The US is worse by the numbers and yet the US is the UK's fault Like, what the US is is the UK's colonists sent to do their dirty work they couldn't stomach directly - genocide and slavery - while they still profited from it And in a sense that's more contemptible https://twitter.com/innesmck/status/1340591238001664000 …
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And for that Americans held an ancient hatred and contempt for their parent country, and you couldn't even blame them Like Orwell quitting his job as a cop in India full of self-loathing and self-pity and then came to despise the people back home even more
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"Anyone else can judge me but not you I did it FOR YOU, you stupid old man"
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Like fuck I'm so sick of Brits going off about how they have the NHS because they're a smarter, more rational and compassionate society than the US Americans are a subspecies of people who are just too stupid and greedy to see that it's the right thing to do Seriously fuck you
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No, you know what the difference is? The UK passed socialized medicine because they felt they could pay for it from the profits of colonial exploitation abroad for a population of mostly white people in Britain The NHS was bought with the spoils of Empire
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The US has very substantial ethnic minority populations consisting of the descendants of people who were enslaved and trafficked here and people from whom the land was seized Socialized medicine would be redistribution of wealth from colonizers to colonized So they said no
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The thing they did instead of socialized or single-payer medicine, employer-provided group health insurance, they did specifically because that's LIKE socialized health care but something you can limit to a subset of the population
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Everyone who, say, worked at Ford could be treated *as though* they lived in a social democracy with a welfare safety net, they could gatekeep Black people from working there and pretend they didn't exist, and in the prosperity of the 50s they thought that could last forever
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It's race It's always race, which is to say it's always the legacy of colonization, genocide and slavery, which is something that Brits get to pretend doesn't affect them because they did it and turned around and walked away
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NHS would've been a much harder sell to the British voting populace if it applied to the whole population of India too, wouldn't it? Or the former possessions in the Caribbean? Or if the AmRev hadn't happened and you had to pay for healthcare for Black people in Alabama
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But no, they divested from Empire when it got too troublesome and expensive, kept the money, went into retirement and tried to pretend they've always been one of the nice countries Cracking their shitty jokes "Indigenous studies? Well here English history IS indigenous", har har
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