THIS IS JUST SAD... 6 LIES AMERICA TOLD ME ABOUT EUROPE! (AMERICAN REACTS)

[@lexthulu6219]

Here in Europe we don't hate your freedom, we're just laughing at the idea that you think you're free...

[@bonito34]

Drug problems, weapons, death penalty, social insurance, working rights etc. Not the way I would want to raise my kids.

[@sidlerm1]

True

[@Weise1001]

its not that its a laugh, its just.., so whats the special thing about US freedom ? point.. theres absolutely no freedoms you have, we dont.. expect, youre free to fear the rest of the society

[@heikos4264]

It's the 'small' things which many americans seem to have zero clue about when they trhink they have more freedom than the rest of the world. You build a fence around your house in germany, depending on where it is, different regulations about how high it can be, if it can be directly on top of the property border or if it has to be up to 1 meter away from it and so on. Guess what, it is exactly the same in america... I had that fence height problem 2 years ago and not long after that i stumbled over an american here on youtube that had the exact same problem in america.

[@lionheart5078]

@@bonito34 lol you think you dont have that in Europe? In Europe you can be thrown in jail for saying what is deemed as hate speech lol. Brigitte Bardot came out saying she doesnt think France should take on more muslims and she was fined 40k by the french government. If she didnt pay it she wouldve been thrown in Jail. In many European countries murderes literally get charged with 10 years in prison. Ive seen many cases where pre-meditated murder gets 10 years and the guy comes out 10 years later still young, and enjoys the rest of his life while the guy he murdered is rotting in a grave.

[@siggilinde5623]

3 years without any holiday?! This is slavery. In Germany (and any other European country) this is not possible. Our employers even have to make sure that all employees use all their vacation days.

[@timothymartin5538]

Make sure they use, or compensate them for the time they were eligible for.

[@loveitftw]

@@timothymartin5538 It's the law to do so. We take care of our citizens.

[@timothymartin5538]

@@loveitftw it was a statement, not a question or insinuation, I'm from Europe

[@drivehard2395]

Many people express that in the US, they are made to feel guilty for asking for their time off.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

I couldn't function without my July off.

[@loveitftw]

Fun fact, freedom of expression and freedom of the press has been in Sweden's constitution longer than the US has been a country.

[@BriBryBriBry]

I’d hope so..

[@robertnett9793]

But to be fair those points came in the US constitution immediatly.

[@ATart6]

Me an American citizen:You lie!! Also me:looks up Sweden’s constitutional history. Goddamit you speak the truth!! Seriously though that’s a neat fact!

[@jarpa153]

yup, since 1765

[@dsludge8217]

@@ATart6 look up the date Sweden banned slavery :)

[@stevewhite6861]

My son in law got posted to South Carolina, he’s an RAF C17 pilot, my 9 year old granddaughter was told she had to stand and pledge allegiance to the American flag, a British child, she told them to get lost, I’m glad she stood up for herself.

[@viviennart]

That's wild how they make someone temporarily living there as a non American pledge allegiance to the flag. Also this whole pledge thing is just too much. They love their flag so much. While here in Hungary we mostly only put out our flags on national days.

[@stevewhite6861]

@@viviennart That's how it should be.

[@Sunbot-sz7nb]

Pledging to a flag reminds me of nazi Germany

[@israeldepedro7522]

From a Western European standpoint, kids pledging to a flag is an image that reminds us of fascist dictatorships. And yes, it is creepy as hell.

[@marseldagistani1989]

I wouldn't be surprised if the US is a state with secretly being run by Fascists with an elected dictatorship

[@Kari.F.]

Not only fascist dictatorships, but also communist. I believe they do that in North Korea. It's usually a tradition in countries where individual freedoms are very restricted.

[@israeldepedro7522]

@@Kari.F. I told fascist because that was the political flavor of the most well-known dictatorships in Europe. But yes, on these kinds of regimes extremes meet and are very alike no matter the political sign.

[@jpbaley2016]

That’s exactly what it is.

[@jpbaley2016]

@@Kari.F. There are no communist countries. Communism is equally sharing in your country’s resources. Everyone is equal. There isn’t a country in the world that practices that. What you think is communist, because hard-core capitalist doesn’t want you to know what communism is, isa totalitarian dictatorship. It is not communist.

[@Mrmattetoast]

Imagine us Germans/Austrians would do that. Standing up everyday and pledging allegiance to the Flag. Getting some flashback’s at that thought.

[@DaphneMyst]

As a spaniard I feel your pain.

[@sopcannon]

As long as you don't fail art class too!

[@vendora8238]

@@sopcannon Wien Art Academy making sure that nobody fails.

[@ravenouself4181]

@@vendora8238 They be like: Not again! Not on our watch!

[@admerin6961]

I once did not stand for the pledge at an assembly because my foot was broken, and a teacher who saw me literally grabbed my arm and tried to drag me too my feet. Also, I was a teenage girl at the time and he was a male teacher.

[@imbarmstrong]

I'm British and have a friend who spent some time in US school and was sent to the Principals office as a kid for refusing to pledge to the flag. Her argument: I'm a British citizen, play God Save the Queen and raise my flag and I might consider it. The teachers and principal backed down on trying to get her to take part.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Oh my goodness. I mean, I'm glad that the principal backed down on that, but to even have the mind set where you expect a non-citizen to do that weird, creepy pledge just because she's in the room? Like, if you're in England, you'll really join in with the "Rule Britannia" chorus? I love that your friend dug her heels in about that.

[@matwatson7947]

The Union Jack would lose my respect quickly if we had to raise our hand and sing Rule Britannia. The flag should earn our respect and we shouldn't be expected to remind ourselves of it. We should be aware of it based on the actions it takes, not the ones we are required to... If any of that makes sense

[@paulqueripel3493]

Even American children don't have to, the 1st amendment (free speech) covers it. That was decided by the supreme court about 80 years ago.

[@machendave]

@@Julia-lk8jn I am Welsh and would never bow down to the "butchers apron"

[@vulcanhumor]

Holy shit, that shouldn't have happened even with an American kid. Part of the right to freedom of speech is the right to not pledge allegiance. We were always told in school that if you weren't going to participate, to just sit quietly and wait for it to be over. And there were kids that did that. But, I grew up in a major metropolitan area with more left-leaning politics...I could imagine in other parts of the country not pledging allegiance would be extremely frowned upon. But disciplining a student for not pledging allegiance is not only stupid, it's unconstitutional.

[@BarsusDraco]

Us europeans dont hate your freedom. We simply giggle when you talk about something you call freedom with so much pride.

[@YvaJStoryTime]

I grew up in the US and moved to Germany 26 years ago. I have spent so much time educating people over there about how the healthcare system works here. They have called it 'communism' and that people can't get to a doctor quickly. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and my doctor had me ready for surgery two weeks after the diagnosis came down. They would have gotten me in earlier, but I was getting ready to go on vacation for five days. So, there was no waiting for them to get that tumor out. I went through chemo and radiation after that, only paid 1% of the entire cost (about 600 US$ max.) I was also able to go through rehab for thee weeks after all was completed. All of this was covered. There's no such thing as a copay here, and most Germans have no clue what a copay or a deductible actually is. Healthcare is the main reason I will never move back.

[@Steeler-wg5zo]

Regrettably nothing, nill, nada, niente will change in US with the 2 party system over there. The current politicians all have brown collars from kissing ass with the pharmaceutical companies. They are financed and bribed by them, so that for God's sake nothing changes. The '3rd world conditions will be able to change at the earliest when the existing, outdated 2-party system falls. This in turn will not happen, because every American thinks through decades of state propaganda that they really have the best system in the world. (the 30% bankruptcies exactly therefore p.a. once excluded) About such a great stupidity I could get annoyed every day anew.

[@nolaserv]

Sorry about your cancer spreading. I hope you have been in remission for a good while and no signs of it returning. I wanted to ask a German if they have heard the news about Russia being bombed in the city of Bryansk last night causing major pipeline damage to an oil or gas reserve plant . At least that was assumed because of a major fire there. I was trying to find out if it will affect any NATO alli's that get most of their gas from Russia. I did a search and didn't find anything on that issue. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYi7ZWyfr9SXo68

[@fireephoenix4963]

@@nolaserv i heard nothing from it. Im a russian Born in germany btw

[@davidg6395]

@@noobdernoobder6707 It's Russia itself for A. Propaganda B. Justify some atrocity they're about to commit Russia has fallen into an absolute terrorist state. And it seems the population has been brainwashed to oblivion by propaganda.

[@MistedMind]

@@nolaserv Well, I just Googled the City name and there were like more than 10 articles from different "western sources" reporting this fire. Seems likely to have been an attack by Ukrainian forces. After all Russia attacks such sites in Ukraine too, right?!? The gas / oil supply to Europe is not affected by that. Too remote a location. Russia itself has no closed it's valves to Poland and Bulgaria, because Russia suddenly demands being payed in Rubels, despite the contract saying Dollar / Euro. That has a much larger effect, but more psychological. Because Poland has a large reserve build up, and rest of Europe pays the Gazprom Bank in $ / € and they convert the money from to Rubels... So Russia is in effect pretty much "cheating it's own system" to look good in front of the Russian people. But that's it.

[@murmelinee]

I was talking to some Americans online and they all had this weird idea that everyone wants to move to the USA. Like thats the ultimate end goal for everyone given the choice. They were baffeled when i said that i like to visit but id never actually want to live there full time and that i preferred my own country over America 😂 like bro... when im sick i go to the doctor, without a second thought. I got a college degree for free. I got school lunch for free. I get 6weeks PTO a year. Less than 10 shootings a year. We pay high taxes but i KNOW theyre put in good use. I actually like paying taxes. Very few homeless cause we have good safety nets. Scandinavia isnt perfect, but its hell of a lot better than the states IMHO.

[@OneWorldGovernment2030-yv3zc]

Now everyone wants to move to Poland because they're tired of 🐫👳

[@infiniterik2402]

Fairplay

[@philiprowney]

Many Americans don't understand the media of their over-active, armed children they call police puts off thousands every year. I have retired cop cousins and will NEVER go back to NYC to visit them!!!

[@ETHEREAL_MONARCH]

maplestory players always got the best takes

[@edithfrench3346]

WE in Germany get 30 to 32 day a year vacation and WE are sick WE get 6weeks payed by your company, after 6 weeks WE get pay by the insure so that we call ourer freedom

[@janjordal9451]

I had an American employee who was a shameless chauvinist. On all occasions she would point out that it was the best country in the world. I used to buy my staff pizza when working late. She immediately told us in a loud voice that pizza is an American invention. We were sick of her and told her to knock it off and told her all of America is a European invention

[@francescoinseriscicognome4444]

as an Italian, thank you for what you did, how dare that b*tch tell that bullshit

[@meijsmark]

I went to the USA as an exchange student back in 2001. The American history book actually said the windmill was an American invention. Off course as a Dutch person I threw the book across the room and yelled them to f off 😂😂

[@TheRealDr.Mabuse]

@@meijsmark Where did you study? Based on your childish tantrum, accomplish nothing i would guess kindergarten?

[@andynieuwenhuis7833]

​@@TheRealDr.Mabuse Most of European Countries HAVE A MUCH BETTER, EDUCATION System, than ANYTHING DONE IN United States School System. EVEN HERE IN CANADA, Grade 4--5 students Would be in a HIGHER Grade going to schools in the States.

[@TheRealDr.Mabuse]

@@andynieuwenhuis7833 I responded to the throwing tatrum and book in class.

[@mcnetchaiev]

As a non American 10 year old in New Jersey, I got sent to the principal's office and threatened because I wouldn't pledge allegiance to the flag. Coming from Europe, I felt like this was a totalitarian practice. Added to that, as a non American why should I pledge allegiance to a flag that isn't even mine?

[@haidouk872]

As an European (French), whenever I look at how things work in USA, I am actually shocked that American citizens are not shocked themselves. A lot of us in Europe (not all tho) tend to see USA as a nice country to visit, maybe somewhere to live for a year or two, but for sure not somewhere to settle for good. I mean, sure, in USA, you'll probably make more money. But in exchange for that, you'll have to sacrifice so many things that you take for granted in Europe: social protection, Healthcare, food regulation, holidays, non-binary political system, security, mostly fair justice system, better protection against Lobbies,... Going to USA as an European is the same as experiencing democratic downgrade, in exchange for money. But the worst is that we know that you guys are being drilled into your head since young age that USA is the beacon of Democracy, defender of Freedom, the best country to live in, the American dream,... So most of you guys grow up being convinced that what you have is the best that democracy can offer. And we just find it very sad.

[@amaterachu1]

It's really all over the place in schools. Some teachers will want you to "pledge to the flag" and others are totally fine with you not participating (because freedom). This really only happens during the primary/elementary school years and then after the flag pledge thing kinda just stops. Mission completed, get them at a young age. Some teachers do drill in the "America is the best thing in the entire world and we can blow everyone up if they challenge us yadda yadda yadda superiority complex." Others do point out the flaws that happen and that simply all countries have their own strengths and weaknesses. And then some say that we should move to Canada and abandon ship. Basically, everything just feels so all over the place that I've adopted the typical "don't care, doesn't effect me" attitude that so many Americans have. Whatever it is, it works and it's miserable.

[@spvillano]

Ah, but many European nations have mandatory voting. We don't do that here, so we get a noisy minority to elect a Trump for President. We also very narrowly define treason in our Constitution. So, we've averaged about the same number of people tried for treason in the 21st century so far, zero. And we get a special thing no civilized nation gets, medical bankruptcy and rampant homelessness. So, we're much, much, much better - at mediocrity.

[@buttkicker7172]

well on the bright side there are a good amount of people who no longer have that perspective of their country in america, sure it isnt the cheapest country in the world to live in but it has some nice perks

[@okairo]

True, and it's a bit hard for a US citizen to migrate to another country, be assured he can get a job which i can understand a business preferring local people than a random foreigner... and the ungodly price for a passport and a work visa. Being 31, if i could save the money to get those and go to another country where i can get a job without thinking I'll be homeless a week later, i would and imagine alot of others would too but it's that 'will i just end up homeless' part that probably holds some people back.

[@reasonablefacsimile]

I'm an American who realizes how backwards a lot of our policies and practices are, and it's incredibly frustrating that so many of my fellow citizens prefer to keep their heads in the sand. We're absolutely indoctrinated to believe that America is the best at everything, and that it's unpatriotic to insinuate that there's any room for improvement. It's nothing but blind, self-righteous hubris. I'd been hopeful that people growing up in the internet age would begin to see through the smokescreen, but given the way misinformation is spreading like a cancer via online echo chambers, I've begun to have serious doubts.

