Brother Blades Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Happy Birthday America. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 What's this "no minimum wage" shit? We borrowed their idea, as on many things. Like most countries i can't see the US as inherently good or bad. Sure, they egged us on into illegally invading iraq but then they made It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Multiple mass shootings vs the cheeseburger. Support for Israeli occupation vs Surfer Rosa. Etc I think we should also recognise that the US military's willingness to take WW1 scale casualties in WW2 was critical to the survival of democracy, however flawed current versions may be. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, coprolite said: What's this "no minimum wage" shit? There is one. Federal minimum wage for a tipped job - so waiters, bar staff etc - is $2.15, which is why they work for their tips. For an untipped job - everything else basically - it’s $7.25 States and cities are allowed to set their own tho. In Illinois as a whole, that goes to $8 and $12 for tipped and untipped and then in Cook County (Chicago, essentially), it’s $9 and $15. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Hillonearth said: The cultural faultlines now run so deep that down the line I wouldn't be 100% surprised if the whole shebang breaks up in a Yugoslavia-style scenario, with the relatively more liberal - and affluent - west coast and north-east going their own ways and leaving the shithole states to morph into Gilead If - if - that ever happens it's a long, long way off. Too many vested interests for the USA to break up like that, imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 12 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: There is one. Federal minimum wage for a tipped job - so waiters, bar staff etc - is $2.15, which is why they work for their tips. For an untipped job - everything else basically - it’s $7.25 States and cities are allowed to set their own tho. In Illinois as a whole, that goes to $8 and $12 for tipped and untipped and then in Cook County (Chicago, essentially), it’s $9 and $15. Socialism 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 45 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: No NHS - Great No minimum wage- Great Tipping culture- Great You don’t sound as if you’re much of a go- getter. Socialist Scotland is the place for you. I wonder how my health insurance (and premiums) would have held out these last 3 years - 4 different monthly prescriptions, now augmented by another 4, a month's hospitalisation, multiple x-rays, at least 4 scans, 3 ecgs, 4 hormone implants per year at £400.00 a skite, glaucoma tests, consultations with 3 different specialists, a month's radiotherapy treatment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Although we unfortunately have racism here, it's nowhere near as bad as it is in the US. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 hour ago, coprolite said: What's this "no minimum wage" shit? We borrowed their idea, as on many things. Like most countries i can't see the US as inherently good or bad. Sure, they egged us on into illegally invading iraq but then they made It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Multiple mass shootings vs the cheeseburger. Support for Israeli occupation vs Surfer Rosa. Etc I think we should also recognise that the US military's willingness to take WW1 scale casualties in WW2 was critical to the survival of democracy, however flawed current versions may be. Maybe if they had been a bit more accurate with their artillery fire they could have reduced that a wee bit... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: Maybe if they had been a bit more accurate with their artillery fire they could have reduced that a wee bit... Shooting big guns a lot is more important than pointing them the right way. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said: Socialist Scotland would be ideal. Hope we get it soon Aye, SS has a ring to it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 An absolute shitehole of a place. It's genuinely mental why anyone would move there from another country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, TheScarf said: An absolute shitehole of a place. It's genuinely mental why anyone would move there from another country. It depends where they're coming from - plenty shitholes worse then the USA hard as that is to believe. Also, too many folk fall for the hype and the "American Dream" stuff that may have been true 50 years ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Just now, hk blues said: It depends where they're coming from - plenty shitholes worse then the USA hard as that is to believe. Also, too many folk fall for the hype and the "American Dream" stuff that may have been true 50 years ago. I mean from anywhere brother. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, TheScarf said: An absolute shitehole of a place. It's genuinely mental why anyone would move there from another country. They're even worse (partly because of American policies). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, TheScarf said: I mean from anywhere brother. Where I am now, it's pretty much the dream of many to move to the US and marry a rich American (all Americans are rich of course) and they've seen and heard so many others who have done that. However, those who have may be being more than economical with the truth and paint a picture not exactly in line with reality. And, they only hear from the "successful" ones and the less successful are never heard from again so there's little or no balance. To many it really does appear to be a utopia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 13 minutes ago, TheScarf said: An absolute shitehole of a place. It's genuinely mental why anyone would move there from another country. Even from Forres? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 hour ago, DA Baracus said: Although we unfortunately have racism here, it's nowhere near as bad as it is in the US. The big thing that stops me using racism as a stick to beat the USA with too much is the fact that it was the result of slavery and the triangular trade, which built some awfy nice buildings in Glasgow. It is brutal though and no amount of representation at the highest level can distract from it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Aye, SS has a ring to it. Poblachd-Dheamocratach na h-Alba a charaid! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I wonder how my health insurance (and premiums) would have held out these last 3 years - 4 different monthly prescriptions, now augmented by another 4, a month's hospitalisation, multiple x-rays, at least 4 scans, 3 ecgs, 4 hormone implants per year at £400.00 a skite, glaucoma tests, consultations with 3 different specialists, a month's radiotherapy treatment.He doesn't actually believe that. He's just an attention-seeking welt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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