President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
SNAP is a lot higher than what the poors get from "Public Assistance" in Japan. And PA has work requirements in Japan.
Is SNAP higher relative to cost of living?
Train stations in Milan tend to have lots of druggies. Druggies with dogs who also look like druggies. Neighbourhood around San Siro seemed kinda dodgy too. That said it's overall a nice city and seems safe enough.
Immigrants, you will face a hard time to find any person among them with 3 or more italian grandparents (ie actual italians).
As i didn't say there were no trash areas, i said there are no trash area where the problems aren't entirely caused by immigration.
Even with COLA.
These are the COLAs
Cost of Living in San Francisco, CA is 60.4% higher than in Tokyo (excluding rent)
Cost of Living Including Rent in San Francisco, CA is 95.8% higher than in Tokyo
Rent Prices in San Francisco, CA are 192.3% higher than in Tokyo
Restaurant Prices in San Francisco, CA are 148.4% higher than in Tokyo
Groceries Prices in San Francisco, CA are 47.6% higher than in Tokyo
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/co...
Homeless have no income, no assets right? so they qualify for cap SNAP, 2k USD.
In Tokyo where the PA is max, a single person gets 110k JPY ($770 today) in PA
Where the **** are you getting 2k SNAP lmaoooooo
You can't even spend SNAP on rent, but regardless
Where the **** are you getting 2k SNAP lmaooooooYou can't even spend SNAP on rent, but regardless
Sorry my bad can confirm your data is the correct data and some sources are truly crappy (even "normal looking" ones).
So my claim was wrong when only comparing SNAP vs Jpn PA. Still holds though when accounting for medicaid.
That said, Japan isn't the only place with very little amounts of homeless people. There are 2400 homeless people in Milan, 1600 of them foreigners (who should just be deported obviously, but in any case aren't our responsibility to fix in any way).
So 800 actual italians homeless in a city of 1.4M people. And no we don't put homeless people in prison. We have less than 60k people in prison in the whole of Italy (60M population). A third of that, foreigners.
We don't have any welfare in cash for non-disabled working age people without children (we had some for a few years, Meloni canceled it).
Do you think the Squad has been a net positive or a net negative for the Democratic party?
I think they don't have much effect on it one way or another. It's a small coalition of 7 (active) Representatives with a different set of ideologies and ideas for what the Democratic Party should be compared to the base of the Party and its leaders like Schumer and Pelosi.
And whenever one of the Squad steps too far out of line, the Pelosis of the Party take away their committee spots, with the eager help from their GOP friends. Which is why Ilhan Omar is the bravest one; she spoke out on Israel in stronger terms than the rest, they said, "we'll take your spot on the Foreign Affairs Committee if you keep going with this", and she doubled down and remained true to her opposition to AIPAC's outsized influence in US politics and our funding of Israel's campaigns of murder in general. Then they were true to their word, and she was stripped of that seat, yet she STILL is not bending that knee.
I'd certainly nationalise their companies. Amazon too.
And put a high property tax on high value property. Try avoiding that tax. If a billionaire wants to swerve this by living in a Portakabin off a motorway, they can. And we can all laugh at them when they do.
I’m not against nationalization/government run entities in principle but generally it has to make sense. Utilities oftentimes make sense to be government-run. But what Amazon and Walmart do is great for consumers. Resource distribution of consumer goods is something the government does extremely poorly.
I’m not against nationalization/government run entities in principle but generally it has to make sense. Utilities oftentimes make sense to be government-run. But what Amazon and Walmart do is great for consumers. Resource distribution of consumer goods is something the government does extremely poorly.
Indeed, people can get their treats quickly via Amazon and Walmart. I would add that they are decidedly LESS great for their MILLIONS of workers (seriously, Amazon has like 1.6m employees) to whom they pay a crappy wage for tough and/or soul crushingly monotonous work.
Anyway, let's get rid of Bezos and the rest of those creeps and nationalize Amazon. They did a great job of having tons of money laying around so that they could wait out and remove competitors, be unprofitable for a long, long time yet remain in business, and then to eventually build an infrastructure that can deliver things efficiently to everyone, including those in remote areas. Let's use that infrastructure, stop their practice of setting such onerous goals for speed of delivery that their drivers LITERALLY PISS AND **** IN BAGS OR EVEN ON PEOPLE'S LAWNS (many such cases! look it up! ...and even after this they're still usually unable to hit the nearly impossible to reach quota imposed on them), and pay them an appropriate wage (which, I admit, Amazon is less horrible at than many other places.)