[@nicholasmartin297]

I’m a retired O.R. nurse in the U.K. I will never forget the time we had an American medical student at our state-of-the-art central London hospital. She was over here to see how WE do do things. There was a woman on the operating table having MAJOR gynaecological surgery. She had our world-class surgeons operating on her with all the latest technology etc. She was to be transferred to the Intensive Care Unit post-operatively. I was discussing the differences between U.K. healthcare and U.S. healthcare with the student and how U.K. healthcare is funded out of general taxation. She seemed a bit sceptical and confused by what I was saying. I will never forget the look on her face when I pointed to the patient and said “This won’t cost her a penny”. The student’s mouth dropped open with incredulity. Then I think she got it. And no, we do not have “death panels”. We also don’t have profiteering insurers who take our money and refuse to fund the care we need. And we are NOT communists!! (Although we DO get 6 weeks PAID annual leave each year, plus PAID public holidays, generous sick pay, maternity pay, paternity pay and an excellent pension scheme. I retired aged 56 (although I could have retired at 55) and I will have an occupational pension with annual increases linked to the cost of living for the rest of my life. AND, when I get to 67, I will get our state pension on top! You guys over the pond really have been brainwashed and exploited from day one. Still, at least you can go buy an assault rifle and kill a bunch of school kids if you want to. Also, over here, we are really jealous of the American prison population - the highest in the world per-capita. Home of the brave, land of the free🤣. God bless Murica!

[@frankmaxwell5193]

Nigel farage will sort you out, read his thoughts on American insurance buying up the NHS. Brexit is a slow walk to the American way 🐢🙈

[@nicholasmartin297]

@@frankmaxwell5193 Hi Frank. I know all about American healthcare companies buying up our NHS, particularly in London. They are also behind a lot of our “private” hospitals (where you can choose to pay for your healthcare). It’s being done slowly and subtly, but it’s being done. If a U.K. government took away the NHS overnight there would be an uprising and revolution. Re. Brexit, I believe it was a move against federalism. We were not happy with the idea that a bunch of foreigners decided they wanted to run our country for us and tell us what to do. There are very greedy and evil people on this planet. We need to be aware of them and expose them. As the saying goes… “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

[@psycholaw4394]

Remind me.. how many people live in the Uk? How are things going politically, socially and economically? Remind me what would happen if you were invaded? Yeah I though so Im canadian btw

[@nicholasmartin297]

@@psycholaw4394 Rather than asking spurious questions and imagining what my answers would be, just make your point. Then I’ll get back to you. Yeah. I thought so too.

[@Angelopithecus]

@@psycholaw4394 Long time without seeing meaningless questions coming from people that think they're smarter than everyone else... Hahaha...Priceless

[@johnkingsize]

"My country is never perfect but I think it can get better" is the definition of patriotism. Not worshiping one's flag as if it's some sort of idol.

[@louisedurell9612]

What is also funny is they are mainly a Christian country- but they worship their flag as an idol as you say- kind of reminds me of when Noah came down from the mountains with the Ten Commandments- idols are not suppose to be too things right???

[@johnkingsize]

@@louisedurell9612 That's Moses, Noah is the guy that builds the raft for the animals during the flood, but yes, very good comparison. In the story, Moses go up the mountain to have a meeting with God and receive his rules on stone tablets. But by the time he's comes back, his people have lost their ways and are now worshipping a golden calf. In the case of the US, though, it was done on purpose and was a very foreseenable consequence. The US were a very diverse country, between the liberal merchants of the north, the devoted Christians with a strong incentive for education on the east coast, the rich and slave-owner aaristocrats in the south and the poor and tight communities dependant on mining corporation in the Appalachians, with the southward and westward expansion only making it more complicate. It was very hard to see a country made of all and, taking note of the concept of nation appearing in Europe, they relied on national symbols from the get go to help in that. However, the main weakness of that plan was that although symbols do help in building nations, they can't do it on their own. And given how much division there was to bridge, they went even harder on these symbols to have it work. That's why, even today, there isn't very much in common between people from various parts of the US except for these symbols. Even their own collective memory divides them still to this day. If many people revere and worship these symbols, it is because they have been indoctrinated to do so. When you can't see what that flag is supposed to represent, you only see the flag. Sometimes, I find that looking at the US as dozens of little countries having to work together makes it simpler to analyze situations.

[@louisedurell9612]

@@johnkingsize thank you- got wrong name- mind went a blank lol 😂

[@lincolnsixecho51]

Hi, Loïc! - "Patriotism is the last refuge for villains!" ( Samuel Johnson) Greetz, Lincoln

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I like that kind of patriotism. The idea that you can be proud for all the good things your society has archived. But not keeping a blind eye on the bad things, both in the past and present.

[@damirfux2265]

0:02 Hi, I'm from Europe and have never been to USA, tell me is this true, do you really swear an allegiance to your flag, raising your hands up like greeting Hitler?!?

[@DanDanDoe]

The "Bellamy salute" quickly ended in the 1940s, but was the common salute from the 1890s till 1942.

[@witherblade7558]

I think they do that in schools

[@codenameh27]

it really happened, but it wasn't of such significance and it happened before the fuhrer

[@dolphin5177]

Only do it in elementary school maybe middle schools, but its hands on hearts

[@seitenname3531]

​@@dolphin5177usa is like a fucking cult. Id get scared if we would swear allegiance to the german flag

[@encahill]

Few weeks back we flew to Budapest, rented a car, drove through Slovakia to Krakow in Poland stayed there a few nights and then drove to Prague for a few more days, met up with friends camping in south Czechia for two nights, drove to Vienna for another couple of nights and then drove back to Budapest. 5 countries, no border checks, no police checks, zero restriction of freedom.

[@annnee6818]

It's almost like "we're the only country that has freedom" is a lie😐 The bad thing is that your politicians who say this... they know it's a lie. But they tell it to keep the public compliant and make them accept their crappy living standards.

[@encahill]

@@annnee6818 I'm not American.. they're not my politicians.

[@ZeBackWoodz]

Damn no wonder there is so much sex trafficking and kidnapping happening over there I mean not like it's any better here in the states I'm sure as methods are different but yeah that's crazy you can just wildly go around like that and not get checked at least once lol

[@thejoker2214]

That`s EUROPEAN UNION ! a land of free !

[@dr.christianmetje7092]

@@ZeBackWoodz kidnappings? script of a bad Hollywood film?

[@80sbaby64]

German here. I lived in the US for almost 6 years. Germans do feel pride, too - but entirely differently. During soccer tournaments e.g., the German Flag is everywhere. Pride is somewhat involved, yes. But in my experience, the flag is just a way of showing the players that we support them and the team. My experiences with American pride during my time in the US were astonishing to me. „USA, the best damn country in the world!“ is something I heard regularly, oftentimes kind of yelled at me, as if that person was trying to prove a point. What I found funny is that the people who said this to me had never even left their home state. The best as compared to what? You have no comparison. That puzzled me quite a bit and sometimes I asked them: „How do you know that when you‘ve never been anywhere else?“ Some people got pissed 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ ya, that‘s what I thought. I find that insanely ignorant. The majority of the US population is brainwashed as f***!

[@Nina.In.Narnia]

Exactly. Like a modern version of NK. They work till they drop, cannot see the outside world because there is no time for that and then they are told their country is the greatest. There maybe used to be an American dream, now it is a nightmare. I see people still thinking there a dream there, but they are the people that also never left their county until moving there, so of course they are fascinated. But once you start traveling to any other place that is not touristy you get another view. Personally I would not be able to live there due to the guns, shootings, patriotism and racism. I might be white but they hate everyone that is not American.

[@BrightSeaStar]

You got it ! Brainwashed ? -Yes But the bottom, tragic line is your other point : they are insanely ignorant.

[@ThoR64]

Yes Sire 👍🏻

[@eddyvos2628]

​@@Nina.In.Narnia" they" do NOT hate everyone that is not American. What you do is generalising. I am European and had an American friend and she was one of the most welcoming persons I ever met ❤

[@FINNSTIGAT0R]

Nobody seems to understand, that the US actually need this worship of itself, because there's no natural cohesion between it's citizens, it being the country of immigrants. There's no common roots to the people, no common deep history, no common ethnicity, no common anything. So what is left is the country itself, the idea of the USA and it's recognisable symbols and rites like the pledge of allegiance. Now, when all of that has been fading for awhile the cohesion in the US is also deteriorating. The less people believe in the myth of the US, the more and more hardships the US will face.

[@JamesDaniel-hz7mr]

I was born and raised in Atlanta Georgia, joined the military and eventually came to Germany in 1988. I’ve never left ! I have a life here with my family I could only dream of back home. My children are safe, well educated, and protected. I have 30 days paid vacation a year, health insurance, unemployment insurance, I’ve had 2 apprenticeships, both lasting over 2 1/2 years, and a guaranteed retirement. America is destroying itself from within and the world is watching and asking why !! Don’t believe the brainwashing, see for yourself.

[@DaDunge]

America was designed so that the government could never stand in the way of the wealthy. The separation of power is so that the government can't serve as a balancing force towards the private sector.

[@Freiya2011]

Hast du auch Deutsch gelernt?

[@nicholasmartin297]

I think greedy people are destroying the United States. The sociopaths have taken over. Sadly that disease is spreading around the world. Please remember GREED IS NOT GOOD! Let’s all look after each other. Otherwise it’s the law of the jungle and you won’t want to be eaten by the lions.

[@wanderschlosser1857]

​@@Freiya2011Bei 2 Ausbildungen kannst Du davon ausgehen. Blöde Frage!

[@Freiya2011]

@@wanderschlosser1857 Woher soll ich das wissen? Du könntest sonstwo gelernt haben. Abef dann: Prima!

[@TheEvertw]

In Europe, we used to have our social housing concentrated in specific neighbourhoods. But we discovered quickly that these become ghettos. So we pulled most of that down, and now intersperse social housing with privately owned housing.

[@johnnydinnissen]

The biggest lie they tell in America is that they are the greatest country in the world

[@blackletter2591]

Great countries are ones that don't have to keep telling people they are great.

[@Khalif-AllahEntertainment]

@@blackletter2591 When I think about it, you're right.

[@semiramisubw4864]

but they are. The greates in incarceration, bringin democracy to civillians in the middle east and beeing tribalists for their weird political partys

[@thomasleschke2213]

they talk it everyone all over the world. That seems a little bit arrogant for people from other countries. "Self praise stinks"

[@Todes21]

@@semiramisubw4864 their also the best in bombing Covilians for no reason and overthrow Goverments to "Liberate" a Country. And why do the do it? Money and Oil

[@raffaelpichler5864]

as an austrian, especially the picture you showed of the children when talking about the pledge of allegience, send chills down my spine since they literally did the nazi salute........

[@jamiebrooks457]

For what it's worth, we put our right hands on our hearts now.

[@danharold3087]

Read the pledge. We are not pledging to a leader or a political party. Republic: a state in which supreme power is held by the people.... Many in the US find it difficult to identify with the national leaders. We can still identify with our republic and the flag which symbolizes it.

[@rrows5803]

@@danharold3087 Ah yes "supreme power is held by the people" Hence why your people have to litteraly live with serious injuries and sickness to avoid getting a debt for life to have the "Right" to live

[@danharold3087]

@@rrows5803 The health care system in the US could be a LOT better in terms of cost. But the problems with it are exaggerated. Cases like you point out do exist. But you should not find people living with serious injuries. If you go into the emergency room they fix you up and nobody askd about payment till after surgery or whatever is over. Yeah the bill still sucks but there are other agencies that MAY make up the differance. And if you can't pay and have no money the can't collect. Yeah it stinks but not like people love to make it out to be. Personally I would like to see the US pull out of NATO that use that boatload of money to fund free health care and medicine. But that is not what we are talking about here.

[@delanovanraalte3646]

@@danharold3087 it would mean we probably are saver from Russia in the west of Europe

[@TeddyboyRnR13]

As a European , I lived and worked in America for a year, it was so surreal man . Half the shit that happened in my time there and the people I met made me very sceptical about the world in general , was kind of like living in a cartoon . People in US live in a very distorted bubble of reality , needless to say it was not for me.

[@scotthullinger4684]

Until fairly recently, the USA has generally been protected from the world-wide nonsense until Joe Biden and his merry band of idiots made it very obvious that citizens need to do everything possible to defend themselves against them. Biden has brought the average American nothing but heartache and anger. Thanks to Biden, we now have the worst economy and the highest inflation in half a century. Crime is out of control, and the cost of fuel is now a relatively huge portion of the average pay check. Trump brought us Americans the very BEST of times, and Biden has brought us Americans the very WORST of times. No question of it, because it's undeniable.

[@luk4s56]

A good friend of mine lives in us now, he comes back to europe to get health checks and medcal care, then goes back to us after spending few months here, its kinda hilarius when its cheeper/ quicker to travel half across the world to get medical help. than get it in same town dosen km/miles away

[@scotthullinger4684]

Hey Tech, which city did you visit? Which state? The shittiest places are always ruled and reigned by only idiot Democrats. They're the ones whose world view has very little to do with reality. Let me guess, you visited a place which is fully dedicated to de-funding the police, and disregarding law and order. RIGHT? Yes -

[@oliveranan4881]

I feel the US Had a very old school look on freedom and gouverment and judged everything by those standards. Freedom is the gouverment staying out of peoples stuff ad much ad possible. In Europe it is more about balancing different partys powers with in laws decides in by ellected officials. So when Europe enacts laws protecting workers rights to protect freedeoms they See just see gouverment getting involved and See this aß less freedom No Matter the intent. Sadly this leaves a Power cacuum that companies with resources and powers the founding fathers could Not have imagined glady fill. And voters do not have a say in those.

[@scotthullinger4684]

@@oliveranan4881 - The problem is in assuming that our governments always have our best interests in mind. It surely never takes much time to get oneself indoctrinated in pure political bullshit, and then we suffer the consequences, most often without realizing it until several years pass by. YES indeed, freedom is the government staying out of the peoples' lives as much as possible. No question of it - In the USA, the government is always our fellow citizens. So it is, in fact, our most evil of fellow citizens who refuse to stay out of our lives. But they'd prefer to be goddamn control freaks and tell us what to do, how to do it, and how long to do it. Let me make it clear that in the USA, it is "we the people" who are the government. We govern ourselves through our chosen representatives. This system was created by design for that very purpose. But at some point along the way, particular citizens start believing that rather than representing us, they can tell us all what to do. But this is NOT how things work. We sure as hell do not elect leaders in order for them to control us. Hell no - they do our bidding. Or at least they should, because THAT is what a representative government is. The only time our system is in danger is when a majority of citizens elect leaders who serve their own interests rather than ours, and we have very nearly already reached such a dangerous precipice.

