Why Britain is greater than the States?

[8ball]

And a huge one must be the zip code-based allocation of funding to State schools (called “public schools” across the pond), which massively entrenches inequality.

We don’t have an equivalent, thank fuck.

 

[8ball]

We also have one of the most beautiful countries in the world where you can get to almost any biome you want (excepting desert and tundra, and taking latitudinal norms into account), with the kind of drive a US-er would consider trivial for a drive to a day at the beach.

You want mountains? Check. Wetlands, forest, moorlands, heaths, various types of beaches, many, many islands (less driveable in that last case but hey).

 

[hash tag]

I think this is highly debateable tbf.

Have met plenty of very kind and generous Americans. Their political and ideological culture isn’t just the result of a population that is individually selfish and/or feckless.

We help people in need and have a welfare system of sorts. America has elected a president who wants to stop all immigration, regardless of circumstances. He wants to send all immigrants home including some who were born in the states. Very little free health care which will probably get worse. We don't have the death penalty.

 

[8ball]

We help people in need and have a welfare system of sorts.

Who is “we” in this instance? Seems true of both countries.

America has elected a president who wants to stop all immigration, regardless of circumstances. He wants to send all immigrants home including some who were born in the states.

No one thinks that all immigration is going to be stopped, but who knows what various people’s reasons were for voting the way they did?
Remember when people voted the Tories in all those times? Remember the “hostile environment” policy?

Very little free health care which will probably get worse. We don't have the death penalty.

Plenty of them seem to agree their health system is a car crash, and there is also plenty of opposition to the death penalty.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Our version of Gladiators shits on theirs

 

[breadandcircuse]

We don't have the orange fascist as our leader.

 

[klang]

Less tipping

 

[hash tag]

We know how to queue.

 

[LakieLady]

We also have one of the most beautiful countries in the world where you can get to almost any biome you want (excepting desert and tundra, and taking latitudinal norms into account), with the kind of drive a US-er would consider trivial for a drive to a day at the beach.

You want mountains? Check. Wetlands, forest, moorlands, heaths, various types of beaches, many, many islands (less driveable in that last case but hey).

And nowhere in the UK is more than 70 miles or so from a beach. That's practically local by US standards.

 

[SpookyFrank]

We also have one of the most beautiful countries in the world where you can get to almost any biome you want (excepting desert and tundra, and taking latitudinal norms into account), with the kind of drive a US-er would consider trivial for a drive to a day at the beach.

You want mountains? Check. Wetlands, forest, moorlands, heaths, various types of beaches, many, many islands (less driveable in that last case but hey).

They've got some great landscape in the US but the middle third of the country is basically a million square miles of nothing whatsoever and the places where people actually live are endless concrete hellscapes.

I live in a city that's a twenty minute drive from open moorland and a twenty minute drive from the coast. Two national parks and two world heritage sites less than an hour away.

 

[_Russ_]

They've got some great landscape in the US but the middle third of the country is basically a million square miles of nothing whatsoever and the places where people actually live are endless concrete hellscapes.

I live in a city that's a twenty minute drive from open moorland and a twenty minute drive from the coast. Two national parks and two world heritage sites less than an hour away.

Thats some bollox right there. Having travelled a fair bit in the states Id have to say the Natural wonders there are awesome, extensive and eclipse anything the UK has. I hate the politics and most of the culture of North America but it has amazing wilderness and the freedom to access huge portions of it, here we have the odd little bit of natural woodland left, a handfull of mountains and its almost all privately owned even most of our so called national parks..access to the little we have is pathetic Yes Ive travelled Scotland too and its our best example but its extent and available access still pales in comparison to North America and many other places in the world

 

[8ball]

We don't have the orange fascist as our leader.

Yep, Starmer can say, hand on heart, that he is not Trump.

It’s a pretty low bar, though, tbf.

 

[petee]

When we have stayed there ( don't ask), we were told the trains for people are rubbish and that priority is always given to freight trains.

in some places yes, but not all. amtrak owns the tracks north of DC and the passenger trains get prioritiy. south of DC Norfolk Southern (i think) (or is it CSX) owns the tracks and their freight gets priority. i had experience of that and my god, it was awful. but in the northeast corridor passenger service dominates and Acela is very good indeed.

"amtrak joe" he was called, but now we can expect no improvement under the fuckingorangegibbon.

https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/investing-america-biden-harris-administration-1

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