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No, all solstice's occur when the path of the sun is highest or lowest from the equator. The fist graphic, gives an idea [don't pay mind to the day, they don't occur on the same day every year, the date of each has to be calculated. But, the general idea is there. the earth has an elliptical orbit which means it is like a line around an egg, it is bigger on one side. the perihelion [ periapsis in the image] is when the earth is closest. the aphelion [ apoapsis in the image] is when the earth is farthest from the sun. these two events some folk [me and others] consider the beginning of a year and the true midyear, respectively.
The second image shows
top left march equinox
top right june solstice
bottom left september equinox
bottom right december solstice
the third image is the side view approximation of the june solstice. Notice the equator.
Now the fourth image is the side view approximation of the december solstice, notice the equator. Do you see the difference?
The solstices or the equinoxes are based on the tilt of the earth's axis. During the equinoxes the equator of the earth and the middle sun ray in the graphic are in line. I better way to explain it during the equinoxes, the northern and southern hemisphere face the sun equally. This is why it is an equal night. the day and night are equal length.
During the december solstice the southern hemisphere faces the sun more, this is why the december solstice has the longest day in the southern hemisphere while the longest night in the northern hemisphere.
In parallel, the june solstice is when the northern hemisphere faces the sun the most. that is why the june solstice has the longest day in the northern hemisphere while the longest night in the southern.
And the earth changes cyclically so
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Southern hemisphere faces the sun the most , december solstice, longest day in the southern hemisphere, longest night in the northern hemisphere
earth axis tilts every day less and less of the southern hemispsere faces the sun
Both hemisphere faces the sun qually, march equinox, day and night the same length in both hemispheres
earth axis tilts every day less and less of the southern hemisphere faces the sun
Northern hemisphere faces the sun the most, June solstice, longest day in the northern hemisphere, longest night in the southern hemisphere
earth axis tilts every day more and more of the southern hemisphere faces the sun
Both hemispheres faces he sun equally , september equinox. equal day in both hemipsheres
Earth axis tilts every day more and more of the southern hemipshere facing the sun
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The perihelion or aphelion aren't about the earth's tilt along the path around the sun. The perihelion or aphelion are about the earth's distance to the sun.
During the perihelion the earth is closest and from the moment immediately after the perihelion the earth is getting farther and farther away from the sun till the aphelion when the earth gets the farthest from the sun in its orbit. And immediately after the aphelion, the earth is getting closer and closer to the sun till the following, perihelion.
The moon has an elliptical orbit around the earth, like the earth has around the sun.
The moon doesn't have an equinox or solstice because it never tils its axis, one side of the moon always faces the earth
I hope i helped
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we are synching, what is wrong with the world:) it is 2025:)
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38 minutes ago, ProfD said:
The United Nations, G20 and G8 exist to prevent world war and maintain those arrangements.
yes but i have a lesser view of those organizations potency than you. The BRIC- brazil russia india china wouldn't exist if the usa backed organizations were as potent as you suggest, or I think you suggest.
40 minutes ago, ProfD said:One billion Chinese people aren't rushing to overthrow their dictator either.
china hasn't had a dictator since chiang ki shek, the presidents of china are elected. It isn't a usa system or a western european system, but china's leaders are elected. The one key similarity to the western european system is china doesn't have term limits either. So when the next chinese congress convenes in 2028 , we will see if Xi Jinping can win it again. He will have work to do. the chinese communist party may look like one whole party but i argue it is like the donkeys/elephants/third parties/joint chiefs of staff all wrapped up into one, the chinese constitution doesn't allow for multiple parties but it does allow for factions in one party, and that is how it works. These factions don't have official names cause they are fluid, they can easily change over time based on the inner activities of the members. In the same way the factions in the donkeys or elephants change over time: the squad,or the tea party . China doesn't have a dictator, that is a media lie from the usa/western europe. And I will defend the chinese system again going back multiracial large populace countries. The reason why mao liked one party is he comprehended that china historically is very multiracially internally. many people outside china may think of china as one peoples but they are not historically. so one party serves to unite in government administration a country of over a billion people. And the chinese communist party isn't a dictator it is the reason why china is the second most powerful government in humanity, why it no longer is an english opium den, why it is better than its geographic peers: russia/india/japan/korea/taiwan who represent collectively various different ways. Which i can go into, but I will not:) Remember the chinese government feeds all of its people, a hell of a lot larger populace than the usa. I don't see why any chinese would be looking to overthrow the chinese communist party, they have put and maintain china on a positive arch.
1 hour ago, ProfD said:My point is despite having different ethnic groups within the country, the population seems to be content with their strong-man and no desire to change distribution of wealth.
See this is the thing. In the soviet era, the soviet government by its own law, was obliged to take care of all people equally so what few may know is that for all the struggles, the soviet union tried to support all the citizens as equals. The real reason why the soviets failed was because of their very expensive arms race with the usa. The soviets were better scientist than the usa but an arms race against a fiscal capitalistic country is foolish. But the soviets exhausted themselves and it was from that moment to putin that you see the truth Profd. Between the fall of the soviets to putin what happened?
The USA as the victor of the cold war, pushed all the fiscal capitalistic russians, the oligarchs, in my mind the descendents of whites or czarists into russia and it worked out for the usa. Russia in that time gave up a lot of technology, the natural resources of russia were being milked by usa/western europe. but in russia the people were wondering where the social services were. No one told them that texas in the usa/missisippi in the usa don't have social services like new york or california. So the oligarchs came in, lived in golden palaces and showed the russian people first hand what fiscal capitalism absent enslavement is at its most crude/raw/negative. Just a lot of greed. so Putin comes in and basically creates the modern russian government. the oligarchs could had did far better but as usual with these statinphiles in countries outside the usa, they live in london/new york city and talk about they want better for the country of their bloodline but when they get a chance, ala iraq/afghanistan/libya/and it will be the same with syria, they show themselves to be pure fiscal capitalists in the usa way with no plans or desires to make the country they were not raised in anything but a cash grab for themselves.
MY point being the strong man brought organization to russia, the oligarchs brought chaos. And the oligarchs weren't one person, they were a group, distributing wealth amongst themselves. So convincing the russian people of distribution wealth change will take more than words, it will take actions.
I don't know if you comprehend my point.