[@jodiuhron1979]

Like a lot of American kids, I was always told that this is the best country in the world and everyone wants to come here, blah blah blah. As a kid, I wholly believed it. Now as an adult and years of thinking more clearly and without anyone else’s influence, I’ve realized that the Cold War and eventually 9/11 had a huge impact on the American psyche than anyone would admit. During the Cold War, we wanted to present ourselves as better and the opposite of the USSR and Soviet Bloc. Now, don’t get me wrong. Life here is the USA was more free and with a better standard of living than over in the USSR for the most part. BUT, the more you we tried to be different, the more alike we became. The Soviets also taught their people that they were better than other countries. They also taught them not to question their patriotism. While the Soviets pretty much banned religion, we went the other way and increased religious influence in our lives (example: “under God” was not always in the Pledge… that was added to counteract those “godless commies”). I think this backfired down the road because religion influenced few our politics, which has started to impede some other people’s freedoms, like overturning Roe vs Wade. And as for 9/11, it only refueled this idea of America being the best, most free, and increasing Christianity’s influence in our country to counteract the Muslim terrorists. This has kicked off the right wing nut jobs - who used to be on the fringe - now taking center stage in the Republican Party. While I hear many people of my generation and my parents’ generation rant ago it how schools are indoctrinating kids these days, I shake my head… we were MORE indoctrinated when we were kids! The patriotism thing was beaten into our brains since birth pretty much! We TECHNICALLY have the freedom to not think our country is the best, but if you dare to express that, you’re pretty much a pariah and a “traitor.” Sorry to ramble… the American ignorance just pisses me off. We have much easier access to information and have no excuse not to learn more about the world. But… many Americans CHOOSE not to and are proud of their ignorance.

[@ede2362]

I gotta say thank you for that insight I never even thought about the origin of that over the top mentality :,) coming from Germany it's really the opposite here. Everybody talks how sht Germany is xD I do know we have it a lot better than other countries but there is always room for improvement.

[@Dr.Mlieko]

As someone from a formerly Communist country I will give you this, the USA, with all of its flaws, is STILL preferable to Communism by a VERY wide margin. Also, I em currently under the impression that in an attempt to counter the "right wing nutjobs" the USA has swung too much in the opposite extreme some time around 2013, with political correctness dialed up all the way to where it becomes fascist.

[@Dr.Mlieko]

@@ede2362 Honestly, I find it kinda creepy how Germans seem to hate their own country I em from Slovakia btw

[@ede2362]

@@Dr.Mlieko Na we dont hate it its just something we do, but if others hate on germany I can also get defensive even though Im half hungarian and half polish originally

[@ninhingazanan]

I still see hope, if we can see some US Americans who are pissed off of American ignorance too. Stay critical, try to reflect how things like religious fanaticism, exzessive patriotism, nationalism, protectionism etc do, could *and* did influence your daily politics, the basement of your peaceful neighborly communities! Greetings from Germany!

[@windsorSJ]

I see a lot of videos about the American experience in Europe and I often think that it's such a shame that only a very small fraction of the American population will learn about how they are being oppressed. Because it is oppression.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Yup & the UK is following suit. S.O.S.

[@Leucoandro]

Not just Americans. Celebrate Boxing Day? Look up the history of it, and the master/servant dynamic.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

@ChaosWhite 'Neglect' is the result of specific 'oppressive' government policies. This has been happening stealthily since the seventies. The restrictions on 'unionisation' is another example that began then. The generations have become acclimatised to these hidden forms of oppression. As an ex-teacher I know that the education system has been skewed in favour of Right Wing Propaganda as has the main stream media. Covid & Brexit have accelerated the process so more people are becoming aware that people of my age (72 years & counting) remember a less oppressive & more hopeful time. The Tory agenda has been evident in all of the major Parties but has become so Far Right Wing in the C & U Party that those of us that have been taking notice are truly terrified that the UK is lurching toward full on dictatorship. So many have died prematurely because of C & U Party policies. When the UK PM said 'let the bodies pile high' & 'f*** business' he meant what he said. I will not live to see the UK recover from these draconian policies. I fear less for myself & more for future generations. People before politics. S.O.S.

[@ColdieHU]

Well thank to the internet that number is going, specially in the younger generation.

[@samuelpinder1215]

@@MazzaEliLi7406 stop the cap

[@markfieten9558]

Swearing allegiance to a flag. especially with the right arm raised, raises the hairs on my back and I thinko for many Europeans

[@georgejob2156]

Yes, my father spent six years in the UK army, I dread to see this evil return. I wouldn't swear anything on our UK Union flag ,it's only a piece of material, I would swear to uphold the human rights of all.

[@loveitftw]

Indeed,. very unsettling. Creepy as hell

[@micheledix2616]

Agreed very creepy

[@simonmonk7266]

Scary as feck

[@richardwani2803]

Yes creepy as hell 😳

[@Genex2259]

"They don't have guns in Europe". Actually, Switzerland has more guns per person than the US, and near 0 gun violence. The difference? They acknowledge the need to have a properly educated and trained population, the need for gun safety, regulation, etc.

[@1000RRJuggernaut]

@@awpfade it actually is

[@hellboy7424]

Switzerland is a tiny and very elitist country where the majority of the population has a lot of money. It's normal that people speak four languages ​​and an educational system, accessibility to the health and social system that the USA will never know. NEVER. It is stupid to compare two countries like this and put it as a justification for violence with firearms in the USA.

[@brewen_lmrch]

@@hellboy7424 Well said. People from Switzerland don't understand that they live in a rich country and it's not because they are that rich and educated that other countries can be like that as well. I'm saying that as an European. I saw many swiss being arrogant and thinking their country is good because of them. No, they are rich because of their country. You can't compare the swiss people to the Americans, french or Germans ones. Switzerland wasn't a colonialist country nor an old colony with former slaves. It's not facing an immigration and so on

[@1000RRJuggernaut]

@@brewen_lmrch Switzerland is rich because there are no Germans, Italians and French, they call them swiss, don't separate themselves by color, religion or nationality, they work together for better tomorrow. And also they been lucky trough history. Meanwhile rest of the world is looking for things that are dividing us, rather then connecting

[@brewen_lmrch]

@@1000RRJuggernaut I met some German speaking swiss and this is not true, it's even an utopia ! German speakers weren't working with french speakers at all and where not even trying to learn french or Italian. Half and the italian speakers are just Italians looking for money and other swiss advantages. You know I come from a country where "egality" and "fraternity" is in the motto. (France obviously) And as you maybe know it France is made of a serial of different cultures. I come from a place which was a country centuries ago and had it own Celtic language. You can find basque, Celtic, African, occitan, Corsican people here yet we also call them french. So I doubt your arguments really does or just mean anything. I don't care about religions but you would maybe not say that if a quarter of your country was from the middle east. It's not the case in France and it's not a problem for me anyway but look at Sweden : they were happy to see new workers and immigrants but after some years people started to realize that Islam was becoming the main religion is some cities and towns. When the swedish People realized it they suddenly woke up like "Wait what ???" So of course religion is not a problem in countries like Switzerland or France where there is no official religion nor a religious border that divide the country in two or three like in Bosnia, but think about it now, we are lucky to live in those kind of countries. And tbh if the situation is what it is, it's just luck.

[@magnusevenrudseeberg4123]

the more i hear about america, the less i want to go there

[@alexiaivan7708]

I’m from Eastern Europe, and I must say that I was somewhat disappointed when I travelled to the US. When waiting to get on a bus with my parents, one dude started screaming at my mom, who was like 2 feet shorter than him, only because her troller accidentally bumped into his. And she apologized, yet he kept being hysterical. Both my father and the bus driver had to intervene.

[@AngelsandDragonfliesAIVideos]

Bad mental health is epidemic in the US. I'm sorry your mum had to go through that.

[@alexiaivan7708]

@@AngelsandDragonfliesAIVideos thank you.

[@angelachouinard4581]

Americans have been brainwashed on a number of levels and a psychotherapist I know says 80% of the population has some mental health issue. Too much toxic food, high stress and poor social values. I don't know where in Eastern Europe you are from but it's a part of the world I always wanted to visit.

[@alexiaivan7708]

@@angelachouinard4581 Romania. And I recommend you visit us. We have many beautiful attractions.

[@lindawick455]

So sorry for that experience..it is definitely not unique to America.

[@L7SProductions]

I've been living in Spain for almost 20 years now, and i was originally born in the US California. and I just wanted to say what this guy says about working in Europe is so true, it is one of the reasons I never went back to the States we live to work, not work to live! that alone is just a wonderful feeling!

[@eldario1677]

Spaniard here, im glad u like our country

[@Da_Sire]

glad you love it here

[@nest1109]

Some landscapes of the Iberian peninsula are similar to California. 😅 So you must feel a little like being in CA.

[@crackpot148]

Surely you mean work to live and not live to work?

[@kimberleyjackson]

The whole health insurance debate never fails to baffle me. I remember one specific thing from my personal experience. At the time, I was in a relationship with an American when I got seriously sick (cancer). I had to go to the hospital, needed surgery and aftercare treatments and so I was sick from work for a couple of months. My partner at the time told me, she would give me money so I could pay for the bills and everything. And I told her, no need, the health insurance is covering it all. I don't have to pay anything. She then proceeded top worry about how I would be able to cover my rent and food for the next couple of months since I couldn't work. Again, I told her, no worries, because my employer will continue to pay my salary as though I was working for 6 weeks, and after that the health insurance will pay me an amount that more or less amounts to 90% of my monthly salary. I am completely fine financially. She was baffled and couldn't believe what I was telling her. She just informed me that if I were in America, I would be broke by now and amass piles of debt that I would probably never be able to pay off in my life. I think this was the first time she heard about how the German healthcare system works and started to doubt the American healthcare system and how the European systems were always demonized by politicians. I am so happy I wasn't born in the United States. Especially illness are nothing which you can control. So in the United States, whether you end up broke from medical bills is entirely up to luck or fate if you wish. You have no control over that. And that is horrible. In Germany, I can say with certainty, that getting seriously sick will never ever result in me amassing hundreds of thousands of euros in debt. And that comes with a relaxation that's indescribable.

[@lollo7417]

To be fair Germany has one of the best healthcare in Europe. There are other state in Europe who have worse healthcare than United States, like Italy. So you are lucky to be born in Germany, not in Europe

[@kasimy9619]

???? wtf are you talking about italy health care system is ranked better than the us where did you find this information ?? every single article and ranking list says that they are better than the us @@lollo7417

[@nicolanobili2113]

@@lollo7417 Sorry, I happen to be Italian and I feel offended by your lack of information. It is true that IN SOME AREAS OF SOUTHERN ITALY there are problems (in all fields, due to the Mafia and the Camorra, mostly), but on the whole, the Italian healthcare system is one of the best in the world. Where I live, in the northern town of Bologna, I rarely have to wait for more than 2 weeks to have a totally free specialized medical consultation, we have one of the most renowned orthopedic institutes in Europe and since I am a medical translator and translate reports every day, I can assure you that throngs of foreigners appreciate how things work.

[@lollo7417]

@@nicolanobili2113 really? I’m Italian I don’t come from the south and I lived in Italy for more than 30 years. I trust what I see and what I experienced and not what other people say. Hospitals do not work at all, and the private consultations are very expensive that many people prefer to stay sick rather than pay to be in debt. And the medical treatments are very old and not efficient. That is the only reason on why I decided to left Italy: to have better healthcare and better doctors. The situation in Italy will not change until there will be Italian people who prefer to hide all the problems for a nationalism: I happen to hear Italian people on KZbin saying that in Italy the salary is 80k-90k and there are many jobs position. 😅. Btw I never experienced mafia or Camorra: it’s the mentality of normal Italian people who must change, they don’t work and if they do, they make bad job just to get the salary . The worst situations in my life I experienced in the Italian hospitals. Never again!

[@massimovolpe1343]

​@@lollo7417dislocated a shoulder in August. Stayed overnight in the hospital, x-ray on arrival, in the morning a visit with the orthopedic, did 2 x-rays in the following month and a half and 2 visits by an orthopedic. Had to pay a grand total of less than 60€, try and do the same in the US then come back with a multiple thousand dollar bill and keep complaining about Italian healthcare. I do live in the north though

[@petemulhearn7787]

In the UK everyone in full time employment is legally entitled to 4 weeks holiday every year plus bank holidays.

[@chiphowell4063]

As a US-American who lived in Europe (Czech Republic and Germany) and who will be returning to live permanently in Central Europe, I can definitely say that upon my return to the USA, I was struck by how much of a plantation this country actually is. In many cases, we're not US Citizens, we're just human resources.

[@easternlights3155]

Czech person here, we'll be happy to have you when you return!

[@williansouza8724]

“the US isn’t a country, it’s a business.” -erm someone, probably

[@SH-gr6pg]

I've been living in Germany since 97', originally from New Jersey and ain't going back!

[@trueSconox]

There is a reason, why I strongly dislike the term "human resource department".

[@eddyvos2628]

​@@trueSconox😂😂😂

[@LupusZockt]

As I was about 14 years old, I traveled for a few to america with my parents. Because we missed the end of summer holidays by a week, my school wanted me to go to an american school for one week. Over all, it was a really interesting experience. But honestly, from a german perspective, seeing these other kids in my temporary class, pledging to a flag... I feld very uncomfortable. As a 14 years old german kid, you know exactly how it looked like at a certain time in germany. And that scene in the classroom, with the kids pledging to the flag, looked familiar in a quite disturbing way.

[@Ronald98]

Join in.. join in.. JOIN IN TO THE PL....[REDACTED]

[@spvillano]

There are old newsreels from the US, in the pre-war years, when Republicans were suggesting bringing fascism to the US to support national unity and a bunch of other forgotten blather. They were making some inroads, when the apple cart got overturned on them by a war. They're back at it again, retreading it and calling it anything but what it is. When I've called a few on that, they resorted to denunciation, claiming that I hate the US. My reply turned their day into a train wreck, "Oh? I must've really messed up, what with serving in two wars, for 28 years in the US Army, retiring from it!". Yep, total uncontrolled derailment.

[@definitelynotatroll246]

No way you went to school in another country for one week, stop the cap bro😂

[@LupusZockt]

@@definitelynotatroll246 I don't understand what you mean. This is nothing unusual o.O

[@spvillano]

@@LupusZockt dud knows everything, from the vast experience acquired upon his Twinkie encrusted couch in his mom's basement.

