People still come to America to get educated and get cured.
We have the best facilities on the planet and we lead the world in research including medical research.
We do have pockets of 3rd world poverty. Those won't be solved by making everyone poor Stalin style (or even Merkel style).
You seem to want the government to control everything but forget that people like Trump get into government. This is just as true across the pond. Brits will blame Tories for any admitted failings of the NHS.
Culture and genetics contributes a lot to these kinds of numbers. There are pockets of people in a number of places who have a various lifestyles that regularly live past 100.
Some of the more targeted statistics clearly have a strong cultural component.
The liberal narrative here usually goes something along the lines that high costs prevents people from getting timely care that could save their life or save money.
If you make something even more expensive, then you make that underlying problem worse.
Obamacare dramatically increased costs for consumers. In my own state it turned a very effective private market into one huge high risk pool. It's quite literally put me in a WORSE position than if I had had to use that old high risk pool.
Alternately I get to pay the old high risk price for the rest of my household or deal with ACA policies that don't even cover my most basic drugs.
As a chronic cancer patient who expects to blow his out of pocket limit every year, the jacked up premiums are quite a kick in the balls.
The extra money I have to pay for premiums is less money I have to pay out of pocket costs.
I could easily see the jacked up Obamacare premiums discouraging people from seeing a doctor. Obama made everyone more poor in an era of stagnating wages.
> Not to mention US police kill more people than criminals do in some countries, and more school kids have been killed this year than military...
Unless there's a war going on, why should the military be that dangerous?
The real problem with your "zinger" is that it demonstrates that Americans have gotten entirely accustomed to being in a state of constant war. Kids that die in uniform tend to be not much older than school age.
The recent decline in this particular lie/statistic is due entirely to the spike in drug overdose deaths attributable to people being dumb enough to mix Fentanyl with their heroin.
The old quote attributed to Disraeli and Clemens really is true.
Any number in the absence of context is just nonsense to push a narrative. In this case it's just anti-American hatred plus some of the other usual suspects.
I don't think you know any actual poor people. You are just repeating other people's bullshit like little old ladies reposting chain letters from email.
> Girlfriend, if you haven't seen the evidence, you've had your hands placed firmly over your eyes the entire time.
People that defy Sturgeon's law move up quickly and get paid well. It doesn't matter what they have between their legs. The professional offended class has just convinced one group of losers that they have something besides themselves to blame.
Not that you really need to debunk this. It's simply irrelevant. People like Sarkesian simply engage in selective outrage. They see women being treated the same as men and screech discrimination. Her own complaints of games are a classic example of this.
She reviews a murder simulator and screeches "women are being abused".
> How do you expect someone who is living paycheck to paycheck to find the $5000 or so that it takes to move cities?
This is part of the modern entitlement mentality. You set the bar so high for everything that everything becomes impossible. You set gravely unrealistic expectations for "basics". You're really just trying to make up excuses to never bother to cover up your own failures and poor personal choices.
...which is all irrelevant since there is ample government assistance for housing and food.
You can also do the obvious "boomer" thing and just get a fucking room mate and stop pretending you can have it both ways. The European welfare state comes with some real trade offs. Americans think they can get all of the free goodies, avoid all of the associated taxes, and still live larger than anyone else.
A lot of what millenials whine about sounds vaguely familiar to those of us from previous generations.
If anything GenX has squandered the best economic opportunities of the last 100 years.
Environmental catastrophes in other countries are likely due to poor management in those countries. Just as you have free will and agency, so do "brown people". When you try to deny this you are denigrating them as much as if you burned a cross on their lawn.
Unless you are starving, it is correct to treat carbohydrates stripped from the rest of the food source they came from as poison. You've discarded useful nutrients and the fiber that will keep those carbs from doing a number on your pancreas.
We don't need GMO crops to avoid starvation for anyone. That's just a total bullshit narrative. The West grows much more food than it can eat and wastes most of it at every step in the supply chain.
GMO crops mainly make your Twinkies and Mountain Dew cheaper.
I also get a chuckle out of the hysterics here over the nutrition content of rice. Most rice is processed in a manner that removes any significant vitamin/mineral content.
