Oh, fucking quit it with that ridiculously BS excuse for all the ways the USA is a third-world...

Post #443,825 by CRConrad 1/3/24 10:54:54 AM 1/3/24 10:54:54 AM Reply	Oh, fucking quit it with that ridiculously BS excuse for all the ways the USA is a third-world... ...shithole country. "We can't have sensible ATMs because the US is so fucking big!" Well yeah, sure, you'd have to have MORE ATMs to cover the whole place. You also have a lot more people to USE them, so it evens out. "We can't have civilised healthcare because the US is so fucking big!" Well yeah, sure, you have a lot more sick people. You also have proportionally more doctors and nurses to take care of them, and more tax payers to pay for it. It evens out. Almost, if not all, of those "that might work in Europe but not in the USA because it's so fucking big" excuses are just utter bullshit. Shit doesn't work over there because your corporate overlords don't want it to, and they have brainwashed the sheeple into thinking it can't. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #443,832 by crazy 1/3/24 4:59:28 PM 1/3/24 5:03:38 PM Reply	Ehh, see above All 5.5 million of you. The size of a small city here. With 90% the same ethnic background. Yeah right. While trying to hold on to the Russian border and making sure you don't get a few immigrants. My lord. Edited by crazy Jan. 3, 2024, 05:03:38 PM EST Expand All History
Post #443,835 by drook 1/3/24 5:33:26 PM 1/3/24 5:33:26 PM Reply	Sadly I think the ethnic background comment is the biggest issue here The wealthy all over wish they had it as easy as the wealthy in the US do. We have enough different minorities, and large enough numbers of them, that there's a ready target for every attack the wealthy make. This is not saying that Americans are more racist than the rest of the world. It's saying that race is an obvious and easy way to define "others" and target them, and because we have them, that's just what those in power do. -- Drew
Post #443,838 by crazy 1/3/24 5:58:00 PM 1/3/24 5:58:00 PM Reply	Yes and no 90% ethnic majority means that the vast majority of the country has the same attitudes. The same religion. The same upbringing. Once it starts splitting apart it gives openings for discussions on how one is wrong and the other is right. Any society with identical ethnicity means they will agree on how to go forward. The second it diverges it creates problems. As a Jew I was always the minority. I was always the one to be stomped on. I was always the one that disagreed with majority. Not that I would want to live in Israel. I think they are a bunch of assholes. Because as a Jew I was always taught to argue. Jews never agree.
Post #443,851 by drook 1/4/24 12:55:48 PM 1/4/24 12:55:48 PM Reply	That sounds like "Yes and yes" -- Drew
Post #443,869 by CRConrad 1/11/24 3:53:01 AM 1/11/24 3:53:01 AM Reply	Because "ethnic background" makes such a huge difference in how to use an ATM? Funny how my cards have worked everywhere in Europe I've been this century. (Plus Turkey, over a decade ago.) With a population nearly twice that of the USA, and more ethnicities, languages, and national borders than you can shake a stick at. Because "ethnic background" makes such a huge difference in how to care for people's health? Is it the quirky dietary habits of the common flu, or the incomprehensible language of cancer tumours that is the bigger problem...? Or is it just -- as usual -- the off-putting diseases and contagions of "those people" that civilised doctors can't treat? If you really can't see that the "ethnic background" argument for running your country in such a shitty way is and always has been an utterly bogus tactic by your oligarchs to put the plebs against each other, then... Then maybe you're not the courageous free and independent thinker it's always seemed you like to see yourself as. Maybe you're still much more stuck in the "bubble" than you thought you were, in your own little amniotic sac in the rentier propaganda matrix. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #443,870 by pwhysall 1/11/24 10:28:43 AM 1/11/24 10:28:43 AM Reply	On "small city" No. 5.5 Million is not "the size of a small city" in the US. There is one (1) city in the US with a population in excess of five million: New York, at 8.3M (a shade smaller than London, which is 8.7M). Of course, greater metro areas will have lots of people, but you didn't write that, so.

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