Really, it comes down to perspective. As someone in the U.S., the scope of what he’s saying isn’t as radical as it might seem - if you look at the surrounding context.

New York City as expensive. Laborers to work there can’t afford to live there. 25 Euros may sound like a lot - but it’s barely a livable wage inside the city.

And American rental housing is mostly owned by a small number of massive corporations. They use computer algorithms to determine how much they can charge to earn maximum profit. Rents have gone up exorbitantly, far more than inflation or even demand. So the rents need to be held in place and stabilized. It’s a completely unregulated market.

Similarly, food stores are consolidated under a small number of mega corporations. In a functioning system, stores byproducts based on market rates, then sell them based on what people are able to pay. However, in the U.S., grocery stores dictate how much they’re willing to pay for goods. Small businesses need to bribe the distributors in order to get proper placement within grocery stores. And grocery stores I’ve been raising prices when the cost of staples go up - but then never lowering them again. Poor people can qualify to get money for food, but they aren’t able to buy enough now. Operating a food store for public good is a middle step to ensure farmers get paid and people can buy quality food.

Public transit was free for a few years during the worst of covid, and people all over the country have been campaigning to try to keep it that way.

So, taking all of the surrounding details into context? He’s not nearly as far left of center as he seems. But without the context, I understand why it may look like he’s more of an extreme leftist.

I’m not comparing him to European governments.

I’m comparing him to European political standards.

In European terms, he’s just slightly left of center.

Weezer - Beverly Hills.

Weezer’s only good song is Buddy Holly. All their other songs are terrible. And Beverly Hills is the worst.

Have you seen Pachebel Rant?

Sigh.

Yeah, but the key is: the old man is a Holocaust survivor.

He knows going in they might kill him, or worse. He knows fascism, death camps, and secret police.

If they kill him, he knows there’ll be a massive public outcry: “ICE agents murder elderly Holocaust survivor.” The agents’ names and faces will be all over the news, and there will be sob stories from his family and friends. ICE will be publicly compared to Nazis. The agents themselves will be identified and outed even if mainstream media doesn’t focus on it.

And he knows that the guys with guns are too stupid to realize HE has set THEM up for a trap.

Yeah, well, I could call my dick the Magnum Opus but that wouldn’t make it two feet long.

Yes

All those things about your mom are true.

You know trouble’s coming when The Situation starts to flex.

The context totally changes the question.

“Which do you like more, blue or green?” is very different from “Which do you feel you are, a blue-liker or a green-liker?”

The first question directly asks a specific thing.

The second is asking what category a person feels they belong to. And assigning a category implies many things in addition to liking the color.

That is a false dichotomy. Every situation has unique context.

Never put salt in your eyes.

What a fantastic unit.

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Well, if litter training involves getting them to poop in the litter… Logically, it follows that bar training involves getting them to poop in the bar.

Aha, I see, irony.

By “every action” you mean “no again.”

OP never said it would be hand-to-hand combat.

The men would bring human weapons and would win handily.

How can you tell?