no longer going to be able to oppress, exploit, and murder your citizens.
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Hexenherz posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

To be fair, there may have been one or two black people in Bohemia in the middle ages. There were African kingdoms, they did trade across the Mediterranean, it's possible there may have been a merchant or two there. Beyond that? Probably not.

Apparently the game takes place over 9 square kilometers, which further reduces the chances of encountering a POC

ALSO apparently people were upset there wasn't a female main character. Bioware really screwed up the dynamic for other studios...

Bioware also had the advantage of having created their own worlds (at least in Dragon Age) with it's own gender dynamic. These guys went with actual history and yeah, it's sucked for women in the middle age. To pretend anything other than that would be completely dishonest and actually disrespectful for what have been able to accomplish since then.
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averagejoel posted...

Mike_Stanton posted...

justaguy3492 posted...

Romes187 posted...

If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined

Capitalism works because consent exists and contracts are executed fairly. You are willing to pay X, I am willing to work for X.

If I am willing to work for X, and you decide to pay me X-Y, that's no good, especially if we agreed beforehand on the terms.

Ehhhhhhh.

Oh right. I forgot about how Venezuela, Italy, Greece, France, Soviet Russia, India, and Cuba proved that socialism is the proven system that works.

Italy and France aren't socialist, and have never been

the shitshow in the rest of those countries was caused by interference from the US and Britain, not by their own internal politics

Italy and France are far more socialist than the US. There are far less socialist than Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Iceland. Which by the way are all awesome countries to live in and regularly rank in the top 10 countries in the world for things like life expectancy and happiness.
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To be fair, there may have been one or two black people in Bohemia in the middle ages. There were African kingdoms, they did trade across the Mediterranean, it's possible there may have been a merchant or two there. Beyond that? Probably not.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

if all our government and President can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it's time for victims to be the change that we need to see.

Riiiight, because policies made on the basis of emotion always work out splendidly.

When it comes to making policy, I don't care how devastated she is about the shooting. Emotion doesn't replace logic.

You would think logic would tell you to observe countries with strong gun control laws and see that they have barely a fraction of the gun deaths that we do.
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We throw away almost 50% of the world's banana crop every year because if don't look a certain way they won't be bought in grocery stores.
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I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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GregShmedley posted...

JlM posted...

GregShmedley posted...

I don't know man--one side can't get over their emotional outbursts of buzzwords while the other presents actual facts and statistics

I'm pretty sure it's just screaming asswipes all around these days, to be totally honest. The future is bleak.

Well, you're not lying there. I'm tempted to leave some of the gun groups on Facebook because the main reason we have these school shootings is "God was taken out of our classrooms and vidya games!"

I've always wondered what that says about the mentality of the deity (and the mentality of someone who would worship it) they worship. Like "welp, no prayer in schools means I'll allow the murder of your children"
Not a God i'd really be interested in worshiping personally.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

It was pretty good, the trailer doesn't do it much justice. The Lexus commercial half way in was fucking horrible. Straight up nearly ruined the film. Even if they hadn't done a super bowl commercial, the product placement was fucking obnoxious.

Good audio and soundtrack, good visuals but I don't really care about futuristic looking societies. Didn't suffer from the Thor 3 or Guardians treatment with constant hamfisted comedy so the slightly more serious tone was good.

I imagine far, far, far too many people sympathizing with Kill Monger's goal. Michael B. Jordan did an excellent job though.

I think they realized that Killmonger's justifications and goals could be easily sympathized with, which is why they made his personality unlikable.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Exactly. I'm 100% sure that there are a handful of users here who are all the same awful human being looking to divide. It's standard communist tactics.

You do realize that Russia is no longer communist right?
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DavidWong posted...

So like does she have to give him the $130k back or

No. Trumps lawyer broke the non-disclosure agreement so she is no longer bound by it.
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s0nicfan posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

Well, since THAT defense is gone, the cultists will fall back on "it happened so long ago"

oh, the Trumpers wouldn't care if he fucked 5000 different women at the same time while he was married to his 5th wife. they've demonstrated that his personal morals are irrelevant to his leadership.

