He means Austin, TX.
And just in case you missed this the first time: So You Want To Believe The So-Called 'Experts'? in [Market-Ticker]
He means Austin, TX.
And just in case you missed this the first time: So You Want To Believe The So-Called 'Experts'? in [Market-Ticker]
No Jovan, the UK coronavirus bill legislation expires in one year, hardly anyone is wearing masks outside, the vaccination refusal rate is high, many defy the order in areas they are told to wear a mask and thousands of people are still going on holiday in the UK thus circumnavigating the travel restrictions by booking appointments to view a property for intended purchase abroad which they never intend to attend.
What IS closed indefinitely are the lives of your many, many murder victims and all abortion clinics in Alabama. Cool.
Just so's you'll know, we will not let this thread drift into abortion. Stop right now.
Yes, the USA sure is an obese, sorry, large country.
Ah, freedom.
Said every murdered person who thought their chance of being murdered was miniscule.
So your argument is “estimates” about rapes that never went to court, thus aren’t even proven rapes? Yes, your numbers sure are fun.
Yes, I also wonder who is committing these guessed “crime” numbers that never even made it to court, thus are not “crimes”. The hard truth of the matter is that the vast majority of rape cases quite rightly don’t make it to court because the evidence is usually either seriously flawed or fabricated by the alleged victims.
Just like the millions of guns which account for the vast majority of the USA’s comparatively high homicide rate didn’t help too much with said murder rate. We are where we are.
Robin, if you or anyone else thinks this is about finding cute ways to circumvent these "temporary" restrictions, and not wear a mask, or avoid the £5000 foreign vacation fine, you've got another think coming. This expansion of the surveillance state and the whole vaccine ID system has absolutely nothing to do with a gay little virus. It's the blueprint for what's coming next, they have tested our compliance, and we've already demonstrate we are at best ambivalent about it it all and we've accepted being "under lockdown" (a term reserved for prisoners in jail) with a typically British blitz-spirit stiff upper lip. The fact you seem quite proud about us plucky Brits finding creative ways to flout "the restrictions" shows that you have been psychologically conditioned already.
The UK is objectively worse than the US in many ways.
Jenni's right, It IS being Islam-ified. Ethnically European Brits are set to be a minority by ~2060. However, the "Islamists" are not the ones who began or continued this process of mass immigration. Neither are "The communists" to blame. The CONSERVATIVE UK gov just issued it's second Sharia-compliant bond, a Sukuk, to the tune of £500 million. "increasing the supply of high-quality Sharia compliant, liquid assets to the market and supporting the development of Islamic finance products in the UK." The CONVERSATIVE government is also responsible for the biggest influx of non-European LEGAL migrants, ever, on record.
There ARE no-go areas in the UK. Relatively small (but ever expanding) pockets of our towns and cities at the moment, I'll grant you, but if you are white and hang around there long enough you will get hurt. You're not allowed to arm yourself, of course, and when you call the cops you might be lucky enough to have two big lads arrived in a squad car, but more than likely, you're going to get two dumpy, 5'3" ladies panicking and LARPing as policemen, and who have come straight from diversity and inclusion training.
It's admirable you want to defend our nation, but the UK is in a terrible situation. Not to get into a debate about it, but we don't need any more fucking abortion either. We need things which incentivize Brits to start families and have as many babies as humanly possible. We don't need to get into a competition with the US about who can introduce the most destructive, dysgenic liberal policies in order to further reduce the native birth-rate. Mo and his wife just had their 6th kid, and your tax £ funded them. Wake up mate.
My first dose of the Moderna vaccine caused my arm to be pretty sore, and the soreness lasted a couple days, although I had some impairment in my lifts for about a week afterwards. My right shoulder started to give me some issues in the gym over the next month, but it wasn't enough to limit my training. When I got the second dose, I became ill for 24 hours and the soreness in the arm was impressive. My shoulder looked like someone transplanted some biscuit dough subcutaneously on top of the deltoid. This was on top of the rash I had since the initial dose. The pain lasted about 24 hours with residual soreness that lingered. Now, almost two months later, my bench has gone down almost 40# and I have a 75% supraspinatus tear and I've never had shoulder complaints previously.
