Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life
I think you skipped an interim there.
I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other diseases or troubles.
Other diseases can cause depression, but it is only when depression hits the subjective value of your life really degrades.
No that was a generalization, not specifically in the context of OP. Life definitely doesn’t have the same value to all individuals as u/Zwuzelmaus claims. That is NOT specifically related to Latin America.
Regarding that read my response in the main thread.
The article doesn’t seem to show any context to this, are equally poor countries on other continents better or worse?
My guess is the main problems are probably poverty inequality and corruption. Catholicism may also be a problem, as every crime can be absolved by the church, and Catholics may believe themselves free from the ultimate personal consequences of their crimes.
So the corruption and inequality may create a sense of need for many people to need to balance the injustice, and combined with a lack of perceived ultimate consequence may be a toxic cocktail that stimulate violent crime.
This however is pure speculation on my part. But it seems evident there must be some kind of social factor to cause things to be so bad. And it seems to me that statistically poverty and Catholicism combined promotes this.
Life has the same value to every living human.
That’s an extreme oversimplification, and that way of looking at it completely ignores people with depression and people committing suicide.
Obviously a life with more suffering is more likely to cause depression, and a life in depression is subjectively worth less.
I think everybody is aware of that, but maybe you only learned this recently?
But I seriously doubt purchasing power in China is more than 4 times higher than USA. If you have evidence of that, I think you should present it.
It remains a fact that USA has had by far the biggest military budget in the world for decades, in fact about as big as the next 10 on the list combined.
China is at most catching up, Pentagon being alarmed by that, indicates to me the insane level of American exceptionalism.
USA is losing power fast now, in way more meaningless unnecessary ways than China catching up. Simply by ruining western economies including their own with crazy tariffs, and alienating even their strongest allies.
USA is in a serious FAFO period right now.
China is only spending half as much of their GDP compared to USA, and in total spending China spend only a third of what USA does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures
In 2025 it’s even projected to DECREASE in China to only a fourth what USA is spending! So what is that report on about? Are they just being paranoid?
Thanks. 👍
Thanks, I use the “normal” browser interface. Never used an app for lemmy, maybe I should try it?
No way, I may have been forgiving towards Americans that voted Democratic, absolutely not Trump voters or Jill Stein voters.
It remains incomprehensible and reprehensible to me how people can vote for either of those two.
I am personally sanctioning American goods and services, and I blame USA as a society for Trump.
But of Americans with voting rights, the ones that voted Democratic are not to blame for Trump.
PS: How do you “tag” people on Lemmy?
there’s a bigger catastrophe the upper class is hedging against,
Maybe Global Warming?
You must be mistaking me for someone else, and I find your comment offensive!! 👎
I was always against Trump, and Trump voters were voting against their own interest. I NEVER apologized for Trump voters, they are ultimately the main symptom of the problem! They are idiots and most of them probably psychopaths that are unable to see that Trump is a malignant narcissist. Just about the worst personality possible for a president, only second to JD Vance.
They may have been manipulated, but it is impossible to be manipulated to that degree without being willingly manipulated. Nobody can be so stupid they don’t realize on some level that Trump is evil!! This was obvious already first time Trump was elected.
It may have been someone responding to me, because I’m generally pretty harsh and unapologetic towards Trump voters.
What you have seen is more likely me calling the American society mentally ill, which is something I’ve pointed out numerous times here.
I’ve also pointed out that voting Jill Stein is just as bad as voting Republican. As it is specifically designed to take votes away from Democrats, just like they attempted with RFK. Jill Stein is an ally of Putin, and a traitor to everything associated with being green. And traditional American values for that matter, just like Trump.
This is total bullshit by Trump, Denmark/Greenland has allowed American military bases on Greenland since the 50’s.
Denmark has been among USA’s strongest allies, and helped USA even in Iraq despite it being a very controversial invasion.and is (was?) a member of 7 eyes.
No doubt if USA needed to expand in Greenland it could have been negotiated just fine.
Trump Claiming USA needs Greenland for security is complete bullshit.
Next Trump will claim USA needs Venezuela and Canada for security purposes!!
Trump is a criminal, and being president of the USA, USA behaves like a criminal.
TLDR:
Fuck Trump, and fuck USA for electing him.
After pulling what we (EU) did with Nexperia on China, it’s no wonder China is pissed.
EU is following USA orders and is discriminating heavily against Chinese companies.
What Netherlands did with Nexperia was basically a nationalization without compensation, and we have shown China very clearly that on trade we are no more reliable than USA. The situation is somewhat resolved now AFAIK, but it’s too late, the damage is already done.
We are teaching China to treat us like shit, when they achieve global dominance.
And only to please USA, that is a very unreliable partner both as an ally and trade partner, that has outright declared they want to harm EU, because EU is considered to be against American global interests now.
USA should be thought a lesson, that they can’t abandon us, and then expect EU support to yield their soft power.
Instead we keep rolling on the bag like a small puppy.
After the Nexperia fiasco to please Trump, I have very little respect for how EU has been handling the USA/China relations.
Even thought the total shut off of the factory between Netherlands and China was ended, all we’ve shown China is that we are as untrustworthy as USA.
This thing could have been handled in many ways, and EU chose the worst of them all.
Same with ASML, EU has zero interest in preventing ASML from selling to China.
If USA was a reliable ally and trade partner, it might have been different, but they are neither of those things.
So for fucks sake we should stop harming ourselves just to suck up to USA!!
USA needs to learn their lesson, that they can’t abandon old agreements, and then still expect to wield soft power supported by EU.
Food is not the whole picture:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251215/dq251215a-eng.htm
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-unchanged-november-2025-9.7015905
Overall inflation rate came in at 2.2 per cent. But that rate has been largely outpaced by food since August 2024, and in November it rose 4.7 per cent compared to this time last year.
So Canada has their overall inflation under control, despite increasing food prices. Where I live food is only 10-12% of an average budget, and so similarly is only 1 part out of many when the CPI inflation number is calculated.
Transportation, heat, clothes, rent and other things are also included in the inflation number, to better reflect a normal budget. Rent is often a bigger expense than food.
Compared to Canada having 2.2% inflation YOY in November USA has 3%. In USA it may be even higher than 4.7% for food IDK.
Also in USA where many people live below the poverty level, increasing rent and food prices are more serious.
Stupidest question of the day.
For now Russia doesn’t even have a suitable launch pad for their rockets!
Their last functional pad collapsed with the rocket they launched last month.
Russia is collapsing just like that launchpad did, and this will never go anywhere.
I hope they have the right guy, because it seems the evidence is inconclusive, at least the article doesn’t really show it to be very strong, and the guy having an inflated ego is in no way evidence of anything.
This is where we are supposed to trust the system, which can be tough sometimes.
They chose not to.
Not really, Belgium wouldn’t budge, there was a clear majority in favor of using the frozen assets. This is mainly on Belgium.
Trump was never mentally OK probably since early childhood.