[@Yendor1224]

As an European child I loved the USA. I always wanted to visit the country. The moment I realized how easy a lot a Americans can be manipulate to believe lies I lost all interest in this country and was very sad. Nowadays I just feel sorry. It is not a bad country at all. I think the problem is the USA can't accept it isn't perfect. Guys, you can love your country and want to change it at the same time! You don't have to put others down to feel better about yourself and the influence your lobbies have is veeeery out of control! A lie doesn't become the truth if you at "because of our freedom" to it.

[@CGHELIPILOT]

I live in the USA and totally agree. I grew up believing we were the best country out there, but now that I’m at the stage of life where I question a lot of things, I’m starting to realize how brainwashed we are. Also I fear for my generation (genZ, mainly Americans) I watched a video of people asking the most basic questions to American teens and I swear our education system isn’t even trying. Some of the questions were: How many moons does the earth have? Name 3 continents If you travel at 60mph (I guess you guys use Kilometer tho so…) if you travel at 60km/h how far do you travel in one hour? And what is 1/4 of a US Dollar. No lie, they didn’t know the answer to any of them.

[@janaegal9746]

@@CGHELIPILOT there's one thing about Americans that other countries lack. If you're fed up, you get on them streets and take the whole world with you. I hope someone does that before WW3

[@BrgArt]

@@CGHELIPILOT "km/h" is our equivalent :)

[@CGHELIPILOT]

@@BrgArt thx

[@darkcognitive]

@@CGHELIPILOT We still use MPH and Miles in the UK.

[@thorstenkettler-thiel1198]

That pledge to the flag photo resembled the N@Zi Salute. No wonder the German exchange student was shocked 🤯

[@DanDanDoe]

That salute hasn't been used since 1942, indeed because of the Nazi and fascist salute. But still, pledging allegiance to your country at school sounds really authoritarian and creepy to me. The only time that was normal in my country was during Nazi occupation.

[@shakawhenthewallsfell8570]

It's a bit embarrassing when you see people in America going "we're number 1" or "this is the best country on earth", when a lot of them have barely left their own state, let alone actually see outside of America. All they know is "we got Canadian pansies to the north, and drug cartels to the south" and "Europe is just a bunch of socialist commies", because that's what they get from political figures of authority, which s then passed down and reinforced through generations. I tried explaining to someone once that Europe is not some socialist commie hellscape. That they are democracies and republics. That their people actually benefit from taxes they pay in through healthcare and education, and that they have the same, if sometimes not more rights; like having mandated vacation time or paid maternity leave. The response I got was that I was brainwashed by the liberal media. Even though I'm originally from Europe, have traveled back to it many times, and have a lot of family members that still live there. In US, I had to work for 5 years at my current employer to get 3 weeks of paid vacation (starting with 2). My European relatives get 26 days on day one, up to 32.

[@gregpettis1113]

You could always go back to your cramped little cities

[@JK-br1mu]

Hardly any Americans have never left their own state..........Americans travel farther than Europeans do, but since Euro countries are so small and packed together, they get credit for traveling to other countries, when Americans don't. Traveling to another state here is like going from France to Germany or France to Italy or Belgium or The Netherlands. Yay, you traveled 200 miles, congratulations, Americans travel much farther all the time.

[@jessicaely2521]

It all depends on the employer. I got 4 weeks vacation after 2 weeks of working there. This is a good thing about an employee owned business. My brother immediately got 4 weeks vacation when he started. This is the good thing about working in a job that has a union. My manager is harassing me to take a vacation before November.. I'm like no thanks. I'll take 4 days at Thankgiving, 2 weeks at Christmas, and the rest close to Easter.

[@Spacemongerr]

@@JK-br1mu The geographial distance travelled does not matter much, that is not the point. A Russian that has travelled 5.000 km (3.100 miles) across half of Russia from Nizhny Novgorod to Irkutsk, has not really gotten the experience of different societies. While travelling 2.800 km from Paris to Istanbul, you visit many different societies.

[@JK-br1mu]

@@Spacemongerr Yes, it does. Euros get credit for visiting a bunch of countries, but they can visit 6 or 7 countries by driving a couple hundred miles or less. Completely bogus, they're not more well-traveled than Americans---they're just packed in tight next to dozens of other countries. Your Russia special case strawman only applies to Russians, next.

[@NeoOnyx]

A person has less (let me repeat: LESS) freedom in America than they would have in Europe. Americans are basically being held captive by their employers, having to work a lot of hours and hardly ever getting any benefits, while in Europe the work-life balance is respected and maintained. As a European the pledging allegiance to the flag seems like something from North-Korea. Americans know almost nothing about the world outside their borders and are being lied to by politicians, so much so, that they firmly believe it. The political spectrum (which isn’t a spectrum when there are just 2 parties), is made to set up people against eachother and to divide the country. Americans are kinda like the proverbial frog that is being cooked to death in slowly boiling water without ever realizing what is happening. Imo America is like a badly run corporation where the rich are getting super rich and the poor are kept poor. When getting sick and a trip to the hospital can get a person to be bankrupt, when people are afraid to call an ambulance because of the costs, when a mother who just gave birth to her baby, gets to pay 39 bucks to hold her own baby… that’s terrible and not normal. Anyway, sorry for ranting/rambling 😊

[@andrew348]

Yes, but what you don't understand sir is the pride of America. In fact, Elon Musk just said that the Chinese not only burn the midnight oil but the 3 a.m. oil. As an American (who lived in England and several other countries for years) all I can say is Americans actually believe the rest of the world is North Korea.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

No apologies necessary. The whole world needs a wakeup call. The UK needs a wakeup call. Power to your elbow.

[@kristerophaphleck3883]

Apparently you'd have to be a supervisor or an incompetent boss to get such glories lmao

[@katb.5859]

You have to pay to hold your own baby? Wtf???

[@kristerophaphleck3883]

@@katb.5859 You're missing the point. He's saying that employers like to take advantage of their employees. Under paying them and handing down hard task without promotion nor reward. It's sad really

[@tardismole]

I can't imagine how the population of an entire country could work without a break. That's not work. That's slavery. Also, the one thing not covered in this video is taxes. I know from my relatives in the US that they are lied to about taxes and what they are used for. In Britain, we get an itemised bill telling us exactly how much goes to what service (ie education, health care, fire service, police, ambulance, benefits, pensions etc). We do not spend six days locked in a room to work out how much tax we should pay. It's already calculated by the tax office and deducted from our income. And food is not taxed at the checkout. It's already included in the price, and some food is not tax at all. Another thing not covered in hte video is the cost of healthcare. The lie told to US citizens is that you have to pay for your hospital/doctor's treatment, even when you have insurance. I find this, having worked as a doctor in the US, so pitiful and cruel. I've had to leave a five-year-old boy untreated for internal bleeding because there was no adult to pay for his treatment. In Europe, if a medical professional ever did that, they would be struck off. Over here, it's not about money. Your only thought is your duty to your patients.

[@NAUM1]

The itemized list is a good idea and having the government figure out the taxes and send you a bill is certainly better. The reason consumer goods are taxed at the checkout is because it is purely a state/local tax and not a national one. That isn't the best reason but that is why. The VAT for the UK is also at least double the highest sales tax rate in the US, which is 9.55% in Louisiana. These taxes on consumer goods are also viewed as a regressive tax since those with lower incomes are spending a bigger portion of their incomes on goods. Also, it depends on the state whether food is taxed. For instance, my state of Iowa doesn't tax all food but really only candy, certain beverages like soda and alcohol, and prepared foods. I can go into the store and buy eggs, milk, beef, pork, peppers, vegetables, fruits, bread, and others and not pay sales tax on it. Lastly, it is illegal to not treat a patient with life-threatening injuries just because they don't have insurance. It would still be great if the US had a better healthcare system, maybe like Switzerland, but just had to share a few misconceptions in your comment.

[@tardismole]

@@NAUM1 Thank you for your opinion, but there are no misconceptions in my comment. I was a doctor in the USA during the late 1980s to early 1990s, specifically LA. The rule was "no insurance, no treatment". The boy was brought in by ambulance. He was the victim of a hit-and-run, reported by another vehicle driver. We had no name, no address and no way to contact his family. The boy died and it was reported in the news. You may look it up if you wish.

[@NAUM1]

@@tardismole And now they have to treat. www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA It does have the flaw of not being funded properly but it is nonetheless a law. Just an example of how things CAN change.

[@spvillano]

@@NAUM1 actually, the law stipulates life saving stabilization only, then they can discharge the patient regardless of likely outcome.

[@NAUM1]

@@spvillano Ok, that is good to know and should be changed.

[@michaelearwaker6521]

As someone from the UK pledging allegiance to any flag is so brain washy to me

[@CallioNyx]

It's scary, right? Gives creepy authoritarian regime vibes.... along with a number of other warning bells about glorifying military service, police being almost at war with the public.. it's the land of freedom. Egalite, liberte, fraternite - scratch two. At least they are proud of the remaining one.

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

and the sad thing is, in regard to what your grandma described - the chance that something happens to tourists in the US is far higher than in european countries because they are used to a certain degree of security that the United States can't provide - when even the people of the US don't feel safe themselves

[@coldheartedtruth1374]

You do realize that by America having more freedoms & laws... Crime rates will be higher. There's several things you could get away with in other countries that wouldn't even be considered a crime or rarely documented. You also have to remind yourself of the population in each country... Some have wayyy less than others. I'd hope the crime rate in those areas would be lower.

[@rendomstranger8698]

@@coldheartedtruth1374 Congratulations. You just spouted complete bullshit. Most places in Europe tend to have far less restrictive laws than the US. Not only that but a lot of minor crimes are simple ignored in Europe as long as they are victimless crimes. Meanwhile, thanks to the for profit prison industry law enforcement in the US is actively looking for anyone they can arrest. And thanks to the lack of training, law enforcement is one of the dangers for tourists from Europe.

[@UnderTheMillkyWay]

@@rendomstranger8698 you do realize that all countries are corrupt liars. If everyone hasn't figured that out then that's on you. If you think your country is any better than America you're still lost. Not one freaking person that is typical has any freaking freedom's. I don't care how you feel about the people because from my travels it's not the people it's their freaking government.

[@bastiaan4129]

You do realize crime rate is usually per capita, so the size of the country doesn't mean jack shit?

[@blackenthesheep]

@@coldheartedtruth1374 Lilithia gave the perfect example, your statment is absolute BS... even if it would be true that we have "less laws" in the EU and THAT is the reason why we have less offenses. She was talking about "something happening to you" and that discribes more or less the same things everywhere. Crimerates obviously dont just compare "number of offenses" but how serious they are and obviously compared to the number of ppl living in a country... And guess what! The US has a wayyyyy higher crimerate especially regarding violent crimes and gun deaths. So you know someone not just "legally stealing your wallet" like it is totally normal outside of the US.... Also regarding your "hope"... you do realize that while the US has more then double the landmass of the EU (NOT Europe as a continent!) there are way more ppl living here... or in numbers: US: 3,797,000 mi² and 330 billion citizens compared to the EU: 1.634.000 mi² with 447 billion citizens...

[@Amberle38]

As a former NHS nurse, that advert about Grandma and these "death panels" made me feel like crying. I thought our politicians in the UK weren't great but that is just straight up evil. I guarantee those politicians in the US know the truth of it, but they lie to their people like that... It just shows so much contempt and lack of empathy - knowing that so many people die because they can't afford a doctor. Healthcare should be a right not a privilege.

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

You give modern politicians too much credit assuming they're not simply wilfully ignorant. Leader politicians are a rare find these days.

[@junglecat_rant]

@Amberle73 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

Aww, what a gorgeous lil cat 😻

[@chipsthedog1]

Thankyou for the work you do ❤️

[@jamdaddy4181]

I think... well I'm convinced big pharma got way to much power in the world, yes in the WORLD ! Nowadays politicians are slaves to the big company's all around the world, filling their pockets. Company's like Microsoft etc too. But that's my opinion.

[@therealikitclaw8124]

I live in Germany. In my school, we had an American exchange student a few years ago and in the first weeks he tried to tell us how we have now freedom and should see America (the glorious greatest country in the world). In the first weeks. After a while we came to chat about his home and his grandparents and... oh boy. I don't know what you guys are telling your people over there but they seemed to think that we barely even invented the wheel here.

[@ianfinney7820]

Let's not forget the world didn't exist before America became America. America invented everything and everyone else stole it from them. Let's also not forget America single handedly won ww1 and ww2.......alone.

[@haileyt857]

They don't allow us to be exposed to other countries and cultures until you are curious enough to go looking yourself! Everything was always about US this and US that in school- they indoctrine you from primary school age onward into *just* thinking about the USA. Any place outside to the USA when portrayed in movies, is normally super underdeveloped and framed as undesirable as the country and it's people are strange and different and 'not American' so it's bad.

[@cj16423]

@@ianfinney7820 you are brainwashed

[@bullet6140]

@@ianfinney7820 America also invented Agriculture, and humans.

[@ianfinney7820]

@@bullet6140 damn I forgot about those. But, as I said mericans invented everything and nothing existed before merica became merica

[@BertrandDunogier]

"your freedom ends where another person's start"

[@ss88sa88]

"Your freedom ends", that's what it means.

[@BertrandDunogier]

@ss88sa88 Yes, it is what it means. Because it is needed by a working sociey. "Freedom" isn't a holy thing, it is something we created. And the fact that we supposedly all deserve it implies that it has limits, it is very simple.

[@Admiralofthedeeps]

Honestly dude, im so glad to see your reaction to all this. As an irish person, who has met loads of americans coming here on holidays, i have always thought their perceptions of the rest of the world vs their own country was so warped.

[@Artemis_Oficina]

Imagine then what Europeans think of Africa if it’s true !!

[@heathenannblackcloud737]

I am a canadian, was married to an american, a Vietnam Vet (RIP Love) and what he told me of the education system, it was propaganda. He only REALLY learned about the US. He was from Wisconsin and did not know where Manitoba was. Super glad he figured it out.

[@Admiralofthedeeps]

@Artemis_Oficina I don't think Europeans have a skewed view of Africa. There are many African immigrants here. I've met Americans, though, that think Africa is a country. Europeans probably have a skewed view of the United States, if anywhere.

