@Faj1791 It's mostly his personality. He is an utterly despicable human being with the same weird predispositions towards Middle-Eastern style corruption and terrorism support that the current New York's mayor has.
@admiraIish Yes, but only if it's a white-collar employment. And better if something cool, like physics, applied chemistry or medicine, otherwise it doesn't count.
@magi_jay True. Steven can be a little wonky, and has her peculiarities, but she is 100, 1000 times better as a human being and way safer for Michigan, than El-Sayed, whose only loyalties lay with Saudi money.
@bdquinn Never expected the youth to fall victims to Arab propaganda so easily, but I guess it is what it is. That's what we get for erosion of social sciences and replacing understanding of political realities with "racial studies" and Saudi-financed wokeism.
@KareemRifai They know that polls affect the voters behaviour, especially in primaries. The saudi money have deliberately tried to pave the way to victory for El-Saed, no matter the consequences of allowing someone like him to reach the power.
@johnSmith6liw@kroketrendang4 No, I'm a third worlder who thinks like this about western stuff. Everything western = better than ours by definition. (No matter the reality.)
@mikitaposts@jaketropolis The problem with Detroit would be having to keep those properties in a livable and marketable condition, with criminals prowling and roaming around freely.
@mikitaposts Population dynamics decides it. Population steadily grows in a settlement on a distance of 20+ years? Do buy. Steadily declines? Nah, it's a walking dead city on the way to transforming into a ghost town.
@mikitaposts The level the poverty of doctors or teachers has reached in USSR, you haven't listened to your parents and grandparents enough, dear Mikita.
They would be jealous of material condition the last black person in ghetto in the USA has with their doctor degree.
@mikitaposts Also the "decent pay" is of course not guaranteed and would never be guaranteed in any society. It's just not how the economics work.
And more than that, it's of course wasn't guaranteed nor provided in USSR, especially to doctors and teachers. If you haven't heard about the...
@SpaghettiKozak From a point of individual, fighting for elites staying in their comfortable thrones is never worth it.
But ehh, when it's a distant choice between ideals and aesthetics of some Slavic armies actively murdering each other - yeah, of course my $$$ are with Ukraine.
@SpaghettiKozak And financially? Yeah, of course, because of hating Russian regime and all.
Would I myself risk not death, but perhaps only a body injury for keeping Zelenskij's regime stable against a Putin's regime? Nah. Would cross the Carpathian mountains the first day it started.