Would you consider JFK a good president? How about Bill Clinton?

sure, but im not part of a group that claims to represent "family values". note that the same party that flipped their collective shit over a blowjob because "muh morals" is now supporting a man who has repeatedly demonstrated he has none.

I'm not about to defend republican hypocrisy, because it's very real. I'm asking if democrats are going to continue to hold themselves to the higher standard they advertise, or whether we're all just going to be flinging shit openly, because that changes the rules of the game.

pointing out the Republican hypocrisy does not imply the Democrats are putting themselves at a 'higher standard' so im not sure why you're trying to argue with me about that. my comment was about Republican hypocrisy, nothing more.

And my comment was dems didn't care when 2 dem presidents were involved in sex scandals WHILE president, so they shouldn't care that a republican president is caught in one prior to being in office. If you're acknowledging that dems are just as bad in terms of hypocrisy, though, then we agree and there's nothing to discuss.

Democrats don't run on a platform of religious family values, nor do their voters vote based on those issues as republicans do. It's intellectually dishonest to try to present the argument in the fashion that you are.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

Well, since THAT defense is gone, the cultists will fall back on "it happened so long ago"

oh, the Trumpers wouldn't care if he fucked 5000 different women at the same time while he was married to his 5th wife. they've demonstrated that his personal morals are irrelevant to his leadership.

Because Evangelicals in this country are morally bankrupt.
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MaverickXeo posted...

Barenziah Boy Toy posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

Its only an issue now because Trump is supporting it...

Its still pretty funny, people loved when Obama did things; but when Trump does it, they hate him. I guess thats just the way people are...

Obama wasn't supporting this. It was something considered by Republican congress.

Was it? I do not know much of the subject; but I do know my statement stands on other things.

If you don't know much on the subject you should probably shut up about it.
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Ricemills posted...

do you people even realized that you're acting like the alt-righters towards Muslims?

nothing more to talk, i don't speak to the close minded bigots who thinks religions is bad at default.

Tell me how Christians are "persecuted" in the US. It's a simple request.
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SuperExcitebike posted...

Blue_Inigo posted...

SuperExcitebike posted...

She shoots heroin before her scenes. Yuck

For real?

Yeah, I mean a lot of the girls prob do it too, but that confirmation turned me off of her with a quickness

I'm pretty sure that was Lana Rhoades.
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scorpion41 posted...

Tamiflu was $35 with insurance when I had to get it so someone is full of shit.

Plus, to all the pro-vaccine people trolling anti-vaccine people, the flu shot was only about 10% effective this year according to my doctor and I got it despite the vaccine. First time in my life with the flu...

Wow it's almost like people have different insurance plans and thus prices might be different for different people.
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byrone posted...

Ricemills posted...

it's simple.
you antagonize Christians, Christians will vote the person that against the people who antagonized them.
happens in every nations and religions.

Who antagonizes Christians?

They feel that not being allowed to discriminate against gays or treat them like second class citizens is antagonistic towards them.
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Ammonitida posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Ammonitida posted...

I'm still not hooked three episodes in (as in, where I have to restrain myself from marathoning the whole series in two days or less). Too much sex stuff. Some elements are silly (non-super rich people are being prevented from backing up their stacks, how?).

I still do not understand people bitching about the sex in the show. It's absolutely a realistic situation that once you've removed the majority of religious sexual mores and set up a world where people can indulge in all their most debauched fantasies with little to no consequence that they will in fact do so at every opportunity. Sex is one of our most basic primal urges.

Yeah, because people would totally be having sex in their MOM's bodies out in the open if such a tech were possible. A non-religious society would not consider that disgusting. No way!!!

It had nothing to do with it being her mom's body. It had everything to do with the super sexual upgrades that the mom's clones had that she wanted to try out. You should probably stop watching the show if you are missing basic points like that.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

I think back-ups require use of that ancient tree that's really rare. Or I think there was legislation against back-ups. I'm not sure actually. I'd have to watch the earlier episodes again to remember what's the deal with the back-ups.

