And what I’m saying is that what you claim I claimed was never claimed by me.

Since the discussion seems to have derailed let me do a brief summary:

• Original guy: here are some opinions I have
• Other guy: your opinions don’t make sense, some of them contradict other ones
• Me: they don’t contradict at all. It is perfectly coherent to have those opinions.
• You (correct me if I’m wrong): your opinion is wrong because it seems you’re a contestant for a contrarian contest.

I tried to make the least offensive analogy possible in order to have a logical conversation around the topic. But it still got an emotional response. I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith.

The second paragraph is called projection. I never made the claim that those opinions are correct because they are contrarian, yet you keep making the claim that they’re incorrect because they are contrarian.

I don’t understand how being contrarian or not makes an opinion less or more valid. Who decides what mainstream is? Whoever gets more upvotes? We should never ever have an opinion that will get downvoted on Lemmy? Or is it a democratically elected process? In that case, the mainstream opinion in the US in 2020 was that the best person to be the president was Donald trump. Does that make it correct?

You’re yet to give any argument other than “those opinions are wrong because they are contrarian”

First of all, that’s not my opinion. I’m defending the other guy. Since he’s getting his opinion denied under the untrue argument that his opinion is contradictory, when it is not. See the user names.

Second point, “not supporting trans athletes because they are a small group” is not at all what I said, but you are acting as if that were what I said. Let me repeat it again so you can see the difference: you don’t need to support every policy that claims to support a small subset of a group in order to claim that you support that group.

Since it seems hard to understand let me say an example. There is country “chairland” where the chairpeople leave happily. Inside chairland there is a town called “tabletown”. Person A says: “tabletown people should have free access to Netflix!” And person B says: “No, I love chairpeople, but tabletown is not entitled to free Netflix”. Is the claim of people B contradictory? Can’t a person support chairland but not support giving tabletown free Netflix?

And yes, everything in that original comment made by the other guy are opinions. “Trans women should compete in women leagues” is not a fact, doesn’t matter how progressive you are, it is under every definition of the word: an opinion.

You are free to have any opinion you want, I don’t believe in thought crimes. I don’t know why you place such importance on “contrarian”. Is someone that has an opinion different than yours a contrarian? Are contrarian opinions not valid? Therefore, are opinions different than yours not valid?

Contrarian about what? Who are the contestants? I don’t understand your comment.

What is it revealing that I supposedly didn’t want?

Yes. I believe that you can support a political group without supporting 100% of the policies that supposedly support that group.

Basically because it’s impossible fro 100% of the people on the group to agree on exactly which policies are hurtful and which are helpful.

Of all the things in your comment, getting right the “you probably call yourself a centrist” is the least significant part. You’re wrong in all the rest of your comment, which is the actually important part.

Whether someone calls themselves left, right or center is way less important than the policies they support.

Because guess what. You can’t fit the entire world in 3 political buckets and expect everyone in each bucket to have the same opinion as everyone else on that bucket.

As I said in another comment. The world is not black and white. There’s lots of shades of grey.

And each person has a different combination of shades of grey for each political topic.

There is no contradiction.

Not wanting trans-women in sports doesn’t make you not support LGBT. T is only one letter of 4+. And trans-women is only half of T. And athlete trans women is a small subset of that. And athlete trans women that want to play in women’s leagues are a subset of that.

You can reward people based on accomplishments and also tax the rich. You can also have social programs while still rewarding them.

You can improve the environment without a complete ban of fossil fuels.

Or some people just have nuanced opinions and see that topics can be multiple shades of grey instead of either white or black.

I watched it for the first time recently. He just kept making the dumbest decisions every time. He’s supposed to be a super genius, yet I would’ve chosen most of the decisions better.

The only explanation is that he’s bored and wants to make things difficult, but that is not what’s portrayed in the anime at all. It’s just what I came up with to explain his horrible decisions.

It was nice to learn of all this bullshit. Thank you.

So tell me. What are those hidden taxes?

What type of corporate parasitism are you referring to that hurts Americans more than Europeans?

That’s fair. Although I need to point out that the title literally says “more than 1 in 4” which makes it kinda funny.

Ignoring all the taxation is theft bullshit, my original question is how is america so expensive that living wages are considered 8x of the highest minimum wages of europe (Less than 20k).

America has lower taxes than any European country. So that cannot be the answer.

Europeans also buy little glasses for Timmy and such. I don’t think the price of those kind of things is much different. Same for utilities, phone and TV. The one I’m most uncertain about is utilities, but I believe electricity at least is usually cheaper in america.

The car one is fair. Although it’s true that in Europe there’s also tons of people on cars, public transit is at least a valid option, unlike in much of the US.

Taxes is not though. Taxes in america are usually way lower than in Europe.

So transportation+healthcare are the only expenses that are clearly more expensive in america. Housing being highly dependant on location is hard to compare nation-based. And it’s also the biggest component. I’d be curious to see the actual “living wage” difference between two places, one Europeans and another American with similar housing prices.

Why is the cost of living so incredibly high in the US?

It cannot be because of consumer goods. Because both Europe and the US have similar prices for those since they are made by international companies.

It cannot be food, the US is a big exporter of food. And those exports go to countries with lower costs of living.

It cannot be vacations. You could “just” fly to Europe and have european vacation prices.

Is it just housing and healthcare?

Would be way worse to be hold. You know what I hate more than pressing L/R34? Holding them

7 year old me which didn’t know English was way more confused about the Xbox controllers. Plat station’s were way easier to understand. The problem with L3 and R3 is that I didn’t even know the sticks could be used as buttons, once I learned that, L3 and R3 made a lot of sense.

I know the L-R of Xbox were buttons, I just wasn’t able to understand which was which. Sony being a Japanese company, imagine if they named their buttons some random japanese characters. That’s what Xbox buttons were to me.

There are no words that can express the same as curse words. Otherwise, we wouldn’t use them as much.

Words are words. And they are used to communicate. I don’t understand the American panic about this small set of words. They are words like any other.

Non-american countries also have some people that panic about curse words, but I don’t think they match the level of panic of Americans.

I don’t see the use case.

There’s 2 secrets here: the link and the password. And to share it with someone you need to share 2 secrets: the locked link and the password.

Why not use the same method you used to share the password to share the link instead? Without the need for this service.

It’s also valid rust syntax.

But if it were rust, this meme would not make sense, since you would just type let a and type inference would do its thing. Which is much more ergonomic.