I comprehend for you, distribution of wealth change is or can be at best the equalizer or at least the universal standard of living improvement needed in humanity or in humanities parts for betterment. And I see logic in your thinking. But, the one element your position needs is someone to lead by example. The chinese communist party does it. Most people in china want no war, and the chinese communist party isn't starting one, the issue in the south china sea isn't about war but china's growth, the reality is, china has grown too big to be the usa's bitch militaristically and the usa government has been unwilling to let russia have parts of eastern europe or china have parts of south east asia... I don't know what schrumpt will do, he seems to be willing to let them have those parts which is something we will see soon enough if true or not... The western european countries have all these riots because FDR made western europe have a high level of social security, and the recent governments have mismanaged funds which threatens the social safety net, the distribution of wealth in western european countries... The people of nippon/japan have a high level of internal peace cause they have a system of distribution of wealth + no sharing of wealth to the outside, ala immigrant entry which maintains a quality, but they don't have a military either. Their biggest problem is the man's man culture in japan has to end, the japanese woman is leading in many sectors of their community but the men blockade higher positions and that is the battle... but russia's problem is distribution of wealth has tended to be violent/bloody/ and not functional. So Russians need someone russians in or out of russia to lead by example, but none do so .... that exposes the truth of russian people.
As I say about the black elephants in the usa, the black republican party members, from the 1960s onward, they always complain that black people don't spend money right, while boasting about their businesses. But they never show an example of this quality. To restate, a bunch of black business owners complain about fiscal impropriety in the black populace in the usa but never have an example within their own tribe of collective better business. The russians need the same, they need someone russian to lead by example, don't talk the talk, walk the walk.
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@ProfD they do have a history of enslavement to the first peoples, but your correct, having a less multiracial populace always helps a country be more stable
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19 minutes ago, ProfD said:
Everything in the US seems to be made in China.
except the weapons
19 minutes ago, ProfD said:It's really a flex to keep the lesser countries in line.
yeah, the cold war proxy war between powers still exists but it isn't a flex for show. Every redefining war in humanity had people who said all the powerful are part of some one world government -esque arrangement until the war hit and then the reality of the wealthy is clear to see. And the reason is simple, sooner or later, someone in the rich zone wants more than the arrangement and once you do , only one way exist to get it.
29 minutes ago, ProfD said:As I mentioned in another thread, Vladimir Putin has 144 million people in check. The people haven't risen against him.
Ahh the people of russia are in denial, like the people in india, like the people in the usa , as in brasil.
One of the most unfortunate influences of the usa on humanity is populaces inability to be honest to themselves.
all the peoples in the usa lie to themselves and the usa likes other populaces to do the same.
The people of russia are imperialist, who have spent over a century trying to be western european voters in appearance and that lie is what stops them.
The russians have watched western europe for a long time, elected government: france/england/usa/brasil none of these governments show a good example of elected government. each of them have historically disenfrachised populaces that the many peoples of russia realize will be them. Risen up against putin for what? for the usa model ? You would tell them redistribute wealth but which group in russia will gain the most in the redistribution? You wouldn't offer an answer and so, stay the course.
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@ProfD he isn't alone to, i wish i knew the numbers or some newspaper did investigative reporting concerning elected officials who are leaving earlier than average. I recall the first schrumf presidency and many left who had decades ahead of them into the private sector.
But I want to say, trudeau and alot of these other people were are not and will not be worried about the populaces they are in a position to govern.
Malcolm and advocates of that quality are very very rare and usually stay far away from government.
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Don't tease a lover of history with such questions:) I will be up all night thinking on it:)
When you look at what reagan did with welfare which was basically allow different states to treat it differently, such that in the mostly white states, a wisconsin, an idaho, an arkansas, white people whose work ethic is far worse than any black person in california/new york/georgia treat welfare like a right and it comes like a right to them while in new york/california/georgia, whites+financially positive blacks knock down black people on welfare as inadequate or lazy and try to deny them welfare.
And every law from welfare to work under clinton to the affordable care act under obama to the abortion situation with schrumpft/biden is a state by state issue, that too many people treat as one.
Yeah I can definitely see seeds in the 1980s, which even coincides to the fiat currency started in the 1970s and OPEC changing the oil/energy situation
shame on me, the euro alone is fiat. You are correct that barring military reality, the governments can use the fiat currency model and define a global financial balance. But, is china going to do this with the usa? is russia going to do this with the european union? is India going to do this with fellow nuclear power and public rival pakistan? I can go on and on. I will even piggy back on the dialog between me and pioneer and add, in the usa itself, the financial binds of the states are loosening. Yes, the usa federal military is absolute in the usa, but the kind of inter governmental cooperation needed for that I see becoming less and less possible. Look at New York state side NEw JErsey with the congestion pricing. I am not saying you are wrong Profd. I am saying the governments in humanity and even their subdivisions [scotland in the uk, hong kong in china] are showing a greater and greater dislike for the bureaucratic harmony that aligning the fiat currencies as you suggest will require to be effective . The wealthy in each government in humanity like the fiat to support themselves but to readjust for the 99% in each government will require changes the one percent in each government seem less and less interested in. And fiscal poor folk don't have the will, desire, gusto or the arms to force anything on their end.
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making financial demands requires unity first. The citizens of the usa you are speaking of today are a financially varied , phenotypically varied , .. philosophically varied populace that based on the 2024 election clearly views the law, finances, or the role of the usa dissimilarly in itself, in unbridgeable ways.
The question is how do dissimilar people unite to make a peaceful demand? I do know some argue, financial desperation will make it work but I am not certain or convinced to that argument. What say you?
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4 hours ago, ProfD said:
Humans=people which are folks, citizens, residents, men, women, children, etc.
The usa is the only government in modernity with a fiat currrency and it only works by a militaristic power. How can that be applied to all?
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The Cellist states something few state, London has no toll to get into the city so when they did congestion pricing that was the first toll into London. New York City is full of tolls.
And the comparisons to Singapore which is a wealthy city state, or stocklhom which is the only city in a low populace country full of natural resources, are dysfunctional to new York city which is the largest city in a country with over three hundred million people.
And Oren Barzilay admitted that EMS workers live in shelters, they are not on welfare, but they don't make enough to live outside the shelters....
