But I’m not just talking to you, I’m also talking to the other people viewing this thread. Just like how it’s laughable to say you can’t be bothered to prove your dubious claims after engaging in communication about a subject half a dozen times over 2 days. The liklier conclusion is that they are as reasonable as your first - possibly true, but no substantive proof given.

I don’t pretend to be a journalist. I hear presenting facts is also important, and you have yet to do that despite your claims.

So at best this turned the population clock back 40 or 50 years. How is that a solution to anything? This is like pining about the good old days. Also, I suggest you read a little about generational trauma, because I’m pretty sure having half of everyone you know disappearing, and that applying to everyone, is going to have a little of that.

And there are articles from newspapers decades ago complaining about people reading and not socializing. Some people just don’t want to socialize as much as others. It doesn’t make them wrong, it makes them different.

First, your juvenile ad hominems and wild speculation, not to mention your poor use of language incline me to believe you aren’t a journalist, or at least a journalist that I’m not inclined to think worth reading. But feel free to prove me wrong. Where would I find this article in which you drop pearls of wisdom for the unwashed masses such as myself? Did you get pictures of these earrings that she was handing out? Did she refuse to even let you get pictures, and convince the other recipients of her goods to also shield them from your unworthy focus? And please, don’t tell me you don’t want to advertise your professional work, or that of your peers. You already mentioned it.

Also, I haven’t watched Naruto, but you apparently haven’t seen The Princess Bride.

Except for his solution is basically, “Let’s put the population back a whole 40 years or so, while massively disrupting society and the economy and being guaranteed to traumatize virtually everyone remaining. That will fix everything!” The only person who could think that was at all reasonable would have to have a grade school understanding of how the world works and no interpersonal connections, or what they mean to most people.

speculation

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

As the saying goes, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

I guess from that point of view it really is only a problem for one of the candidates.

For what it’s worth, watch a video of Trump after 9/11. He was still a narcissistic ass, but he was far more cogent.

Yeah, I think it’s a combination of those puritanical ideals and “rugged individualism” where if bad things happen to you you probably deserve it, and it’s up to you to fix it. Like how America spends as much on government healthcare as most other developed countries, and yet that only covers Medicare and Medicaid, and then have to get private insurance on top of that, because not helping others who can’t help themselves is more important than making your own life better.

I didn’t mind my own business when a woman accidentally walked into the bathroom I was using. That was mostly because I was using the urinal, and it was more visible than I’d like from the bathroom door. Not her fault, just badly designed.

You’re not wrong, but the people you describe aren’t the ones this article is about.

You’re not wrong, but a solution to the homeless that helps them, thus making them less of a problem for you, and is forward-looking to reduce the number of homeless helps in the future will yield better long-term results. This isn’t cheap, and will be attractive to homeless people living where there aren’t these options, which increases the burden on those states that are actually trying to solve the problem rather than mitigate the visible symptoms. I realize you probably aren’t in a position to change that, and certainly dealing with the symptoms you describe is also important.

Look two words to the left.

I’m not speculating at all. I’m pointing our how much of a reach your speculation is. We can’t even be sure they’re there for Trump’s talk. That looks like a convention center, they could be there for something else. I tried to find the location this was taken, but I’m not finding it.

I’m not sure that more loose cannons is the solution to the number we have now. I suppose if he was on a tight leash they could always threaten people to smarten up or they won’t hold him back.

Exactly. The presidential election isn’t where problems like that will be solved. You’re looking at the wrong venue to air your legitimate grievances, at the risk of personal harm to yourself and people like you. You should absolutely try to address that, but it will not be easy and it won’t start at the presidency.

You mean, like this? Or this? I found better examples on my web search, but they appeared to be from personal sites, and I wasn’t broadcasting that.

There are curves etc. around the belly button that will stretch and twist fabric like that, particularly if they’re somewhat tight. Weight doesn’t have a large bearing on it, but lighting will make it more or less obvious. If you can see it in staged pictures, you will see it in more casual settings. And it’s not too surprising an artist would notice details like that.

Thank goodness Trump made things easier for Arab Americans whe he was president! What, it was the same thing when he was president? Shocking!

Thankfully that’s only a problem for one of the candidates, right? Right?