[@agnidas5816]

In Canadian History (mandatory) class I got a mark off for saying propaganda is bad. I had the highest grade in that class. We really don't learn fuck all. I only found out about Voltaire from English Lit (not madatory class) and how even back then people thought high interest rates were a problem. Voltaire wrote all kinds of things about society and government and business.... revolutionary things. They were of much greater importance than his plays. We were also taught totally fake facts about the standoff with the natives and the army. I came back to properly investigate it as an adult ... neither side of the story we were told were right. Some natives stole land that other natives were living on by claiming ownership rights while not living there. They sold the land to government. Then ran off with the money and hid in the place they actually live. When developers came the people living there started to fight the invaders. Misunderstanding on both sides. The issue of treating Natives like noble savages who can do no wrong instead of actual humans is not helping. Government uses this to segregate them entirely - especially with the way the benefits work on ethnicity means they cannot marry outside their ethnicity causing bigotry as it is found upon racist ideology. Now their communities are suffering more than ever. They don't know how to live off the land - but they are also not allowed to be Canadian and mix+integrate with the rest of society. Take natives seriously... instead of trying to eradicate them through policy. The Canadian propaganda goes hard. Look Canadas budget . Where do most taxes go every year ? Military industrial complex. @@heathenannblackcloud737

[@shyviking]

@@Artemis_Oficina "Imagine then what Europeans think of Africa if it’s true !!" yes; that is a good comparison. Or, might I add, many peoples' perception of China. I have seen and heard many, MANY people on the net, who thinks it is some kind of North Korea II.

[@dan_kay]

Dude, the German sentence was dope and perfectly pronounced. Other than that: It is literally illegal in Germany to NOT take my vacation time of miniminum 20 work days per year. In other words: You HAVE TO take time off. By law.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

... and he got the dative right! Respect!

[@gregpettis1113]

So you're proud of being lazy

[@dunkel-zombi_fiziert-heit]

you should mention that the words of the law mean SHIT if authorities want to. if your opinion differs from brainwash-gov.truth, you get labled as "nazi", millions of "nazis" at the moment in germany. it is nothing else then reign of totalitarian, and yes, communist, surpression! we "rescue" big money with bio.s of taxmoney by laws they make to feed their buddys and prices rise to heaven with 10% inflation. surpression, incoming social credit system , "vaxx"terror without ANY evidence (remind you about why the nurnberg codex was made). these fascists SH.T on that. right at the moment, we are bein surpressed by fascists and it wont stop. could talk hours about that insane crime going on!

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

Illegal to not take vacation? Seems like a lack of freedom.

[@dan_kay]

@@Anonymous-sb9rr Only in your limited mind.

[@conqc20]

Used to work in a London nightclub and we had 3 american woman that worked there. When i told them they had 3 weeks paid holiday to take by the end of the year they thought i was lying. They didnt believe me. I had to literally get the paperwork to show them that they had these holidays. Was so funny.

[@mamabear71234]

wow. it must have been there first job. Most jobs in America give paid vacation and sick pay every year.

[@jgreijin]

@@mamabear71234 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 76% of American workers have access to PTO, many between 5 and 10 days a year. Thinking you have 5 days vs being said that you have 21. Wonder why they thought they were being lied to...

[@mamabear71234]

@@jgreijin it depends on where you work. And I just can't stand racist afrocentrics. They are toxic. Every country has its pros and cons.

[@gregpettis1113]

I'm American and I get 5 weeks vacation a year. Why are the British so hard on their workers

[@MrMajsterixx]

@@gregpettis1113 how much of it is paid ?

[@BadBoyK_1_M]

It's really nice to see a video of an open minded American! I have friends in Texas that is some of my best friends! However! I've basically had to break their mindsets sometimes! Good video bro! Regards/ Kim from Sweden

[@michinwaygook3684]

Yes as Canadians we have always found the pledge of allegiance downright creepy. My son's U.S. uncle asked how he can show respect to Canada when they are playing our national anthem at a hockey game and I said it was a nice sentiment but not at all necessary. In Canada if you want to stand for the national anthem you can, but if you don't want to you don't have to. To me that is the essence of freedom - choice.

[@cameleonfleuri]

I couldn't agree more! 👍

[@luisacantzler5314]

In my Canadian Highschool I had to stand up and look at the flag every morning while the anthem played

[@cameleonfleuri]

@@luisacantzler5314 Ooooh! Well not in Quebec province.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Canadians and Europeans are much the same. Respect your country. Enjoy your freedom. Equality is king. Love from Norway 🇳🇴

[@inigoacha1166]

In Canada you found a massive native child tomb and you hide it from the rest of the world and nothing happened here. In Canada if you go on strike they block your bank accounts. Acá Nada de nada. Canada similar to Europe ? Jajajajjaja Share the drugs.

[@bernardomacara6284]

DAMM, the phrase '' your freedom ends where someone else begins'' its something i heard so long in my family (portuguese) and its feels really good hearing it from other people so far away from me.

[@axanarahyanda628]

It's from the 4th article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789.

[@ianklinkhamer9720]

My father used to tell me: " you're free to go wherever you please as long as you don't step on someone's toes." Same principle.

[@yannicksittinieri-kz1kj]

Its basically the Point of Anarchy😂

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

that is something most US citizen seem to forget

[@fabioluisguerraferreira1682]

I'm portuguese too, and my mom used to tell me your freedom ends when someone's else's begins. To us, we calculate freedom as a sircle. We have an imaginary circle around us. Your freedom ends when you enter my circle.

[@AntiCranium]

i see america as the worlds largest comedy show and every 4 years a new season comes out

[@connyfaust3301]

America is like a new south park season. :D

[@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

America is just a massive LUNATIC ASYLUM..

[@zymelin21]

@@connyfaust3301 except south park have better script writers!

[@merjakotisaari9046]

In Finland, the working day is 8 hours, 5 days a week, there are 6 weeks of paid vacation, of which 4 in summer and 2 in winter. sick days are paid. Paid maternity leave is one month before the birth of the child and 3 months after the birth, then you can take care of the child at home, with half pay, until the child is 2 years old, and this applies to both the father and the mother, that is, they can take turns in taking care of the child.

[@Korschtal]

I'm a first generation German immigrant, and when I became a citizen I had to pledge to follow the values of the constitution, not a flag. For fairly obvious reasons the idea of allegiance to a flag is seen as very creepy here. By the way, if you come to Germany I'll happily show you my beautiful city of Freiburg im Breisgau. I promise I won't take any of your organs.

[@adamnewman6846]

I would be paying you to take my organs away they are that f**ked up after years of abuse 😂

[@slaughterinthespotlight1669]

Only in Belgium am i right

[@xeraphyx7903]

@@slaughterinthespotlight1669 Honestly I don't even get why Belgium exists. One day we should just partition it between the Netherlands, Germany, and France according the language areas. That way, we can finally call French fries French fries since the French speaking part of Belgium is actually part of France.

[@slaughterinthespotlight1669]

@@xeraphyx7903 i mean i ain't really European but kinda am but yeah i know the geography Abit especially at my age and know the meme culture so yeah screw Belgium YEAH

[@delanovanraalte3646]

@@xeraphyx7903 why give french and Germany anything we should unite the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and Germany should be part of it

[@PabloskyS84]

"America specialized in brainwashing..." I'm from South America and yes! I agree with you! 100% !!

[@kristerophaphleck3883]

They say anything that's not America is satanic

[@milansnewaccount2781]

they say they are trying to kill terrorists in iraq but are just killing civilians and raping people and damaging everything that is iraqi

[@spvillano]

With all of that brainwashing, you'd think we'd have clean minds! Nope, that just ain't happening...

[@jellyrun1]

Every Country does that ,..USA is just most powerful now ,so they do it most.

[@kristerophaphleck3883]

@@jellyrun1 so much poor ppl for a 1st world country don't you think?

[@beatz04]

As a german, how universal healthcare can even be pitched as something bad, let alone "socialist", is beyond me. It makes a day&night difference in terms of overall quality of life, since you don't have to worry about the financial consequences, should something ever happen to you. People don't pile up medical bills here at all.

[@claudiafernandes1150]

I mean you can always go to a private hospital if the public one is full, but you won't be indebt for it, like sure it is expensive as fuck in my opinion but not nearly as much in the US. Right now I am being followed by a private psychiatrist (just a couple of sessions until I can go back to the university one that is free) I felt curious after watching this video how much would I be paying in the US and my wallet cried in portuguese when I saw that the evaluation was about 500 $ and thereafter it would be between 100 and 300$. Like wtf in Portugal I paid 80 euros in the evaluation and it already felt like too much, then I was like "ohhhh here it says this is without insurance. Ok I guess if insurance covers it it is not that bad" then I googled how much was the average health insurance and ... IM SORRY WTF GOOGLE HAS TO BE LYING 560$ PER MONTH!? That is almost twice what you would pay here FOR A WHOLE YEAR!

[@martinponc8021]

You're absolutely right. Even though i personally not incline to left or socialist ideas, accessible healthcare like we have in most European countries (I'm Czech) is the spine of functional modern society.

[@axell964]

Yes, noone really worries here about medical bills. A couple of years back I spent two weeks in a hospital, and sure, I got a bill for that I had to pay out of my own pocket. It was 140€, 10 bucks for every day. And that was only to compensate what I normally would have at least spent on food, so that being in a hospital is no net profit for you :)

[@RIZFERD]

Europe is special for Americans BUT ! Europe is no longer a safe place with so many immigrants especially with problems from Africa and Middle East The longer I am back in Indonesia to me, western world and middle east are the real third world. Even most of you don't know that world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. Real Indonesia is Huge as Russia but much richer. All you know is your mediocre tiny world and boxes your entire life, that's the meaning of black box including what Abrahamic religions wanting to have, including toga square hat/cap during graduation ceremony. My comment is intimidating for thus not prepared for the truth thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better.

[@Kycilak]

As a Czech I would say universal healthcare is socialist. I just don't think that everything socialist is necessarily wrong.

[@jayl_eeva]

When I first heard about the flag pledging thing I didn't believe it. Felt unreal. It gives me the creeps. Also, if I understood correctly, in the US you work yourself to the bone, and once you fall ill or break (because that's what happens when you work too much) : 1) SHAME ON YOU, 2) screw you no one's covering your health bills, 3) and what do you mean you can't come for your shift with a broken leg or two??? Wow. The dream.

[@Tyron95]

Proud of being european and to share the same values with my european brothers from different countryes. (And i don't need to pledge on a flag for that). Greetings from Italy

[@findsch1123]

💙💛💙

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

A flag itself is nothing more than a piece of cloth. It only represents the country, and should as such not be worshipped. Excessive use of symbolism is not of the good. Nazi Germany was a prime example o that being done. Symbols were effectively used to brainwash the masses. An any kind of brainwash is of the negative.

[@sakuriyinn]

Europeans supporting other Europeans, I imagine ! We do sometimes have different standpoints but I think we all have the same opinion about the US lol. Greeting from France

[@DrJimBoston]

Greetings from Poland!

[@Nike_from_Italy]

Anche io saluto i miei fratelli e sorelle europei☺☺ Greetings from Italy as well❤❤❤❤

[@sallyomahony7440]

The death panel one infuriates me. My dad died at the age of 96 and his treatment over the last 20 years of his life must have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. We’re talking enlarged prostate, skin cancer (several times), several hospital admissions for falls, kidney disease, heart disease... As someone who only had his pension and a few thousand in savings, how long do you think he would have lasted in the USA?

[@MartialGlobe]

The debt would have probably been life altering aswell

[@teros7146]

its a one night stand in the hospital, just for the bed you already pay all youre savings.

[@PolarBear4]

My Grandpop is 96 and somehow still alive despite having a bunch of medical problems (I say somehow as he' been struggling so much since my Nana died at the start of covid - not covid related). The closest he's ever come to a "death panel" was when he was 89. He was rushed into hospital unwell and they found he had bowel cancer. The doctor came to speak to him and gave him the option of palliative care and living for (most likely) a few weeks, or having surgery to remove it and because he was very high risk, potentially dying on the table that afternoon. After talking as a family he opted for the surgery on the grounds of he has little to lose and at least if he was going to die it would be with no pain rather than it dragging on. The anaesthetist wasn't necessarily thrilled because of how high risk he was, but they did the surgery and he survived. If death panels existed here then there's no way he'd have been allowed that surgery.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Yes we pay for our health services through taxes. But its pooled money so people who are lucky to be healthy pay the same as people who are unlucky and have cancer or diabetes etc . I would rather live in such a society than one where sick people live in fear of poverty.

[@SniperKing5]

As a European who's never been to the US but has interacted with Americans a lot online and on my travels, i was familiar with a lot of these issues without ever even having visited the country. I suppose that says something about how ingrained these things are in your society :/ Oh and for the record, don't downplay yourself for not having a college degree man. This video was insightful and showed that you have a stellar ability to practice critical thinking, thanks for an interesting watch!

[@JustinPratt1]

Some feelings I had after traveling out of the US for a year. I noticed the media and the vibe outside the US was very global. You heard of things happening in all these countries and news from everywhere. Also borders were much less armed and strict, basically more friendly. Also a lot less of a police culture of cops hiding on the highways waiting to bust you for any move you make on the road. Then I came back to the US and felt like I was entering a north korea lite police state. Getting back into my own country was a three step process and militarized, police everywhere watching what you are doing, news is mainly US slanted. Felt like I was being cut off from everything else in the world. I felt far less 'free' as I came back. I now live out of the US and feel more free than ever.

[@xXYannuschXx]

" I noticed the media and the vibe outside the US was very global. You heard of things happening in all these countries and news from everywhere. Also borders were much less armed and strict, basically more friendly." - I think thats one of the biggest problems in the US. To the average US citizen, the US is all there is in the "world" due to how the media works. The US also doesnt border a ton of other countries with different cultures you can just travel to in the matter of a single day. If you dont have a comparison to your country, its hard to find its faults.

[@scotthullinger4684]

Still traveling, Justin Pratt? Maybe you've permanently re-located to Europe? After all, why wouldn't you? Because Europe is SO much better, yes?

[@JustinPratt1]

@@scotthullinger4684 oh, yeah. I don't live in the US any longer. I also still travel a lot.

[@scotthullinger4684]

@@xXYannuschXx - The USA has at least 30 million illegal aliens. This alone is one hell of a good reason to limit easy access into our nation. And in your spare time ... tell me about media I can access in order to "learn all about the world." Where can I read it? Give me a sample of what you believe I don't know about the world. What am I uneducated about? For example ... ? And WHY should I know it?

[@MR-xo1bh]

​@@scotthullinger4684correct, it most definitely is

[@pholliez]

I’m American who lives in Australia (very similar to Europe in many ways) I will never go back to 10 days holiday and my healthcare provider being tied to my employer. Not to mention I don’t fear being shot when I go to the movies or shopping. NEVER!!

