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by ben_w 13 days ago
> Side note, UK police harass people for 'non-crime hate incidents' and put people on terror lists for being critical of protected ideologies.

The US has recently declared being "anti-fascist" as a terror organisation. Bonus points: antifa isn't even an organisation.

> Judges give longer sentences for mean tweets than hoarding child pornography or months long torture and rape of children.

Citation needed.

> More euros die of heat stroke than Americans die from gun violence.

Yes, gun violence is grossly overrepresented in the fears of most people, compared to how big the risks actually are.

And yet, the life expectancy in the US (79.3) is younger than EU as a whole (81.7), and also in the UK (81.3).

> Edit: NHS waitlists are double digit months to years. You have one of the worst birthing outcomes in the OECD. You have relatively poor cancer treatment outcomes

Given the US has the lower life expectancy, this is unfortunate… for you, not for everyone else.

Also, for birthing outcomes, the phrase "throwing stones in glass houses" comes to mind:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?time=2001...