Actually, it's fucking brilliant. Sauce for the goose. In declaring Trump's part of twitter a government forum in order to ban Trump blocking people they have also created the argument for preventing Twitter itself from doing the same.
As soon as someone's speech is declared "political", it becomes a bit of a sacred cow. Rules suddenly change (get overridden) to favor protecting the speech in question.
This same rule would apply to any politician on any service.
Not that the S/N ratio on those are great to begin with. Trolls abound.
Amazon has to manage to get competitive before they can be a threat to anyone. The media lays on the hype like they are trying to make this happen. It's like the last presidential election.
Amazon Fresh selection sucks. Whole Foods prices suck even with all of these discounts.
There are no less than 4 chains that sell groceries around here that leave Whole Amazon in the dust. If I want to drive a little there are speciality or upscale grocers that make it absolutely no contest.
> and have since overtaken the US in terms of economic mobility
That's fucking hilarious.
In Europe you top out at a level of material prosperity that Americans would find unacceptable. You have ZERO possibility for building wealth in Europe. There is no "economic mobility" in Europe.
> Workers in unionized companies make 2-3 times minimum wage
That's funny. I remember when grocery workers were unionized. They didn't make anywhere near double.
What you make as a low skilled person is more likely to be a reflection of how much effort you put into the job search and whether or not you looked past the large corporate franchise operation on the next corner.
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Chances are that if you need this kind of treatment you are already a vampire man-bat. You just use an IV instead of your teeth.
Your narrative is bullshit.
People still come to America to get educated and get cured.
We have the best facilities on the planet and we lead the world in research including medical research.
We do have pockets of 3rd world poverty. Those won't be solved by making everyone poor Stalin style (or even Merkel style).
You seem to want the government to control everything but forget that people like Trump get into government. This is just as true across the pond. Brits will blame Tories for any admitted failings of the NHS.
Is that a anti-war liberal coming out of hiding after 8 long years?
The hard right is consistently anti-interventionist.
He has a point.
Culture and genetics contributes a lot to these kinds of numbers. There are pockets of people in a number of places who have a various lifestyles that regularly live past 100.
Some of the more targeted statistics clearly have a strong cultural component.
Sauce for the goose.
The liberal narrative here usually goes something along the lines that high costs prevents people from getting timely care that could save their life or save money.
If you make something even more expensive, then you make that underlying problem worse.
Obamacare dramatically increased costs for consumers. In my own state it turned a very effective private market into one huge high risk pool. It's quite literally put me in a WORSE position than if I had had to use that old high risk pool.
Alternately I get to pay the old high risk price for the rest of my household or deal with ACA policies that don't even cover my most basic drugs.
As a chronic cancer patient who expects to blow his out of pocket limit every year, the jacked up premiums are quite a kick in the balls.
The extra money I have to pay for premiums is less money I have to pay out of pocket costs.
I could easily see the jacked up Obamacare premiums discouraging people from seeing a doctor. Obama made everyone more poor in an era of stagnating wages.
We know why. This is no mystery. It's just not being mentioned because it would interfere with the narrative.
In other words: Lay off the Twinkies.
I saw Old El Paso being sold in Spain and it really blew my mind. I really though the Spanish were supposed to have better taste than that.
Although they make the kind of cheeseburgers that sound like something Homer Simpson would come up with.
> Not to mention US police kill more people than criminals do in some countries, and more school kids have been killed this year than military...
Unless there's a war going on, why should the military be that dangerous?
The real problem with your "zinger" is that it demonstrates that Americans have gotten entirely accustomed to being in a state of constant war. Kids that die in uniform tend to be not much older than school age.
The recent decline in this particular lie/statistic is due entirely to the spike in drug overdose deaths attributable to people being dumb enough to mix Fentanyl with their heroin.
The old quote attributed to Disraeli and Clemens really is true.
Any number in the absence of context is just nonsense to push a narrative. In this case it's just anti-American hatred plus some of the other usual suspects.
I don't think you know any actual poor people. You are just repeating other people's bullshit like little old ladies reposting chain letters from email.