What are my points?
1) no two places in humanity are financially the same. Applying governmental policy to two different places will never yield the same result.
2) the true financial condition of cities isn't in mayor's speeches or investments in stadiums. It is in the quality of life to the lowest wage workers. Eric Adams suggest New York City is financially flying high, then if so why not pay the emergency medical service workers more? why not make congestion pricing void for them? You claim to have money earned but you don't use it , can only mean you are hoarding it. when governments do that, it means illegal money transactions in the bureaucracy.
Congestion pricing and the Broadway community
By Roberto Araujo New York City
PUBLISHED 2:18 PM ET Dec. 30, 2024Broadway musician Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf plays the cello in the Broadway musical “The Great Gatsby."
She drives into Midtown Manhattan from her home in Hartsdale, New York.
“We lived in Inwood before we bought this house, and we spent, the idea was to be able to take the Metro-North, which we did up until the pandemic. We always took the train,” Dorman-Phaneuf said.
“But then in the pandemic, the trains home went away and they still haven’t come back. So even though I wish we could be taking the train, on a weekday, there were just, there’s a train at 10:30, and then there’s a train at 11:44. So if we get done at 10:35 at work, the next train is 11:44, and that means I’d get home at 12:40,” she said. "And that's just untenable, you know, to have to wait an hour for a train."
In a statement, the MTA said, “Schedules are based on current ridership data of more than 200,000 daily riders who use Metro-North. As Metro-North’s ridership continues to grow, the railroad is constantly monitoring ridership patterns and trends to see what future adjustments may be necessary.”
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community
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Drivers react to day one of congestion pricing
By Noorulain Khawaja Manhattan
PUBLISHED 2:14 PM ET Jan. 05, 2025Some New Yorkers thoughts to Congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/drivers-react-to-day-one-of-congestion-pricingThe Port Authority tolls will increase alongside congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/port-authority-tolls-increase-alongside-start-of-congestion-pricing
Local EMS union encourages workers to request reassignment out of congestion relief zone
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
Heather Fordham
Jan 3, 2025, 10:30 PM
Updated 2 days agoThe local union that represents the city's EMS and paramedics is now encouraging their members assigned to stations in the congestion relief zone to request reassignments.
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
The union represents 4,100 emergency medical technicians and paramedics that travel from all parts of the city — and even outside of the state, to be on the city's front lines.
Under congestion pricing, those who live outside of 60th Street in Manhattan will have to pay a toll beginning at $9 for cars during peak periods in order to get to stations located in downtown Manhattan.
Union president Oren Barzilay said Friday while they fought for exemptions and discounts at public hearings, ultimately, they were not included in the groups eligible.
"My men and woman, they live in their cars, they live in their families or friends' houses. They sleep on couches, they sleep at stations because they can't afford to go back and forth every day. This will more than likely be the nail in the coffin, they will likely resign, or demand to be transferred to another station," Barzilay said.
Barzilay did not have an exact number, but said some workers have already submitted reassignment forms and they expect the number to increase once the toll goes into effect on Jan. 5.
“Mark my words, it will likely have a large, negative impact on public safety that will soon enough lead to a rush by Albany and City Hall’s countless and well-paid government funded spin doctors to point the blame and fingers at each other, as they always do. Actions speak louder than words and this tax is a lose-lose for the FDNY EMS and public safety,” Barzilay added.
https://brooklyn.news12.com/local-ems-union-encourages-workers-to-request-reassignment-out-of-congestion-relief-zoneIN AMENDMENT
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1150 in 2023New York Ctiy has ten million people , ten percent is one million, one percent is one hundred thousand. a tenth of one percent is ten thousand. a hundredth of one percent is one thousand
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11 hours ago, ProfD said:There is a sense of humor within the historian.
sometimes:)
11 hours ago, ProfD said:That's not how the forefathers envisioned it but exactly what politicians have been doing for many decades.
yeah owning other human beings allows for grander levels of egalitarianism in government
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10 hours ago, ProfD said:
Fiat currency keeps humans from having to barter for products, goods and services.
in south america/africa/asia people are bartering alot, when you said humans you meant citizens/residents of the usa right? I hope so
10 hours ago, ProfD said:Also, in the absence of being able to produce and bring goods to the market, most humans have to exchange labor for currency.
i think those who are tricked out o their funds in the universal basic income will potentially be the labor class you speak
11 hours ago, ProfD said:The world could do away with money at any time. It's would be harder to maintain order and control over resources and people.
thus by your own words humanity can't do away with money , if human organization becomes impossible
of course because all systems can be abused to gain profits, remember genocide is first, slavery is second , those two are the first two elements of the usa, and what do they teach? take advantage to others no matter what. so financially that means extort wealth no matter what, an unwritten law.
6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:If Colorado is offering a UBI of $2,500 a month and Texas is offering only $1,500...what's to stop poor people from packing up and moving up to the Rocky mountains?
excellent question. it will be state laws, remember the usa has a long history of state laws varying widely and an issue like this will be state law. Colorado can make a law for to adjust the universal basic income based on time spent in colorado or which state someone is coming from, this is who abortion works now. It may seem messy but you may not know but the usa was like this for alot of its history. The federal age, if you will from the late 1800s to 2000 wasn't how the usa usually operated state to state.
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On 1/4/2025 at 8:15 AM, Pioneer1 said:
Where do they come up with these names???
they have a set of fortune cookies
On 1/4/2025 at 11:16 AM, ProfD said:I'm less concerned with how all of these clowns brand themselves. They need to do their jobs instead of using the pulpit to get attention.
their jobs:) their job is to get elected, the tenure is the kickback:)
6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:How did we get HERE as a nation?
we, who is we?
4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:Since 2000.....
-We should have had far more Black owned firms
-Had More Black represenation in Congress
-Established some Black Medical Centers
-Most of the Black ghettoes should have been cleaned up and rejuvenated
-Black male/female relations should have been betterAnd, ideally...we could have used another Black (FBA preferably) President, lol.
These aren't far fetched desires.
In 25 years, they could very much have been achieved.we?
who is we?
could of, would of, should of... yeah.
But I will always argue this situation is what black leadership from circa 1865 in majority, not marcus garvey, not the black panthers, not malcolm, but most black leaders including mlk or frederick douglass or web dubois or obama were talking about. a situation where individual black achievement can occur. But not communal black achievement.
