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Jon Stewart examines the choice undecided voters are facing in the 2024 election: Kamala Harris, who has an impressive résumé and specific policy plans, versus Donald Trump, whose vision, consistency on issues, anti-labor ethos, and militaristic posturing are at odds with the caricature his followers have created for him.

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[–] aesthelete 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it doesn’t look like fun anymore.

It hasn't really been fun to live in this country in nearly a decade, and that's me speaking as someone sitting on the top of the privilege pile.

The country is basically 6 corporations dressed in a trench coat.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You need to either find a way to start changing things, or move to a different country, or accept that there's nothing you can do, vote dem every 4 years while staying away from political content.

You can't just be angry every day in a group of people 100% sharing your views. This gets you and the country nowhere.

[–] aesthelete 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not just exposure to political content that makes it not fun to live in America. It's the never ending mountain of shit you deal with on a daily basis simply because you're an American.

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

Meh. That exists everywhere.

If you got a college degree you can move to a lot of places in the US which have a higher HDI and a living standard than almost anything in Europe. And you don't even need to learn a new language.

Cry all you want about healthcare, but as a white-collar worker you'll have a corporate insurance plan and it will be lit. Try some European public healthcare afterwards, that will be a harsh downgrade, I promise.

You do have a biiig problem is if you're uneducated and working at McDonald's or an Amazon warehouse. Cuz then you're fucked. Like for life. And don't you dare go unemployed, homeless, or get sick. Cuz, life, apparently can be worse than being an amazon slave, and apparently you won't ever "recover" (to your previous slave state) from falling that low.

And, ofc, it's fun to live in a society like that.

But you definitely don't need to personally struggle on a daily basis. Unless by choice.

[–] aesthelete 1 points 1 month ago

You are clueless about what it's like to live in this country. Healthcare being largely a scam even if you have insurance is just one piece of the puzzle.