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Should be a wild four years.

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Lip Glossary said:
We pay into that all our lives.
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The programs are funded from current tax collections. The SS taxes you pay aren't saved in some kind of personal account.

Lip Glossary said:
I have literally seen medications in America that costed nearly $100,000 for a 3-month supply, where in every other country that same exact amount of medication cost a little under $1,000. I hate to sound like a dirty comedy but this whole "charge whatever the fuck we like because muh free market" shit is for the birds.
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Americans bear the entirety of the R&D costs of a new medication because foreign governments have price controls that prevent that cost from being paid by patients in their country. It costs around $100m-$1b to bring a new drug to market, and if there aren't a lot of patients for it, that means it's going to be extremely expensive.
 
Lip Glossary said:
I don't know why but it always makes me laugh when somebody throws an unsolicited bitch fit, bad guy wrestling promo about how much they hate America.
What are you going to try to take the title off Hulk Hogan later, Iron Sheikh?
Listen fella, I grew up in Australia and I've been to Europe. There's just as many fat fucks there as America.
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I hate fat people who are too retarded to understand food isn’t magic and weight loss isn’t a mysterious effect of food quality
 
Harambe said:
I hate fat people who are too retarded to understand food isn’t magic and weight loss isn’t a mysterious effect of food quality
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Its true, walking everywhere and cultural norms on portion sizes are bigger motivators of weight loss (a great example of the latter is the shaming in asian countries). That said we should definitely have better quality food for other reasons
 
The Ugly One said:
Americans bear the entirety of the R&D costs of a new medication
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Maybe all countries should be going in on the cost of new medication?
Jesus fucking Christ. We handle everyone's conflicts, bankroll their wars, bankroll their medical R&D, and probably a myriad of other shit I'm not made aware of and people still have the balls to talk shit about us.
 
Lip Glossary said:
Maybe all countries should be going in on the cost of new medication?
Jesus fucking Christ. We handle everyone's conflicts, bankroll their wars, bankroll their medical R&D, and probably a myriad of other shit I'm not made aware of and people still have the balls to talk shit about us.
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If the pharmaceutical companies didn't post such insane profits, you might have a point, but they make more than enough money to cover their own costs without gouging any of the markets they operate in.
 
Harambe said:
I hate fat people who are too retarded to understand food isn’t magic and weight loss isn’t a mysterious effect of food quality
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Hey that's swell, fella. But you made that shit about America, like the rest of the western world isn't capable of careless retardation.
Understand that all three places (Europe, America and Australia) are the same size geographically and have people from all walks of life and intelligence and backgrounds.
That idea that you have of every American being a retarded fat shoeless hillbilly is about as accurate as my idea of you being some cigarette chain smoking homo who spreads his smegma on a cracker and pairs it with a nice Cabernet.
Australian people on the other hand, what you have in your head? That's EVERYONE northwest of Sydney.
And I was just kidding about the smegma thing. Everybody knows you're supposed to pair dick cheese with a white wine, not a red.
 
Faggot in Portland threw paint on the federal building, went back the next day, got arrested, is going to an hero in shame:
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Kitty Trump has gained a power few can contain:
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This shit is concerning, even if he could be considered a fren:
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Tim Walz lost his debate against Zoro because "they didn't prepare for Vance being so cordial." It's pathetic that this NYT latino woman seems to be the new go-to softball interviewer for the left, she's dry with vocal fry and not pleasant on the eyes:

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It probably takes multiple staffers and handlers just to make sure Walz isn't mistakenly pointing the barrel of the hunting rifle at his own head during photo ops.

He's such a massive fucking phony. About the only authentically Midwestern thing about him is that he's fucking fat.
 
mandatorylurk said:
Faggot in Portland threw paint on the federal building, went back the next day, got arrested, is going to an hero in shame:
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What a fucking ass. Good that they posted him shitting his pants for everyone to see.
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I see the 'meme' has been promptly seized huh.
 
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Irene and 22 others said:
It's inversely correlated though. It's been known for decades now that as countries become more wealthy and well off, the birth rate falls. If what you stated were actually true, Africa would not be the continent with the fastest growing population because it's a complete shit hole with barely functional countries at best. Yet despite being hell on earth, they pop out more kids than anyone else.