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5 hours ago, ProfD said:
Seems it would be easier to lower the cost of everything but of course wealthy folks and shareholders aren't interested in losing money for rhe greater good of humanity.
well, the problem is the global marketplace. Remember, the resources of wealthy countries is intertwined, no government today that is militaristically powerful has a totally internal marketplace. so, making the cost of things low will require an alignment that militaristically can't exist at the moment.
5 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:It may work if they absolutely guarantee the income with no deductions or penalties that would reduce it, but I don't think they would.
your correct, all systems can be abused, remember the first lotto in the usa was in new york state and it was sold to the voters as a way to help schools but that is not where that money goes so... can universal basic income be abused? yes . will each of the fifty states in the usa utilize universal basic income the same? no. And like health insurance/pension plans it will be a state by state variance that will financially be important to mention.
52 minutes ago, ProfD said:Otherwise, I think UBI will be glorified welfare similar to the stimulus checks that were handed out during the pandemic.
universal basic income is welfare, it is socialism, it is stimulus checks, those three truths is why it has detractors who support fiscal capitalism rigidly as a system or those who have this idea of the merit of labor in fiscal capitalism, which opposes revenue earned absent labor wage or market trade. This is why I mentioned the usa debt and the connection to military power side universal basic income. In fiscal capitalism, giving money absent a market action means debt increase so it will be an annual increase. But again, it has to happen cause the labor market, globally, no longer has the quantity of jobs to support the idea of the labor market being opportune enough to support the human populace as a whole or in one government. I argue, from a usa perspective, the first blow was the end of enslavement in the usa, as absent enslavement plus the an ever largening policy of immigration you create a populace with labor needs that can't be sustained. The first part of the second blow was the exodus of jobs in the usa starting in the 1950s. When the usa started allowing jobs in the usa to exist outside the usa, it harmed the domestic labor market extremely. The goal was to offer carrots to governments absent any labor market during the war between the usa + ussr, and it succeeded in regaling more governments, but it was harmful domestically, and the action by getting the japanese to give japanese auto jobs to usa citizens wasn't enough of an offsetter. The second part of the second blow came alongside the first part and that was the mass ownership of farms. yes, mass ownership of farms allowed for controlled food production to generate food for the ever growing populace, aside price control for produce. But, it also killed the one place that allows in fiscal capitalism a labor intensive affordable place for the masses and that is the individual farm, the family farm. Urban life can not offer the labor opportunity for expanding populaces like farms. The attempt with franchises hasn't worked and wasn't going to. The house on a farm can be upkept by wood from the trees on the farm. You can pay a person through food they help make and a room if you own the farm. Urban life doesn't yield to that. The third blow was the fiat currency, this allowed the usa to make money for its own purposes which served to free the usa from obtaining mineral wealth through violent means to maintain its advantage in the usa+ussr war, but the usa didn't use the financial power to finance infrastructure, schools, small business while using it to support failed large industries or businesses, the airline industry/the automotive industry/the weapons makers/ the internet firms later on/ the real estate industry later on/ the banking industry later on , all saved by the fiat currency. Which has never been used for infrastructure effectively, add on the end of benchmarks later and less use of the fiat currency to build up locally. So.. the usa has financially guided itself to a situation where it needs socialism/expanded welfare/stimulus checks to maintain its financial balance. financial mismanagement
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Universal Basic Income is coming, fiscal capitalism with modern technological capabilities deletes the need for physical toiling human labor, in regions in humanity that have the militaristic power + natural resources to maintainthe technological capability.
But what are some general problems?
- Giving money allows for those, like telemarketers, like similar scammers to acquire large profits. How can they be stopped absent a level of legal criminalization to such activities that is absent in the financially wealthiest governments.
- No modern multiracial populaces has a consistent legal or administrative history of providing any service equally to individuals regardless of their race: gender/phenotype/age/language/edutation level/health/financial value. So how can universal basic income?
- The ability of the usa to raise its own debt or generate more debt for itself absent a fear of debt collection by its military power allows for a severe abuse in its general populace
The prime problem i see in the Black populace in the usa, the phenotypical race made up of Black: DOSers/Caribbeana/Africana/Asiana/First Peoples, is the belief from many Black people in the usa that black people, not non blacks , are inadequate or irresponsible or something similar to have Universal Basic Income.
For Black DOSers this comes from the legacy of enslavement and the minority of Blacks circa 1865 who were able to overcome white terror who suggested all black people could overcome said white terror but lacked something to do it.
Finland’s universal basic income trial made people happier—but not employed
By Charlotte Jee
February 11, 2019A trial where unemployed people in Finland were given a basic income for two years did not get them into work—but it make them healthier and happier, according to initial results. [ https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/161361/Report_The Basic Income Experiment 20172018 in Finland.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y OR https://1drv.ms/b/c/ea9004809c2729bb/ETkUV74BKBlJrvXrruWIjFcBkmRyuTzQGqIF8iPqGMceOQ?e=O5jIJI ]
The experiment: From January 2017 to December 2018, 2,000 unemployed people in Finland received an unconditional monthly payment of €560 ($634) instead of their usual unemployment benefit (a similar sum). The goal was to see if this would help them get back to work. The pilot found that basic income recipients were no more likely to find work than a control group who did not receive the payments. However, they reported significantly better overall well-being. A final report on the trial will be released in 2020.
Universal basic income: The idea [ https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/06/20/141704/basic-income-could-work-if-you-do-it-canada-style/ ] is to give everyone the same monthly income, regardless of means. It’s a concept that’s grown in popularity in recent years, as part of thinking around how to combat job losses and insecurity caused by automation. It has also been tested in Canada, Namibia, India, and other countries. [ https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/27/103611/universal-basic-income-had-a-rough-2018/ ]
Is that it?: Inevitably, the results from Finland raise questions about whether UBI works. However, it’s worth pointing out that the data only covers 2017, the first year of the trial, and it’s questionable whether focusing solely on people who are unemployed can really qualify as a “universal” basic income. We’ve got extra data to work with, but the debate is far from settled.
by Charlotte Jee
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Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style
A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
By Brian Bergsteinarchive page
June 20, 2018Dana Bowman, 56, expresses gratitude for fresh produce at least 10 times in the hour and a half we’re having coffee on a frigid spring day in Lindsay, Ontario. Over the many years she scraped by on government disability payments, she tended to stick to frozen vegetables. She’d also save by visiting a food bank or buying marked-down items near or past their sell-by date.
