I disagree. I think, like most countries, America is good.
Almost all of our gun violence is from ghettos.
Because it's very difficult to build and run a great society and keep everything in balance, and not get complacent. That's why you guys currently suck at it. ?
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No, it depends on what arrangements you make with the employer.
It practically is my private car for all purposes, I just don't own it and pump gas / have repairs etc. on a company card. The company leases its car fleet.
It's basically part of my payment, but benefits both sides regarding taxes n stuff.
So it's not really uncommon to do it this way here.
However, as employee you should still make a calculation whether it makes sense for you. My cost of living go down considerably, but at the same time, if I got the value of this package as normal payment, my pension contributions would be higher, which benefits me when I retire.
So if you don't drive privately, just take a normal pay rise.
It is but our future isn't looking so great. Hopefully this changes. We've elected a man with dementia.
I'd suggest you look into America's shocking levels of poverty before you blame guns for their murder rates. Police militarization isn't uniquely American either, so that's definitely a false equivalence.
America is awesome, but they've fucked themselves through arrogance, short-sighted greed, and complacency.
They are going to experience some serious political violence over the next decade or so because of what the GOP has become, too. For real.
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Agreed
4 weeks paid vacation and 5 paid sick days per year is pretty awesome.
Poverty? ?. Our poor are fat you fool.
So, you "laugh" at people who think their country is good, but think America is headed for destruction?
It is!
No, I laugh at people that think their country is better.
Yes that is what they were saying and my logic is solid. We may be falling but we are falling for way up
No issue as complex as murder rates is boiled down to one simple fix alone. Gun culture, the lack of a first-world social safety net, corporate-pushed pharmaceutical heroin epidemic, income and wealth inequality, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, ghettoisation policies of overcrowding and food deserts, anti-intellectual culture, all of that and much more forms an interconnected system with the result that they kill each other at bizarrely higher rates than any of their First World contemporaries do.
But snap your fingers and remove the millions and millions of cheap, easily available handguns off the streets and out of the homes - make the gun situation more like it is in Europe or Oceania - and they will still be a comparatively more violent society because of all of the other stuff, but all of a sudden the murder rate will plummet.
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That sentiment is demonstrably false.
You're trolling right?
Just the poor?
Okay, so impulse murders, domestic murders, gang murders and suicides don't rise when there is one gun per person and it's basically a free-for-all, as opposed to when there's one gun for every ten people and efforts are made to keep guns out of violent and mentally unstable people's hands.
Okay. Righto then.
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You should go to Flint and tell them how affluent they are .
I'm having fun with you guys but I am serious about america being better. Germany has nothing to say about anything politically and no one else stacks up. This may change in the near future but for now it's true.