there is also lots to dig in to these stats, do they include jails? or just prisons? people in jail are short term or awaiting trial etc.. and slowdowns in courts cause these numbers to go up. drug related crimes are way high, almost half of it. big pharma dont want you using drugs they dont sell, etc.

big problems and lots of it.. much of it not related to guns. guns are a tool, and as you said, there are plenty of other ways to be violent. many reasons to need a gun, such as, protecting your self from wild animals, or hunting. as america is full of wilderness and farms. it would be impossible and makes no sense to take away guns, and then only criminals would have them.

japan has half the incarceration rate as germany, silly germans, prob cause they ..

see, this is what stats sound like 😂

but yes, there is def a high incarceration rate in the US and it does suck. but it's not cause of guns, it's for many reasons beyond our control and taking away guns will only make things less safe and worse.

Yeah, but a middle-class person in Germany is relatively poor. 😂

But, like I said, I have everything I need and no debt, so I don't really suffer from lack of money. There's a point where more money doesn't really add much to someone's personal happiness, but there's definitely a point where less begins to detract from it.

You are middle class 😀

Calling myself homeless is disrespectful to the people who are actually alone in the streets tho. I had it way easier. I had a car for one.

China leads the world in executions. Thousands of them per year, but the population is over 1.4 billion. Without exact numbers, we can't calculate their pro-capita execution rate, but it's definitely the highest for a large country that isn't engaged in a large-scale war.

Okay. Compare America to the EU, then. EU has 450 million residents and the USA has 347 mil.

Germany has 82 milllion residents and is highly industrialized and densely populated. Wyoming has half a million and is nearly empty. You would need something more like California or Texas.

Okay. Compare America to the EU, then. EU has 450 million residents and the USA has 347 mil.

Germany has 82 milllion residents and is highly industrialized and densely populated. Wyoming has half a million and is nearly empty. You would need something more like California or Texas.

anytime someone groups all of america into one thing to make a point, i look up their country and compare it's size to a state. a *single state.

for example, germany is the size of wyoming. to me this means, you should keep your nice things by staying small and possible for people to agree on how to make things nice.

so, i bet i can find a state where the stats are different..

Exactly why experiencing true poverty is so great. You don't need a lot of money to be rich.

Yeah, been there. That's why being able to buy old, used cars with cash makes me feel like a millionaire.

It is so extremely expensive to be poor. It's hard to understand this for people who've never came close to this but it is extremely difficult to get out of misery alone.

When you're poor every problem compounds in bigger problems. You see a small problem with you car and you think "I'll go get that fixed in 2 months when I have the money" but before you get there the problem compounds into something bigger so not it's even more expensive and you have to wait 4 months. By then your car break down and you lose your job. That's if you're rich enough to get a car in the first place.

It's expensive to be poor.

#Nostr is also a dopamine trap, and I don’t know how to break away from it.

But there’s no point in painting without sharing your work.

Nostr, along with Plebeian Market, has become my main showcase after my website.

Instagram and Telegram are completely marginal.

This constant posting and sharing feels like a drug I no longer want to depend on—but I don’t know how to quit.

The cycle between the need to create, the need to share, and the immediate gratification (or frustration) that follows—I realize this is a very common dynamic among artists and creatives online.

Still, it makes little sense to paint just to leave the work locked away in a drawer. Art also lives in the eyes of others, and tools like Nostr or Plebeian Market give a visibility that a static website struggles to offer.

But this constant exposure also becomes a cage, because it makes you dependent on reactions, notifications, statistics, hearts, and comments. This “dopamine trap” I feel around me is starting to feel tight.

The only solution I see is to share my work just once a month.

I don’t want to disappear—I just want to live and paint.

It’s not about “stopping sharing,” but about regaining my autonomy in deciding when and how to do it.

At which point you think the USA will try to do with BTC the same they did with a gold? 🤔

True. America could drastically cut those numbers if the state similarly threatened starved the children of criminals and dissenters through a centralized financial system tied to an arbitrary social credit system.

The person who took the camera down is a member of the TPUsa crew. He was taking the SD card out. The FBI now has that film footage. He talked about it in Tucker Carlson's show yesterday.

Please do share. I’m just at that point where more information won’t move the needle for me, it will just depress me.

Literally before this reply, on a group chat where I shared this, someone said “Good, if you are innocent, you shouldn’t worry.”

It’s tiring, I just want to be left alone.

Started listening, decided to stop.

I don’t want the truth, I can’t handle the truth.

All I want is to be left alone XD

‘A man’s job’??? 😂

I agree I’m not into boring things.

The figures appear too low to me

There's a push for gun culture? Based.

I'm not one to defend government, nor our prison system. But damn, there are a lot of robberies and home break-ins around here. Have been my whole life. I was sharing stories about my dad's shop as a kid and why he carried every day, and now why I do. My uncle made the news for a gang hit in what I considered a "safe" neighborhood a year or so ago I just saw the local news video again. He had a chunk missing in is porch pillar from a stray shot. His neighbor had a bunch of holes in his car. We could argue the wrong people are put in prison, but if you ask me, someone breaks into my home I'm emptying every magazine I can reach into them. So they should end up in prison, or find themselves dead. People talk about "white flight" but you ask me i don't care what color you are, if you grew up in where you could leave keys in your ignition and your front door unlocked, then you're home is catching stray bullets, you get the fuck out.

Islamists are tribal. They will eventually out breed and conquer. Not now, but in 20, 50, 100 years. Our ancestors knew that. That’s why they fought wars to keep them out. Your future granddaughters will be forced to marry an Islamist and wear a burka hand hijab. I live in Texas and my state is filled with guns and I’ve never been shot. Your perception is flawed as well. We’re all eventually screwed if we allow the corruption to continue.

You are stating that you are more likely to be killed in Utah or Idaho; gigantic land masses with very spread out populations. There are tiny sections within specific cities that are of any concern at all. No one goes there other than gang members living there. Your framing of the issue is inappropriate.

American Gun owners also don't like shooting people... We also actually hunt with most of them...

Let the government try to come lock me up for a meme that I put online. We blasting at the door. People going to jail for posting stuff. In America let them come try that. Hahahaa

Thats why we have guns.

What’s the best book for boomers who have been gold maximalists their entire lives?

good quote for the present era

Also, each side lies habitually, even when lying is pointless, and often without even noticing themselves that they are doing it.

It's not necessarily all intentional. I think there's a mental trap in assuming nothing is a conspiracy, and in assuming that everything is a conspiracy. There's probably mostly an organic tendency or trajectory within a group, with some targeted nudging, and everyone sort of automatically pays into it and tries to one-up each other, and it quickly gets ugly and crazy.

There is now an entire thread full of you and your humorful minions making Nazi jokes about me.

You responded to the news of a Christian leader getting shot by cracking a lame joke, to mock him and to mock everyone grieving.

And why do you suddenly take such an interest in me? You have never shown a shred of interest in anything I say, but I mention that someone else criticized Israel and you rush over to shut down the conversation I am having with obvious, inane, frantic, anti-Germanic trolling. On and on.

Where did I do that. I called you a humorless German, which is true 😂