slickgoat
@slickgoat@lemmy.world
- Comment on France. If you don’t run when the police charge at you, they will retreat. 1 week ago:
Obviously the French police have never met a French protester before.
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 week ago:
If course, you are also right to say that. Every generalisation is wrong.
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 week ago:
Ok, thanks for your question.
Ok, I’m not American, I’m Australian (getting that out of the way up front).
But… But, we are saturated with US culture, American social norms and politics. I could say with a large degree of confidence that an average Australian (or European) could pass a pop quiz on the United States probably better than an average American. This isn’t a boast, it’s a fact of life due to the relative size of our comparative social footprints.
So when I say that the US isn’t one country, but many, I’m not being facetious. Your federal system consists of a bunch of little fifedoms comparable with Germany in the 18th century. On the face of it, yes, you are, of course, ‘United’. In reality you guys seem fundamentally Balkanised.
Culturally, socially, religiously, and very much politically, you might as well have hard borders.
That’s what my casual one-liner meant to convey.
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 week ago:
And the US is?
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 week ago:
The US also wants it stopped.
In Australia. Our government’s bargaining over the price of pharmaceuticals under the PBS has caused massive pressure by big US drug companies. A great many drugs have their prices capped in this country. Trump’s boys have been jumping up and down threatening this and that for us to adopt a more lethal regime.
However, it was the same under Obama, so it’s the US system at fault not just the present adminstration.
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 week ago:
10 million, if true, it only a spit in the ocean. You guys really need to learn to stop blaming other countries for your continued social crisis.
The US is still the most wealthy country in the world. And it’s, I believe, the only Western country in the world without universal healthcare.
You already have the cash, you just need to decide to spend it in the right way. Every dollar you spend on other countries has a hook embedded in it, just like China does. Believe me, it’s not altruistic generosity.
- Comment on Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US 2 weeks ago:
Fox “News Stars”.
Americans have a very low bar in describing “stars”.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 1 month ago:
Possibly, but the OP was talking about sitting in a cafe, not brewing at home.
At a cafe you have overheads, staff, cleaning, etc. Plus the rising cost of beans. All I’m saying is that cafes can’t freeze the price of coffee to a past point in time because customers have a fixed idea of what a brew should cost.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 1 month ago:
Not to be that guy, but we have been under-paying for coffee for many years now. The price of beans kept going up, but customers were locked into what a cup of coffee should be and extremely price sensitive about addressing the reality.
A catch-up is underway all over the world.
Note. Not a cafe owner and I don’t have anything to do with coffee except drink it.
- Comment on Nigerian priest tries to part the sea like Mozes 2 months ago:
It was worth a shot.
I watched it to the end to see if he could do it. That’s where I am now.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 2 months ago:
I found out that when confronted with ID surveillance I don’t really want to visit that site after all.
Companies keep pushing security onto the user at the same time as demanding more personal data.
They can suck my…
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 3 months ago:
Depends upon the country. I believe that the US can, but not positive.
- Comment on Every fucking time 3 months ago:
That’s my life.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 months ago:
His early work was exceptionally good. Tommy knockers, Needful Things, Salem’s Lot, Misery, Stand By Me, were all pretty good. Not a fan of some of his latest stuff.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 months ago:
He was extremely coked out of his mind during those years.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 months ago:
Cocaine is a help of a drug…
- Comment on dyk 6 months ago:
You said dead people can’t consent. I said neither can shoes. Tell me the bit where I am wrong?
You have now added something about importance, on which I never commented.
- Comment on dyk 6 months ago:
Neither can shoes.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 7 months ago:
I never mentioned rot, I don’t think so anyway. Any bread I’ve ever had doesn’t look the same after 5 days.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 7 months ago:
That doesn’t explain the untarnished bun.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 11 months ago:
Well, it is a genius shop, or some shit…
- Comment on But why 11 months ago:
Yeah, King went through a rough patch that only got worse before it got better.
- Comment on But why 11 months ago:
To be fair, he was drowning in cocaine when writing that book, so he managed to keep the lid on it to the best of his abilities.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 1 year ago:
Interested in knowing the charge?
"Criminal misuse of light ", perhaps?
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 year ago:
Who gives a shit, pure Kabuki Theatre.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 1 year ago:
Okay Maga Hat.
- Comment on UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Suspect left New York City by bus, police say 1 year ago:
And hatless, repeat, hatless.
- Comment on steal his look 1 year ago:
Damn, this always happens to me when I don’t put me specs on?
- Comment on steal his look 1 year ago:
Maybe Bruce Wayne reversed his policy on forearms?
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 1 year ago:
He, ‘something, something’ and ‘found out’.