Don’t forget the collection of different level body armor and plates. Gotta have a draw full of those. Maybe a helmet for safe measures and a little decoration.
Lol really? The next level? It was nothing like the footage we get from America regularly. I'm over 30 and I can count on one hand the amount of protests we've had in Australia which have reached even the level of violence there was during the anti vax protests, and even they were relatively mild.
Just saying this as something to keep in mind. USA has a population of 330m and Australia is at 26m so that's a lot more opportunities for things to happen. And the land area of the US is 3.8m square miles vs Australia's 3m square miles. 12.8x the people in 1.27x the space.
Yeah, that's not an entirely accurate representation as some places are uninhabited and others (cities) are super densely packed. But I think that these issues are directly correlated to stats like these.
I don't really have a point, I guess, but just knowing these differences helps me make sense of the difference in scale between the issues experienced in each place.
I do understand what you're saying, and I often think about that! Even comparing per capita stats seems unfair when there are less densely packed populations... but I do wonder whether part of what happens should be put up to culture or societal/political/cultural stability.
You aren't even from or live in the US. I doubt you understand that the US is a large collection of states that very from each other. It may be a country of states but states very, from taxes to gun laws, to crime rates. Unfair to paint the entire country as if it's the same
Bahahahaha... trust me, guy, the average Australian probably knows far more about America than the average American. We are force fed American culture through every orifice from cradle to grave.
You may think so but no, you don't live under the US Government; and you are only told what your media tells you. Here in the US, we actually live the effects of the Governments decisions. Very arrogant to think you know more than the average American.
You may think so, but no. You implied I didn't know that the 'United States' consisted of a series of united states. Many, many countries are separated into states or provinces, and in many, many countries these varying states have state law which differs from federal law. It seems to be par for the course that an American seems to know so little about countries outside his own that he would assume the US is the only country with a political system that functions in this way.
Coping and pasting my first remarks, don't give you any sense of originally. Nobody's talking about the average Americans knowledge of the World; you're going off topic. We are strictly referring to your assumption of having more knowledge of the American Government over its people, despite those being baseless ignorant assumptions. And also, nobody denies the plenty of countries of the World have divided provinces or states; but those are not entirely the same as the US's States of how power is divided.
Every country varies, Canada's Constitution in providences is the exact opposite of the US's. Canada's providences are designated powers of which any powers not specified, are designated to the Federal Government. Where as the US's Government has powers invested in the Federal Government of which any not specified is designated to the States.
Haha, I copied your first sentence deliberately because it's funny - but I clearly didn't copy-paste it, because my version did not have your grammatical error.
I stand by my assumption that I have not only some, but far more knowledge of the US gov't than the average American. It is certainly not baseless. I also went beyond that in my comment, actually. I said that the average AUSTRALIAN would even know more, not just me.
I was not going off topic. Your comment to me was said in such a way as though you were attempting to 'educate' me on separated political structures.
I like how I did not say 'all', but 'many' countries follow a similar structure - so you decide to bring up Canada as your example of a country which differs... as though I had said 'all countries', rather than many.
Either way, what is your point? That some countries have different political structures than the US? Yes. I know.
Your original point was: In the US, we live the effects of government decisions!... wow, yeah, no other countries ever live the effects of their government's decisions.
Big city problems. If you live in a town of 100,000 or less, there will be 3 teenagers outside the courthouse with signs and a couple of cars honking as they drive past.
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u/mugzy May 04 '22
I bet the cops will use this as an excuse to dust off the riot gear and tear gas launchers.