Oy, this thread. I've griped about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864151#12865128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864151#12865128 -

Oy, this thread. I've griped about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864151#12865128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864151#12865128 - we really need a snappy name for the "I know it works in every other country, but it can't possibly work in the US" argument-slash-fallacy. It's not inherently wrong and it can be true, but it's used so reflexively and across so many different domains (drug use, public transit, taxes, guns, health, voting, labor rights) that I have to think it's more of a thought-terminating-cliché to shut down any discussion of the topic than an honest attempt to find a solution. People just don't want to think about it, and it causes a ton of cognitive dissonance to see that a solution they politically dislike can work, so they jump to this.