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...I sort of owned the previous gen Monte for a while.

In my defense, My in-laws gifted it to my wife. They called me for approval, “It’s an old Monte Carlo. Really old. We figure Brickulator will be able to keep it going!” and my mind was full of visions of radiator grilles and opera windows.

Then what showed up was a

Upward mobility, as in, out of the comfortable middle class that the majority of those nations is in, and into a ruling class? Yeah, no duh.

Are you a millionaire here yet? Really think you’ll get there?

...Because they are not run as for-profit, yes.

3. These programs are massively inneffiecient because they are poor compromises to protect randian fee-fees from scary socialism.

and they also allowed for child labor, massive poverty and death, unsafe conditions for workers, and huge monopolies that would drive markets.

Stop stealing my roads, power grid, national defense and mail service!

C’MON LAZY POORS. IT WAS EASY FOR ME.

Yes, and we have tax-subsidized preventative care, but still in the worst way possible. Socialized medicine really needs an image overhaul - it should be touted based on the efficiency and savings versus for-profit care.

I hate it when the government steals my money to make roads, or deliver mail to people other than me!!!

Yes. The answer is usually “they just need to work harder”. As in “if they didn’t want to work at walmart, they would go to college”. This is a gross oversimplification, but I understand how it would make sense to someone that has never been in a position of disenfranchisement.

Because being poor is considered an immoral life choice in this country. You are only poor because you lack the moral fiber to work hard enough, so helping poor people is just enabling them to continue not trying hard enough.

You’re saying I can’t take down this:

Or the Seattle 4-Way: stay there forever, awkwardly attempting to get the other person to go first, regardless of right of way. Then, as soon as they begin to move, lurch forward 5 feet and watch them stop again. Repeat.

American Driver’s definition of yield:

So, they are training them to stop at the end of onramps and go 57 in the passing lane?

Back in the heyday of theFast and the Furious “live life a quarter mile at a time” Autozone spoiler and Naws culture in my county, one of these was the fastest car around. I had heard rumors about it, and sought it out to race it with my Mk3 Supra Turbo. I did. He won. I flagged him over, and he told me his secret -

Wow. That fast?