Draces

Does it get a bad rap outside of this meme? I've only heard praise. It's by far my favorite language

The facts already disqualifying him is why he's disqualified. Good to see Americans aren't alone as the stupid ones

I was specifically responding to this person’s sense of astonishment

By avoiding COL?

it’s cruel and harmful for folks to feel the way that commenter felt

And why is COL going to make people feel anything but better as an explanation? You're talking about "ugly things" too. You're stepping around something, I assume inequity, but I don't see how that is supposed to make anyone feel better than a pretty neutral COL. You make more but you spend more in those areas. That doesn't seem ugly to me?

We go through these versions of life and think they are normal

I genuinely don't know what point you're trying to make. Are you saying different costs of living are inherently bad or inequality is bad? The latter makes sense but doesn't make sense with your previous statement. It just feels like you're doing the opposite of comforting the commenter's feelings, it seems you're trying to apply an interpretation with a very negative connotation when a much more reasonable, simpler, fitting one exists. Like do you think the screenshot is the uber wealthy bragging about how much they spend or someone complaining about the cost?

no one is doing anything about it

A lot of people are doing a lot about it. Might be time to step away from the Internet if you really believe that. The reality is dark enough you don't need to make it out to be even worse

I mean yes? I feel like there's an implication that you never quite said that the quality of life for people that are paying that much for child care is better and that's just not true. I was living far better in a cheap area making far less than I am now in the bay area. This is just the cost of living here. There's absurdly wealthy people here and there's, compatible to the median, absurdly wealthy people in rural areas. This price does not mean they're living in luxury, this can easily be them scraping by. This is literally the cost of child care for the middle class in the highest cost markets in the US.

Bay area and I'm sure NYC

Probably. That or Trump is happy to take the money and stiff them like he does contractors. Still though for an article claiming cases are being dropped writing multiple paragraphs about Google, who is not having they're cases dropped (again please correct me if I'm wrong), this seems wildly dishonest. I know Zuckerberg had to testify recently about Facebooks trial too but afaik that's not being dropped either?

Google has been losing every part of it's antitrust cases I've been aware of since though. Is there one I'm unaware of?

You should watch the apprentice. Losing law suites is how Trump started his cult

Edit: not sure if people don't know what I'm talking about or think a biopic isn't a reliable source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/donald-trump-roy-cohn-race-discrimination-lawsuit-fight-documentary-excerpt/

To reach legion-level before the apocalypse

That is so psychotic. Me and most of my peers don't want to have kids because of the state of the world. Meanwhile he wants as many as possible... to suffer? And it's not like he's sharing his fortune with them based on what I've read. He literally just wants them so they can die in the apocalypse? Does he know what an apocalypse is??

I would argue the trend started when Nixon did the crime and was outed and Roger Ailes started a war on reality