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>The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy. Can you point to, say, the UK's constitutional right to bodily autonomy so I can compare? I
by drstewart 4y ago
>The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy.
Can you point to, say, the UK's constitutional right to bodily autonomy so I can compare? I assume that there will be one as not having a strong constitution guaranteeing these rights is massive internal oppression that is very scary. Also: speaking of the UK and taking away its citizens rights... ever hear of Brexit?
>Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe
Ukraine is not in Europe? Also, the original commenter claimed inflation were a result of war and pandemic. So does it affect people or not?
>What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.
I agree, the Europeans in this thread are bizarrely nationalistic. My sense is that there's a large contingent of political redditors in here.
- eertami 4y agoPeople are mostly just pointing out the very objective losses to quality of life in the US compared to Europe, which is a fair answer to the original question. And day to day quality of life has nothing to do with geopolitics for most people. US just simply ranks far lower than Central Europe and the Nordics in these measurements. A lot of it is just city planning and infrastructure.
- seibelj 4y agoNorway has 5 million people, insane gas reserves, is a monoculture of ethnically similar people, has basically no immigration to speak of, and owns 2% of every publicly traded country worth a damn. I can’t believe anyone would point to this country smaller than a single metro area of the USA as something that is replicable.
- Daishiman 4y agoOk, take Spain. Quality of life there is just substantially better than pretty much all of the US.
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- _-david-_ 4y agoCan you name a country who hasn't done bad things?
- guerrilla 4y agoCan you name another country that's done bad things to other countries for every year of its existence aside from a decade?
- _-david-_ 4y agoUK
- helloworld11 4y agoThe USSR. (I know, doesn't exist anymore) but I can't think of a single year of its existence in which it wasn't occupying, invading or repressing some subject foreign nationality or population in some way, usually many of them simultaneously.
- guerrilla 4y ago> is a monoculture of ethnically similar people, has basically no immigration to speak This isn't even true (immigration accounts for half of Norway's population growth) but let's take a more extreme example: Sweden, the country with 7th highest quality of life on planet Earth yet every 1 in 11 people is an immigrant. This single case proves your generalization wrong. Every 16th person is a first generation immigrant originating from outside of Europe. You seem completely ignorant of the fact that we took hundreds of times more immigrants per capita than any country on Earth yet we all dominate the fuck out of ALL of quality of live rankings.
- ipaddr 4y agoNorway's population grew under 50,000 which means they welcomed 20,000.. Cities like Toronto are welcoming 10 - 15 times more people from a much wider variety of places. The ethnicities in Norway are recorded as Norwegian 83.2%, other European 8.3%, other 8.5% Your vision of Norway and the numbers don't lineup. 92.9% of people are white..
- guerrilla 4y agoI think you misread what I said.
- hactually 4y agoTake a look at the Abortion Act 1967 if you're acting in good faith.