• MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Seriously, why do high population centers in the western world have so many mentally unstable people and/or tweakers?

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          11 months ago

          Low population areas do to. But you don’t have public transit so as long as you don’t wander into their meth labs you never have to meet them.

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          11 months ago

          Lots of people.

          Small town crazy is different. Small town crazy everyone knows who the lunatic is and avoids them or they don’t know and one day several people disappear or someone is kidnapped or something. Small town crazy scares the shit out of me.

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            Small town crazy is more like the sheriff knows you beat the shit out of your wife and kids but ignores it as long as nobody ends up in the hospital.

            If rural crime was reported accurately, it would be very clear where the most dangerous places per capita are.

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          11 months ago

          Because those places have actual free media which report these kinds of issues.

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          11 months ago

          Hey we have free healthcare in Canada and our waitlists are so laughable you may as well just join the crazies.

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            The system here isn’t perfect either. But it is clearly a lot better than in many other places.

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          11 months ago

          Free my ass. Tax payer funded. If you’re going to support something, at least be honest about it.

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            11 months ago

            Nothing in life is free. I guess we should just get rid of the word. Who doesn’t know that “free healthcare” is paid with taxes? I obviously mean no unexpected bills or denied healthcare. Nobody has to chose between food or medication. Obviously…

            Do you also comment about the word literally and figuratively being synonyms?

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      11 months ago

      Not just America. I saw this on the DB to Strasbourg, drunk middle aged woman spitting vile at each person who passed her.

      You really wanna handle that?

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      11 months ago

      The only time I’ve seen actual violence on public transit was in Germany, fwiw