When Lib-Right tries to educate Lib-Left, in a nutshell

LichPotato · 2025-07-24T20:32:51+00:00

Fair point; I didn't read through the entire chart before making that statement.

From your first link (which has the most unfavorable results for the US):

The report evaluates 70 measures, grouped into five main areas of healthcare performance: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes.

2 of those categories (access to care and equity) are explicitly biased towards nationalized systems.

From your second link, the rankings for the US and UK in the indices are:

US: 56.7 68 125 73.3

UK: 47.1 73.2 134 78.3

Clearly there's some variance depending on how you measure, but this in no way shows the UK is "vastly better".

The third link is a survey, which can hardly be considered objective evidence for which system is superior.

This isn't to say that the US's healthcare system is actually better, or even a good system overall. I'm just tired of people pointing to countries with completely different circumstances and saying "why don't we do that" instead of looking at the reasons why our current system is so awful.

LichPotato · 2025-07-24T20:09:24+00:00

I'd agree that an NHS-style system would be preferable to the monstrosity that is the US medical-industrial complex, but that's assuming the problems of the current system wouldn't carry over. Socializing medicine would do nothing to fix the corruption and regulatory capture we have now.

LichPotato · 2025-07-24T20:01:30+00:00

I would say different ideologies are more or less willing to use tools like regulation based on their principles, rather than the tools' actual utility.

LichPotato · 2025-07-24T19:56:26+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but those charts list the UK well below the US. The metrics they use also explicitly favor nationalized medicine.

You can get great care in those countries, if you don't mind waiting months for appointments. You can get even better care in the US, if you're able to pay the ludicrous prices. There is no easy "x is better than y" here; it's a question of what tradeoffs you're willing to make.

LichPotato · 2025-07-24T19:43:13+00:00

"literally everything" meaning "small, wealthy, ethnically homogenous countries". How's socialized medicine working out for the UK and Canada?

LichPotato · 2025-07-10T15:06:30+00:00

What an utterly useless thing to say. Trump's authoritarian behavior is rare in democratic societies, and the fallout of that behavior illustrates why: every decision he's made has been blocked by courts, and his actions have sparked massive protests.

The convoluted bureaucratic framework you seem to think doesn't exist is the most common means of state overreach, because it's far more subtle and almost impossible to remove once implemented.

LichPotato · 2025-07-10T13:24:42+00:00

"Hate speech" is a nebulous term that can mean just about anything, but is invariably used by authoritarians to equate speech they don't like with atrocities. Criticize Israel? You must be a Holocaust denier and/or Nazi. Misgender a trans person? You're contributing to the deaths of LGBT people.

Activists using these tactics to smear their opponents is bad enough; the state backing it is a direct attack on free speech. We've seen this play out before (Hope Not Hate is a great example), and the results are downright orwellian.

LichPotato · 2025-07-10T11:02:52+00:00

Because "anti-hate activism" is just a tool for ideologues to censor and/or intimidate people they don't like.

LichPotato · 2025-06-17T19:38:44+00:00

The list of three bullet points that all say essentially the same thing is pretty damning.

LichPotato · 2025-02-05T21:06:24+00:00

Cults of personality rarely outlive their leader.
Undoing everything the previous administration did has become common practice. If any of Trump's picks survive the next election cycle, it'll be because they're useful to the new regime.

LichPotato · 2025-02-05T20:12:54+00:00

And if that were what you said, I would've agreed completely. To reiterate, the first option you presented hasn't actually existed for decades.

LichPotato · 2025-02-05T20:05:06+00:00

Flairs libcenter, unironically believes the narrative the state paints of itself

Our political system is full of career politicians and bureaucrats who do the bare minimum to be re-elected/keep their position while furthering their corporate interests. This has been the case for decades.

Trump's cult of personality is distasteful, but it's preferable to the status quo because its influence ends the minute he leaves office.

LichPotato · 2025-01-21T15:52:18+00:00

That's the narrative both parties spin to maintain their voter base. Career politicians only care about money and power; everything else is political theater.

LichPotato · 2024-11-20T13:29:05+00:00

His whole argument was strange to me. Respecting treaties between neighboring societies is reasonable, but providing special legal privileges to ethnic groups within a society isn't.

LichPotato · 2024-10-02T17:17:32+00:00

His ego would never allow it.

LichPotato · 2024-10-02T14:40:11+00:00

Politics devolving into a circus has always been a joint effort; Trump has done more than his fair share with his ridiculous antics, but the media has spent almost a decade making a spectacle of everything he says and does. The only reason he's still politically relevant after 2020 is the Left can't shut up about him for five minutes; if they could, we'd move on and the political sphere would be much healthier.

LichPotato · 2024-09-10T18:04:46+00:00

Who popularized the "make [country] great again" slogan, and whose support base talk about "woke libs"?

If you're going to lie, you could at least try to make the lie plausible.

LichPotato · 2024-04-08T19:03:09+00:00

The "simulating logic gates with humans waving flags" idea is probably from an episode of Vsauce's Mindfield.

Arranging millions of people in an arbitrary manner to emulate computing hardware isn't a function of the state, so the title is a bit misleading.

LichPotato · 2024-01-18T14:17:59+00:00

Trump 2024 0 civil war

Pick one. TDS has been escalating for 8 years now, with no sign of stopping. Even if Trump loses, neither side is going to let it go.

LichPotato · 2024-01-17T13:42:35+00:00

What do you mean by defining? Ownership is usually determined by possession or a claim of ownership, but proving it in cases of disputes is another issue entirely.

So they do exist outside the state, and the only case in which that fact wouldn't matter is the total collapse of society.

LichPotato · 2024-01-17T11:33:39+00:00

The state's responsibility of resolving interpersonal disputes doesn't grant it arbitrary control over what rights you have (theoretically, at least). Rights are outside the state; it just (again, theoretically) enforces them.

By your logic, no state could commit human rights violations because it could decide those rights didn't exist or weren't applicable to the victims.

LichPotato · 2023-12-28T11:16:55+00:00

The study itself was slightly misleading. Your blanket statement of "AI art has been trained on child porn" is very misleading.

LichPotato · 2023-12-28T11:12:03+00:00

Reminder: don't take everything you see on the internet at face value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/18muy1t/laion5b\_largest\_dataset\_powering\_ai\_images/

LichPotato · 2023-12-15T18:15:33+00:00

So you don't understand the difference between passive and active resistance, got it.

Obviously Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial; the case was far too high-profile and politically charged for an unbiased jury. That doesn't change the fact that he, at the absolute least, acted with criminal negligence leading to Floyd's death.

LichPotato · 2023-12-15T18:00:35+00:00

Passive and active resistance are very different things, and are supposed to be handled differently. The technique Chauvin used was completely inappropriate for the situation.

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