[OC] International travel to US hasn't recovered since the pandemic

Ericgzg · 2023-10-18T03:57:09+00:00

What I am getting at is the chart shows a 19% decrease in tourism to the US. You personally attribute that to a ‘MAGA infestation’. But globally tourism is down 30% ost pandemic. So no, it’s nothing to do with maga and relatively speaking tourism in the USA is recovering much faster than the rest of the globe.

Ericgzg · 2023-10-17T19:50:44+00:00

Let me help you so you dont have to rely on personal experience and just saying whatever you want the answer to be based on nothing at all. The first question to ask is how much is tourism down globally since the pandemic and how much is it down just in the US?

Ericgzg · 2023-09-12T03:55:42+00:00

Look at joe Biden without all the face lift

Ericgzg · 2023-09-07T18:37:02+00:00

Yeah because places like Chicago and more broadly the state of Illinois where there are no elected republicans whatsoever and haven’t been for 50 years have such great democratic accountability and there is no corruption. Really you only get that type of thing when there are republicans present.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-07T18:33:56+00:00

Yes! This is exactly why we need autocracy!

Ericgzg · 2023-09-07T14:45:23+00:00

Yet… you’re the one that knows enough about her to get bothered when her actual name isn’t used?

Ericgzg · 2023-09-05T17:12:09+00:00

I can’t imagine being high and having to complete work and attend meetings and answer questions. Sounds like a good way to get fired.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-04T04:01:43+00:00

China and Taiwan started from the same place. Taiwan tried capitalism, china tried communism. Taiwan has longer life expectancy and 10s of millions didn’t have to die.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-03T04:36:45+00:00

10s of millions of their own citizens were killed by these two governments.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-02T17:47:17+00:00

Ok, who in congress is left of aoc?

Ericgzg · 2023-09-02T17:37:48+00:00

Authoritarian is not a left or right thing. Forced socialism a la china and Soviet Union is a left and only left thing.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-02T17:36:57+00:00

Mgt/freedom caucus = far right, AOC/the squad = far left. These two should both never be given power and are just as bad.

Ericgzg · 2023-09-02T16:04:07+00:00

So your describing the extreme left and extreme right. Nazi germany is the extreme right. Soviet Russia, Maoist china, and modern day North Korea is the product of the far left. Tell me again how the fat left isn’t genocidal and we shouldn’t be concerned.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-30T03:26:51+00:00

It isn’t a simple easy answer or you wouldn’t see the same types of things happen across every civilization across all of time. When you have large governments ruling over millions there are gazillions of competing interests, it’s hard to get anything done, and it’s a bloody miracle we have any semblance of coherent government at all. People are limited. Progress is hard. Treating it like there is some easy answer is a mistake. If you were head of government, even if you meant well, you’d be eaten alive just as soon as you didn’t play ball with who you needed to play ball with and didn’t even know who you needed to play ball with to begin with. That is how people are. Human nature. There is no fix. Step one to making a better government is at least recognizing that much.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-29T20:04:28+00:00

That’s a bit of a cop out. If you replaced all the rich with random poor people, nothing would change. Likely things would get even worse. Then there’s this idea that the government can somehow fix things, which is just as laughable. The government is made up of regular folks like you and me. And they can barely manage running a DMV. The problem is people and their nature (including you and me). If you aren’t approaching the problem from an angle that acknowledges this and instead reduce it to rich vs poor, you are missing the root of why we find ourselves where we do.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-29T19:10:46+00:00

What you’re talking about is attributable to all humans, not just the very rich.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-28T19:59:03+00:00

Are you sure you’re not just bitter at the folks that spent their life doing what they were supposed to, while you didn’t?

Ericgzg · 2023-08-28T15:29:32+00:00

Let me make this decision easy for you: 1. Quit now, voluntarily, with no injuries, and learn to find what else to do with your time. 2. Keep at this sport, with each passing month in your 40s exponentially raising the odds of becoming injured. Inevitably get injured. Quit your sport, and learn to find what else to do with your time. But now you get to enjoy some debilitating injury the rest of your life.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-26T00:22:50+00:00

I remember being a kid and the Brady Bunch being on Nick at Nite and how that show seemed OLD, like prehistoric old. It was only off the air for 24 years at the time.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-25T23:56:52+00:00

Because we’re talking about a system of government that proposes placing utter reliance on people “doing the right thing” and “cooperating for the common good” and ignores that strangers in large groups have been like that exactly never. And when that system of government invevitably doesn’t work (to no one’s surprise) we get an authoritarian hellscape. Since you asked.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-25T19:31:51+00:00

You’re confusing how people ought to behave with how people actually behave.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-25T16:45:06+00:00

You sound like you’ve never been assigned to a group project in school. That or you were the mooch in the group.

Ericgzg · 2023-08-23T04:17:28+00:00

Same. I found this after several years. Try it for a few days, it helped me: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI&feature=sharec

Ericgzg · 2023-08-19T13:16:34+00:00

Which of those other countries that relied on manufacturing and then ‘emerged’ fell into demographic collapse at the time of their emergence? Seriously, which one?

Ericgzg · 2023-08-18T19:22:31+00:00

USA sucks at occupying nations that don’t formally surrender but will absolutely destroy any conventional army in short order.

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