Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "BritMonkey" channel.

  1. Doesn't the us spend a billion dollars every 2 days on its military? Which hasn't done anything positive since... The 1950s? That a teacher in higher education isn't comfortably well paid is a shock. I thought the US had it bad when it came to healthcare but that your system of education is so bad is really worrying.
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  2. It was going so well until @13:40 when you said "American Empire". Now you will have upset them! 😂
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  3. ​ @Laynelay glad I wasn't the only one
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  4. ​ @patrickbonacoscia5736  that's what's confusing I think to other "western" countries. Here it's unusual for people to not be able to get a good education. I come from a single parent working class family. The state educated me until 16. I then went to college until I was 18 for free (as I was from a low income family, I actually got a payment for studying of £120pcm which considering my time in college was only around 6 hours a day allowed me to also have a part time job). I then went to university where I had a student lone as a source of income which is paid back over my working life (and is a tiny amount of my monthly wage, I'd guess at 1%). At no point did I struggle for money and my mum actually went back to education for free and got her degree and masters while I was at university and my brother was still in school. We didn't worry about food and had a holiday to Europe every other year and when I turned 21 I went to New York for 4 days (part of a group with university which made it cheap but still several hundred pounds). All in a country (England) where we think of ourselves as having a poor education system (especially compared to many European countries). And in a country with nowhere near the resources the USA has. In other words, here it's not about your income or your families. Does being well off make it easier. Of course. But that goes for everything. Here the poorest can get a great education if they study and apply themselves.
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  5. There has to be an irony there about the amount the USA spends on its military and how poorly the education system is funded.
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  6.  @airbrushken5339  I suppose it made sense post war when the whole world owed the USA money. I believe even the UK has now paid off it's war debt (from both world wars, I believe it was about 5 years ago?). You have to wonder where that money is coming from now. Australia is on my bucket list to visit. I have a friend who back packed there when we were at university. Sounds like you have a great life there :)
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  7. I sware the real America just gradually totters closer and closer to living in the world of Grand Theft Auto. Before you know it, there will be republican space rangers and an Ammunition franchise on every street selling grenade launchers for "self defense".😂
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  8. So there is a problem right away. Your culture rewards a lack of knowledge from the ground up.
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  9. As an Englishman I must admit it's annoying seeing red white and blue all the time. I have to remind Americans that's the flag of great Britain. England only uses red and white. Unless you mean the French flag? Or the Dutch.... Let's stop there.
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  10.  @annasolovyeva1013  the propaganda comment is interesting. Here in England we take everything the media says with a heavy does of salt. I think that comes from the 20th century where most of our news came from bias newspapers. Similar to (but far less extreme than) the was American news is now. Perhaps that's the issue. Americans aren't thinking critically? It would explain why supporters of Trump just believed things he said even when it was so easy to prove as a lie. What do you think of what the media says now in Russia?
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  11. Have you considered that knowing more about the wider world, it's history and how and why America and Americans are viewed a certain way, would actually solve many of your internal political problems? Also the UK isn't two islands. And pointing out an American state is like pointing out an English county or a province of France. Which is pretty esoteric. It's not like pointing out where Iran or Bangladesh are for example.
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