A friend in the US told me: I cannot work more hours because I need to keep my income at specific range to be able to qualify for provisional or federal medical insurance.
This is so fucked up.
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Easy: destroying the world out of sheer stupidity and greed.
Pretending not to be American when travelling abroad.
Has it ever worked? ;-)
Yes. I was able to fake being Irish for a bit to a group of English folk. (It was just an alcohol induced joke at the time, s'all. They were either a few pints in or I did really well. Dunno.)
People are just people and there is probably a word or phrase for "gullible" in most languages.
With dentistry straight from the uncanny valley and inside voices that rival foghorns?
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Civil war
Whether or not weed is legal in their state.
Whether or not the government is going to be shut down that year.
Having moved from one to the other
- Health insurance (it's not perfect but it's something)
- Random shootings (they still happen but are not as endemic)
- Corn syrup in literally every food
- Having clean streets (particularly in cities)
For one, it being too fucking hot outside. School shootings. Probably some other stuff.
Medical bills and insurance.
Can confirm. You never know if the standard procedure will cost couple of hundred or thousands.
Starting a war, forgetting your gun somewhere and only having your spare one to work with, making the payment on your medical bills, remembering if the McRib is back, worrying that the exploited people who did all the things you don't feel like doing will be deported, and forgetting to tell the President "thank you" every day as a tribute to their brilliant leadership.
Freedom.
To me it lately sounds like Canadians do need to worry a bit about "freedom" being brought to them.
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Yep, we're free to pay up and fall in line, or fuck off and die. That's the choice. Also for too many there's no choice, you get both.
Freedom costs a buck oh five
Surprise medical bills; random shootings; a fascist dictator leading the country; the complete and entire erosion of the rule of law
~~leading~~ destroying
Ftfy
a fascist dictator leading the country; the complete and entire erosion of the rule of law
It's more relevant in the states right now, but this is something we should all worry about all the time.
To clarify for anyone who missed it:
Trump made a law that states that the president of the US is above the law.
This means that, even after the next election, he could remain president, since the laws that prevent this don’t apply to him. He could also just straight up shoot one in the streets and wouldn’t be able to be punished.
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I think we might need a book to answer that. A comment seems insufficient.
Having the most indecent & loudest loudmouths as their leaders.
Other countries have this problem. Well, now that I think of it, it's mostly just the UK. Wonder where the US got it from lol
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