But since December, Bowman has felt secure enough to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. She’s freer, she says, to “do what nanas do” for her grandchildren, like having all four of them over for turkey on Easter. Now that she can afford the transportation, she might start taking classes in social work in a nearby city. She feels happier and healthier—and, she says, so do many other people in her subsidized apartment building and around town. “I’m seeing people smiling and seeing people friendlier, saying hi more,” she says.
Jim Garbutt sees moods brightening, too, at A Buy & Sell Shop, a store he and his wife run on Lindsay’s main street. Sales are brisker for most of what they sell: used furniture, kitchen items, novelties. A Buy & Sell Shop is the kind of place where people come in just to chat—“we’re like Cheers, without the alcohol,” Garbutt says—and more and more people seem hopeful. “Spirits are up,” he says.
What changed? Lindsay, a compact rectangle amid the lakes northeast of Toronto, is at the heart of one of the world’s biggest tests of a guaranteed basic income. In a three-year pilot funded by the provincial government, about 4,000 people in Ontario are getting monthly stipends to boost them to at least 75 percent of the poverty line. That translates to a minimum annual income of $17,000 in Canadian dollars (about $13,000 US) for single people, $24,000 for married couples. Lindsay has about half the people in the pilot—some 10 percent of the town’s population.
The trial is expected to cost $50 million a year in Canadian dollars; expanding it to all of Canada would cost an estimated $43 billion annually. But Hugh Segal, the conservative former senator who designed the test, thinks it could save the government money in the long run. He expects it to streamline the benefits system, remove rules that discourage people from working, and reduce crime, bad health, and other costly problems that stem from poverty. Such improvements occurred during a basic-income test in Manitoba in the 1970s.
People far beyond Canada will be watching closely, too, because a basic income has become Silicon Valley’s favorite answer to the question of how society should deal with the massive automation of jobs. Tech investors such as Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and Sam Altman, president of the startup incubator Y Combinator, are funding pilot projects to examine what people do when they get money with no strings attached. Hughes’s Economic Security Project will pay for 100 people in Stockton, California, to get $500 a month for 18 months. Y Combinator ran a small-scale test in Oakland, California, last year; beginning in 2019 it will give $1,000 a month to 1,000 people over three to five years, in locations still to be determined.
This momentum figures to keep building as AI and robotics make even more inroads. Legislators in Hawaii are beginning to study the prospects for a basic income. The lawmaker who has led the effort, Democrat Chris Lee, worries that self-driving cars and automated retail checkout could be the beginning of the end for a lot of human labor in Hawaii’s service-based economy. If machines can handle tasks in tourism and hospitality, Lee says, “there is no fallback industry for jobs to be created in.”
But there’s an important difference between that vision for a basic income and the experiment in Ontario. The Canadians are testing it as an efficient antipoverty mechanism, a way to give a relatively small segment of the population more flexibility to find work and to strengthen other strands of the safety net. That’s not what Silicon Valley seems to imagine, which is a universal basic income that placates broad swaths of the population. The most obvious problem with that idea? Math. Many economists concluded long ago that it would be too expensive, especially when compared with the cost of programs to create new jobs and train people for them. That’s why the idea didn’t take off after tests in the 1960s and ’70s. It’s largely why Finland decided not to extend a small basic income trial.
If any place can illuminate both the advantages of basic income and the problems it can’t solve, it will be Lindsay. The town is prosperous by some measures, with a median household income of $55,000 and a historic downtown district where new condos and a craft brewery are on the way. But that masks how tough it is for a lot of people to get by. Manufacturing in the surrounding area, known as the Kawartha Lakes, has declined since the 1980s. Many people juggle multiple jobs, including seasonal work tied to tourism in the summer and fall. Technology is part of the story too: robots milk cows now.
Basic income as a social equalizer
The Olde Gaol Museum is indeed an old jail, but it’s also a showcase for things that reveal the texture of Lindsay’s history—uniforms that nurses from town wore in France during World War I; tools and maps used by railway workers when this was a hub for eight railroad lines; 19th-century paintings by a local artist who depicted the timeless regional pastimes of canoeing and fishing. When curatorial assistant Ian McKechnie gives me a tour, he stops and plays a lovely tune on a foot-pumped organ called a harmonium that was made in Ontario more than a hundred years ago.McKechnie, 27, has worked at the museum for seven years and is devoted to it. Unlike his previous job, when he was briefly a laborer at a goat cheese factory, it offers a chance to be creative and connect with many people in the community. He doesn’t just give tours: he researches and organizes exhibits and writes supporting materials. But on the day we meet, the museum is not paying him to be at work, and therein lies a story about why he and the Olde Gaol’s operations supervisor, Lisa Hart, both signed up for the basic income.
The museum gets almost all its revenue from grants, and one just expired. The manager of the museum recently left, and so it falls largely to McKechnie and Hart to keep things going until another grant comes in. Even when it does, these won’t be lucrative jobs—perhaps $20,000 a year for McKechnie’s. They could find positions in the area that pay more, but both would much rather continue their labor of love at the museum. Leaving now might undercut its momentum toward a more sustainable future, which could include a new cultural center that would connect the museum with a local art gallery.
Thanks to the basic-income trial, both can afford to stay on with the museum. And in the meantime, Hart says, she will no longer put off buying new eyeglasses. The basic income “allows you to spend time on something that’s valuable,” she says. “It’s very sad to walk away from something where you’re valued and doing something meaningful for the community because it just can’t pay you a lot.”
This highlights an intriguing aspect of basic income: it functions in different ways for different people. The way Hart describes it, it’s fuel for cultural development. For Dana Bowman, who might now take classes in social work and regularly volunteers at a community garden, it’s a food subsidy, an educational grant, and a neighborhood improvement fund all in one. For a married couple who own a health-food restaurant that barely covers its costs, it’s a small-business booster. A man who hurt his back working in a warehouse told me he hoped it could augment his employer’s disability payments. A student who was about to graduate from a technical college and had a job lined up said he planned to use the extra income to pay down school loans and start saving for a house.