[@orcishhorde]

You risk being punched in the face by a kangaroo though :P

[@Shimmering_rain]

​@@orcishhordeor jumped by a drop bear.

[@SparkShadow212]

​@@orcishhordeWhere's your sense of adventure?

[@scotthullinger4684]

It depends on which city and state you live in - Where I live ... there's nothing but an infinitesimally small chance of experiencing what you suggest, and the reason for that is because I'm not infested by idiot Democrats who royally f*ck up everything in sight. I live among Republicans. You know, the only SANE variety of citizen.

[@azzajames7661]

It is similar in Australia as it is formerly a British colony, like America was, too,...ect We live under the English Common Law, and so we have our freedoms😜

[@kaitomikusmom3900]

„As I grew older and I grew the rest of my brain“ …had me bursting out in tears lol 😂 …Not everyone can say that about themselves. Good for you!

[@Subject.13]

I randomly stumbled upon this video as it appeared in my feed, but I just want to say it was a nice listen. You're very clever and level headed, keep it up 👍

[@RoastChestnut]

Good video. I moved to Germany from the UK in 1981, using our freedom to travel and work. I just love it and cannot for the life of me think why anyone would be against it. I am willing to pay into my health insurance all my life, helping people who are sick while I am healthy, it's just the right thing to do. Who knows when I will need help. I am now 68 years old and you know what. I still have my own kidneys. 🤣

[@HaurakiVet]

I have heard Americans (more affluent) say that the thing they have against socialized (free) healthcare is that they don't see why they should pay for other people's health costs. Ummm.. do they understand how insurance works? If you pay into an insurance scheme and due to being fortunate to have good health make no claim on it you are paying for other people's health care. Like all insurance profit comes from lack of claims against policy payments. Where our socialised system works more efficiently is that by size it is able to better negotiate cost for medicines and money that would otherwise go in profit or administration is instead used in providing services.

[@RoastChestnut]

@Josia Vantroyen KZbin is great. I engage in the comments, on subjects that interest me quite often, as do many of my friends and acquaintances. I also have a PS 5, which I’m on quite a bit. 🤣

[@HaurakiVet]

@Josia Vantroyen actually 76. I ain't dead!

[@KT-pv3kl]

Wait till your kidneys fail and you need a new one and instead of having funds to expedite the process you are put on a waiting list and the 15 economic migrants infront of you that never payed a single cent into the healthcare system get one before you and there is nothing you can do about it because the system is oh so "fair"...

[@RoastChestnut]

@@KT-pv3kl Well firstly I don’t think my kidneys are going to fail for a good while yet. Secondly I have never seen much evidence of economic migrants being put on a list purely for them being what they are. Surely, the way I see it practiced here in Germany, is the more severe the need, the more people are advanced up the list. Of course richer people have better healthcare but that has always been the case. I am an eternal optimist so I can’t agree with your way of thinking anyway.

[@crilleman7186]

I am from Sweden. My first real vacation was after I had worked 2 months at that company. The CEO came out to me and asked if I wanted a 4-week vacation, and I replied that I could not afford to take unpaid vacation (in Sweden you usually have to work a year at a company to get a 5-week paid vacation. ) The CEO laughed and said "we will pay the 4 weeks if you work here for at least five years. You have to be tired after starting a new job". SO I ended up having a nice vacation after only 2 months, and guess what I still work at the same company 7 years later.

[@erikstolzenberger1517]

Oh wow James...that first picture with the children "pledging allegiance" to the flag...as a german, it sent me shivers down my spine...

[@briansedlacek1963]

Ja, es ist verrückt.. But 'muricans gotta 'murica i guess..

[@sopcannon]

To be honest I thought it looked like Nazi Germany.

[@erikstolzenberger1517]

@@sopcannon Yep, that's what I thought...remember that nazism was fashionable in the US during the 30s...

[@xenotypos]

It wasn't a big deal, before the nazis did this sign. There was nothing really wrong with it, especially at the time when every country in the world was very nationalist (maybe as a defense mechanism against other nationalisms).

[@erikstolzenberger1517]

@@xenotypos Well, the phase of ultranationalism was the late stage of colonialism...everyone tried to secure their "assets" against everyone else

[@RobinAsp77]

Freedom of having a gun is like freedom of hate. Something people debate to have a right to even though it hurts other people.

[@johnyn2482]

In times of war, you'll remember how great it is to have your own weapon.

[@mortenrl1946]

I remember being on foreign exchange in Ohio and that whole flag pledging thing. They allowed me to stay seated, although it felt super weird to be the only one. It *definitely* has some ultranationalist vibes to most of us Eurotards, and it just seems strange and incongruent with the rest of American culture. The other thing that struck me was medical ads on TV for prescription meds - "ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THIS PILL NOW!" - From my perspective, if I am seriously ill, wouldn't my doctor be the one to diagnose and determine the correct treatment? Like wtf?

[@ianpodmore9666]

That's why they have thousands of deaths from Fentanyl overdoses every year. They dish em out like smarties. I watched a documentary on the company that makes Fentanyl, where they paid/bribed doctors to get Fentanyl patients onto the maximum dose. It is disgusting and immoral.

[@ginkamikaze2]

they have like 3-4 versions of the same exact pill depending on the pharmaceutical company that's making it and selling it, that's why they say to ask your doctor about that specific pill, so you don't buy the competition's pill XD pledging allegiance to a flag sure sounds better to me than learning about being trans from your teacher and "inclusion"... if u have kids would you want them to pledge allegiance to a flag or learn to be "inclusive"?

[@mortenrl1946]

@@ginkamikaze2 the crt stuff is way worse but that wasn't around 15yrs ago when i visited

[@KristianLyubenovYT]

@@ginkamikaze2 realistically neither should be a thing but the US is fucking weird so what do I know

[@marcomobson]

@@ginkamikaze2 How's living in your cave? 😂

[@sugarwoofle6067]

First, I am American and I also grew up believing Europe was evil and people hated us because we are so free.... I now live in Belgium for awhile now and I've had more freedom here than America lol. I never understood how someone could be proud of their country. Until I came to a country where I felt that I mattered. To me, Belgium is my heart and my home. Even if I wasn't born here. All in all I agree with all these statements 💯% and having experienced more cultures since leaving America has truly given me a vast group of amazing, culturally different friends. I love and cherish them all.

[@trueSconox]

the US citzens are some the most enslaved people on this planet. As they made them self's slaves of capitalism.

[@findsch1123]

who told you Europeans hated us Americans because of the freedom? Hearing this for the first time :(

[@fabien2430]

I never understood, how someone can think "people hate us because we are so free". At worst people just don't care at all of you, how can someone be so egocentric to believe that the rest of the world hate you. This is the brain washing effect that make me fear.

[@nabsbil]

Welcome to Belgium 🙂

[@jlessien3826]

Welcome to Belgium

[@SciDOCMBC]

Due to our past, we Germans feel very uncomfortable when someone fanatically swears by a national flag. The Nazis in particular showed what hatred can build up towards other people if you only believe in your own nationality. Under no circumstances must this period be repeated. Another great war this time will certainly not end with a peace treaty. If we continue to allow hatred towards others, we will certainly not get a second chance this time, and by that I don't just mean only us Germans. Great video👍

[@Vickzq]

Germany now is the opposite... with certain leftwing clowns that tried to ban german flag in public.

[@bastik.3011]

To bad some Germans forgot that message

[@Vickzq]

@@bastik.3011 The thing germans forgot is that all kind of extremism is bad... and leftwing extremism is not compensating ANYTHING.

[@bastik.3011]

@@Vickzq that too

[@SciDOCMBC]

@@bastik.3011 als Deutscher solltest Du wissen, dass es solche Ausnahme-Idioten in jeden Land gibt. Das ist aber nicht meine Schuld.

[@trisa014]

I don't know if it is in all of Europe, but here in Serbia, the hospital is obliged to treat you even if you are homeless. Health insurance is taken from everyone's salary and all residents have the right to health care and treatment regardless of their financial situation. The state is legally obliged to treat you

[@AshPlays85]

Hungary is the same. Every serious issue must be treated regardless of your housing or insurance. Every citizen have insurance and the worst that could happen is that it is suspended if not paid. In this case you have to pay for the treatments AFTER you were treated or just settle the late fees of your insurance. I had to do the latter once.

[@nicklenz7030]

Some further reading regarding the flag allegiance: In Friedrich Schiller's drama "Willhelm Tell", Tell refuses to salute to the hat of Fürst (some kind of duke) Gessler. You can see that 250 years ago Schiller wrote about the absurdity to salute to an item as a gesture of submission.

[@1aboPLZ]

Müsste ich für die Schule gelesenen haben 😂 Edit: Die Arbeit war immerhin noch ne 3+

[@germaniatv1870]

Right. Never salute to a "item", rather salute to "Humanity", a "Ideal", salute to your people of the Nation. Salute to God. But never to a "item" a "idol" or a flag that represents the (a) Colonial-Empire. Flags change, even the Germans 33-45 knew that. You do know they speculated changing the flag with the windmill right? 😀 I have read something saying that it was a "Politisches Soldatentum" that fought Allied occupation & Versailles and the illegal annexation of Schlesien,Pomern,Danzig & Co i 1917. - So i ask this: If Schiller would have lived through the 1st World War, Versailles,Balfour and the ethnic cleansing of the real east Germany... what would he have written? - You know the Allied have the order to open,shun,plunder & destroy the tombs of Schiller,Goethe & Co? Did you hear what the Allied did in Aachen with the heritage of Karl der Grosse? - What would Schiller have thought then? Would he have supported the ethnic cleansing,plunder, annexation and destruction of Germany for releasing itself from Versailles & Allied-International rule over Germany? - What do you think? Was 1933 the one and only Bloodless revolution in European history? 🙂 Let me know.

[@countofmontechristo6507]

@@germaniatv1870 Maybe if the germans had done so without following a certain extremist party led by a certain austrian, whose only political plan involved starting a war he could not win and happily murdering his way though the continent. And calling the events of 1933 a "peaceful" revolution is just dumb. Considering said extremist party not only immediately started putting up camps, arresting and murdering its opponents, it also literally purged itself in 1934.

[@CDWerth]

Ei, da hat sich jemand die 13 wohltuenden Bergkräuter reihenweise durch die Nase gezogen XD

[@germaniatv1870]

@@CDWerth 😄

[@Aer0dynam1cc]

I'm Dutch, I lived in the U.S. for a year, doing a Master's. I had a great time there, but I regularly watched the news when I just got there and it's just so different to 'European' news. Watching the news (CNN, Fox, doesn't matter) made me so anxious, I just had to stop, there's so much fearmongering. I kind of understood better why Americans (on the whole, not picking on individuals) are more scared of things outside of their country. If you get such a lethal daily dose of fear fed, no wonder you don't want to leave (and thus don't get to see how the media misrepresent matters)

[@Julia-lk8jn]

@@Aer0dynam1cc What would you say is better in the US? I was there for a year, and I loved all the stuff to see, but nonexistent public transport = being completely isolated without a car was tough.

[@janaegal9746]

Don't wanna be an American Idi*** Don't want a nation controlled by the media :D And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mindf*** America 😂 Best song by greenday

[@danharold3087]

@@Julia-lk8jn I agree on the car thing. Living in the US without one is difficult outside of a few large cities I would not care to live in.

[@darkwarriors...]

In the UK ths BBC news is scary as crap, it's always war and roadmen stabbings and child killing and weather causing storms and fires, it's always like they're telling us the world is going to end. Now with Russia attacking Ukraine and China attacking Taiwan it's now a horror film

[@alalalus7692]

@goblo023 To be fair you don't need high grade public transport, just better and more busses should be enough for inner city or town transit (which is normally not affected by county size). But I heard that plenty of Americans have to travel distances beyond just city roads for their needs like work and shopping, so perhaps the problem is not even about public transport

[@diegomartinez7180]

I have an anecdote from some 20 years ago. My mom and a close friend broke their arms roughly at the same time (about a year apart). My friend had gone to live to the US one year before this happened, my mom lived here. My mom broke her arm outside a restaurant, it was around 7:00 PM. I called an ambulance which carried her to the nearest hospital where she received all the help she needed, she was diagnosed, treated (x-rays, exams, procedures, hospitalization for 3 days), her arm was placed into a special cast due to the severeness of the fracture, and all of this was paid by the healthcare system without any hassles. She had to pay for some perks that ended up costing an equivalent of around $300 USD. She had to stop working for three months because she broke her right arm and, being right-handed, she couldn't do much. Her employer kept paying her during all this ordeal and when she was cleared to go back to work, she was given time off to go to physical therapy to regain full mobility. Her employer didn't even flinch. My friend broke his arm at his workplace. It was his fault, he did something stupid. His employer called an ambulance that came really fast and took him to the nearest hospital where he was diagnosed and treated. He had to undergo surgery and had to wear a cast for a few months, and, likewise, he wasn't able to work because he could not use his right arm. He had a basic insurance that covered part of his ordeal, but, he was laid off his work for "failing to show up", so he had no income for a while. The ambulance and some portions of the medical care that were not covered by the insurance costed him more than $20.000 USD, so he had to ask his family and friends to help cover his bills. He had to live from his parent's money until he recovered (his parents lived here so they sent him money for food, but not much more). No therapy was given to him because he had lost his insurance as he was not working any more. He had other expenses like the rent and other stuff that doubled his whole debt while he was able to go back to work. Some time later he said he did everything wrong. He was new in the US so he didn't know better. He should have gone by himself to the hospital (he "only" had a broken arm so he could have gone there on his own), he should have gone to a less fancy hospital which would have given him a similar attention for, maybe, half the price. He should have showed up at work immediately after, just to make it look like he was still present. He should have blamed his employer for the accident because he would've had access to his employer's insurance which would've covered a lot more (even if it was his fault, it still happened while he was working). When we talked about this many years later, I just couldn't believe he was justifying it all, thinking he could have "done better". No man, you got injured, all you needed to do at the time was to get treated and start healing. But no, he was already "part of the system" and thinking the only one to blame was himself. It took him almost a decade to fulfill all his debts, especially with family and friends.

[@xiii0722]

Thank you for sharing

[@vericacvetkovic9093]

OMG!!!!!

[@andynieuwenhuis7833]

NOW IF that accident had Happen in ANY PROVINCE in Canada, The Ambulance ride MAY have cost $ 20.00 Canadian. However The Hospital bill Would've been $00,000.HE Would've been covered by WORKER COMPENSATION to get money, and got the Therapy to keep his job and Apparent.