The lower birthrates in western societies are largely an effect of increased urbanization and overcrowding. John Calhoun's mouse utopia experiments found that overcrowding led to population decline and what he called behavioral sink, which has striking parallels to the kind of degeneracy that's seen coming out of large cities today. Cities only have growing populations because people keep moving in to them. They're not stable on their own.

South Korea has a population density of almost 1,400 people per square mile for the entire country which is already higher than any US state. About half of the population lives in the Seoul Metro area where the population density is over 5,000 people per square mile. Of that, about 40% (about 20% of the country's total population) live within the city proper which has a population density of 41,000 people per square mile.

Is it surprising that no one wants to have kids when they live in an environment that crowded?
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Big fan of your posts. (Long time listener, first time caller)

However, the clearer correlation is with age at birth of first child. As women give birth to their first child later, they have fewer years to give birth, they are less fertile during those years, and they have higher rates of complications, all of which makes them less likely to have a second child, or even a first.

There are a lot of factors going into this, but there are some obvious ones. As divorce rates increase and the nuclear family becomes unreliable, a woman who becomes pregnant young can't depend on the support of a husband even if she is married. What’s more, a change in values at a societal level means that not only will her friends, family and peers see her as a failure for choosing to become a mother instead of pursuing academics and then a professional career, she will see herself as a failure, and see motherhood as denying her her dreams. This is the "my life is over" trope.

So instead the vast majority of aspiring and responsible young women spend their first and second decades of fertility in education and full time employment. That effect by itself is enough to account for the dramatic drop in fertility, and explains why it's more pronounced among the aspirational classes.

To address your claim directly, there are highly urbanized populations with high fertility rates: the poor.
 
Lip Glossary said:
Just the fact that Hakeem Jeffries went on MSNBC crying about the meme, and Trump took that footage and put the sombrero on him while he was crying, and then a four man mariachi band of Donald Trump's popped up and started playing was Joker levels of criminal genius.
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Democrats love mocking their political opponents through their entertainment proxies, but they demand decorum the moment it's done to them.
 
Jace on ice said:
It probably takes multiple staffers and handlers just to make sure Walz isn't mistakenly pointing the barrel of the hunting rifle at his own head during photo ops.

He's such a massive fucking phony. About the only authentically Midwestern thing about him is that he's fucking fat.
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He isn't even from Minnesota if I recall. I think he grew up in Nebraska.
 
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Faggot in Portland threw paint on the federal building, went back the next day, got arrested, is going to an hero in shame:
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Tim Walz lost his debate against Zoro because "they didn't prepare for Vance being so cordial." It's pathetic that this NYT latino woman seems to be the new go-to softball interviewer for the left, she's dry with vocal fry and not pleasant on the eyes:

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Now that antifa is a designated terrorist organization, and this fucking wally just vandalized a federal building, he can actually be charged with an act of domestic terrorism.
Imagine right before your nightly butt fucking by your nigger cell mate after lights out, when he confides in you that he killed seven people in a murder for hire job, and you have to say "I threw paint on a wall"
Fucking LOL.
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
The entire medical field needs to be gutted anyway. We've hit peak 3rd turning where doctors and nurses are shitty and incompetent and hospitals are slowly morphing into death sentences. The reality is, doctors make too much fucking money and the industry is gate kept. It is so ridiculously expensive to become a doctor and meanwhile nurses, some of which are actually good, get fuck all. Nobody wants to go half a million into debt to become a doctor and the ones that do make so much so quickly, they don't stick around long enough to help anyone and retire or reduce their hours to live lavish lifestyles. We have too many nurses and not enough doctors. The entire system has to go.
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As a healthcare worker, I'll say you're not wrong. Hospitals are run the same way, say, Netflix is. Actual care doesn't matter. Allowing doctors to doctor doesn't matter. "Meet these milestones so we get money from the government and have a lower risk of getting sued." That's the mandate.

Too many doctors from the last , honestly, 5-10 years of graduating classes are not taught how to be doctors but, rather, be salesmen for this shit.

And Nurses are mostly retarded, many just falling into whatever social trends they see online. They THINK they're smart, they're not. They THINK they're critically thinking, they're not. They THINK they're heroes, most aren't. Emptying a a catheter and handing out Norco is not heroic. The standards for their programs were pretty grim pre-COVID and have only gotten weaker. It's appalling.

TL;DR-; Doctor's are incentivized to do bare minimum, too many RNs and they're mostly fucking dipshits with an ego. Source- I work in the field and have for a long time. I'd get out but I'm kind of stuck.
 
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