For McKechnie, the basic income is something broader: a social equalizer, a recognition that people who make little or no money are often doing things that are socially valuable. “It gives one the assurance that the work you’re doing is not in vain, even though you’re not working in a bank or doing other things that are considered part of a career,” he says.
Even if a basic income turns out to be a flexible and efficient government program, it’s not clear that it would be a great way to respond to technological unemployment. Over and over again, people in Lindsay told me it won’t reduce people’s demand for jobs.
As a practical matter, the Ontario trial doesn’t pay enough to eliminate most people’s need to work or to rely on family for support. But even if a richer payout were feasible, that wouldn’t change the philosophy of the program. Basic-income supporters want to improve the odds that people will take better care of themselves and their families. They want a humane and dignifying way of helping people who simply can’t work. But they also argue that most people generally want and expect to work. “It’s not supposed to be welfare for people displaced by technology,” says one of the basic-income advocates, Mike Perry, who runs a medical practice in Kawartha Lakes.
Moreover, while giving poor people money helps them, it still leaves urgent and difficult questions unanswered about the impacts of automation and globalization. What will it take to ensure that entire regions aren’t left far behind economically? What can be done to boost the supply of good, steady jobs? Basic income “is only the beginning,” says Roderick Benns, former vice chair of the Ontario Basic Income Network. “It’s not just ‘cut a check and get on with building the corporatocracy.’ We have to ask what else we are doing as a society to get people to reimagine what they can do with their lives.”
Benns, the author of several books, grew up in Lindsay. Until recently, he and his wife, Joli Scheidler-Benns, lived three hours away, but the pilot is so important to them that they moved back so he can chronicle it in a new publication called the Lindsay Advocate and she can do research for her PhD on the subject at York University. After Benns describes how basic income should augment job training and other social programs, Scheidler-Benns, who is originally from Michigan, nods and then adds: “I don’t see how it could work in the US.”
After all, she says, Canada does many other things to strengthen its safety net and reduce inequality. For one, it has universal health care. School funding in Ontario is primarily allocated at the province level rather than being heavily dependent on local property taxes, as it is in the US. Canada also traditionally spends about 1 percent of its GDP on workforce-development programs, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That’s about half of the proportion in other advanced countries, but it still dwarfs the US figure, which is about 0.3 percent.
Funding a different mind-set
Tony Tilly is the outgoing president of Fleming College, which specializes in preparing people in Kawartha Lakes for careers in both white-collar work and trades. About half the students don’t come right from high school; they’ve already been in the workforce and hope to learn a new skill.
He supports a basic income because he thinks it could help people break out of poverty that has beset their families for generations. But even if the program continues past the three-year trial period, Fleming’s essential challenge would remain: how to prepare students for a world in which more and more tasks are being automated.
Fleming is still priming its graduates to work in traditional strongholds of the regional economy: jobs tied to the environment and natural resources, infrastructure development, mining, construction, and government. But the school is trying to instill a different mind-set from the one students had when Tilly became its president 14 years ago. They now get more emphasis on so-called soft skills: teamwork, problem-solving, personal interaction. Above all, he says, they need to know “not only how to do some particular job but how to contribute overall to the success of an organization, whether it’s a manufacturer or a provider of social services.”
If the basic-income plan works as expected, Fleming might get even more students than it otherwise would. Dana Bowman could be one of them.
It’s been years since she last had a paying job, as a receptionist. She has been on disability for a variety of ailments, including skin cancer and arthritis. But she feels she is up to doing some part-time work. In 2015, two years before the basic-income trial, Bowman asked a case worker if she could get help paying for transportation to a Fleming campus that offers classes in social work. The official said that would lead to cuts in other benefits Bowman relied on. The message Bowman says she got was: “You’re unemployable. You’re not worth investing in.”
In contrast, the basic-income plan ensures a minimum for her without micromanaging how she spends it. For every dollar that recipients earn above the minimum, their payout from the province will be cut by 50 cents, but no one is made worse off by working.
Even being able to consider that prospect, Bowman says, has been good for her. “I don’t feel ‘less than.’ I feel ‘equal to.’ Not feeling guilty walking down the street, thinking, ‘I didn’t do enough today,’” she says. “People want to do something. People aren’t inclined to do nothing.”
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14 hours ago, ProfD said:
As it relates to slavery, AfroAmericans are allowing it to become a distant memory.
I don't believe most AfroAmericans truly understand the white wealth that continues to compound that was generated by slavery.
Slavery is the elephant in the room. To date, nobody seems to be interested in tackling America's original sin.
well, Black people in the usa, are still mostly Descended of Enslaved but from circa 1865 a very large percentage of financially affluent blacks personally rejected the influence of our enslavement to whites in the condition of blacks or non blacks in the usa, and that population's percentage among the fiscally wealthiest black people has only grown over the century and a half plus. Then you add the black immigrants who were never enslaved or descended from those enslaved immigrants into the usa and you get the environment.
It isn't that black people are allowing slavery to become a distant memory, in my offline talks with various black people, all know of slavery in the usa. But, it is the relationhship they have to the usa. Black people from the caribbean, africa, south america, south east asia, india, have a positive relationship at the core to their relationship to the usa. Unlike me, a DOSer whose relationship at the core to the usa is negative. I only exist because of slavery. My forebears didn't want to leave africa, they didn't want to be enslaved, they didn't want to come to the american continent.
I don't think comprehension is the issue, it is relationships and I end with , it isn't bad that some black people have a positive relationship to the usa. The DOSers are a people, all other black people in the usa don't need to be us,I assume your a DOSer too... BUT it is clear DOSers need a more internally focused position concerning our forebears enslavement or our unique relationship to the usa because of it.
14 hours ago, ProfD said:The only way I would co-sign such a thing if there was beyond a reasonable assurance to provide enough resources for every every resident of the parts. There would have to be enough funding to provide great jobs, schools, health care, public and social services, etc.
Interesting choice, thank you for answering... very expensive, very holistic as well, I wonder the others answers
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Ok I will go question by question
21 hours ago, Troy said:Are you equating public sentiment towards the Panthers and Nat Turner with Neeley?!
