Do you believe that poverty in Alabama is greater, equal to, or less than, places like
Somalia
Kenya
India
Haiti
China (off shore mainland)
Bolivia
El Salvador
Because I’m my opinion, 99.999999% of the poorest and destitute (by our standards) Alabamans live like Kings compared to these folks.
In all fairness, the title says the developed world.
But even in developed world…These people fall for anything.
Apparently, better than Alabama
I mean this sheep Warden really typed this^^…Because of this article lol.
Grandeur delusion greatly affected the Greeks and Romans who built such gaudy structures as the Parthenon, Pantheon, and so forth.
Speaking of Rome, one of the most splendid sites is the Pantheon which of course is an architectural marvel, and is the best preserved 2,000 year old building in the world. In Rome, I always stay at a small, luxury hotel, only 14 rooms, just off the piazza where the Pantheon is located. There are no locks or toll booths to access the Pantheon. Its doors are open to the public who stream in and out of the building all day long. Around the piazza are several cafes making it an ideal place to spend an afternoon watching tourists, listening to musicians, drinking proseco and eating authentic Italian pizza.
That’s a lie. I haven’t played Halo for years.
I agree. What’s your point?
Those weren’t personal residences. In fact, they were temples for the gods, hence “grandeur”. Try to keep up, bikki.
I do love Rome but, let’s be honest, the pizza in Italy sucks.
Well, my point is that everyone wants to step on America’s neck and claim we are a horrible society and we don’t take care of our own but it’s just a crock of shit.
The poorest of our poor own phones, have sanitation, access to affordable subsidized housing, food subsidies and healthcare.
No society will eradicate poverty, and here’s my point, because poverty is a relative term. You can’t measure “poverty” without understanding what “wealth” equates to in that society.
Societies that have tried have failed.
In Cuba for instance they turned EVERYONE poor, except for those who are politically connected.
The old USSR did the same.
China, seeing the folly in this utopian ideal, created a hybridization of communism and capitalism. It has created the greatest wealth disparity in the world. If you live in the coastal regions of China, you are statistically most likely wealthy or near wealthy. If you live inland, the further you go, the poorer you get.
Final analysis- poverty is a necessary evil because it’s a reflection of freedom of wealth or “decentralization of capital.” And the most successful system in the world at decentralizing capital, and by extension power, is America’s capitalistic system…. Particularly prior to the advent of the Great Society and the welfare state it produced.
No, no, his criticism was that raw sewage was leaking in houses. That’s not sanitation.
His criticism was that he was astounded by the level of poverty he saw in Alabama, and that it was the worst he had seen in the First World.
If you don’t “understand” that criticism then I don’t know what to tell you.
Alabama is a paradise compared to Russia, but Russia is on a pathway to improve the lives of their citizens. It’s a slow process, but it is happening. In a century, Russia has gone from feudalism to a somewhat modern country. Russian schools are excellent. Great numbers of people from Western Europe are moving to Russia because of liberal misgovernance.
Whoever said poverty is worse in Alabama than in third world nations doesn’t know Alabama. I do since I spend half of my life in Alabama, own a great deal of property in the state, and I think it’s a great place to live, teeming with opportunity. I’ve traveled all over Europe, from Scandinavia to Spain, throughout Eastern Europe, down to the Greek Islands. People in Alabama live better than most rural Europeans, have more disposable income, and don’t have the government breathing down their necks.
A great number of people from Chicago have moved to Baldwin County, and they invariably feel they’ve been delivered to the promised land. They love the freedom, low cost of living, wonderful college football, and welcoming people. Don’t believe articles by people who don’t live here. I could live anywhere in the world, but I choose Alabama.
Ouch. I thought you were supposed to be on Putin’s side.
You have a source for this? Poor Russia is being EVACUATED since the war.
No one said this.
Houses all over Europe, especially in fashionable areas, have pillars and arches. In the South, we built regal homes with pillars in front. Timeless architecture. They are not gaudy but exceedingly beautiful. My home now on Pensacola Beach is exceedingly beautiful despite being more than fifty years old. Tourists frequently take pictures of it. On tours of our bay, cruise boats point out my home as a distinctive home. Great architecture is a good investment.
Here’s a pic of my home. Judge for yourself.
Nice house
If “we” includes forced manual free labor, you have a point.
And I believe he is saying something reactionary or telling that author what he wants to hear. Or the author is simply running with a bad situation. And since everything is about “human rights” nowadays…Well you’ll have to excuse me if there wasn’t other reasons Alabama was picked on. That isn’t meant to trivialize the poverty in Alabama. It just means very headline isn’t gospel. And this “official” of course blames republicans as the article progresses.
I’m sure it is bad…no doubt…
But I’m saying if we asked another official…They may tell you somewhere else is as bad or worse. Ask em abut Cabrini green in Chicago…West Baltimore, far NE Baltimore…Is this “UN human rights official” going to blame that on republicans as well? Some stretch in rural Alabama isn’t the runaway winner just because some article put it in the headline. I mean all cities have rough neighborhoods…But north philly is miles of urban wasteland…I’ve heard through the years of sanitary nightmares in the highrise project buildings of East New York and Brownsville sections of Brooklyn. And this is with much more population density.
In all honesty most of us have more issue with fuckhead djrion trying to make this a partisan thing as he did very early in this thread…And let’s be real, why else would warden post it? (and of course his response of “apparently better than Alabama”)…Like this is all 1000% absolutely true because a headline says so?
I agree with just about all of this…It is a crock of shit. But especially the part that today’s left…Especially in the younger age brackets…And in professions such as education…Are trying to solve all poverty in this country with a push for communism(similar to the countries that tried during the 20th century), whether they want to call it that or not. That’ why they didn’t care what damage prolonged covid shutdowns did-- Just solve it with communism! The government can save us all! But very few of you work get to through it and earn more than your allotted piece! I believe that the push for the Great Reset is very real. How many times did we hear the words…“covid has highlighted the need and accelerated our path to economic equality”…What in the living fuck? I thought it was a virus?
I have seen in it in some people close to me, turned into stark raving maniacs searching for this utopia of equality as the political situation in this country gets more intense. Turning everyone poor, or at least poorer is what they want (some don’t realize it, others flat out are sick enough to believe and not even hide it that we all should be sharing in each other’s suffering, equality of outcome, etc…). There is a point where that goes too far. I would probably think most on this board would agree with that other than djrion. Even Warden does.
I know I’m not saying anything revolutionary here neither is GSC…I just believe the delusional push for this type of system is sky high right now on the left. You see a lot of jokes on social media about some 20 year old college liberal telling someone from Cuba that communism can really work and we are going to save this evil country". There’s merit in those jokes. That push is very loud right now. My man Thomas Sowell said it best…Something to the effect of “Oh the left’s vision is definitely well meant and even beautiful…It’s just delusional and unattainable” and that in their search for utopia don’t realize the horrors and damage they create in every day life.
It’s your dream house, bikki. You don’t need to sell it to me. I think adorning American homes with gaudy Mediterranean columns is tacky.
The pictured house is fine. I don’t see anything gaudy about it. That’s very different from the Pantheon.
