Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "American Things Europeans Find Weird" video.

  1. 1. Healthcare is a service. You pay for it. If you need help, it's from the charity of others, not the theft from others. 2. It's up to the individual how they choose to defend themselves. Gun laws need to go altogether. 3. It's up to the individual what they put in their bodies. Drinking laws need to go.
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  2. Paying for healthcare is going to happen. You just think that because it's called taxes, it's not paying.
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  3. Robo-Chu Games, you don't have to pay to live. You have to pay to get someone else to help you live. There is no obligation to anyone else to help you to live.
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  4. Elvin deSouza, I tend to take it personally when someone wants to infringe on the natural right of self defense from other people.
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  5. @Anna Moore Except for the fact that the government is literally mugging you. That's a bit unfair.
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  6. @Anna Moore Do you have a choice of whether or not you give them your money? What happens if you don't? They're mugging you. You just think it's somehow different because it's the government doing it.
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  7. Robo-Chu Games, I didn't say they could control it. You have to pay to have someone take care of you. We no longer live in a society where slavery is allowed.
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  8. Robo-Chu Games, England, the Dutch and Spanish would lose a discussion on slavery, not America. And expecting someone to work for you without pay is slavery.
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  9. Robo-Chu Games, no, your health service isn't slavery, it's theft. King George forced slavery on English colonies to ensure England maintained control of them, since your memory is short. If one of their colonies got out of line, they would promise freedom to slaves, whom they enslaved in the first place, for rebelling against the misbehaving colonists. The slave trade was started before the New World was even discovered by Europeans. Western Europe is a lot more racist today than the US.
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  10. DWPlays, forcing people to pay money or locking them up isn't theft in your book? That's an interesting view. Western Europe isn't less racist than the US -- not by far. That's just laughable that you think otherwise. And, yes, I know that Europe is a continent... A white continent. If you're black, you're going to have a hell of a time. King George I, II and III were all responsible for this practice regarding forced slavery. And, yeah, I agree America isn't free. Its leadership is trying to be too much like the authoritarian European leaders.
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  11. Robo-Chu Games, you have black friends do you? How quaint. "WE SOLD THE SLAVES TO YOU" And the taxes and tariffs to make slavery necessary to compete in the European market didn't have anything to do with people wanting to buy them, I'm sure. This is why after the US Revolutionary War, northern states either ended slavery immediately or phased it out. They weren't nearly as dependent on slavery like the southern colonies were.
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  12. Robo-Chu Games, is everyone in the UK so ignorant as you are? You seem so busy pointing the finger at the world's favorite scapegoat, America, while trying to keep your skeletons from busting down your closet door.
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  13. @Nuclear Pootis Yeah -- we have these laws -- because of control freaks like you that have a problem with people having freedom. When your argument is distilled down to, "That's just wrong," you've lost.
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  14. I'm curious what exactly it is that you find weird about guns and patriotism. The sugar thing can be explained by bad data science. Typically, you flavor foods with fat. It had become ubiquitous "knowledge" that eating fat makes you fat -- which is patently untrue. Taking out fat meant that you took out the flavor. The replacement was sugar and, in a lot of cases, high fructose corn syrup. This approach didn't work as sugar is far more calorie-loaded than fat and made it very easy to overconsume calories.
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  15. @Herman Willems Where have you learned that? Have you not learned that nationalism is a spectrum? If you appreciate your nation's history (and where you are today -- how you've overcome the bad and become better), your sovereignty, your way of doing things, and you're willing to defend it from threats to militarily force you to resign your sovereignty or otherwise threaten your way of life from the outside, you're a nationalist. On the other end of the spectrum is extreme nationalism that espouses superiority over other nations or only cares for its natural-born nationals. The former is a healthy and good sense of being, while the latter definitely leads to all of the things you fear.
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  16. Herman Willems, over 90% of the world believes in the supernatural in some aspect.
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  17. Vassi2k _, depends on the state.
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  18. @Nuclear Pootis Yeah, it's illegal to do underage drinking. I couldn't name one person who didn't do it to excess. And all you've accomplished is to create criminals out of ordinary kids. I'm on the side of unapologetic and staunch individual liberty. You start infringing on liberties without articulable and logically sound arguments based on objective morality based on natural rights, you just create criminals when there are none. When you create criminals where there were none, you've violated the very lives of the people whose rights you're meant to provide justice for infringements on. Current law would see a person's life ruined over a DUI, while I would have them provided with a ride home with a tow home for their vehicle and follow ups to help them choose better behaviors in the future. It's about promoting better behavior instead of punishing unwanted behavior.
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  19.  George Job  More like the fact that the government gives those employees food stamps so large businesses like that don't have to pay as much. Wal-Mart is an outlier. Most places pay well above minimum wage.
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  20.  George Job  Yeah, we have strict laws here too. She will still get discrimination there. Laws can't change people's hearts.
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  21.  @w.robinson6808  I'm sure you don't know any black folk that are treated differently in the Netherlands. I don't need to bring up Black Pete, do I? Here, a white person loses their job for darkening their face to dress up like a black person they admire, while there you literally have parades of literal blackface (i.e. exaggerating features for the purpose of mocking). Regarding your response to Lillyy, people have a right to defend themselves with whatever weapons they see fit.
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  22.  @ursuletul2001  We have a very robust system of free clinics and charity organizations.
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  23.  @lmao2351  Over half of US spending is on social security, medicare and medicaid. We spend about 20% of our total federal spending on defense, and I think that's a healthy amount. It's worth noting that if you're not in the US, you may not know that many things, like public education, is funded and managed by the states, not the feds.
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  24. Aquarius, it's up to the individual how they defend themselves, and everyone in the world pays for healthcare.
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