Aceticon

I can only comment on what I'm most familiar with.

I do hope there are places out there were people have better values than around here.

He's like a fucking chihuahua that barks at a random passerby on the street and then celebrates his "victory of making them leave" when that person simply doesn't give a shit and keeps walking.

I think merelly "spends more per-person" is nowhere strong enough to really illustrate how bad things are.

For example, the United States spends more than TWICE per-person in Healthcare than the United Kingdom.

In fact judging by this it spends almost twice as much as the European country which has a 69% higher GDP per-capita - Luxembourg.

And even with such much higher spending levels, based on this healthcare outcomes are actually worse.

Healthcare in the US is world-beating by a large marge in how spectacularly inneficient it is.

Trump wanted to fuck children but he couldn't go there to do it in person so he remotelly had them fucked in bulk.

If you don't think that's important enough to beat cancer research in getting funds then you're one of those people who doesn't want to make America great again.

/s

In a Universal healtcare system, there is a monetary incentive for the autorities to make laws and regulations to prevent disease - prevention is a lot cheaper than fixing things after the damage is done.

In a pure for profit healthcare system there is no such incentive for the autorities - in some ways, there might even be the opposite incentive, depending on the levels of Corruption and how much more profit the Healthcare sector can make if people are more sick: after all, when a country spends twice as much as a percentage of the GDP in Healthcare, that means there's a lot more money to be made in Healthcare, and private interests have an incentive to buy politicians and regulators to help them profit as much as possible.

Beyond this there is also the whole "doing what's best for our people" incentive, which is the US is so weak that it doesn't even apply to some obviously bad things (for example, easy availability of guns, which is definitelly bad for people's health) much less to more subtle pathways to damage people's health such as unhealthy food.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If nothing happens that society and its practices will never change and the pain will continue.

If the whole castle of cards collapses due to this, whilst it's a small consolation for the current slaves given the pain they'll endure, it's way more pain spared for would be future slaves.

Further, the scumbags will definitelly lose if the whole slave-using realestate-bubble empire whose value supports their wealth collapses back to nomads camel fucking in the desert.

Most Western (can't speak for the rest) societies aren't trully Civilized and were maybe never so - they're just a bit less uncivilized than early XX century and before.

Further, we seem to have been devolving of in the last decades, moving away from Humanist values and increasingly embracing sociopatic inclinations as "our" values (Greed is good, Might makes right, measuring the worth of a person by their possessions and so on).

If you're hosting some other country's military bases you're either its Ally or its Vassal.

I can understand why they do it, but none the less there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Shouldn't have been an ally of the US and Israel.

Number of captains who took his advice: 0

The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.

True.

The US is just even worse off in that regard because of the very high dependency (what I read in the Omnivore's Dilema was over 70%) of its food supply on hybrid corn.

That's mostly a problem for countries were almost the entire food base is directly (food, food products, high-fructose corn syrup) and indirectly (chicken and cattle feed) hybrid corn which cannot be grown without fertilizer (as the plant density is too high for normal land to be able to support), i.e. the United States.

Other countries won't suffer quite as much.