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> The problem is so bad that I believe it should be considered a national state of emergency, and international embarrassment. Mate, pick a number ... --- -

> The problem is so bad that I believe it should be considered a national state of emergency, and international embarrassment. Mate, pick a number ... --- - Highest incarceration rate in the world. - Highest percentage of obese people. - Highest divorce rate. - Highest rate of illegal drug selling. - Most car thefts per year. - Highest amount of rapes per year. - Highest amount of reported murders. - More police officers than anywhere else. - Spends more on healthcare than any other place in the world, which is completely bonkers considering what's offered. - More people taking drugs, for whatever reason, than anywhere else. - Student loan debt. - The vast majority of all pornography comes from the US. - Bad literacy rate. - A military budget exceeding many countries combined. - Over 90% of all media owned by a handful of people. - A military-industrial complex paying politicians to invent lies for war. - 50% of private and public schools teach Abstinence instead of actual sex education. --- ... and get in line. (not sure all of those are still accurate, but sadly it's most likely)

JSavageOne 5y ago
Eliminating easily preventable murders like this one should be considered higher priority than anything else. Divorce rate and obesity of course are issues, but to put them above murder? Come on.
thethirdone 5y ago
>(not sure all of those are still accurate, but sadly it's most likely) I felt the need to fact-check these because I felt they were not accurate. Below are the results of about 2 minutes per bulletpoint. > Highest incarceration rate in the world. True > Highest percentage of obese people. US is #12 > Highest divorce rate. US is #3 > Highest rate of illegal drug selling. Might be true. Not super easy to get numbers on this. > Most car thefts per year. US is #11 per capita. Probably #1 in raw cases, but that data was not super easy to find. > Highest amount of rapes per year. True, but per capita like #12 > Highest amount of reported murders. Per capita nowhere close to true. Raw numbers #6 > More police officers than anywhere else. Not true at all per capita or raw. > Spends more on healthcare than any other place in the world, which is completely bonkers considering what's offered. Just true. > More people taking drugs, for whatever reason, than anywhere else. See above drug selling. I couldn't actually find stats that specifically distinguish the two. > Student loan debt. True > The vast majority of all pornography comes from the US. US does about a quarter of all pornography, but has a much higher gdp than other countries producing porn. UK produces about twice as much porn per gdp. > Bad literacy rate. US has a literacy rate of 99%. I would not call that bad. > A military budget exceeding many countries combined. True > Over 90% of all media owned by a handful of people. > A military-industrial complex paying politicians to invent lies for war. Not sure how to fact check either of these > 50% of private and public schools teach Abstinence instead of actual sex education. It's hard to find hard numbers for this. Abstinence is taught as the most effective method of preventing pregnancies and STDs, but other sex ed is present (often in addition to abstinence) in at least 60% of schools. So I would say this is not true because of the "instead"
- MrYellowP 5y ago
  Thanks, mate! Sorry for not putting the effort into it myself. At some point in time they all were true, so at least it's not as bad as completely made-up claims. Oh and, regarding literacy rate... 88% and that doesn't mean they're all good readers. https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20for%20adults%20across%20the%20U.S.%20averages%2088%25 https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/#:~:text=The...

JSavageOne 5y ago

Eliminating easily preventable murders like this one should be considered higher priority than anything else. Divorce rate and obesity of course are issues, but to put them above murder? Come on.

thethirdone 5y ago

>(not sure all of those are still accurate, but sadly it's most likely) I felt the need to fact-check these because I felt they were not accurate. Below are the results of about 2 minutes per bulletpoint. > Highest incarceration rate in the world. True > Highest percentage of obese people. US is #12 > Highest divorce rate. US is #3 > Highest rate of illegal drug selling. Might be true. Not super easy to get numbers on this. > Most car thefts per year. US is #11 per capita. Probably #1 in raw cases, but that data was not super easy to find. > Highest amount of rapes per year. True, but per capita like #12 > Highest amount of reported murders. Per capita nowhere close to true. Raw numbers #6 > More police officers than anywhere else. Not true at all per capita or raw. > Spends more on healthcare than any other place in the world, which is completely bonkers considering what's offered. Just true. > More people taking drugs, for whatever reason, than anywhere else. See above drug selling. I couldn't actually find stats that specifically distinguish the two. > Student loan debt. True > The vast majority of all pornography comes from the US. US does about a quarter of all pornography, but has a much higher gdp than other countries producing porn. UK produces about twice as much porn per gdp. > Bad literacy rate. US has a literacy rate of 99%. I would not call that bad. > A military budget exceeding many countries combined. True > Over 90% of all media owned by a handful of people. > A military-industrial complex paying politicians to invent lies for war. Not sure how to fact check either of these > 50% of private and public schools teach Abstinence instead of actual sex education. It's hard to find hard numbers for this. Abstinence is taught as the most effective method of preventing pregnancies and STDs, but other sex ed is present (often in addition to abstinence) in at least 60% of schools. So I would say this is not true because of the "instead"

MrYellowP 5y ago
Thanks, mate! Sorry for not putting the effort into it myself. At some point in time they all were true, so at least it's not as bad as completely made-up claims. Oh and, regarding literacy rate... 88% and that doesn't mean they're all good readers. https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20for%20adults%20across%20the%20U.S.%20averages%2088%25 https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/#:~:text=The...