[–] 2 points 6 days ago

You're painting with broad brushes, and it's causing you to miss out on a lot of the world. For the sake of argument, let's say you're right, and every single person who voted for Trump is evil. 704,043 people in Kentucky voted for Harris. 1,337,494 voted for Trump. The total population of Kentucky is about 4.6 million. That means that a minimum of 700k people, and more realistically millions of people in Kentucky don't share the viewpoint that you're painting Kentucky with.

If you go to the cities like Lexington or Louisville, you'll find areas that are actually quite left wing. Also- the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, is a pro-union anti-trump Democrat, who supports funding public schools, expanded Medicaid, and believes healthcare is a human right. He's also vetoed multiple bills in order to protect trans Americans. Yet in Kentucky he has a 65% approval rating.

Im sure this dichotomy is confusing. And yeah... People are complex and flawed. They vote against their own interests, they fall for propaganda, they ignore the plights of others when they shouldn't. But hopefully you can also look for the good in people. When you dismissed a whole state worth of people because of an election decided by only slightly more than a quarter of it's population, you're limiting yourself.

I may be wrong, but your perspective makes me think you're young. Try to travel and meet people, listen and learn about their experiences and perspective. (I know traveling is expensive, so this is and always will be a best-effort endeavor). You'll learn about the wide spectrum of human perspectives. People will have these awful and hateful opinions mixed in with truly humble kind and caring ones. They'll be walking hypocrites, selfish and yet impossibly kind. But you'll also see that people are significantly more nuanced and less hateful than the media portrays.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    There are also adjustable mortgages in the US, and as another commenter already pointed out, if rates go down you can always refinance, and you'll have the ability to permanently lock in that lower rate. So I would argue that the Canadian system actually had no advantages at all over the American system.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Let's break this down. Plugging these numbers into a mortgage calculator, yes a $600,000 home with a 3% interest rate would be a payment of ~$2024/month. However, this assumes a 20% down payment, $0 property taxes, $0 insurance, $0 HOA etc.

    However, an 850k house at an 8.5% interest rate with those same numbers would "only" be $5228/month. Additionally, as other commenters have pointed out, interest rates are not that high.

    OP is straight up lying to you at worst, or just cherry picking numbers in a very deceiving way at best.

    Not that I'm trying to argue housing is affordable. Just that people will go on the Internet and tell lies to spin a narrative and drive engagement.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I am (due to circumstances of my birth) an American, and yet I understood the messages that The Boys were making. I disagree that art should be brought down to the lowest common denominator. Instead, discussions like this bring everyone up instead

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not sure how the author's message can be more face up. In the end media literacy is a responsibility of the audience to some degree, and criticizing satire for that which it portrays, or in this case criticizing messaging for that which it mocks is a failure to understand the message.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Buddy you misunderstood the point. The whole show is a massive criticism of both capitalism and racism. The fact that this guy was a caricature was intentional, both in the boys and as a meta statement by the author. It's saying that western fear of middle eastern terrorists is driven by racist propaganda meant to trick people into accepting forever wars to fund the military industrial complex.

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