Well you should know, there’s a lot of bullshit on reddit and you shouldn’t believe everything you read there or anywhere else on the internet.

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Depending on where they are and how much they want to pay, they can get it.

(Also US banks are about 15 years behind the rest of the world. I was in Korea 20 years ago and the farm stands in the countryside took electronic payments and I could spend dollars.)

You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.

Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.

The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.

It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.

Denmark was supposed to have revoked her citizenship due to an administrative error surrounding whether her father was a citizen when she was born and that decision was reversed. She wasn’t the only one, and it had nothing to do with her comments on Facebook. The notion that she had lost her citizenship due to Facebook posts came from a reddit thread. That part was never true.

Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.

Because restroom is less crude. Being crude where it’s unnecessary is associated with antisocial behavior.

If you want a government with the kind of regulatory power to “put all this nonsense on hold” why not use that regulatory power to generate cleaner energy and solve the problem? The current clean energy sources we have right now are cheaper than what’s currently being used for energy generation. They’re also faster to get online and can be put in more places. The reason we’re not using those sources right now is because of politics, not economics or technology. The solution to environmental damage caused by energy production is to use cleaner energy. Stopping people from using technology on the user level won’t do much of anything.

If you literally don’t see the difference, I don’t know what to say.

Ok maybe one thing: I’ve been in demonstrations all over the world, major protests like Arab Spring and the second penguin revolution in Chile. Actions that changed governments. I’ve met so, so, so many people who do what’s in the OP. And you will never convince me that not wanting to potentially lose everything their family’s ever worked for their whole lives to protest against billionaires doing routine billionaire shit makes someone a pussy.

Based virgin voyager wearing his goth tiddy shirt

We don’t have the kinds of protections other folks have with regard to free speech. It’s not about balls. Our first amendment gives you the right to carry a sign down the sidewalk. If you stop walking you can be arrested. The arrest can affect your employment / you can be fired for being arrested. There’s no unemployment if you get fired. There’s no social safety net. People miss two paychecks and they can’t eat.

Exercising free speech in America is super high stakes. Once again, it’s not about balls.

I had to do the same thing. I spend a little time each day blocking and filtering out political posts here and I really didn’t want to block this community.

Not a single person mentioned US politics.

Not just talking about it and ending up with Trump.

Oh good grief.

Tradesman know there’s situations where the rules are changed

I know LOADS of tradies and I don’t know a single one who would swap out a car battery live.

Nope, you’re a dangerous person.

Nah you literally don’t understand why the rules are the rules and you’re a dangerous and shitty mechanic.

People who fix machines for a living make sure they neutralize energy sources wherever possible just because. There’s no actual reason for turning off equipment before you work on it. You’ll never drop a wrench or touch something hot. Just yolo that shit, what could go wrong?