Brits seemed to shrug off concerns about NHS privatization back when Corbyn was running. I got annoyed by that because it was almost as if Brits just had no concept of what an absolute horror show private, American-style "healthcare" really is. They're like sweet summer children who think the shit we put up with here in the US is just some Grimm's fairy tales, like it's not real. Like American parents just tell their kids "Sally was naughty and stole candy from the store, the candy made her sick so she went to the ICU for 5 days and had a bill for $150,000".
(I use that example because my friend's dad spent 5 days in the ICU and got a bill for $150,000).
Even a lot of Americans probably feel like its overblown...because it just seems like it can't actually be real until you actually have to finally engage with it. Until you experience it yourself or know someone who has it almost feels like no society could possibly tolerate such a thing.
I was finally able to afford decent insurance after a decade of no insurance or barebones insurance. Suddenly a $400/month prescription was $20/month. It’s not like they put the insurance bill on your receipt. Anyone with good enough insurance who doesn’t read through their itemized insurance statements has no clue.
And although nowhere in the same league, it’s remarkable how the Tories have united the nation in calling for the destruction of the BBC due to the manipulation of editorial policy and governance. I won’t argue against their news always being imperialist, bourgeois garbage, but I will feel sadness when it’s privatised and the UK’s largest employer of musicians is thrown to the dogs. I can’t see Rupert Murdoch wanting to keep five symphony orchestras on the books…
I remember all the on-the-street interviews that came out a few years ago of Brits trying to guess how expensive US healthcare stuff was. The general public has no clue
the idea that the law can reliably prevent trade unions operating effectively is somewhat underestimating their creativity.
when the pentonville 5 were imprisoned for being trade unionists the unions got together, organised and got them free. There is power in a union and power speaks for itself
Well yeah America didn't get those tendencies from the drinking water in Saxony, Southern Denmark and Normandy- they got them from what was at the time the world's most powerful empire that needed to shed its craziest and most humorless self-flagellators.
The Brutish are becoming Americans at a rapid pace
Culture wars as distractions ✅
Make strikes harder and less effective ✅
What's next?
NHS privatisation
Brits seemed to shrug off concerns about NHS privatization back when Corbyn was running. I got annoyed by that because it was almost as if Brits just had no concept of what an absolute horror show private, American-style "healthcare" really is. They're like sweet summer children who think the shit we put up with here in the US is just some Grimm's fairy tales, like it's not real. Like American parents just tell their kids "Sally was naughty and stole candy from the store, the candy made her sick so she went to the ICU for 5 days and had a bill for $150,000".
(I use that example because my friend's dad spent 5 days in the ICU and got a bill for $150,000).
Even a lot of Americans probably feel like its overblown...because it just seems like it can't actually be real until you actually have to finally engage with it. Until you experience it yourself or know someone who has it almost feels like no society could possibly tolerate such a thing.
I was finally able to afford decent insurance after a decade of no insurance or barebones insurance. Suddenly a $400/month prescription was $20/month. It’s not like they put the insurance bill on your receipt. Anyone with good enough insurance who doesn’t read through their itemized insurance statements has no clue.
it doesn't help that the government been intentionally underfunding the NHS for years, so that privatisation can be sold as "fixing the NHS"
Yeah since when does a single payer system need fundraisers?
:100-com: it’s a brutally effective strategy.
And although nowhere in the same league, it’s remarkable how the Tories have united the nation in calling for the destruction of the BBC due to the manipulation of editorial policy and governance. I won’t argue against their news always being imperialist, bourgeois garbage, but I will feel sadness when it’s privatised and the UK’s largest employer of musicians is thrown to the dogs. I can’t see Rupert Murdoch wanting to keep five symphony orchestras on the books…
Starve the beast. They learned from the best...
I remember all the on-the-street interviews that came out a few years ago of Brits trying to guess how expensive US healthcare stuff was. The general public has no clue
Further NHS privatisation. They've been steadily hollowing it out for more than a decade.
Hope none of y’all need insulin
the idea that the law can reliably prevent trade unions operating effectively is somewhat underestimating their creativity.
when the pentonville 5 were imprisoned for being trade unionists the unions got together, organised and got them free. There is power in a union and power speaks for itself
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From people? Stop being actually racist to any one group of people please, it's not funny.
Well yeah America didn't get those tendencies from the drinking water in Saxony, Southern Denmark and Normandy- they got them from what was at the time the world's most powerful empire that needed to shed its craziest and most humorless self-flagellators.
You cannot be racist against Anglos. You absolutely cannot be racist against Anglos from fucking Eton.
Fair. What do you call it if you are an asshole to a whole bunch of people then, most of who aren't responsible for this and probably don't like it?
Americanism