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Your medical system treats people as beasts. On world good, there are many other countries who contribute to world good as much as the US. As a Canadian, my imp

by tensor 9y ago

Your medical system treats people as beasts. On world good, there are many other countries who contribute to world good as much as the US. As a Canadian, my impression is that most of the US genuinely only cares for themselves and has an over inflated ego. I'd sooner see resources poured into countries that really give a damn about the world.

RhodesianHunter 9y ago
> I'd sooner see resources poured into Countries that really give a damn about the world. Lucky for you, you are free to spend your money where you please.
adventured 9y ago
> On world good, there are many other countries who contribute to world good as much as the US. As a Canadian, my impression is that most of the US genuinely only cares for themselves and has an over inflated ego. No, very measurably there is not in fact. According to Bill Gates - who I guarantee knows more on the subject than you do - the US is by far the greatest contributor to: general global aid, global medical aid, global medical research, and public health research, with (again per Gates) the NIH and its connected branches representing over half of the world's public health research. Americans for over a century have been by far the world's most charitable people. That isn't even something up for dispute, it has been universally recognized in the charity world for half a century at this point. US tax dollars are currently keeping millions of people in Africa alive. America's richest routinely give away all of their wealth (frequently to the poor outside of the US); they're the only country in world history that has ever done anything even remotely that. From Rockefeller & Carnegie to Gates & Buffett. America's era of super power dominance has simultaneously been the most prosperous and safest the world has ever seen, with the fewest major wars. Famines are at record lows. Global poverty is at a record low. The global standard of living is at a record high. Global education levels are at record highs. The global median income has climbed dramatically over 4-5 decades. Germany, Japan, South Korea - three of the most prosperous, peaceful major nations in modern times, all kept safe and shepherded by the US over decades, including as it pertained to their government systems and defense. Those three are pillars of the global economy and important pillars of global political stability. Americans have kept South Korea safe for six decades from several communist regimes that desperately wanted to destroy it. Americans kept Western Europe safe from the Soviets marching further west after WW2. They did that for decades at extreme cost. They could have just gone home, West Germany would have collapsed, who knows where the Soviets would have stopped. Iraq? Shouldn't have gone in there. The US didn't take their oil, the US didn't annex their territory, and then the US proceeded to vaporize a trillion dollars and thousands of soldiers trying to keep the Iraqis from killing each other in civil war, the context of which dates back hundreds of years; and when they asked, the US left. What other empire has ever behaved like that? What other empire wouldn't have just tried to annex Japan, South Korea, and parts of Europe? For a century the US has had the world's wealthiest, largest economy, and for a century it has given more charitably than any other nation. What other empire has ever behaved like that? For 70 years the US has had by far the world's most powerful military, and yet it has annexed how much territory through military invasions and conquering in that time? What other empire has ever behaved like that?
- blhack 9y ago
  I wish everybody in the world could read this post. Seriously thank you for writing it. This really reminds me of something Christopher Hitchens would have written, somebody whose writing I miss dearly.

by tensor 9y ago

RhodesianHunter 9y ago

> I'd sooner see resources poured into Countries that really give a damn about the world. Lucky for you, you are free to spend your money where you please.

adventured 9y ago

> On world good, there are many other countries who contribute to world good as much as the US. As a Canadian, my impression is that most of the US genuinely only cares for themselves and has an over inflated ego. No, very measurably there is not in fact. According to Bill Gates - who I guarantee knows more on the subject than you do - the US is by far the greatest contributor to: general global aid, global medical aid, global medical research, and public health research, with (again per Gates) the NIH and its connected branches representing over half of the world's public health research. Americans for over a century have been by far the world's most charitable people. That isn't even something up for dispute, it has been universally recognized in the charity world for half a century at this point. US tax dollars are currently keeping millions of people in Africa alive. America's richest routinely give away all of their wealth (frequently to the poor outside of the US); they're the only country in world history that has ever done anything even remotely that. From Rockefeller & Carnegie to Gates & Buffett. America's era of super power dominance has simultaneously been the most prosperous and safest the world has ever seen, with the fewest major wars. Famines are at record lows. Global poverty is at a record low. The global standard of living is at a record high. Global education levels are at record highs. The global median income has climbed dramatically over 4-5 decades. Germany, Japan, South Korea - three of the most prosperous, peaceful major nations in modern times, all kept safe and shepherded by the US over decades, including as it pertained to their government systems and defense. Those three are pillars of the global economy and important pillars of global political stability. Americans have kept South Korea safe for six decades from several communist regimes that desperately wanted to destroy it. Americans kept Western Europe safe from the Soviets marching further west after WW2. They did that for decades at extreme cost. They could have just gone home, West Germany would have collapsed, who knows where the Soviets would have stopped. Iraq? Shouldn't have gone in there. The US didn't take their oil, the US didn't annex their territory, and then the US proceeded to vaporize a trillion dollars and thousands of soldiers trying to keep the Iraqis from killing each other in civil war, the context of which dates back hundreds of years; and when they asked, the US left. What other empire has ever behaved like that? What other empire wouldn't have just tried to annex Japan, South Korea, and parts of Europe? For a century the US has had the world's wealthiest, largest economy, and for a century it has given more charitably than any other nation. What other empire has ever behaved like that? For 70 years the US has had by far the world's most powerful military, and yet it has annexed how much territory through military invasions and conquering in that time? What other empire has ever behaved like that?

blhack 9y ago
I wish everybody in the world could read this post. Seriously thank you for writing it. This really reminds me of something Christopher Hitchens would have written, somebody whose writing I miss dearly.