> Girlfriend, if you haven't seen the evidence, you've had your hands placed firmly over your eyes the entire time.
People that defy Sturgeon's law move up quickly and get paid well. It doesn't matter what they have between their legs. The professional offended class has just convinced one group of losers that they have something besides themselves to blame.
Not that you really need to debunk this. It's simply irrelevant. People like Sarkesian simply engage in selective outrage. They see women being treated the same as men and screech discrimination. Her own complaints of games are a classic example of this.
She reviews a murder simulator and screeches "women are being abused".
> How do you expect someone who is living paycheck to paycheck to find the $5000 or so that it takes to move cities?
This is part of the modern entitlement mentality. You set the bar so high for everything that everything becomes impossible. You set gravely unrealistic expectations for "basics". You're really just trying to make up excuses to never bother to cover up your own failures and poor personal choices.
...which is all irrelevant since there is ample government assistance for housing and food.
You can also do the obvious "boomer" thing and just get a fucking room mate and stop pretending you can have it both ways. The European welfare state comes with some real trade offs. Americans think they can get all of the free goodies, avoid all of the associated taxes, and still live larger than anyone else.
A lot of what millenials whine about sounds vaguely familiar to those of us from previous generations.
If anything GenX has squandered the best economic opportunities of the last 100 years.
Environmental catastrophes in other countries are likely due to poor management in those countries. Just as you have free will and agency, so do "brown people". When you try to deny this you are denigrating them as much as if you burned a cross on their lawn.
Unless you are starving, it is correct to treat carbohydrates stripped from the rest of the food source they came from as poison. You've discarded useful nutrients and the fiber that will keep those carbs from doing a number on your pancreas.
Most people do poorly with refined carbs.
> Plain water has very little nutritional value. Rice has carbs, proteins, minerals, etc. It is the thing at the bottom of that food pyramid.
White rice is pretty much pure carbs. It's like eating white bread.
You have just stumbled onto the cause of our obesity epidemic while kind of trying to the opposite.
We don't need GMO crops to avoid starvation for anyone. That's just a total bullshit narrative. The West grows much more food than it can eat and wastes most of it at every step in the supply chain.
GMO crops mainly make your Twinkies and Mountain Dew cheaper.
I also get a chuckle out of the hysterics here over the nutrition content of rice. Most rice is processed in a manner that removes any significant vitamin/mineral content.
> I'm gonna need some references, if I'm gonna buy that...
The liberal narrative about Trump trashing MS-13.
> Holy shit slashdot is full of idiots.
Your self awareness is remarkable.
Actually, it's fucking brilliant. Sauce for the goose. In declaring Trump's part of twitter a government forum in order to ban Trump blocking people they have also created the argument for preventing Twitter itself from doing the same.
As soon as someone's speech is declared "political", it becomes a bit of a sacred cow. Rules suddenly change (get overridden) to favor protecting the speech in question.
This same rule would apply to any politician on any service.
Not that the S/N ratio on those are great to begin with. Trolls abound.
Amazon has to manage to get competitive before they can be a threat to anyone. The media lays on the hype like they are trying to make this happen. It's like the last presidential election.
Amazon Fresh selection sucks. Whole Foods prices suck even with all of these discounts.
There are no less than 4 chains that sell groceries around here that leave Whole Amazon in the dust. If I want to drive a little there are speciality or upscale grocers that make it absolutely no contest.
> You can't compare Whole Foods' organic
Sure you can. It's the same stuff. These are commodities. Whole Foods doesn't have a monopoly on any of this stuff.
You seem to be one of those morons that thinks it's a good idea to try and impress total strangers with how much money you waste.
> and have since overtaken the US in terms of economic mobility
That's fucking hilarious.
In Europe you top out at a level of material prosperity that Americans would find unacceptable. You have ZERO possibility for building wealth in Europe. There is no "economic mobility" in Europe.
> Workers in unionized companies make 2-3 times minimum wage
That's funny. I remember when grocery workers were unionized. They didn't make anywhere near double.
What you make as a low skilled person is more likely to be a reflection of how much effort you put into the job search and whether or not you looked past the large corporate franchise operation on the next corner.