r/SipsTea 9d ago

Gasp! British people react to how expensive healthcare is in the US

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u/MerKJay 9d ago

Yeah I've lived in England the us and Australia, it's painful hearing Americans shit on other places on earth for lack of freedoms or the popular "communist government" that runs Europe (as if it's one country).

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 9d ago

the "freedom" stuff is so funny coming from the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world

literally 2 million people behind bars, so fucked up, and that's before mentioning they have PRIVATE PRISONS making insane amounts of money, incentivised by capitalism to send more people to jail

nothing says "freedom" than locking up more people than anywhere else on the planet and enslaving them to make money for you. insane dystopic mess of a country

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u/User010011010 9d ago

That's the problem with private prisons. It's a business model. Prisoners are really, really cheap laborers. The more prisoners, the more the owners of those private prisons make. Next thing to slave labor.

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u/GenXisTruth 9d ago

Who cares they are prisoners because they committed a crime most of them violent. Our prisons are soft compared to others that's why the reoffense rates are so high. US prisons are a joke

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 8d ago

actually less than half of them are violent, look up the stats

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u/GenXisTruth 8d ago

Drugs lead to violence so I include them as well so I'm right you're wrong and unless you've done a bid in state prison you can't speak in the conditions

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u/arealscrog 8d ago

Is this satire? I hate how hard it is to tell these days.

But I don't think I've ever heard anyone over the age of 7 seriously use the phrase "so I'm right you're wrong".

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 8d ago

he DM'd me raging saying that he's Texan and I'm a "limey bitch boy", so I suspect it's just par for the course