No on two counts. one i don't view the sentiment of the black populace in the usa in congruence to the sentiment of the non black populace. I restate, For me, the usa never had and doesn't have a singular public sentiment. It has various sentiments, and the one from the non black tends to be touted as representing the whole.
The second count is the black populaces condition to each of the stated: panthers for self defense, Nat turner, neely are not equal. Nat Turner was at a time when most in the black public in the usa were enslaved to whites in a straight physical way while oppressed as illiterate, blockaded from opportunity, terrorized by the legal system citizens. During the Black PAnthers for self defense the black public in the usa went through the initial molding of individual achievement by blacks in white spaces while communal destruction of blacks by white bureuacraices. A trend that would continue and persist to this day in the Descended of enslaved branch of the black public in the usa. During Neelys time the quantity or black immigrants, in the black public in the usa and the perspective to the usa most of them share creates a modern black public in the usa that has embraced the idea of the human citizen in the black populace itself. I don't know if you saw local new york city news, but the black woman who was in the train car when the murder of neely occurred boasted how she felt so endangered, more than the other non blacks giving testimony. [to a later question i had an offline multilog about that] The black public in the usa is not the same through the times you mentioned in important ways in my eyes and sequentially their sentiments can not be equal in my eyes, beyond rhetoric or advertised claims.
21 hours ago, Troy said:Are you equating the public's reaction to the activities of Neely with the likes of an Angela Davis or Eldride Cleaver?!
no
21 hours ago, Troy said:Are you suggesting that Neely did not need mental help and are equating the motivation for his actions with those of Nat Turner?
I think neely was angry at his personal state in this oppositional legal space, ala the usa, plus i think neely needed financial help. Being upset at the condition of one's black individual self or the black populace while considering white power while being in need financially in general is the most common condition for black people from the thirteen colonies to today in the usa. I should had asked you what you meant by mental health. Some argue giving someone a hug is mentally healthy. Some argue talking to someone civilly is mental health so depending on how you define mental health i will probably have to write a correction. But I don't know what you mean but I answered anyway.
21 hours ago, Troy said:Is this statement directed at me?
Any black person who was raised in a big city who feels that way, as I stated earlier i recall the black woman who championed her fear in local news and i first felt it toward her while thinking of other black folk, offline connections, who I have multilogged the issue of relating to other blacks in urban environments with. I apologize for not having the link but I recall in this forum a post where this was discussed between members of aalbc and i stood apart from you and pioneer plus others on this issue.
21 hours ago, Troy said:Richard this statement is false on its face. The data tells a different story, and NYC's crime stats tell a better story than what actually happens on the street than what the data says, due to crime being under reported and miscategorized by the police. You say you lived in NYC in the 1970's if you lived in Harlem you have to know many women who were mugged during that decade and the next. I also be surprised if you did not know someone who was murdered between 1970 and 1990.
Well... to be blunt, in this forum, we all discussed this already. I know black people who were murdered by cops form 1970s to 1990s and were not in illegal activity. But no one personal was murdered by another citizen that i know of. and in harlem. Harmed yes. Attacked? yes. but not murdered. Now I hear of murders every day. I think Pioneer 1 was the one who debated with me, we discussed this issue of crime in the black populace of nyc, he stands firmly aside you. If it wasn't pioneer i apologize. It may have been Profd or someone else. Forgive me. But, I recall i stood alone on my philosophical side of the fence to you Troy plus the majority of the activie forum members in the post in the past.
If you ask me, do more people die in nyc than any small town or city in the usa? I will answer yes.
If you ask me, Do some large cities of comparative size around the world have less illegal acts or injuries between residents or citizens than nyc? yes, though people rarely input the fact that the development of nyc has always been of dysfunctional congestion and i speak from manahatta with the lenape and the white europeans coming in. NYC has a heritage of accepting large populaces pushed into it and then people in nyc complaining that the dysfunctional compression leads to negativity.
To the street, we all talked about this. I wish i could remember thename of the book plus the book reviewer for a new york times book review; a black man who was raised in east harlem who boasted how his black church going relatives came out with guns everyday and i know black people offline who lived in that area and said it wasn't like that. Who called the reviewer or author a liar on their position.
What is my point? I am not trying to regale. I have a friend who lost someone they know to black on black violence in the city. So I can accept that , maybe, most black people in nyc or big city black populaces live in hell and black people like me are a minority maybe even extreme minority but I am not going to lie and suggest my experiences amongst black people in nyc were akin to a supposed majority.
20 hours ago, ProfD said:Again, it's makes no sense that a highly developed country like America has a *problem* taking care of the people who need it the most.
Capitalism is ruthless.
Why not? see the one word i didn't see anyone use , including me, was slavery.
As a lover of history the odd thing about slavery in the usa, is, the heritage of slavery in the usa is older than the usa. the heritage of slavery in the usa is stronger than fisal capitalism or individual liberty. and yet, so few black people use the word slavery, including me it seems.
Maybe if black people start from slavery as the base heritage in the usa then all crimes, injuries to others, makes sense. Capitalism can be ruthless. But Slavery is a greater sinner. And Slavery is the heart of the usa, at least historically. The first peoples in the usa on the east coast were enslaved out of existence alot of times.
i think the usa's inequal treatments, its tribalism, make perfect sense when you embrace slavery as the core statian ideal, not individualism, not fiscal capitalism, slavery.
Slavery doesn't require fiscal capitalism or communism or monarchism. Slavery doesn't require individual rights or collective allowances.
And wherever slavery exist you have the enslavers who abuse but you also have the enslaved who are angry...And I will end with one clear point, even in the time of the roman empire it was clear that the queen of the gauls could be a free woman while the gaulish peoples are completely enslaved. so having black billionaires or presidents doesn't mean the larger black populace isn't enslaved, in some fashion.
just a thought question and i open up to @ProfD or @Troy
Do you think big cities in the usa need to be broken up? I comprehend fully well the city governments and real estate industry and others will never accept such a thing but this is a thought experiment.
But if you were a city council member and your vote meant the city will pass a law to break itself up into parts as near to internally homogeneous as possible, would you sign it?
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Just in case you didn't read this is from the new york post article
Kawam, who was originally from Toms River, said her memories at the public school were participating in freshman and sophomore cheerleading and that her secret ambition was “to party forever.”