I'm pretty sure that it's just that it really expensive to constantly have to beaming your stack to a secondary location. It's double sleeving that's super illegal.
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Ammonitida posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

"There is no recovery" says the guy who openly bragged about committing sexual assault and then got elected president.

He did no such thing.

Intellectual dishonesty is not becoming on you.
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Ammonitida posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Ammonitida posted...

I'm still not hooked three episodes in (as in, where I have to restrain myself from marathoning the whole series in two days or less). Too much sex stuff. Some elements are silly (non-super rich people are being prevented from backing up their stacks, how?).

Backing up stacks is an expensive process.

That's the silly part. This stack is small enough to fit in a human brain, and somehow that can't be backed up unless you're super rich. Flashdrives today can be backed up for super cheap. And don't forget that this problem existed when Kovacs was in his original body. 200 years later and they still haven't reduced the cost of back-ups so that the middle class can afford it too? It's contrived.

Not really. Did you ever think that in a world like that where the rich are effectively gods to the masses that they might set things up to continue that way?
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Ammonitida posted...

I'm still not hooked three episodes in (as in, where I have to restrain myself from marathoning the whole series in two days or less). Too much sex stuff. Some elements are silly (non-super rich people are being prevented from backing up their stacks, how?).

I still do not understand people bitching about the sex in the show. It's absolutely a realistic situation that once you've removed the majority of religious sexual mores and set up a world where people can indulge in all their most debauched fantasies with little to no consequence that they will in fact do so at every opportunity. Sex is one of our most basic primal urges.
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TheMikh posted...

Reagan was effective and decisive, but not good. Compromised his principles as his presidency went on, became a pretty big government president both in the short and long term.

I'd say the last truly good president - both effective and honest - was Eisenhower.

Ike allowed McCarthy to run rampant. I hardly call allowing a massive countrywide witch hunt that flew in the face of the constitution to be a good thing.
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Because they are morally bankrupt. They are more interested in acquiring power over others than they are in promoting their actual supposed values.
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"There is no recovery" says the guy who openly bragged about committing sexual assault and then got elected president.
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r4X0r posted...

Percentages lie, and liars use percentages. George W Bush increased the debt five trillion dollars. Obama increased the debt ten trillion dollars.

Not really. Percentages are what rich people talk when discussing returns on investment. Or potential roi, or growth.
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He's an intellectual for low information types.
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Esrac posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

the typical Conservative mindset of "oh, i don't care how incapable you are of caring for that child, you WILL give birth to it and you will NOT receive any assistance from anyone, that's life" just blows my mind

I'm pretty sure the typical conservative mindset is "wear a goddamn condom if you can't afford a kid", which outside of rape cases is a perfectly valid justification. Having kids isn't a constitutional right, and its your choice if you want to shoulder the burden.

I don't agree with pro-lifers, but I also don't think you should intentionally misrepresent their arguments to make them look like cartoon villains.

that's fine, but saying "you shouldn't have gotten pregnant" does absolutely nothing once the accident happens. i don't understand why they care so much for the life of the child while it's in the womb, but if that very same child is literally starving because the mom is poor, well, that's just her fault and it sucks to be that kid. if those people genuinely valued the life of that child i would think that compassion would extend for the entire time the child is a child.

Like I said, it's about personal responsibility to them.

Basically, okay, you got pregnant. Now you have a responsibility to raise and provide for that child. That is YOUR responsibility, not the responsibility of the other tax payers or the state. It's time for you to grow up, get married, go to work, and feed your kids.

It's idealistic, sure, but can be blinding to reality.

Thats bullshit. People get pregnant when using condoms, the pill, or both. Even married people like myself don't necessarily want children. So what you are basically saying is that I don't have the right to fuck my wife without having to worry about her getting pregnant. Which is the exact thing that evangelicals want. No sex without procreation.

Now you can say, go get a vasectomy. Fine, thats what I did. Not everyone has the money or insurance that covers it. So now you've put consequence free sex behind a paywall.

