New Social Justice Index Places US Near Bottom

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A) Refusing to stand their ground on issues allows for this kind of thing to happen, so I suppose an accomplice-level amount of blame could go to the Democrats.

B) The root of all this is the rich MegaCorp people who OWN American Politics. It's no longer "One Person One Vote" but now "One Dollar One Vote", skewing policies in favor of the rich and screw over everyone else.

Alternatively... no, I can't think of a way to refute the source or premise. Because it looks entirely accurate.

Given her posting record, I'd say no. But that's not my decision, the mods will handle it.

whale: Is that supposed to make me feel more secure? Because it doesn't.

I don't like being monitored period.

It's very unlikely that anyone cares enough about the definitions of different regions in Europe, but just in case there's someone out there who does want to know this:

The top-5 in the chart were:

1. Iceland, 2. Norway, 3. Denmark, 4. Sweden, 5. Finland.

These are the Nordic countries. But not all of them are Scandinavian.

There are many definitions of Scandinavia; the most strict one only includes the countries surrounding the Scandes; namely, Sweden and Norway (their border runs along the mountain range.) Denmark is usually included because it's been a part of both Norway and Sweden.

Similarly, Finland is sometimes considered part of Scandinavia because we used to be part of Sweden and our culture is very similar to that of the proper Scandinavian countries.

Iceland is not a Scandinavian country, but it is a Nordic country because it's part of the broader culture of Scandinavia (much closer to the Scandinavian countries than Finland in that regard.)

The most common definition of Scandinavia you're likely to see is one that includes Denmark in addition to Norway and Sweden, but doesn't include Finland.

/small derail

edited 28th Oct '11 4:15:28 PM by BestOf

I include Finland persoanlly, but I don't blame anyone for not. And Iceland isn't geographically Scandinavian, yes, but culutrally it is.

Eh. There a million things we could do to turn the US into a functional mixed economy Keynesian state that actually has the money to spend on making sure people are happy and healthy.

Point is, there's a whole section of the population that thinks all of these things are delusional or the devil's spawn, running the gambit in between.

So, yes, we should have a shitty social justice score. We, after all, really don't have social justice to begin with. We're a Second World country with First World amounts of money... in the hands of a fraction of the population.

On one hand it's nice to see the facts aligning with what you already suspected.... On the other hand the facts are lining up to what you suspected, and what you expected wasn't good at all.

Can we really call this "The greatest country on earth?"

Maybe most powerful/militaristic, but thats not something i'm proud of.

We're a Second World country

Err, America isn't Communist. There isn't really a "Second World" the term third world developed from poor countries not aligning with either power in the Cold War.

PEDANTIC

So "Shitty First World Country"

Yes.

I am..Not surprised. at all.

Is this topic going to be nothing but how shitty America is because then it will just get boring and sound really wangsty.

Fortune favors the fortunate.

Well that's good news for me.

edited 28th Oct '11 6:36:31 PM by TheWesterner

That reminds me, Eric Cantor was going to give a speech recently about making sure the people at the top stay there.

+1 classy.

edited 28th Oct '11 6:45:20 PM by Enkufka

Who's Eric Cantor?

Anyhow, I could probably write out a whole nice list of what needs to be done in terms of achieving social justice and equal opportunity in the US, but it wouldn't mean a damn and wouldn't be worth the time and computer space required to do so.

Former House Minority Whip. Basically, Second-in-command to Mitch Mc Connel.

Didn't he also cancel that speech when he heard it would be open to the public?

Stay Classy, Mr. Cantor

edited 28th Oct '11 6:55:36 PM by cadeonehalf

Threadhop: Aww, shit, motherfucker, Australia is only six spots above the US, and still below the average line.

Then again, Australia is quite compulsively rednecked for the most part, so, go figure.

I'd say that ousting rednecks would be the key to a better country, but Canada gave the world Nickelback, so go figure.

edited 28th Oct '11 7:20:29 PM by KitsuneInferno

Exactly the way the right-wingers want it.

Can we not turn this into bashing session please?

Pointing out who's most responsible for this is bashing now?

No,its more like it gets obnoxious after a while.

It's more economic Right-wingers than social Right-wingers.

They... create a completely different set of issues...