[@ryanmatheson5137]

As someone who worked in healthcare for his entire working life, one of the most disturbing things ive heard is when taking an American friend to the emergency room was "would you like to leave a deposit?" Yeah no ill stick to a country with free at the point of use healthcare thanks.

[@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

What??? 😂😂 that's absolutely bizzare

[@handsomejack1179]

My English teacher once told us a story from her travelling to the US. She told us, that she travels there every year on vacation and heard questions from Americans like: Do you have flowing water and toilets with water at your homes in Europe? And what I witnessed was an American from Texas on a plane to Paris. He asked me, why only the police had guns on them and why there weren't any shootings in the two weeks, he stayed at Germany. I tried to explain to him, that we, besides the fact, that there are crimes with guns sometimes in Germany, haven't got so many shootings BECAUSE only the police and some highly regulated security firmes are allowed to carry firearms or any else weapons. He didn't understand it, I think.

[@sheireland3737]

In Ireland the police don’t even have guns!

[@5tre55full]

Are you really patronizing US over gun control! Hitler applied gun control and then killed 10 mil People . If there would be 100 victims per day in the US they would need 300 Years to catch up

[@korozif4140]

French here, and our revolutionaries would have agree with this Texas guy, we should have had this article in our constitution which guarantees that every man has the right to have a weapon but the constitutional council of 1792 concluded that no citizen would find it tolerable to live in a state where the police are more armed than the citizens, we finally lost this right in 1939 on a temporary decree to avoid insurrections; USA have a very high crime rate anyway, guns or not, it is way higher than most of Europe so it's not a good example to conclude that weapons are a bad things for citizens. "Every citizen has the right to have weapons at home, and to use them, either for common defense or for his own defense, against any illegal aggression which would endanger his life, limbs, or the freedom of one or more citizens. My colleagues have all agreed that the right declared in this article is evident in its nature, and one of the principal guarantors of political and civil liberty; that no other institution can replace it; that it is impossible to imagine an aristocracy more terrible than that which would be established in a state, simply because one part of the citizens would be armed and the other would not be; that all contrary reasonings are futile sophisms contradicted by the facts, since no country is more peaceful and offers better police than those where the nation is armed." Mirabeau, his exact terms Watch out Poland, gun instructor have the right to carry a gun when they go to give lesson which is obviously diverted from its initial goal and it's way safer than UK, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland have a lot of weapons and it's one of the safer countries in the world

[@danielpeckham5520]

Same in Australia, mass shootings are very very rare.

[@5tre55full]

@@danielpeckham5520 how many masa shootings through history? Prior they enslaved you?

[@4455thor]

I'm Dane and we have 37 hours a week working. And we have 5 weeks of holidays per year, after 3 years, in the same firm, we have additional 5 days off. 3 weeks is prefered to be used during summer: like May to August, in one block. Some firms are testing 30 hrs/weeks at the same pay and it actually is MORE PRODUCTIVE!

[@oreiller4184]

Not in the workforce but I think it makes sense that less hours make you more productive. You get more time to rest, to focus on other things so you're less stressed and can work more efficiently. Win-win.

[@tuluppampam]

Studies have shown that anything more than 4 hours a day becomes less productive. Just do the math about how much time you really have in a day: at least 8 hours of sleep, so actually you have 16h awake. Then you take away 8 hours for work every day (minus the days off, which are needed). So you get 8 hours of "free time". Now you need to eat. If you wanna live healthily (because store stuff has lots of unnecessary ingredients), you should cook your own food, so as to avoid lots of problems. That takes longer, and you at least have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'll assume that takes 2 hours. So now you have 6 hours. But you have to go to work, and such a commute can take any time. And you have to do stuff in the house too. That takes away time. You basically have no time left after accounting for everything, so it becomes obvious that less hours are more productive (and you can't expect someone to be productive when they have to do the same stuff for a third of their day)

[@shyviking]

Yes; that is a pretty accurate description of Denmark. In many fields, we get the 5 additional "feriefridage"-days right from the start, though. So 6 weeks/year. Of course, not everything here is perfect. Sometimes, we could use a little less "There 's a problem - let's pay more in tax, and let the public sector fix it", and a little more "I will fix it myself".

[@scotthullinger4684]

You won't convince any sane person that working 30 hours per week is MORE productive than working 37 hours per week.

[@4455thor]

​@@scotthullinger4684it depends. If you share office with others and they take your calls, when you're particularly concentrated on a project. If you take THEIR calls when they need to concentrate. This has been agreed on early in the day then yes, it can be done.

[@bamfyfe]

We have the same horror stories here in europe about america. But they are so outlandish and crazy that we don´t believe them anyway. Like way too crazy to be true. For example, in america you HAVE to tipp to pay for the waiters wage. Because the restaurant is trying to save money so they dont pay them a proper wage. Too crazy to believe!

[@karspostema2762]

But that one is actually true xD

[@vaska1999]

It's 100% true.

[@soulangela7154]

​@@karspostema2762 r/woosh

[@Piet-ps3jm]

They have wooden walls, potholes, poverty, crime and school shootings. Not to mention the education and healthcare

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I got told that Americans have to pay for an AMBULANCE which must be fake because no country in there right mind would be that cruel ??

[@timritthanondh9614]

Thank you so much for this Mr. Bray! Not only for putting things clear about some strange myths circulating in America but first and foremost for showing us (germans in my case) that not all Americans are some kind of brainwashed capitols-storming zombies we see in our television. I think this is a very important thing .

[@Fuzz82]

The funniest thing I ever heard about my country (The Netherlands) was on FOX NEWS. It was about elderly people having to wear bracelets saying 'Do not euthanize me'. Becausse elderly people in the Netherlands were said to be euthanised as a standard when they come to the hospital. The funny thing is that it is more like the other way around. Some elderly people have made a contract that they don't want any CPR when something happens. Not becausse they are depressed. They probably wouldn't even be able to make a form like that if they are depressed. It is just becausse they think they are old enough, and just want to go without anyone messing with them. Which I think is actually quite fair.

[@karspostema2762]

Wauw hier heb ik niks van gehoord wtf

[@Fuzz82]

@@karspostema2762 Ik vond het wel een grappig verslag. :D

[@md_studios9819]

Fox News is Fox News dus wees niet verbaasd

[@bronzecobra8556]

Yeah it’s good to be comfortable when it’s time to move on.

[@mackwiz1]

Canada has euthanisa. But America has not yet realised it.

[@Lorlen88]

"Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, daß er tun kann, was er will, sondern daß er nicht tun muß, was er nicht will." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Edit] "Man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[@georgejob2156]

Social Contract

[@georgejob2156]

I read Political Science at both Further Education college here in Scotland and at University later. My favourite political philosopher, John Stewart Mill , secondary, John Locke. Moderation .

[@edipires15]

First time that I see a quote from a Frenchman in German on an American video 😅

[@Lorlen88]

@@edipires15 The World is getting smaller with the Internet ;)

[@flopjul3022]

@@edipires15 technically the video is german(he recorded this in Germany, i assume), but its in American English

[@SandraSine40]

I as European really noticed in patriotic American movies from the mid 20th century how twisted their view of Europe/Europeans is. and its true as a kid I wanted to try live in America and to experience the world biggest land of mixed culture, all the different fast food brands, snack foods, cheaper technology, huge houses, driven in enormous cars in the middle of nowhere to night life in cities. and most of all me and my friend wanted to visit LA. then my dream started crashing down when I saw the whole village of homeless people on that beautiful beach in LA, it felt like looking at third world country and not one of the best known towns in the world where all the idols and movie stars of the world lived in enormous riches. then everything else snowballed America now seems like the culture of consumerism and waist, dangerous people with drug and guns.

[@alexnaranjo4411]

There a thing where coming from a person who live in la these parts of fault come from political correctness of our one party government the best way to put it as everyone froM European come to us think it one country with just different in land and geography but no think as ever state as there own country and each county as a province and that the great US is the idea to become yes we have homeless but there in certain areas because of that when people come they think it all of California but it not go north you won’t see much of it go south to San Diego you won’t see much LA is a wonderful place but just having a bad time if you want a historic account we could say the same thing about Europe 30 to 40 years ago or was it 50 can’t remember off the top of my head it was a disaster and it took time to rebuild it self and when it did it became what it is today I would say go to other state no just one idea of American also reason we pledge to the flag is because it is a ideas. That we must reach it supposed to be what we are to become it not supposed to be brainwashed but I can see where it comes from but ask an American what the flag means and they say the say thing if you ask them what is America that where you get a different answer depending on state and region of said state again think of each state as it own country it help out getting how we are and plus just the size of each state is a country size

[@gerritvalkering1068]

@@alexnaranjo4411 I kinda see what you mean, but you're not helping your case. First of all, I'm not sure what image was given about Europe 40 to 30 years ago, but things were booming. 60, 70 years ago, just after ww2, things weren't. There still weren't the same homeless camps. Regardless, Europe has dragged itself up as a highly relevant economic area while taking pretty decent care of the people. The US, for this whole time, has been the richest country on the planet, and hasn't managed the same. Maybe it will change in the future, signs so far point to 'negative'. Europeans are indeed not aware about the intricacies of how the states and counties work in the US. Some states or counties do their best to alleviate the homeless problem, some don't, some can't afford to. You still won't be able to explain this to someone from Europe, because they would consider this a sign of a failing economy and country, wherever it is, and demand action is taken on the national level. Explaining that the federal government doesn't have the power or authority to do anything like that, and even state governments don't, would sound like madness. On the size, yes, most states are the size of, or bigger than, a country in Europe. Yet European countries, who often have been at war and are all looking out for their own interests first, generally work better together than US states. Well done. I never get why this is brought up so often. The pledge of allegiance is fine as an adult fully knowing what it means. It will mean something different for everyone. What is NOT fine is forcing (yes, forcing) children to do it every morning they are at school. It should be something you do, as an adult, fully knowing and understanding the values you attribute to the pledge and the aspirations it represents. Right now, it's 95% indoctrination.

[@alexnaranjo4411]

@@gerritvalkering1068 sorry about years part now that I re read what I said it was not the best put as for an argument what I meant was pre world war 2 there was lots of bad thing and the US since I would say 80 coming down 2000 where steady not fully embraced if strong economy but after our recession we haven’t fully recovered sadly and I not saying it an excuse and yes Europe had a shit ton of money put into it pre World War Two so that help and yes there doing way better and I would say have amazing times with it self right now economy but it has a few signs that it is going down the main reasons of homelessness in LA is due to housing cost but honestly it’s self done anyone that live in la knows it overcrowded and it has expanded to comps are to take care of the need and wants of it’s people housing is a want but they want a house well where already over crowded stacking our self into apartment cause that fills more people for what small space there is also if people moved in ward into the states which has been seeing a slow down of people going homeless slowing more jobs and other industries to spring up in the valley and inner region of Cali and other states making place such as hemet into complete city’s now and the housing is steady and comparably cheaper but people want to stay in la and loose and it is kinda there faults and most people in America don’t want to solve our homelessness problem cause honestly it mostly a waste the majority that come into homelessness are people that need help yes but there also a large population of junkies who are hooked and it goes how do you help someone who doesn’t want help pour in lots of money which could be put into better areas but hey that just me as well as setting up these people with jobs and that why many programs come up to give them jobs but they say no and then do what ever they want and take free money we give and it gets tireding to do it 7.2 billion dollars plus an additional 3.3 from other charities and that doesn’t even include other charities such as church’s and local charities which I know there plenty of said also I won’t be going into the flag but I do think kids should I mean as a kid I did and some did many of my peers but hey that’s just me

[@alexnaranjo4411]

@@gerritvalkering1068 also our homeless problems most comes into the years 1990- to present day which I say is pretty long but also very short in grand scheme of things

[@alexnaranjo4411]

@@gerritvalkering1068 and to the states part you mentioned yes but unlike Europe the US is a constitutional federal public with a presidential system and then congress with each state having different laws controlled by two parts and all having I mean very different cultures and ideas and not to say Europe doesn’t but with that two party system makes it a bitch to do anything for us it constant fight with both lucky there may be a thirds party form which will help out in this degree and there some what moderates in turns of our political beliefs and seeing what Europe sees as a weak economy is often seen as opportunities in that states yes we bicker about it but people here more so are waiting for land price drops and buy it or even houses industry and it usually picks us up but again the US is having a hard time but not as hard as it made out to be are some of our stuff shitty hell yea is it fixable fuck ya can we fix it yes way way easy are our party’s wanting too no people want to help but there only some much the people can do in these contested areas that are beyond over filled

[@TomE-sq2lq]

We also get whats called ;"the right to buy" which is where after 7years living in a council house you can buy it for about 40% of the market value

[@joko8441]

I love reading all these comments of open minded people from all over the world. Thank you so much for showing that Germany is not just it´s history.

[@labelmail]

I think ----- Thank you so much for showing that Germany is not just a 12-year history out of 1050 ------ would have been more vivid AND precise

[@WannabeShady90]

Our history - 33-45 is actually pretty decent. We kicked the Romans' asses, build the new Holy Roman Empire and the German Empire was pretty great as well - world's first social security system, great scientists, strong military, one of the most modern railroad systems, gamechanging inventions ...look at all the economic scientists for example: They were basically all germans.

[@shadowswithin702]

Na Germans are great.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Every nation is primarily is it's history. Germans tried to take over our country and in several times they attacked us without provocation, many times they attacked us when we had a fight with our common enemies and the germans doing this for thousand years now. And it would be insane to assume they will not gonna do that again when the american occupation is over. They also try to control Europe and when WW2 was over and the EU was established guess what, the germans tried to controll the EU and now they are doing it. The migrant crisis in the EU happened because Germany invited the migrants into Europe and their influence is overwhelming. So you are wrong. Every nation is primarily it's history and Germany is still want to take over Europe they just not doing it with weapons this time.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@WannabeShady90 You didn't kicked the Romans' asses, they took half of your territory and they Romanized you. The Romans kicked your ass. The Holy Roman Empire wasn't Holy, Roman or Empire and the German Empire was just as inhumane as the British and the French if this is what great means. And what happened in WW2 is not some accident, the Nazis were supported by the majority of the german population and what you did and how you behaved during WW2 is what you are when you are the sole superpower of a continent. Nothing shows a nation soul clearer than when they are unchallanged in power. And you were unchallanged till the early 40's and it shows. And you didn't changed, you still think you are superior.

