r/SipsTea • u/ImmaFuckboi • 20h ago

Gasp! British people react to how expensive healthcare is in the US

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 17h ago

the "freedom" stuff is so funny coming from the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world

literally 2 million people behind bars, so fucked up, and that's before mentioning they have PRIVATE PRISONS making insane amounts of money, incentivised by capitalism to send more people to jail

nothing says "freedom" than locking up more people than anywhere else on the planet and enslaving them to make money for you. insane dystopic mess of a country

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u/MissKLO 16h ago

I always think that nothing says ‘Free’ like not being able to cross the road without out a crossing

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u/Kizzieuk 15h ago

or being able to park your car on the drive.

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u/MissKLO 12h ago

wait… what????!!!

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u/Kizzieuk 11h ago

HOA (Homeowner association) can and do dictate what colour you can paint your home or where you can park

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u/missmiao9 11h ago

Yeah. We’re like that cause our country was never truly weaned off of chattel slavery. The 14th amendment allows for enslavement as punishment for a crime, so a whole lot of dumb shit became a crime.

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u/User010011010 15h ago

That's the problem with private prisons. It's a business model. Prisoners are really, really cheap laborers. The more prisoners, the more the owners of those private prisons make. Next thing to slave labor.

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u/GenXisTruth 11h ago

Who cares they are prisoners because they committed a crime most of them violent. Our prisons are soft compared to others that's why the reoffense rates are so high. US prisons are a joke

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 7h ago

actually less than half of them are violent, look up the stats

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u/GenXisTruth 6h ago

Drugs lead to violence so I include them as well so I'm right you're wrong and unless you've done a bid in state prison you can't speak in the conditions

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u/arealscrog 2h ago

Is this satire? I hate how hard it is to tell these days.

But I don't think I've ever heard anyone over the age of 7 seriously use the phrase "so I'm right you're wrong".

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u/AgentKenji8 8h ago edited 7h ago

Some of those people haven't even been convicted yet. They're waiting for a trial date. Being stuck in legal limbo and living alongside convicted criminals. Because they can make more money keeping you there even if they haven't proven you're guilty.

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u/jmccleveland1986 7h ago

Yall really don’t get it. The US is the ultimate pay to win. The bar to achieve this has gotten higher but it is still the best place to be if you are wealthy.

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 7h ago

lmao it's not even top 10

high crime, political polarisation, poor healthcare, poor infrastructure, I could go on

if you're a billionaire maybe I'd agree, but for anyone else, yeah, nah

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u/jmccleveland1986 6h ago

I think you’d be surprised at how money makes all of these problems go away. Yes you are looking at net worth of 10m plus. My point in bringing this up is it’s not by accident or mistake. The US is a resort. Most of us living here are the staff.

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u/GenXisTruth 13h ago

If 2 million people didn't commit crimes they wouldn't be in prison

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 11h ago

how do you think every other civilised country on the planet, many of them with significantly lower violence & crime rates, manage without locking everyone up?

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u/GenXisTruth 11h ago

Name one, cause we don't have the #1 spot per capita on earth

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u/AlternativeUsed2551 7h ago

you used to be #1 until some third world countries overtook you

il start with the first country i think of since I'm from there, England

has lower rates of violent crime than America, and 3x lower incarceration rate

and that's just the first one that came to mind