Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The Battle of Brisbane: When Allies Fought Each-Other" video.

@brucesmith54 Depends on how you measure it. Most rankings are based on imprecise measurement of things like "diversity and inclusion". Based on measurable outcomes like GDP per person, the US is #11 at $57,804, while Australia is #15 at $52,487. Conversely, the cost of living in Australia is #11 compared to the US at #16. Australia has a more expensive cost of living on less income. Hard to maintain a better standard of living on that.
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@brucesmith54 You really have no idea about the US besides whatever left wing sources you seem to use. Most Americans don't have a gun at arms reach. Even CBS, not usually known as a right leaning outlet, reported the actual numbers (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/despite-mass-shootings-number-of-households-owning-guns-is-on-the-decline/) that show less than 30% of US households have even a single gun, and over 65% don't have even one, and thee number of gun owning households has been on a constant decline sine . About .02% of people own an automatic weapon of any kind, and almost all of them are collectors of obsolete weaponry. I'm sure you meant semiautomatic, but your unfamiliarity with firearms means both have that same word in them, so close enough. Kind of like a Kia and Ferrari being the same thing since they both have an engine and four wheels. US males don't commit suicide with guns more often than Australian males hang themselves. Ironically, given your penchant for making things up, the number of hangings has increased as the supply of guns has decreased. Apparently, having to go to the store to buy rope hasn't stopped men from hanging themselves. Maybe you and the other leftists can start a movement to make any rope with more than a 100 pound test illegal too.
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@brucesmith54 Even the "small towns like Chicago", a city with a population almost twice the largest city in Australia, Sydney. Your country is one with only five cities with a population of more than a million. We have fifty-three with more than a million and 361 with more than 100,000. Australia has seventeen. do you think that may be a factor in murder rates? You keep moving the goalposts while adding in more snarky shit to bolster yourself. Wollongong and Cairns have the third and fourth highest crime rates in Oceana...which proves what? Bodies laying the streets. You can't even get your own country right. Adelaide is not now nor has ever been the murder capital of Australia. A story from the ABC, (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/why-cant-adelaide-bury-murderous-capital-reputation/9249142) as left as you can get there, proves this. The place with the highest murder rate in the Northern Territories and it has a murder rate equal to the US. Any kind of similarities between there and Detroit or Chicago? No place in the NT that would be kind of like a war zone? And then you want to tell me about US cities and school me about how they really are because, you know, I really might not live in one. I've lived in three of the four largest cities in the US, all way larger than Sydney. You, however, being Australian leftist who I doubt has spent as much time in the US as I have in your country, shows me you don't know your ass from your elbow about the US. GTFO.
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@brucesmith54 No, 'only money" isn't the only determinant of what affects a person's life, but it's a pretty huge part. Not having enough disposable income to have some freedom to make your own decisions in life can suck pretty bad. However, if you feel that money isn't all that important, feel free to follow the AOC path of sharing your money with those who'd rather not work. I don't know what you mean by "American males and females are killing themselves at a higher rate" but if you mean compared to Australians, the standardised rates per 100,000 compared to the US are nearly identical and fluctuate from year to year. There are also significant differences in how suicide is recorded in Australia compared to the US. The ABS tends to underreport suicide because it only classifies it as suicide when the the cause is incontrovertible compared to US more often classifying it as suicide when the evidence is such any other means of death is unlikely. Nevertheless, rates are close enough that they don't tell us much about either country. Suicide rates are higher in Finland, Japan, and Belgium than the US, so does that mean people there are even more unhappy than the US? Hardly any statisticians are willing to use suicide rates as a sign of anything since the reporting rates vary so widely around the world, and a rate of even a couple people per 100,000 higher or lower is just noise. But sure, go ahead and make up statistics as if they are real and telling us anything.
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@brucesmith54 That's unfortunate for you, waiting all that time for mental health care. Perhaps you should consider emigrating to Australia, where there's never a wait for healthcare. However, I have private insurance so, assuming I needed mental health care, my waiting time would be about three days. The VA is a fine example of what a single payer healthcare system could be for all of us.
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@brucesmith54 Buddy, I'm 73 years old and have had to use my insurance a lot of times. It works every time, unlike the VA. I hope you get the chance to go back Australia and live the good life away from all the problems here.
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@brucesmith54 Hurry over to NowThis, Bruce. There's another installment of "Orange Man Bad" coming on. Since Bruce is depending on the VA for healthcare, I just hope Bruce makes it to 73. Don't worry about those Nigerian nurses and Pakistani doctors. They will take good care of Bruce.
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@brucesmith54 What, you go to a special VA with nurses and doctors licensed in the Tennessee? If not, where do they come from? Don't have Bruce play games with me. I mentioned "diversity and inclusion" because it was mentioned in one of the best countries to live in lists. My point was that's impossible to measure for an entire country. It obviously means something different in Tennessee than in NYC. Classy of you to try the smear thing without any understanding of why it was written.
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@charlesharper2357 Um, sure, okay, but I never mentioned healthcare in Australia. Maybe you meant to respond to Bruce Smith's current post about his problem.
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@brucesmith54 No, I don't use them, but I do have I have a friend who spent 25 years in the Navy and now has Parkinson's and can't drive. I've taken him to appointments in four VA facilities in three states. I have no difficulty in reading name tags and listening to accents and making a good guess about where someone is from. Maybe you get confused by that. I don't. We've now gotten to a place all leftists seem to end up - ad hominem attacks. I'm done. I know you will need to have the last word so go right ahead. You can't make yourself look worse than you've already done.
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@brucesmith54 Yes, Bruce, the one you go to must be special. All the ones I've seen have had foreign staff. Every single one. Now read what I wrote this time instead of adding a leftist spin. I said "you can't measure diversity and inclusion for an entire country". Do you seriously think you can? It jumped out at me because my education is in statistics, and that seemed like the most immeasurable thing you could ever use to decide if a country was in a top 10 list. Let's not get into some racist shit here.
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