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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Oh America, come on:

  • end (and stop exporting) that vicious tipping culture of yours. Just pay decent wages to people in customer service.

  • change the design of yours bills, make them easily recognizable, with different colors and sizes like normal curencies.

  • take religion out of the money.

  • and since I'm at it, end gun culture and disarm your people. Also SUVs, end that too. And introduce controlled prices in health services, regulate, regulate, regulate, till it becomes a functional system affordable by everyone.

Thanks. I would love you so much more.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Congrats, you managed to alienate 85% of political financial backers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You got my vote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The motto of the US is in god we trust, which is why it's on money. It became the motto in the 50s when Christian nationalism became a prominent position, which is the root of the evil that is the gop. The gop would need to be a minority in government in both houses of Congress in order to change the motto, unfortunately.

It's a change that is definitely needed, however the Christian nationalists are controlling the conversation, as was designed by McCarthyism. In TX, schools are required to hang a poster that says the motto if it is donated by a citizen. In the last legislative session, there was also a bill that would have required every classroom to post the ten commandments.

It is going to take an effort to go vote by the populace at large. In 2022, only about 80% of the Voting Age population was registered and of that 80%, only ~46% cast a vote despite the fact that it was a major election. A large portion of the judicial branch, almost all of the executive branch, and the entire legislative branch of TX were up for election and we only got 37% of the Voting Age population to the polls. Even with polls open for at least 9 hours a day the first week of voting and 12 hours the second week and final day of voting. Being the first state to have early voting, it's common knowledge that there is virtually no line during early voting, but we still don't have turnout.

Anyway, on top of needing people to go to the polls, we need a cultural revolution that rejects far-right ideology. McCarthyism purged centrist and left leaning ideology from the country and we are only in the last couple decades starting to see more centrist policies come into play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A major problem with voting in this country is that it's not a national holiday, If your working minimum wage you likely can't afford to take the time away from work which means politicians that campaign on a higher wage lose preventing a wage rise creating a loop. The people that are best suited to vote are those that are well off and retired and statistically they lean republican because of people not wanting to help others disadvantaged while seemingly forgetting that they used those programs to get there. People working at minimum wage or even generally low wages and paycheck to paycheck just can't afford the time to vote and their best chances are mail in voting which republicans know, that's why they're pushing so hard against them to make it as inconvenient as possible, because if its easier to vote in person and the people you don't want voting cant vote in person then you just eliminated them from the voting pool by circumstance.

There is also a lack of push for midterms and local elections, the presidential race is very big and public and made a whole spectacle, like you can still remember the 2016 and 2020 elections but be honest with me, what can you remember about the campaigns of the 2018 midterms. The 2022 midterms were basically an exception to the rule because the abortion ruling happened so close and it created such visible lines in the sand but I truly think if the abortion ruling happened in February 2021 not long after Biden got into office the turnout for 2022 midterms wouldn't have had as big of a turnout because it wouldn't have been in the public mind quite as much, the debate on abortions is still big but its mostly shifted to individual states rather than country wide at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lost me at guns, everything else I agree with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got kinda lost w/the religion and money bullet. It’s a bit abstract. Is that about churches escaping taxation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. In God we trust is on all our money for some stupid reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, I had to zoom in to see “in trump we trust”. How disgusting.. that gives a bit more perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cold war era propaganda, it's not even that old. There was a belief at the time among certain circles that since the USSR outlawed organized religion that the US needed to embrace organized religion even harder and to drive that point home we should put "In god we trust" on all our money. A lot of the US's current issues can be traced back to cold war propaganda surprisingly. Boomers have been stewing in that garbage their entire lives and it rotted their brains to the point where you can reduce them to frothing incoherent rage by just saying "socialism" around them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

For a country that has such a mix of people, seems pretty stupid regardless the reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I keep forgetting that there are people who still use cash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of low-income households in the USA don't have bank accounts and only use cash.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It amazes me how far behind America is simply because they hate poor people so much, passing regulation to ensure people have fee free access to banking services? Same answer as anything 'nope, fuck the poor' it's crazy too because it's greed of people saying 'why should they get something for nothing!!!' but everything to do with banking is more expensive and worse in the US, even cash machines charge a couple of dollars to get your money.

I think tipping culture is a weird social hierarchy thing too, like people love to feel like they're a higher strata then their server plus have that control over them 'your wages are in my hands, peasant, now serve me like the lord of the manor!' everywhere else there's a camaraderie with workers and I think it feels a lot nicer, the waiter isn't trying to upsell or get into your graces to earn a dirty penny they're just doing their job and interacting with you on a fundamentally human level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And more are welcome. The war on cash must stop. Shopping should be a private matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love using cash. I feel like I am thwarting The System since it keeps pressuring me to use credit cards or some other form of electronic currency. I mean I use some of those too when necessary, but I use cash whenever possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans will never be disarmed. Look up the process for changing a Constitutional Amendment when you feel like learning something new sometime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how there's been 27 amendments tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you read about the process to change Amendments? Do you think there's any chance that 3/4 of the 50 states in the USA would ever vote in agreement to abolish their own right to bear arms? I'm confident enough that will not happen that I will bet you $5000 that it does not happen in the next 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I just hope I'm around that long to win that bet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

27 times already. I'd say the math works. The Repubeicans are at their end. This is their last kicks. They know the world is changing and they are not in favor. That's why they have the corrupt syrpeme court in a attempt to get in what the minority wants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not very informed if you think only Republicans support the right to bear arms.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, historically it should be the people-focused parties that really want the people to be armed, not the business-focused parties. Of course the people-focused party here is also the big-government party, so that muddies things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The first and the last bullets are never going to change sadly. Tipping is only on the increase, guns are just like an inherent part of America now - kids are getting slaughtered by them daily and it's just like normal. Gun control is a laughable proposal in the US. If it hasn't changed with all the reasons to change, it's not going to. SUVs are actually becoming MORE popular. Healthcare is fucked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Modern US currency is somewhat colorful.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you except the weapons.