She signed off her biography thanking her parents “for everything.”
Kawam was one of three students who earned the superlative of “million dollar smile” and “most punk,” according to the outlet.
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Toms River resident Olga Corpion had purchased the house Kawam’s mother once lived in and said she met Debrina shortly after Corpion moved into the neighborhood in May.
“She said, ‘Hi, my name is Debrina, and I want to go see my mom. My mother lives here. I want to talk to her,’” Corpion told The Post.
“She looked like she was in her 50s, so right away I assumed she was not well, because she didn’t know her mom had moved.
“I’m in shock that she was standing right here and then I found out she died so horribly.”
I am not sure whites will use this as a rallying call to blockade illegal immigrants because the white populace today in the usa has so many immigrants. The immigration act led to a growth in immigrant populaces in the black /white/first peoples populaces that we see playing out today.
Schrumpf has white asians/white arabs/white latinos/white women/white men all these people are used to abusing blacks in the usa/negros in latin america/kalo in india/aswad in muslim lands/kokuchin in east asia, but a non black attacking a white is treated as an individual crime in said regions.
The parts of her identity that the new york post proclaims so loudly with love I find interesting as I have heard offline black people, especially elders or church folk or black donkeys or elephants, speak so ill to other black people for.
her secret ambition was to party forever.
Wow, I have never seen the masses of the black populace in the usa ever support a black person with such a statement. Damn non blacks, black people tend to never be supportive of black people with such a statement.
And funny how the white man they spoke to said she was ill but not mentally ill again, funny how black people are the most willing to call their own mentally ill in the usa.
But as you said, we will see where this leads.
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good points , but I found the following image, is supposedly of Debrina Kawam
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My issues are
1) the whole mental illness issue is a masquerade for an old media narrative that many in the black populace have claimed to other black people for over one hundred and fifty years. You guys know the history. MAny black people called NAt Turner crazy. I can tell you for certain that many Black people , especially from the damn black church , called the panthers for self defense mentally ill, malcolm suggesting violent retribution mentally ill. The mental illness claim from black people to black people is as old as the end of the war between the states to modernity. Do some black people in the usa have a mental imbalance? yes, as do some whites. But most black people cited as mentally ill have simple come to violent conclusions, and those blacks who have not, for years have championed the idea of getting other black peoples minds set to right.
2) this is a white woman? If any black person questions the truth of whites+ black allies of white treating blacks uniquely in a negative way amongst the non white european populaces, the people of color, here is the proof. IF Zapeta calil was black, not mestizo, Eric Adams would be championing his mental illness claim to high heaven, not immigration. And my support is mass shootings. 99% of all mass shootings are non blacks, and you never hear mental illness claims, especially from the black elected officials, black church or black people in forums like this that talk about mental illness so much. The MAGA people come from a tradition of whites complaining about blacks, not whites complaining about non blacks. White asian/mestizos/other whites are all free of their mob ways.
15 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:Cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston are actually better for homeless people than most other cities in America because they tend to be 24 hours.
-The subways are almost always running so you always have a warm place to sleep or hide out in.
-Some building or establishment is almost always open for you to hide out or hang out in.-Plenty of people to beg from.
-And because of the large crowds, you don't stick out like a sore thumb.
While it may not be perfect, it beats being homeless in a cold desolate place like North Dakota or Wyoming.
well said , the idea that being financially poor is better outside cities is an insult. Small towns can not help the horde of homeless who have always existed in NYC, and have no ways to assist.
The people who can leave NYC effectively are not the homeless, not the people of the street, not the people in projects. I know quite a few people who have left nyc from guiliani to now, all black, but none were homeless, none lived on the street. Working poor, yeah ok. Retiree yeah ok. Some people who could afford but just left, yeah ok. All of them lived in a tenement or brownstone or co op in some fashion.
Yes, NYC is becoming pricier but, in defense, NYC was always congested with poor. again, i have alot of problems with people who have lived in NYC and tend to speak of it falsely.
NYC has a density over three times great as california while having a smaller city boundary.
I argue NYC has always been the safest city in the usa, the problem is that, it's populace is so big, the human reality means you get negative incidents, but these are always uncommon things.
And for the record I know the subway, i have definitely seen homeless people that look , unfortunate in many levels. But I never felt fear while I also have seen many people on the subway act like they can't handle the existence of said homeless people. And I have always said, and i repeat, if you live in a big city and you don't comprehend a big city is not a town it is not a suburb it is not a place where you can live like you own a house on your own land next to a village then you, not the homeless, need to leave the city. Silwa is a dramatist. NYC had more violence in times past than the 1970s. People like silwa will never admit that nyc's problems in the 1970s all stemmed from the government itself, starting with the nypd. The NYPD flooded all majority non white european regions in the city with drugs, getting a financial cut of it all , while complaining about the condition of said regions while NYC was defunding all the infrastructure programs that existed when said regions were mostly white european, from repairing projects to funding public schools. And even with the NYC government manuacturing instability, woe, harm, negativity, the city was still mostly peaceful, a testament to the human, not churches, not the silvwa's of the world. Eric Adams himself talks about the condition of the community so much but he wasn't beaten by homeless people or drug dealers, he was beaten up by law enforcement.
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Did you call the previous president of china,I think deng xiaopeng, a dictator? If Xi loses the next election in 2028 will you call the following president of china a dictator?
I haven't heard of president xi killing anyone personally or imprisoning opposition. And I think Xi is doing great for china. china is a leader in many industries, can defend itself. overall in Xi's tenure china has done well.
Now putin, i concur that he has used his position to manipulate the russian government, attacked opponents.
And I don't think Putin has taken care of russia in the second half of his tenure.
His problem is he wants russia to stand with usa+ china but russia lost the cold war and as we black DOSers know better than most, losing wars while being alive comes at a cost that can't be undone so easily.
Putin needs to redefine russia, end the cycle it was on since peter the great.
I never read that from you before.
well, it hasn't been easy, but i think mao's desire to get the people of china to be one has not got them all: the ugyars, the taiwanese, the people of hong kong are not exactly embraced by the others but china is doing better than russia or the usa I argue on that on that regard. The Cossacks/checyens/ukranians are part of russia but are not embraced by the descendents of the rus.