It's about controlling the sex lives and actions of others and it always has been for religious conservatives.
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It had so much potential. As it exists I would say it's slightly better, if they had been allowed to complete the game it would be in the running for GOAT.
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Cornmuffins posted...

TheJBD posted...

Soccer is dumb.

Yeah it requires actual cardio so of course CE's slobs hate it.
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metralo posted...

Lmao fuck the eagles

Oh well, its a shame many people in Philly are going to get murdered tonight.

The city is going to riot no matter if the eagles win or lose. Eagles fans are some of the worst fans when it comes to behavior.
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What if WCW doesn't give the booking to Kevin Nash?
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That's 2 calls for the eagles that are sketchy.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

It sounds like the only reason for this is that seat is so heavily Democratic that the GOP isn't bothering to waste resources putting up an actual challenger, which it looks like they do touch on in the article

You would think though they would still make the effort to not allow themselves and their party to represented by an actual Neo-Nazi.
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Lol, way to confirm people's views of your constituents there GOP.
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Cheers, if you are into 80s sitcoms.
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Dear god I hope it turns into bioshock.
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Anteaterking posted...

No one is ever going to have a sensible argument about this because unless Bitcoin literally crashes to 0, someone's always going to be able to point to a time when it tanked but recovered, and until it hits 19k again, you'll always be able to point and say that even if it recovers it will never hit its peak again.

Although, someone with more knowledge than me, if the price just stayed exactly at $10k for a few months, would that lead to it crashing?

No, that would actually mean that it has reached some sort of stability.
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Yeah he actually ends up taking in that Mapo kid, who is basically a disfigured war orphan that no one wants to adopt.
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LordRazziel posted...

While it's fucked up that they tried to force the treatment on her and denied abortions, even in the case of rape, I see nothing wrong with an abortion reversal treatment. Just because there isn't evidence that it works, doesn't mean it doesn't. I didn't see them say anything about the treatment being harmful, so I see nothing wrong with reaserching it. To all the people freaking out about human testing, every medical treatment requires human testing.

Generally they are volunteers you fucking monster.
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Vertania posted...

The standout thing was how shitty the anti-Trump crowd made themselves look. Refusing to stand for the people being recognized and for the American people in general was just stupid on their part.

Have you ever watched a SotU address before?

Jesus, were these people in a coma or something for the entirety of the Obama administration?
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DifferentialEquation posted...

It's beautiful to hear people chanting "USA! USA! USA!" with pride for this great country. Liberals are going to be extra butthurt to see that there's plenty of us that still believe in what America stands for and haven't fallen for their smug and elitist "America are the bad guys" bullshit.

Get rekt liberals, your anti-America agenda has failed.

You are quite the cultist aren't you.
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COVxy posted...

I mean, if people had an alternative game to migrate to, I'm sure they would. Destiny 2 is the only game that currently exists that does what it does.

They could always stop playing and go do something productive.
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Yeah it's basically like cities are saying "please come here and destroy our infrastructure and make our citizens commutes way shittier and we won't even make you pay any taxes"

Exactly.

I live near Dallas; one of the supposed top contenders for the new Amazon HQ.

We don't need another 50,000+ people moving here, driving up real estate and rent prices, congesting our already overloaded highway system, and god knows we don't need any more of the endless suburban sprawl than we already have.

Ugh, yeah I dodged that one. Saint Louis was vying heavily for it before the recent cut to the top 20 or whatever it was. We even offered them their own terminal at the airport.
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

Why should taxpayers be happy that their money is being spent subsidizing a company worth $650 Billion?

All most of them will get in return is more traffic congestion within their city.

Yeah it's basically like cities are saying "please come here and destroy our infrastructure and make our citizens commutes way shittier and we won't even make you pay any taxes"
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CaptainCrunch posted...

Ah, socialism. A wonderful fairytale for college aged individuals who genuinely believe they can make a difference in the world.

Every decade has something for the young folk to latch onto.

And places like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Germany. You know, first world countries worth living in.
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