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Canada is very different from the US in many ways relevant to this post.
Canada doesn't have "at will" work. Medicine is purchased by the government with immense buying power. Canada has anti-hate laws that supercede free speech, and still have the right to protest and assemble (which has basically been removed in the US). Women's health is protected, and hopefully soon they will offer free hygiene products for women. Maternity/paternity leave is protected. No abortion bans here. Weed is legal, and harm reduction therapy is a common thing.
I could go on but i feel like you just wanted to cringe at people who don't think the US is a proper "developed" country.
You are also wrong about the economy being controlled by a few. When there is actually only a few, like dictators, they come and take your entire crops for almost nothing, which is an unthinkable tax rate for democracies. You don't get education, and you don't get highways or drinking water. These things are offered to you because the government needs productive citizens to make money. It's The rules for rulers. Democracies are complicated and full of corruption specifically because it takes many people to do anything, not a few.
Tl;dr It takes 2 seconds of research to see you are wrong on every point.
I think you have not understood me when I explicitly agreed with the point - twice in the same post.
What did you even "research" (and why/how was that new to you)?
Ok try not to trip over backpedaling there.
You said you cringed at comparing the US to Canada because it's the same shade of grey. It's not. That's what we're talking about, it doesn't matter that you agree with the post in general.
I didn't need to research, because I'm not an ignorant idiot who speaks about countries they know nothing about. You on the other hand, could have done some research before making shit up. There's literally a 20 minute educational video in my link, watch it, that's considered researching this information..
Even if not in direct comparison, they aren't the same shade of grey at all. Canada is comparable to Europe, not the US. And yes they are all late stage capitalistic nations, congrats on that astute observation. It doesn't mean you aren't wrong
Side topic: I find it very interesting that mods will not act against toxic comments like these that obviously use ad hominem but will remove a lot of comments that are critical of ideas that the mods support simply for existing. Go figure.
The rules are pretty clear. It's okay to say someone is acting like an idiot, and it's not ok to call someone an idiot.. i dont necessarily agree, but them are the rules
When they say they "cringe" at what the person said, it means they feel second hand embarrassment. It's saying theyre embarassing. Is that some toxic ad hominem that should get you banned?
No, no, the redditor has got a point, I am not disputing the fact that I'm an idiot at all.
(But yes about that you said. Then again I don't know much about mod tools, like if there is word flagging, or even how many mods there are.)
And you're using "the redditor" not as a toxic ad hominem right?
I'm not a redditor anymore, i left the very day RIF stopped working.
It was your (I guess by your judgement toxic) nickname here ... @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ... that I was referring to.
Which is totally not relevant to the conversation, which is what an ad hominem is, which is what the other person was saying. You only said "the redditor" as an insult.
Yes my name has reddit in it, but it also has wanderer lol, because i have been wandering since. I wouldn't expect you to get it though.
:)
Unless by "Europe" you mean UK, which Im again going to bunch in with Canada and USA.
So now youre going to dismiss everything you said, and make a new point.
Tell us, oh wise one, why what I just said doesn't compare to other European countries except the UK? Tell me why I don't understand these other countries I've lived? The other comparisons here were France. Tell.me the democratic differences between france and canada? Germany? Spain? Italy?
Or just ridicule yourself again and make a different point.
If youre thinking about sweden and finland, that's not "most european countries".
Oh noo, I ridiculed myself by, um, making a point about what you pointed out in such a civilised manner?
Also what new point?
I was reapplying to "the first two points" (labour laws and housing), this is what this whole thread is about.
Otherwise due to historical reasons one could bunch Europe countries in the previous centuries in roughly two groups, one that went way into what became capitalism (mostly fueled & sustained by colonialism) and the other bunch that invested into state socialism (what Bismarck did or his vision was & countries modeled their policies by). Ofc there were wars, rise & fall of dictatorships/one-party systems, and each country is a separate unique story with its own nuances, but the general division kinda stayed (it's hard to take away rights from people) and is still evident: wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spending.
It makes all the difference how the policies are implemented and used. Like 'how much' social security covers, how much is done on housing policies/projects, etc. Or - eg payed maternity (or even sick) leave, sure you can group by 'can has' and 'can not has', but a difference between one week and year(s) is basically a different system and culture altogether. I mention this specifically as iirc Canada generally takes care of it's moms to come slightly closer to what your are saying in and effort to be good at communicating & not leaving (accidentally) negative feelings all around.
:)
Cmon buddy. You went from saying the US and Canada are the same shade of grey and not comparable to europe. Then you said "comparable to UK maybe". And now we're arguing what defines europe and what amount of weeks defines maternity leave.
This is called moving the goalpost, and youve done it enough lmao.
Go away now, you aren't making arguments in good faith
Lol, my bad, Canada is Europe and is of yellow shade, I apologise, your intellect is so too very superior to mine that I cannot even, please have all the points.
Also its called a soccer-post over here in Europe.
But over in England they call it grey-goal-post.