What do you think of the US?

[scythe]

That's why we have judges, to interpret the intent of laws, and set precedent for other cases down the line. Convicting anyone of murder for a miscarriage would never happen in a country like the United States, even if a vaguely written law appears to open the door to that possibility.

[Trevor]

actually what they describe is a republic, as per the US being a democracy, a republic AND a constitutionalist country, yes there’s a very fine difference between all three of those things. The idea of even having a president at all is the republic piece of our structure. But you are right, if we didn’t have the electoral college, the government wouldn’t listen to any of the problems that farmers and natural resource harvesting folks have.

The issue really comes up tho when it’s like those areas start dictating what larger masses of populations are and aren’t allowed to do like for example when you make it illegal for gay people to marry and shit like that tho. Or when that 30% of people who don’t believe in climate change manage to get a climate change denialist into power and makes it harder for the 70% to fight climate change because their states make all their money off of coal mining and stuff

[scythe]

Without the private medical businesses in the US, all those countries, including my own, with affordable and "free" healthcare couldn't exist. Solving that situation, which places an unreasonable burden on US citizens who can't afford health insurance, is so complicated we'll probably have to wait for a quantum computer to do it for us.

[Mari]

@Scythe

Those are the same judges that marry children off to pedophiles, so allow me to be very doubtful that "It would never happen"

[scythe]

I agree with you on how messed up that is. Don't get me started on the system turning a blind eye to abuses in the name of religious freedom.. but I think when it comes to this specific issue, there'd have to be strong political and public will to lead to anything like women falling afoul of the law for natural miscarriages.

[Trevor]

the very reason those states are shitting out those bills now of all times is because Kavanaugh is in the Supreme Court, which means if anyone were to challenge those bills, chances are his right wing mind set will unravel the previous precedent in Roe v Wade or at least that’s the theory, better get use to him as well, he’s in the SC until he either leaves on his own accord or until he dies

[scythe]

I think you'll find we're full of surprises.

[Trevor]

i mean most of the movies you’ve ever seen will either come from Hollywood, or Bollywood, and i’m confident you’ve never heard of Bollywood before

in fact actually i saw someone post about the marvel movies in here earlier

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[Trevor]

ah lol yeah that sounds about right

[scythe]

It must be time to share this video again.

[vfinnigan]

Well, since many "first world" countries restrict abortion after 12 weeks....

[vfinnigan]

I chalk up a whole lot of inefficiency to too many MBA's playing MD's, interfering with providers' ability to do their jobs and patients' ability to receive care, and getting paid for it.

Do you know why I enjoy caring for private pay patients more than, say, my Medicare or Medicaid patients? It has nothing to do with the patients themselves, since I love them all. It has everything to do with people who aren't health care providers meddling in health care. When I have a private pay patient, I don't have to worry about getting in trouble for providing a service that's well within my scope of practice but isn't covered. What the patient needs, the patient gets, and gets it with the least interference.

Doctors' offices and medical clinics also love what we call prompt pay, because it bypasses a whole lot of middlemen. The providers get paid better, the patients get to pay less, and nobody has to fight with a bunch of guys in business suits to give or receive the care they need.

Honestly, I think we'd be better off if we limited insurance to catastrophic coverage.

[LT1986]

I feel blessed to live in the U.S., because it allows me to have certain rights that unfortunately aren't in other places. The negative part is that most of the people that I'm around keep the law but don't have morals or true empathy.

[baasinsimple]

The issue really comes up tho when it’s like those areas start dictating what larger masses of populations are and aren’t allowed to do like for example when you make it illegal for gay people to marry and shit like that tho.

Hence why I said this

brilliant system even if it's highly flawed, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and the US is already passed the population of Rome at it's height, so considering that, I'd say we've done a fair job in creating an outline. Now it's time to hammer out the details.

[charliesackett]

I'm from Canada.

I had a friend from Buffalo back in college and it was fascinating to watch how people would turn on her when they found out she was American.

The only thing Canada has going for it culturally is that we're not America, and apparently we're vicious about it.

[Mari]

Is it true you say the pledge in school every day? I've heard different accounts of this from my friends in the US. If it's true that's some North Korea shit bruh.

[Trevor]

ehh it’s really variable, some schools do it like once a week, others do it every day, my school use to not do it all until recently, and no one forces the students to say it either, or at least they shouldn’t be, certainly don’t force us to where I am lol.

But yeah, you don’t really have to say the pledge of allegiance if you don’t want to, there’s a psychological thing to it tho, you feel like you have to because you see a lot of other people doing it, it’s mob mentality, you don’t realize how many students don’t say it tho until you actually decide not to say it and then look around between all the standing students

its definitely not comparable to north korea, a place that’s so totalitarian that no one knows what their economy is like and their math textbooks talk about “American bastards”

[Mari]

I mean, it's still 100% creepy and brain-washy. It's pretty up there on the North Korea scale.

[Maps]

Me watching how this discuss rolls out about my country:

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