janeroe

Why don't you take your own advice and move to the European paradise you crave, why torment yourself?

Writing from a third-tier country that welcomes nationalizations, confiscations, extortions, and all the other policies you'd approve of.

> It's not about looks but efficient use of land

Right, confiscation from private owners to use it for erection of a building no one needs is a very efficient use of land. The project will require astronomical up front expenses, will stay vacant for almost 2 decades, and have endless problems until its last day (fires, terrorist acts, issues with the structure). But who cares, it's efficiency we are talking about.

And that's 1% (of the whole budget) too much.

> Because we get a lot of travelers through our country who may otherwise spread TB here if we made no effort to control it outside of the country

A dozen of vaccines and a proof (from the doctors certified by the US officials) that you have no contagious diseases (including TB) is a prerequisite to get any US visa. The only way to bring TB to the US, I presume, is to jump over the fence at the border.

> most people are not sociopaths

Well, that's cringe. Is that what they broadcast in the US? I just don't see how a sane person can come to this conclusion on their own.

> over a free vaccine

You know what else was free? Bullets in communist Russia and gas in Hitler's Germany. Price is not the only thing that matters.

> Many of them go on to overcrowd the ICUs and morgues, so they are actually unwittingly doing their former employers and co-workers and evolution itself a huge favor by resigning and letting natural selection take its course, to smugly "own the libs".

How does one get that brainwashed?

Ironically, there's no mandatory work anywhere but in Communist paradises where by criminal code "parasitism" (not being enrolled to one of the organizations / skipping workdays without a valid reason) is prosecuted.

> The Great Resignation

Any chance it has something to do with mandatory vaccination?

> The pandemic has been good fuel for inflation and continues to do so

Not just some abstract "pandemic" but specific policies adopted by specific people. Don't turn it into a Hegelian providence as if no one is responsible and it's a self propagating process that would happen regardless.

> We have universal healthcare and in my city emergency services are so overwhelmed and overworked the wait time for the past day is over an hour.

That tells more about your healthcare system than about anything else. My city had virtually no lockdowns (but 2 weeks at the beginning until the measure became really unpopular), nobody ever cared about distancing or masking, the vaccination rates are low as hell, schools and businesses work as usual and yet here we are safe and sound. No societal collapse you promise, no mass extinction, nothing. Some people in their 80s died which is a tragedy since that had never happened before (aren't people supposed to live forever). But other than that, life as usual. What are we doing wrong?

> No, it is the official Kazakhstan source

Which source? The one that requested Russian intervention? Why there are lots of videos of protests, shootings, killings by the Kazakh army, and looting by unidentified people but only words of the interested party for this one?

I don't remember the "AC unit" but I do remember Russian media's "100% sure version of 2 Ukraine planes downing the Netherlands' jet" a few years ago (with interviews of "experts" all over the place). That was their position for a long time (maybe half a year, until they shamelessly changed it to "Ukraine BUKs did it"). The "beheading story" seems like a fairy tale from the same authors.