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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by perl4ever on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:00AM (#23361240)
Ranking countries is not the point; the point is that people who endlessly lecture on why the US is inferior have no particular preference for whether 30,000 more or fewer Americans die, so rhetoric pretending to be concerned about highway deaths seems vapid and insincere.

You seem to be confirming that you are one of those people for whom a conversation that mentions the US can have no fixed point other than how inferior it is to Europe or the Nordic countries. Which is what I'm annoyed by. It's the lack of genuine dialog that is the issue.

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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by exclusiv on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:41PM (#23365017)
Agreed. If you just believed it all, you'd think Nordic countries never do anything wrong and other countries should just do what they do. But they're in a league of their own. And sorry to say but it's minor leagues in the world stage. You can't just mimic what might work there if you're in a completely different league.
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