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platzapS posted:The United States doesn't use metric except for soda bottles and drugs. what is best in life
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platzapS posted:In the US stores don't include sales tax in the list price so you have to mentally keep track yourself. get yourselves some god drat consumer protection!
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Dec 20, 2017 13:22
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In the US everybody has to calculate their own taxes and then submit them, even though Internal Revenue could do that for most of us. (It's because Republicans want people to hate taxes, and tax preparation services don't want to lose business).
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get that OUT of my face posted:while i firmly believe this is true, i also don't appreciate when foreigners say that. especially brits who have zero room to talk confirmed https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/943449962872016897
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The US still has the death penalty, with at least 20 judicial murders a year.
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platzapS posted:In the US everybody has to calculate their own taxes and then submit them, even though Internal Revenue could do that for most of us. lmao I once got an unsolicited £200 cheque from HMRC for tax overpayment on my princely sandwich artist income
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Dec 20, 2017 13:25
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May 1st? That's Loyalty Day. Our Labor Day is on October 3, and it's balanced out with Boss's Day on October 16.
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:lmao I once got an unsolicited £200 cheque from HMRC for tax overpayment on my princely sandwich artist income they sent me a £580 tax rebate twice once
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In the US a whole city (Flint, Michigan) was found to be drinking lead-poisoned water. This got a bit of coverage during the Democratic Party primary. Many US citizens in our territory (colony), Puerto Rico, have been without power since October. This is not considered a pressing issue.
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Dec 20, 2017 13:42
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On the plus side we have birthright citizenship (if you're born here, you're an American baby!) and some US states currently have the most liberal marijuana laws in the world.
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Other states still hold people in prison for marijuana-related crimes.
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We've also got canyons so majestic they can only be described as "Grand". Mostly-black prisoners in Louisiana still pick cotton by hand, overseen by guards on horseback.
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Dec 20, 2017 14:07
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Sick people in America have to literally crowd fund their own life-saving operations because the government won't pay to keep them alive.
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In the US, debit card purchases require a 4-digit PIN but with credit card purchases we just trust you.
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platzapS posted:In the US a whole city (Flint, Michigan) was found to be drinking lead-poisoned water. This got a bit of coverage during the Democratic Party primary. Lol if you think it's only Flint that drinks lead every day
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it's more like 16 whole cities and several hundred entire towns
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platzapS posted:May 1st? That's Loyalty Day. Our Labor Day is on October 3, and it's balanced out with Boss's Day on October 16. Labor Daybor is in September, my droog.
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platzapS posted:Other states still hold people in prison for marijuana-related crimes. the states that have legalized recreational marijuana still hold people in prison for drug activity that would be completely legal if it took place today they could commute these sentences or pardon them but the slave labor earns the state, the private prisons that house them, and the corporations who exploit them a ton of money
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platzapS posted:The United States doesn't use metric except for soda bottles and drugs. So... The important poo poo?
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we have perfectly legitimate elections, this isn't a failed state, we swearVox Nihili posted:https://t.co/oyCWQrAyfI
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jBrereton posted:get yourselves some god drat consumer protection! Look at this loving communist
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Are US online banks useful for anything other than seeing your account balance yet? I remember some good lols when I tried finding my Chase account number online and they censored half of it for some reason. Transferring money to other people was like a whole days undertaking.
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usa is a 3rd world country but 1st in my heart i need a transplant and they banned my gofundme
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platzapS posted:Mostly-black prisoners in Louisiana still pick cotton by hand, overseen by guards on horseback. and slavery is over, as is racism
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Dec 21, 2017 01:41
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the bitcoin of weed posted:america is a land of contrasts You spelled contracts wrong
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we just gave complete control over the internet to like four cable companies with regional monopolies
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ummmmmm EXCUSE ME but what other country can you find: - amber waves of grain - purple mountain majesties - fruited plains - a small town girl livin in a lonely world - a city boy, born and raised in south detroit - juggalos
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ScrubLeague posted:we just gave complete control over the internet to like four cable companies with regional monopolies it's ok they promised
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a helpful bear posted:ummmmmm EXCUSE ME Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh South Detroit is Canada
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https://splinternews.com/time-to-make-life-hard-for-the-rich-1821384779quote:Violence against people is morally wrong and a bad way to solve problems. But capital is different. One thing that would help to create the political environment conducive to solving the inequality problem would be to make the cost of accumulating all that capital too high to be worth it. In other words, to create a downside to being too rich. I have personally stood in a room full of hedge fund titans and billionaire investors warning one another explicitly that inequality must be addressed lest the U.S. become a place like Latin America, where rich people are forced to live behind walls, surrounded by armed guards, because of the very real risks from the rage of the poor. Rich people in this country do not want to live like that. If they see that they must stop being so greedy in order to enjoy their own freedom, they will stop being so greedy. Those conditions have to be created by people who want justice. quote:THANK YOU. Many years ago, I lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, which had at the time (and continues to maintain) a fearsome reputation for violent crime which put it in a league with places like Kabul or Bogota. I rented a cottage in Parktown, a leafy near-north suburb, which was on the estate of an Afrkaaner doctor. It was a really nice place, big pool, multiple gardeners, maids, everything, but it was also only blocks away from Hillbrow, Berea, Yeoville and some other really blighted places that could’ve been on another continent, the disparity in wealth was so huge. Just a few miles away in Alex there are miles and miles of shanties that wash away in the rain. The entire compound was surrounded by an 8' brick wall topped with razor wire. Every night you could hear gunshots, lots of them, ringing out; apparently Joburg was at the time the go-to location for trauma surgeons who want to get the very best training in treating gunshot victims, and I wouldn’t be surprised.
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you can't overthrow america
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american more like ameriCANT
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jBrereton posted:how is this legal lol americans are so throughly abused by capitalism into mercenary behavior that if it were required to list taxes on the sticker price individual localities would compete to slash sales and local taxes to attract businesses and consumers the way carribean countries with 200 citizens cut corporate taxes to attract corporations looking for tax havens I mean, they already do this but they would do it more is the point
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American voters by and large make their political decisions based on what they'll want when they're rich, despite the entire capitalist society existing to prevent new entrants into the ranks of the rich.
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you can only think america is a third world country if youve never actually been to one
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:you can only think america is a third world country if youve never actually been to one As someone who has lived in a third-world country all their life, the OP is right
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gradenko_2000 posted:As someone who has lived in a third-world country all their life, the OP is right outside of a few especially poor regional outliers like the border, reservations, appalachia and the delta its not comparable to even middle income countries if were actually being serious
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i've lived in rural georgia and suburban and rural texas so i think i'm right in agreeing with op also
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really we just live in neoliberal hell world
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and ive spent the last two years in cambodia, laos, philippines, and other impoverished countries and frankly pretending we face any of the relative challenges and poverty people in most of the "third world" do is an insult. if you actually look at our very, very poorest regions their situation is comparable to upper middle income countries like Mexico.
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