I think they don't have much effect on it one way or another. It's a small coalition of 7 (active) Representatives with a different set of ideologies and ideas for what the Democratic Party should be compared to the base of the Party and its leaders like Schumer and Pelosi.And whenever one of the Squad steps too far out of line, the Pelosis of the Party take away their committ
The "different ideologies" among the squad are disagreements on the methods to execute rich people and torture them
Indeed, people can get their treats quickly via Amazon and Walmart. I would add that they are decidedly LESS great for their MILLIONS of workers (seriously, Amazon has like 1.6m employees) to whom they pay a crappy wage for tough and/or soul crushingly monotonous work.Anyway, let's get rid of Bezos and the rest of those creeps and nationalize Amazon. They did a great job of h
Working for Amazon is great, they employ many people with competitive wages throughout the country. So does Walmart. Much of this is through labor organizing efforts so I’m not saying they are altruistic but it’s not the bleak picture you’re painting anymore.
Funny article on Politico about how Republicans are pushing as hard as they can to link mamdani to democrats running in purple seats, particularly in NYS.
Those democrats apparently are trying to distance themselves from the Marxist as much as possible but for low information voters it might be hard to understand that dynamic.
When you guys are talking about San Fransisco, do you include the bay area or just SF?
Bay area looks like one big city to me.
The "different ideologies" among the squad are disagreements on the methods to execute rich people and torture them
LOL. These people you're terrified of are DEMOCRATS, ffs, they are team players, system players, they're a million miles to the right of an actual revolutionary who would execute the rich (I'm unaware of anybody advocating for the torture part!)
Marxists and the like hate Democrats approximately as much as Republicans do.
Working for Amazon is great, they employ many people with competitive wages throughout the country. So does Walmart. Much of this is through labor organizing efforts so I’m not saying they are altruistic but it’s not the bleak picture you’re painting anymore.
Working for Amazon was decidedly ungreat for my friend who was constantly complaining about being an Amazon employee (despite being at least one level higher within it than the baseline worker) and did everything possible to find a better job (successfully!) and is happier for it.
And it's also very much ungreat for the delivery drivers who are essentially forced to pee and poop inside of their delivery truck because they're NOT GIVEN ENOUGH TIME TO USE AN ACTUAL BATHROOM (Seriously, look it up! It's deeply appalling. And this is far from some one-off thing, I wasn't lying about "many such cases".)
Immigrants, you will face a hard time to find any person among them with 3 or more italian grandparents (ie actual italians).
As i didn't say there were no trash areas, i said there are no trash area where the problems aren't entirely caused by immigration.
No these were all Italian, a lot of them seemed to be punks actually, as in the music.
No these were all Italian, a lot of them seemed to be punks actually, as in the music.
How can you be sure one of their great great great-grandmothers wasn't Moroccan tho? See, immigrants!
Karl will never admit that the people pissing in bottles or shitting on lawns are just the people who weren't worth keeping around.
Having a job doesn't mean you're going to be good at it. If you can't hack it, next man up.
Karl will never admit that the people pissing in bottles or shitting on lawns are just the people who weren't worth keeping around.
Having a job doesn't mean you're going to be good at it. If you can't hack it, next man up.
Karl does seem to have some sort of objection to meritocracy on principle.
The "different ideologies" among the squad are disagreements on the methods to execute rich people and torture them
****, I wish "The Squad" was as badass as Fox News morons think they are.
No these were all Italian, a lot of them seemed to be punks actually, as in the music.
Lucy has a point. It is more likely that an immigrant, with no family or friends (in other words no social safety net), little to no fluency on the language and lower prospects of getting a decent job (and ahigher probability of end up unemployed) will end up living on the street, than a local. Although I agree there should be local homeless, and the problem usually is drugs.
Lucy has a point. It is more likely that an immigrant, with no family or friends (in other words no social safety net), little to no fluency on the language and lower prospects of getting a decent job (and ahigher probability of end up unemployed) will end up living on the street, than a local. Although I agree there should be local homeless, and the problem usually is drugs.
It's basically only illegals living on little thefts and drug dealing if they are lucky; how do we know? they disappeared during lockdowns because they couldn't literally survive otherwise.
Oh also it's 95-99% men.
Legal immigrants have a higher participation to the labor force than italians (at least for men). Those people don't become homeless, they leave the country before that can happen.
Anyway the numbers (also from associations that strive to help them and ask for donations, as well as from local government) are 3/4 immigrants for Milan homeless.
The og squad: Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Ayanna Pressley
They were brought into national prominence by the PAC Justice Democrats which sought to mount progressive challengers to center-right politicians.
They expanded their rank with the addition of Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman, who both ended up losing their seats.
Now it is mostly a defunct term as they have each matured (or gotten worse depending on who you ask) in their own way and are no longer the “new kids on the block”.
planning your mamdani evacuation route or... something else