I doubt very seriously that the vaccine had anything at all to do with the rotator cuff tear and this is just a coincidence with great timing, but, damn, I liked where my bench press was prior to the vaccine.
What exactly is "freedom"? I'd argue that in many ways (i.e., pragmatic ways), European countries have more of it--certainly if you define "freedom" as the ability to do what you'd like to do (especially if what you want to do falls within the common case). Examples include the obvious ones: access to medical care/education/transportation.
Europeans are even free of having the IRS follow them to every single country that they live in and continue to tax them even if they're non-resident in the USA--a privilege only oh-so-free Americans seem to enjoy.
Many European males even enjoy the freedom of an intact, unmutilated body: some European countries have banned the practice of male circumcision (e.g., Iceland) whereas in others it's not illegal per-se (although wide-spread support to ban it exists in many European countries), but physicians will not perform the procedure and it isn't covered by the medical system. The same can certainly not be said for America. Many of you would probably say that this is less free: there are systems in place that dictate what parents can and cannot do to their children. I would say it's more free: there are systems in place that protect your body so that you may have the freedom of being free from mutilation.
"Freedom" shouldn't be measured by how much you and your compatriots exalt some murky concept written in the constitution--it should be measured pragmatically, and in my view, that pragmatic measurement is the ability to do what you want to do in life (and the opportunities to do so). This pragmatic measurement of freedom often has many European countries coming out ahead.
The murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the USA was 4.96 in 2018. [1] That is--considering no other factors that would probably significantly lower this probability for you as an individual--you had a 0.00496% chance of being murdered. Over a lifetime of 80 years, your probability of being murdered is (1 - (1-4.96*10^(-5))^80)*100 = 0.4%.
This is unfortunately higher than many countries, but half a percent chance is probably not something
to go crazy over. (If you were to adjust this with information including socioeconomic status, race, location, etc, the probability would almost certainly decrease universally for members of this forum.)
In comparison, the fatality rate of COVID-19 is 168 per 100,000 inhabitants in the USA. [2] So your probability of dying from COVID-19 is roughly 34 times higher. It's awfully ironic that the attitude in this thread often amounts to "COVID-19 is a scamdemic and your probability of dying from it is essentially zero," yet the very people who are saying that then go on to say how they're buying guns and getting conceal carry permits to protect themselves:
where we can reasonably infer that the probability that a gun will save your life is extremely small (since your probability of being murdered is already very small). And yes--I understand your objections. People dying from COVID had pre-existing conditions; they were going to die anyway. Yada yada. That's not the point. The point is that concern over being murdered and concern from dying from COVID-19 are equally silly since the probability of either happening is small enough to not be worthwhile to attempt to minimize. There are plenty of other things that are far more probable that you can optimize instead.
What I'm saying is this: shut the fuck up about your "views" and "values" (which you probably only have by happenstance of being born where you were born and not somewhere else--it seems so silly to hold on to something so capricious, so vehemently), be more pragmatic, and live a local existence instead of arguing about all this bullshit that doesn't affect you anyway.
[1] List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia
[2] Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
You might need that land to build prisons for all your murderers and for the offspring of raped women who aren’t allowed to have abortions in many states. Nice freedoms...
...but Syria ISN’T in Europe, it’s in Asia while Maine IS part of the United Staes of America. And if you shifted the silly make-believe map north a little, Sweden, Finland and Norway would be included instead of Syria and Turkey with their high murder rates. And by the way, the UK has left the European Union now re. Brexit while the USA is still chain ganged to Federal Law and allows fraudulent elections to determine their Presidency. Cool freedoms...
Why? Because certain relevant facts and truths hurt peoples’ feelings or damages their fundamental arguments about freedom? Smells cowardice to me...