Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager Episode 36 | Fireside Chat" video.

  1. "One of if not the most reviled country on the planet." First remotely accurate thing you have said. We are hated because of envy. Because our generosity shows you up. DP does not make mere assertions. He is making arguments and citing figures. You have not engaged his argument, you just want to kill him for proving his point.
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  2. "from any Brit's point of view" You should take a look at British views represented in these comment pages. "We have far superior brains when it comes to inventions" US grants about 30,000 patents a year, about half from foreign applicants https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm "Last year there were 5,037 patent applications to the EPO filed by British applicants, the highest number since 2011. However, the UK still lags behind many of its European neighbours when patent applications are counted per head of population." http://smallbusiness.co.uk/more-uk-companies-protecting-intellectual-property-year-on-year-2509711/ I don't attribute the difference to "American brains", but to a society more amenable to innovation, but then again, I'm not a racist. Yes, US education has declined since the 60s. The problem is public sector unions and the US federal Department of Education, 2 things which did not exist in the 60s. The solution is education vouchers, which conservatives support and leftists oppose (and eliminating public sector unions and the federal Department of Education). "The UK gives very generously too given the size of this island." Not bad. The UK gives .84% of it's gdp in private charitable giving, ranking seventh in the table coming in at just under half the US figure. Given the hundreds of countries counted, that is impressive. (Somehow, I doubt that you personally are among the generous.) US tops this figure at 1.85%, with Israel a close second at 1.35%. http://ccss.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/02/Comparative-data-Tables_2004_FORMATTED_2.2013.pdf Chart is on page 7. "America can afford to give generously being as you have looted Trillions from countries invaded for no reason whatsoever." I don't know where you're getting this notion. Make your slanders specific, so I can refute them. "The only thing that astonishes me is why the US has not been held accountable for war crimes? Then you have you're pathetic lust for guns. Mad world we live in, that is made all the madder by dumber Americans." [sic] If you are going to brag about your education and intelligence, you should avoid putting question marks at the end of sentences that aren't questions and abusing a contraction (FYI, that should be "your"). Now to the specifics. The US healthy enthusiasm for guns and gun ownership has served us well. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5712573/UK-is-violent-crime-capital-of-Europe.html While the US does rank somewhere in the 80s worldwide in per capita murders overall, which is high for a western country, the devil is in the details. Virtually all of these murders take place in certain Democrat dominated municipalities with strict gun control laws. Counties with the highest rate of gun ownership have the lowest crime rates. In the UK it is becoming more common for thieves to invade British homes when they know the occupants are home. Instead of sneaking around at night, or mugging people in the streets, they break in and get the combined haul of a burglary and a mugging in one job. Naturally, in a nation where gun ownership for self defense by private citizens is prohibited, they can count on 3 young strong men with clubs or knives being able to overpower whatever is waiting for them inside. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245417/Burglary-victims-attacked-home-30-minutes.html https://morethanjustsurviving.com/home-invasion-story/ https://pjmedia.com/blog/u-k-crime-statistics-hit-record-high/ https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131121221254AAanQAF This does not happen in the US for good and sufficient reason. In this area and most, we're doing it right and Europe is doing it wrong. We can, for instance, defend ourselves from Brits seeking to wrongfully hang us (original post).
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