[@Mobbin25]

The flag thing is absolutely creepy. I didn't know Americans force their kids to do that every morning in school. I think your description of it feeling very cult-like is quite fitting. As a German I have a feeling that the time such a thing was practiced in German schools was during the nazi aera.

[@ita6444]

Sadly this is also true in Greece and most probably in some other places in eastern Europe, even though I'm not certain about it. In Greece we used to sing the national anthem every morning while the flag was raised. Didn't think much of it back then but I really hate it now

[@cameleonfleuri]

@Mobbin25 I totally agree with you!!!

[@aelfycarcini3992]

Sadly, that's true of any authoritarian nationalism, whichever side it is. I find sad enough that people spend their lives making a few persons billionaires, when the system doesn't guarantee wealth redistribution.

[@MajinVegeto89]

USA has a strong sense of national pride because that has been totally necessary, seeing as USA is basically built by immigration it was needed to have something that binded people together, which has been the flag, the nation and the national identity of being an American. The motto of America is "E Pluribus Unum"; one from many, basically talking about the melting pot, the idea that you have people from different origins and backgrounds, brought together into one nation, sharing one common national identity regardless if they are italian-amerians, irish-americans, afro-americans, swedish-americans etc etc. Without something that binds people together, there would be divisiveness and conflict, like what happened in former Jugoslavia which ended in collapse and civil war. No it's not "cult like" to show loyalty to your nation, but you are german so I guess you are probably brainwashed with self loathing and cultural marxism.

[@cameleonfleuri]

@@MajinVegeto89 But in Canada it's the same, the country is formed by a bunch of immigrants from different countries and natives, still we don't commemorate the flag , sing the anthem at school or anything thing of the kind. And yet, we're proud of beeing Canadians.

[@RobertClaeson]

Not allowing staff, or even deterring staff, from taking their annual holiday allowance would simply be a breach of law. In UK and Ireland it's 20 days a year (not including public holidays) whereas in most of the rest of Europe it's 25+ days. Sweden, for one, requires employers to allow for a minimum of four weeks of continuous time off in the summer.

[@Mr_Seppo]

Its not like that in sweden, you can take out 5 weeks of leave if you want and it doesnt have to be continious, you can portion it up how ever you want it, some people like winter more than summers so why couldnt they take there leave in winter?, its good for the company if everyone doesnt take there leave at same time, you can even save leave days to use later on but you can only save them for 3 years and if you dont take them out they will pay you the amount you have saved but thats bad for you becouse you have to pay taxes for that money you will loose on it becouse you´r payed leave is taxfree.Been there, done that, learned the hard way.

[@pink_alligator]

​@@Mr_Seppo Most do want you to take a semester tho, taking most of your leave in succession, it also makes it easier to get a stand-in if you need one. It depends on how high the demand is for your job I'm guessing with how flexible they'll be willing to be about it but only so many can be gone at one time so ofc taking time off during winter is totally fine if not encouraged. They most Definitely don't want to have to pay you extra tho and well like you pretty much said it's not even really worth it on your part either

[@camilla7246]

@@Mr_Seppo You don’t have to take your vacation days in the summer but by law you have the right to four continuous weeks of vacation during the summer. And you have to take a minimum of 20 days of in a year.

[@clelia7820]

In Italy there are 28 days, of which 2 weeks must be continuous.

[@dinastanford7779]

And you don't take sick leave from holiday allowance. No limit on sick leave.

[@noldusiusgondusius]

I don’t understand the freedom of needing to have a gun, why would you need a gun if only people with a license can have a gun?

[@daedalron]

That 2nd amendment was passed at a time when there was no police force in the US. So they needed guns in the communities to protect themselves. There's really no point to that amendment in modern times...

[@johnyn2482]

In times of war, you'll remember how great it is to have your own weapon.

[@ss88sa88]

Without a gun u can't be free idiot, it's so sad that u don't understand how we are not free here...

[@jatava00]

Here in Finland for example in my town Fingersoft (a gaming company) has an option to work for 80% of the normal time for 90% salary. Which means 6 hour work days for only 10% paycut. And what they found out was that people are more productive and hard working with flexible hours. Less work means that people get more work done. And I think not a single employer in the USA could never understand that

[@EmpireOfLEMBERG]

What😂 fingersoft is a town s name,how

[@EmpireOfLEMBERG]

Just name some rovaniemi or tapalasaura htf is the name,or it s only a football team😂

[@LivegoodWilliam]

I remember when I was In America we would have a discussion about Obama care, and how I think he wanted to make gun laws similar to the UK. After a few of those conversations amongst others. I decided to return to the UK. Before I went to America I used to take what I had for granted. Now I am back in the UK I appreciate everything I have...especially the "freedoms"

[@TheSleightDoctor]

Great vid and commentary. I'm a Brit living in the UK who was recently assaulted in an attempted mugging, causing mild but significant concussion. Not only did I get as many weeks paid leave as was needed off work (as advised by my doctor) I took myself to the hospital and got full obs, including bloods and a CT scan. Not only did any of the medical advice or treatment I received cost me a penny, I actually got paid to recover! As a Brit, I don't really understand how working your ass off only to be made bankrupt by something beyond your control, really counts as "freedom". Sounds like slavery to me, and pledging allegiance to a flag sounds like enforced nationalistic subservience and obedience - also not "freedom".

[@laurencesmith1435]

I'm a brit, living in the UK and am a fabricator/engineer, and I don't get paid sick unless I go ssp and get £76 a week. I had to take out private healthcare at £94 a month because I can't get an appointment with the nhs at all. I always end up with at least 10 days holiday unused and unpaid because I can't afford time off.

[@TheSleightDoctor]

@@laurencesmith1435 Sorry to hear that brother, I really am. Pretty sure that violates national and European employment law, and your company could do with a union.

[@clare1179.]

​​@@TheSleightDoctor actually its not.SSP = Statutory Sick Pay, which is a government paid sick leave, and it's not much. But we do get 21 days of paid holiday

[@TheSleightDoctor]

@@clare1179. Weird, I've never had a single day off sick in my life that I didn't get *full* pay for, even after the 7-day self-certification ended. Provided its doctor's orders and is backed up by a sick note, every permanent employer I've ever had has granted full pay. I've never had to claim stat sick. The only exceptions have been temp working via agencies or zero-hours contracts. The rise of zero-hours contracts over the past few years is precisely *because* it frees employers of any obligation to their employees. It's a move towards an American-style, hire-'n'-fire-'em ethos.

[@paper4501]

I get what you're saying ultimately, but it isn't free. It's only free if you aren't working. People are forced to pay for it - right or wrong, that's not what I'm saying - but it isn't free.

[@danielwesterlund1905]

No other country has overthrown so many democracies in the defense of democracy.

[@mffmoniz2948]

Simple boring lesson at school. We got told: your rights end where another person's rights begin. I find it insane that for an american that's something new. Swearing allegiance to the flag. PTSD vibes with that one. Health in America? Paid vacation? Maternity leave? Almost all the countries in the world pity you.

[@millymiu]

here from Italy. Everything you discussed is true. and for the rest of the world, is terrible to look at the level of brainwashing you Americans receive from every party and in every context. we are watching you fall, and we also sadly see how your culture is influencing us every day through internet and shows, bringing us down too. I'm always happy when I found some of you with their mind and eyes open, ready to serach for real informations, ready to speak out and share some truth and culture. I wish there were more people like you. In USA there is so much talking about cultural appropriation for example, but do they know other cultures? Their history? do they ever spoke to them? the original ones, not the third generations born in USA that basically are just USA citizens. even when things like this come out with probably the intention of respecting others...at the end it's done with a great ignorance. it only create division, suspect and fear among people.

[@heathenannblackcloud737]

try living to the north with WAAAY less population. Hell, California has more population than ALL of Canada. Think about that. And people get pissed about immigration? I say, please come!! PLEASE!!!!!

[@righteousmammon9011]

Watching us fall? Europe is literally going extinct. I’ve lived in Germany and Italy. My wife is German. The US has a higher HDI compared to the EU. The US economy is 1/3 larger than the EU, despite having over 100 million less people. The US has the highest median disposable income in the world. Europe is becoming Arab and African.

[@millymiu]

@@righteousmammon9011 the majority of Americans are poor, struggle to live and working without having a decent healthcare system or days off both for illnesses or just because. Just to not touch the social topic, it is a real hell to live there. You're the first one that I know that lived in Europe and still prefer the USA. I'm Italian and we always talk bad about it, cause it's true we have our problems and we're not brainwashed to think our country is perfect, but honestly after spending some time in USA, I'm happy I live in Europe. And Italy is the worst country in Europe to live in food apart.

[@righteousmammon9011]

93% of Americans have health insurance. Of the 7% that don't, they're either young students in University that never signed up, or recent immigrants. If you're poor in America, you get Medicaid. I've had Robotic Open Heart Surgery and shoulder surgery and I've paid 0 dollars for both. the majority of Americans are not poor. The median family makes 70,000 USD a year. That's the 50th percentile. Meaning 50 percent make more, and 50 percent make less. My German wife makes 3x more money in the US than in Germany. Many of your preconceived ideas about America are so exaggerated beyond reality. @@millymiu

[@rosebronikowski2022]

​@@millymiu I live in a rural area , small towns nearby have 2,000 and 8,000 people, many people earn around $12 or $13 per hour(24,000 or 26,000 per year). Many have few benefits. Plus is that violent crime is not common, maybe because most people know everyone and most are related somehow if you go back a few generations. Ethnicity is from many countries in Europe. Most people like it here but hate the politics. I have shut off the news since the 2020 election as it was all rigged and has been for decades. Took this long to realize that we are owned by the corporations and are just their serfs. What we see on the news is just a dog and pony show. DC is a joke run by the rich oligarchs.

[@Nothin-but-the-blues]

One of the greatest problems in the US is the extremly distinctive system of lobbyism. As long as employers, oil companies, the armament industry, the GM food industry and others are allowed to support promising candidates with horrendous sums of money there will be no change. Under any other circumstances this would be called corruption.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Corruption is rife n the UK also. Main Stream Media is dominated by the likes of Murdoch et al.

[@brs4018]

We have similar problems in Germany. Lobbyism is legal corruption and one reason for that is that the list of the lobbyists is not public. And you don't have to report donations under 10000 Euros. The only difference to the U.S. is the scale.

[@SonnyMeadows]

Absolutely 💯 % correct...it's disgusting

[@Robbedem]

Lobbying on itself isn't as much of a problem. The real problem in the USA is not the lobbying, it's the bribing politicians by corporations paying their election campagins.

[@spvillano]

Lobbyism and campaign contributions that add up in an election, into the tens of billions now. Campaign contributions isn't lobbyism, it's a side business and frankly, a bribe.

[@LaraLoroffrichard]

As a German I have never seen the flag in my classroom and have never said a pledge till I moved to the USA and it was creepy as hell

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm British and back in 1980, I was visiting family in Florida with my Gran. Because the schools were still in term, I got to go and spend a day at a US school. They did the stand up, put hand, in a fist over the heart and pledge to the flag. I just watched and got dagger eyes from some of the pupils for not joining in. Then the teacher introduced me to the class and I asked her why were they worshipping the flag (I went to a church linked primary school in Scotland and was familiar with that sort of worship). She said it wasn't worship, it was to do with loyalty and pride in their country. I think I just said ok or something and she moved on with the lessons. I still find thay having observed that for real in my youth, always felt wrong and as I got older, that wrong feeling has gotten stronger.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

First of all it is weird you had to go to school for one day, it clearly show the school system is not for teaching it is for making the kid used to the system. To be a good brick in the wall later. Second, it is what it is, they worship that flag and that worship is really unhealthy. You as a child saw that and the adult teacher failed to recognise it.

[@rav04o2]

I wasn't born in the USA, so I might not fully understand the nuances. However, I believe that for people who are familiar with the historical context, the act is about showing respect to those who have sacrificed their lives. I don't think it's about the flag, but about what it does represent. - > kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5LbeIGHepqNgqM

[@SirPano85]

@@rav04o2 There is a word NATIONALISM, try to learn it, how it was created and why...... You don't really know how this world is running.

[@rav04o2]

​@@SirPano85 The term "nationalism" originates from the Latin word "natio," meaning "people" or "nation." Its modern concept as a political ideology began shaping in the late 18th to early 19th centuries, focusing on collective identity, right to self-govern, shared culture, and national sovereignty. In 20th Century It played a role in both World Wars and was a significant factor in the decolonization movements that led to the independence of many nations from colonial rule. So how can you see the nationalism can be both good and bad. The negative connotation exists because of the EXTREME forms of nationalism in Germany and Italy in the mid-20th cent. While we all can agree that extreme forms of nationalism are bad for everyone, then I would like to ask you what is wrong with promoting the idea of nationhood and collective identity in a country of immigrants? If moderate nationalism in the country of immigrants is bad, then the only other option is to promote division along ethnic, cultural, national, and racial lines. Did I miss anything?

[@SirPano85]

@@rav04o2 Because nationalism was made and is still most used for military purpose. Nationalism as you say was created during the Napoleonic Wars to make possible massive conscription and it's bad too because it's a part of an old saying: "Divide et Impera". And just to answer you: as i can see nationalism don't wotk well in USA because there are more ethnic, cultural,national and racial divisions there then in most of the european countries. Nationalism can be good only when it means "respect for the place and people around you", but then there are others words to say that. The people that died for nationalism died to let the richest people be more rich, wars are made for economic interests and fought with money, how can you respect this?

[@saihsbaxton5979]

"someone would yeet out my organs" That's why we smoke and drink, so no one can use our organs. Just kidneying :D

[@lycos94]

It's so insane to me that there are Americans out there that say we don't have things like freedom of speech here in Europe, and it's even more insane that other Americans actually believe that

[@bronzecobra8556]

Yeah it’s weird, I feel like Europe is pretty progressive and that that should be common knowledge in the U.S. Especially considering the level of socialist policies that tend to help their societies function better in terms of community care.

[@SIPEROTH]

Unfortunately they are right. We don't. We think we do until we realize we don't when the police shows at our door over offensive Facebook post or hate speech or supposed fake news etc. In the Eu we have hate speech laws and fake news laws etc that give the governments power to oppress our free speech. The supreme court in the US though has rejected the idea of hate speech.

[@johnyn2482]

@@bronzecobra8556 Communism is the best XD Full socialism, maybe you'll live to see it.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Congratulations to both your reaction and the the guy you are reacting to. Both were well presented and reasoned. I am Australian by the way (and I subscribed)

[@singingcat02]

2:22 "As I got older, and I grew the rest of my brain" this is the truest sentence I've ever heard 😂