Fully aware, that’s why I reject blaming the individuals as opposed to the system

will urge

You literally make the laws

Not how it works. Public transport isn’t dying due to lack of demand, it’s dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.

Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.

So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.

In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)

Capitalism.

I’m not American either, but rather than laughing at the death of American soldiers, I’m sad that young men were deceived by their institutions and governments (or outright conscripted) into inflicting suffering and death and suffering it themselves.

He was posting memes in his community tab and that of his second channel (Adam Something else), some of which he later deleted, saying that “nuclear war isn’t that bad”, promoting a service where you could pay so that Ukrainian military would write memes on artillery shells and record themselves firing them, calling Russians “orcs”, etc.

If you don’t think that’s wrong, imagine a YouTuber posting the website of the Iraqi military where you could pay to write memes in RPG-7 rounds fired to American soldiers during the invasion of Iraq, calling all americans “orcs” and wishing that nuclear weapons are used against them.

Russophobe = racist towards Russians. You can be critical of the proto-fascist regime in modern Russia without engaging in racism towards Russian people themselves, in the same way that I condemn the American government and institutions for the invasion of Iraq without blaming the citizens and without cheering every time an American soldier was killed.

Adam Something is a dick though. His urbanism-videos are well-meant but they’re mostly him stating obvious facts angrily, and he’s openly a European militarist and a Russophobe.

Edit: found this post saying “nuclear war actually isn’t that bad guys”

Your comment stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of public institutions and how money works.

It doesn’t matter that the debt is higher than the GDP if it’s debt in the currency that the state creates. Japan has a debt of 250% of the GDP and it’s always going to pay for it. Why? Because it’s in Yen, and the Japanese public sector is the ONLY institution in the world capable of creating Yen. If they wanted, the Japanese central bank could quite literally perform 100 keystrokes on a keyboard, and repay all debt early tomorrow, at a cost of exactly 0 yen to the taxpayer.

Taxes aren’t the way a state funds itself. Again, the state creates its own currency, why would it need tax collection to get that currency if it can create it at will at a keyboard’s stroke? Taxes serve many purposes, such as forcing people to use your currency in the private sector (they will need that currency to pay for the taxes so it’s the one they will use), such as disincentivizing certain behaviours (tax on tobacco for example), or such as reducing inequality (progressive income taxes), or also importantly, removing money from the private sector to reduce or prevent inflation. But the one thing taxes don’t do is funding the state budget, since the state’s budget is unlimited in theory. There are practical limits, but availability of currency really isn’t one of them.

The American citizen won’t spend a single dollar paying back state debt, in fact it’s exactly the opposite. The state creates the currency with which it pays back the debt, and it’s private citizens and corporations who the state owes the interest rate to. If you buy a bond for $1000 at an interest rate or 3%, next year you’ll have $1030. The state, through debt, literally creates money for the private sector. It makes people and companies wealthier. Taxes make people and companies poorer, but taxes and debt are completely unrelated to one another, since the state really doesn’t need taxes to pay the debt.

I fully agree with your analysis of the poor usage of the state budget and people not getting the welfare state they deserve by right, but that’s not something that has to do with debt, it has to do with the government representatives not acting for the benefit of the majority but a select elite of capitalist owners. Debt is purely a financial tool that serves purposes such as creating money, or controlling the interest rates of the country so that people and companies will take more or fewer loans, which has an effect in the economy.