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Religiosity is dropping in every developed country except the USA. Jesus and guns baby!

Republicans are not pro-life, they are anti-woman. All the laws to protect a fetus, but once it's born, no assistance for health care, education, childcare etc. The great George Carlin once said, "Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers".

To be fair, this is also happening in European countries.

What is wrong with women’s breasts/nipples? People celebrate the AR-15 but demonize women’s breasts. Why???

Yep.

USA and NZ are the only western countries that allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing.

Or... the voters are even dumber. Our education system is pretty terrible.

I think you mean 8% discount.

To be fair, the whole US electoral system with it's heavy emphasis on the President rather than the party is weird.

We already have restrictions on arms. You can't walk into a Walmart and buy an M60 machine gun because they are classified as a "weapon of mass destruction". All most of us want is for assault rifles to be classed the same way. It's not a huge thing to ask and it was done before in 1994 with the assault weapons ban.

Funny thing though! Those who hate immigrants are, like it or not, known as 'anchor-children' of immigrants who fleed whatever country they left behind. Now, the only people who can express their discomfort are the Native American-Indians. Don't believe me? Look for the YT video: 'Native American confronts anti illegal protesters' Just look an listen

With stupid high deductibles that a healthy person will never reach so basically Americans are being forced to pay outrageously high rates for nothing more than major medical and if you're lucky, one wellness visit each year.

Even in drug raids. Get the money before the people.

We're exhausted by it as well. Just pay a living wage!

Well, the Puritans were quite a sexually-repressed, violent group of people. They did not hesitate to use violence to "carry out God's plan", whatever they happened to think that was: assaulting and tormenting old women they thought were witches, burning Native Americans alive, persecuting Quakers, etc. They'd fit right in with today's GOP.

Yep! U can legally murder people for ur "country" and (supposedly) vote who will run it, but not capable of deciding if u should smoke or drink

In other countries guns serve a purpose, from sport to guerrilla warfare, but it seems in the US they are owned to feed the fantasy of the owner one day getting into a shoot out like in the films.

Big pharma calls the shots and the government has never had the courage to stop them.

You haven't seen kpop, cpop and jpop stans ( or stans of pretty much any asian celebs). Before anyone calls me out for 'racism', I'm asian.

A 2% charge on our taxable income gives us 'Universal Healthcare' here... I didn't realise we were an 'Evil Communist Country' Doesn't feel like it, feels more like the freedom country Americans shout about but don't have.

Poor folk in the US have to buy shelf-stable high calorie food. Lots of pasta, bread, canned food. Often theylive in food deserts where they have to travel long distances (not easy if you’re poor and there’s no public transport) to get to any kind of decent grocery store. Plus added sugar in everything. Please don’t judge too harshly. The stupids are drowning everyone who want to make things better.

I see too many giant trucks, they don’t even look good

Of course, because all children are exposed to death and bloody violence from the moment of birth and never, ever see a woman's breast. Obviously, I mean how could they? It's not like women's breasts feed babies, is it? (who, me, sarcastic? Never!)

I usually have to get to-go boxes, once at a restaurant I got a burger and a salad and I was already almost full by the time I finished my salad since it was so big and I had to take the burger home

Fructose/corn syrup in way too many foods

Please don’t say “they” like it’s all of us

"But I've never thought they would eat MY face!" cried the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.

I can't watch sports in Australia any more. The amount of gambling ads just make it unwatchable.

This isn't just endemic to the US. Doesn't Japan have the same issue?

Not necessarily just 'misunderstanding ' it, also being taught only certain aspects and having some parts being left out.

Umm Alizée is not American. This is a worldwide problem. P**s off

Countries where there is age appropriate sex and relationship education in schools and easy access to birth control have lower rates of sexually transmitted disease, lower rates of teen pregnancy, and older age at first intercourse. There's also data showing that in those countries, young people are more likely to report that they felt emotionally happier and content about their first sexual experience.

I feel like people care a little bit too much about sports anyway

I think we're talking news media here, not people. The news American media reacts violently to the smallest provocation.

And the list of side effects goes on and on

Let's just call it what it actually is: Infant Male Genital Mutilation.

This. Mutilating baby boys in the first weeks of their life, cruelty and human right issue if you I ask me

Honestly this one makes me sad, can you imagine if we mutilated our little girls? But somehow it’s okay to mutilate our little boys!!!!

I get the voices against circumcision, but hear me out, please. I worked at a daycare many years ago. I worked with the 1-year-olds, 99% of them in diapers. I would come in after naptime change diapers and continue with these kids until their parents picked them up in the evening. So I get this one boy up on the changing table and take off his soiled diaper and think I see a cotton ball stuck to the end of his uncircumcised penis. I tried to gently wipe it away with a baby wipe. Nope, that wasn't a cotton ball it was either a bacterial or yeast infection so terribly bad inside the foreskin that it was blooming out. Of course, I immediately called in my manager for her to see and take the reins on dealing with the parents. I was barely 18 at the time. What I was told after the fact: Mom and Dad were in the middle of a horrific divorce, fighting over all 3 boys. Dad didn't know that that area needed to be cleaned differently than his own circumcised self and all 3 boys ...

Yeah in other countries people fight to get female genital mutilism out of their system and it will take so long. I am always glad I grew up without these genital mutilism habits being normal. But male genital mutilation should also not be normal. It should only be done in case there is a medical reason in my opinion.

They used to say it helped prevent prostate cancer but I believe that's been disproven

Probably goes back to when the Israelites/Jews were given the command to circumcise their babies. Somehow over the centuries leaders of Christendom pick upon that and applied circumcision to them.

The reason was a (now disproven) study about health benefits

Just as a reminder, even more horrific genital mutilation is done daily in nearly every country in the world to intersex infants born with ambiguous genitalia. Entirely unnecessary medically, it's done solely for cosmetic purposes, sometimes without even parental consent (not that that's sufficient excuse to mutilate an infant's genitals, mind, but doctors do at least get consent from parents before performing circumcision; ambiguous genitalia apparently makes you subhuman and unworthy of even that much in many cultures).

Yeah, and apparently it started in the Victorian days as a punishment for young boys being caught m@$turb@t!ing. It was thought the lack of foreskin would make it too painful, but as we all know, that clearly wasn't the case. Later on, doctors started realizing they could profit on it, that's apparently how it took off (I learned all this when I researched it, due to bring a Dane living in the US with a Nigerian wanting our children getting snipped. Thankfully we had daughters.........

I was born in 1964. Hospitals then would automatically circumcise babies unless specifically told not to. At the time it was believed to help men keep themselves clean and reduce the chance of infections later in life.

It's supposed to make it healthier for the baby by making it easier to keep clean. I wasn't asked if I wanted my son circumcised, they just did it.