PavelPod

PavelPod t1_je98908 wrote

Reply to comment by nagmay in ELI5: What is Universal Healthcare by Thegreatcornholio459

That is incorrect information. Firefighters, police, road maintenance and public schools are regulated and maintained by local governments- state and primarily town. Military is shared between federal and state.

There are many towns in US without police departments. There are many towns in US that have only volunteered firefighters or no firefighters at all. There are US towns with worlds worst schools, with worlds best schools and without schools at all- and kids go to schools in nearby towns.

Truly universal services would mean- no matter how much you pay you get approx the same public service quality. In case of US- you live in poor town - you get poor service.

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PavelPod t1_jdunpdo wrote

Reply to From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans by jrdjared

All who live outside US believe:

  • 95% of US population own multiple guns
  • 95% of US population live in a mix of Texas, Alabama and Florida
  • Americans eat only cheap and ugly burgers and drink cola
  • newborns get a car (and a gun) right in a hospital
  • no one has medical insurance and people go bankrupt right after first visit to hospital
  • everyone has a lawyer
  • doctors and dentists fly their own jets and own mansions
  • IT folks (developers, engineers) work from beaches 2 hours a day and have 7 digit salary
  • there is no vacation
  • everybody work 80 hours week
  • police randomly shoot people. Each cop needs to shoot at least 5 citizens every day

,and so on and so forth… I’ve heard so much nonsense from folks abroad about US…

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PavelPod t1_j3ors14 wrote

Reply to I'm a native to Massachusetts and I love the state, but I really wish many of my fellow Massholes stop degrading people from certain states we may not like. by BoringAccountName78

It’s typical tribalism and labeling.

Tribalism makes those people put them-alike above others.

Labeling makes them wash the humanity of other people and mark/group them using some nasty word, e.g. some lefts calling some rights - “nazi” and rights responding with “commies”. Fun fact- in both cases most don’t understand the meaning of the word they use and when questioned why they call those ppl like this quickly get lost.

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