[SturgeonsLaw]

This is a perpetual source of bemusement for myself, a non-American, seeing arguments why x will never work because y, when it has been working quite well in other places for a while.

The worst offenders are threads on universal healthcare, particularly when claims like "America is too diverse for universal healthcare" are made, and upvoted, with few people stopping to consider both the implication and even the basic truth of the statement.

[Gravityloss]

Yeah, it's common in all countries.

During the second world war, when the Americans handed over aircraft carriers to the Brits, all the washing machines and ice cream machines had to be removed.

I'm sure there are some reasons to that. But it just makes one think what are the real reasons "why we can't have nice things"