re: How the UK would rank as a 51st state

Is it really a surprise that an unarmed country would rank lower in gun deaths?

Now do stabbing.

most of the people chiming in here sound like my boomer mom who just visited me in calirado with the muslim talk and other countries have shitty healthcare. almost like y'all live in an echo chamber and are targeted as a gullible group with some low hanging fruit propaganda

Now let's see dental health.

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an echo chamber and are targeted as a gullible group with some low hanging fruit propaganda

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That's rich coming from someone who consumes nonstop liberal bullshite from the media, academia, and the entertainment industry.

Yes, as a concept.

I used to work with Brits and the delays for serious health issues or lack of coverage for drugs that someone on Medicaid in the US would receive was insane.

Cancer? You have to pay out of pocket or come to the states or you’ll probably die on a waiting list.

Heart Disease? Good luck.

Advanced/expensive drug needed for a disease? Denied or completely unavailable in the first place.

Broken arm? They do a good job (as long as you don’t need expensive surgical intervention)

As a British podcaster I watch puts it, “Britain is not a rich country. London is a rich city with a poor country attached to it”. All of the nations wealth is finance, and unlike the US , all of its financial interests are packed into one place.

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most of the people chiming in here sound like my boomer mom who just visited me in calirado with the muslim talk and other countries have shitty healthcare. almost like y'all live in an echo chamber and are targeted as a gullible group with some low hanging fruit propaganda

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Except it is absolutely a fact that the UK is strikingly poorer than the United States.

If you don’t believe me, drive from Hartlepool to Blackpool. It’s an economically run down basket case. Entire towns/villages living in public (council) housing and on govt aid, not working.

The UK has wealth in London and Essex and some other southern places.

Otherwise, it’s a dump

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It's almost like we know why their GDP and overall economy is shrinking, yet they continue to do more of the things that are destroying it (and their citizens quality of life).

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Bud their GDP is not shrinking.

This thread is funny. A bunch of dudes from the southern portions of the US, which is the poster child for dysfunction, making idiotic claims about the UK.