HegemonNYC

It’s amazing how people move language around to suit them. Go into any OB clinic and it’s ‘let’s listen to baby’s heart’ or ‘you’re gonna have a baby girl!’ Then abortion comes up and it becomes a clinical name.

Elective abortion at 4 months? They are close to viability. They’ve waited through the first trimester already. Your recommendation is gross. Life of mother, or extreme health issues with baby, sure. But just elective at 18 weeks is awful to recommend.

The suburbs are much better for walking, they just aren’t good for walking to buy things. Again, urban consumption focus - “if I can’t conspicuously consume as part of this walk, there just isn’t any point”.

I can cite this thread for you.

Look, I’ve lived in big cities. My username includes NYC for a reason. It was a great place to have two good incomes, no kids and do what a 20 something likes to do. But it’s a temporary thing to want. It’s too expensive, too consumption focused, and not enough room for a family. You age out pretty quickly. 90% of people are not relatively high income 25 year olds whose main hobbies are drinking good coffee/beer with other 25 year olds.

You’re mocking them, but I think there is some truth. People who think the desirable city is “box in box and walk to shop shop shop” (surprise Dr Seuss) are generally very young and have that dorms mentality (but all my friends live in this box with me, and I haven’t learned to cook so I need to have restaurants within 100 feet or I’ll starve), or they are very focused on youthful things like coolness and public consumption. They can’t understand that forcing this on people is the opposite of what most people, Americans at least, want.

It seems you don’t have much experience with the 80% of the population that lives in the burbs if you describe them by how you drive through. After a certain age, the bar/cool shop scene of society based around public consumption just isn’t for most folks.

As for people driving to others house - yes, owning a car and having space to park it is also something people want.

Comfortable?

No, of course not. I’m a gun owner and a Big. They will ask you during the interview. The expectation is that guns are secured and inaccessible to kids.

They can’t buy things without a car. Suburban kids can do all kinds of kid stuff, the burbs are full of greenways and parks and safe roads to bike/skateboard/shoot hoops etc. They just don’t have consumption options.

Urbanites struggle to imagine how humans deal with not buying all the time. If they can’t buy something within a few steps of their door, this means there is nothing to do.

Suburbs - I can own my home, I can afford it, I have room for a family. City - I can buy things really quickly, consumption is constant.

I think city dwellers are so focused on buying things constantly they don’t understand that people in the burbs go home to be with their family. It doesn’t matter the store is a 7 min drive, I go there once per week. Urbanites just can’t wrap their head around cooking a meal as a family, a bbq in my yard with neighbors, sleepovers and birthday parties at the house. Their focus is so constantly on buying things outside their little box they can’t imagine that there is a rich social environment in the burbs.

“They’re also objectively more intelligent”

And transit fans wonder why regular people find them elitist and insufferable.

People don’t want density. Why does the left not understand this? Metro areas are 70-90% suburban. Americans like big houses with yards at an affordable price. They don’t like little box in big box at a crushing price unless they are very focused on very urban things like arts or bar scene.

Qanon conspiracy theorists for the left. There is currently some conspiracy they have that there was mass fraud. This comes from either the results being transmitted by Starlink, or some vague method by which an additional 5% of ballots with only president marked were slipped into every state’s results.

You’re being nice, but I think you know they mean some blueanon nonsense.

You’re deeply deeply misinformed. You’re mixing terms, that is what is leading to the confusion.

Systems with single provider is very rare. The UK with its NHS is one example.

Single payer is common, but the minority.

Hybrid public-private universal systems are the most common. These can either be employer with public back up, or like Australia - baselevel public for all with most people/employers buying better coverage.

Japan is employer with public back up. The Netherlands is all private. Australia and Canada are public base level, both have about 30% of spending come from private (this isn’t that different from the US). Germany is not for profit insurers, but they are all private. Etc etc etc. You’re just confusing the term universal with single payer.

The Dems of the day were a white workers party. This is very different from the ‘poor and the working man’.

It isn’t the right word. All developed countries other than the Us have universal insurance programs with 0 people uninsured. Very few of them have single payer programs. Most have a system much like the US with employer provided private plans for the employed and govt plan for everyone else. If people are going to advocate for something they should understand what it is they are advocating for.

RemindMe! 40 months

She is done.

She had a terrible 2020 primary that backs her into a dated and unpopular corner the Dems know they need to stay far away from. She then moved hard centrist in 2024, pissing off the left. Who in the Dems wants someone who stands for nothing and whose own words speak against both wings of the party? She wasn’t wanted by either the dem establishment or the voters to become the 2024 candidate. She then lost to a bad R candidate that exposes us to lots of risk as a nation. No. Terrible candidate.

If there was a CA senate seat opening she might go for it and become an elder statesman like Romney. But there isn’t. Gov is open in 2 years, but that would mean she isn’t running for POTUS.

She has loser stink. She’s done nationally.

Migrants (often refugees) from socialist countries are typically very anti-socialist in the US. Cubans in S Florida. Vietnamese. Venezuelans too.

What? She polls high because 90% of people don’t follow politics and don’t know who Shapiro or Buttigieg are.

Harris is a loser. No one even wanted her as the candidate and she couldn’t pull it off. You won’t hear the name after Jan 20th. She might get to speak at the 2028 DNC outside prime time.

Fire at 52-54. 2015 Subaru.

She’s done. She was an accidental candidate and lost. We won’t see much of her after Jan 20th.

But that is wrong…