Can anyone debunk this?

[Cyberman]

-Polar bears are not white. Their fur is actually translucent, similar to snow, and can take on the hue of whatever light they happen to find themselves in.

-"Survival of the fittest" does not mean "the winner is the one left standing". Fittest means "most appropriate for the niche which the species occupies". Humans are a social, herd animal - all else being equal, we survive best as a group.

-Cursing, in the swearing sense, isn't merely invoking a magic name. It derives from the swearing of oaths, as in taking 'sacred' words "in vain" and turning them profane. Hence "bloody" is a linguistically slurred "by our lady"; "strewth" is originally "(by) god's truth"; the sadly archaic "zounds" and "odds bodkins" come from "(by) god's wounds" and "(by) god's bodkins" respectively. Saying "Jesus Christ" is a similar act of profanity. Not all people even say that anyway, or if they do they add a flourish - "Jesus fucking Christ on a spunky cracker", for example.

-Humans didn't evolve from primates, we are primates. If the internet exists, why do we still have stupid people?

-Richard Dawkins does not believe we were made by aliens; and nor did he believe that when Ben Stein quote mined him for his paranoid propaganda wankfest. He was asked if he could think of a possible scenario in which intelligent design might conceivably be true, and out of fairness he came up with a scenario involving an actual intelligence plausibly capable of meeting the requirements for a designer. Then he went on to clarify that even in this scenario, the designers would have to come from somewhere; so if they were themselves designed, then those designers would again have to come from somewhere else. Eventually you are faced with the original designers having to have evolved through some analogous process of Darwinian natural selection - and you 'only' have the current lifetime of the Universe to play with. It didn't take much for the egregious Stein to twist that into "Richard Dawkins, the respected biologist and atheist leader, believes in aliens?!" It takes even less for mouth-breathing idiots to swallow the shit whole and then go back for seconds.

I would like my prize in the red ones please, as long as they're made from real blood. Babies' blood for preference.

[Edwardo Piet]

Can anyone debunk this?

Yes.

Can someone provide a rebuttal?

Yes.

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Lol! No seriously it's easily debunkable but it hardly requires debunking. Why would anyone want to debunk it? Lol.

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[KevinM1]

American exceptionalism is pretty stupid, and I say that as an American. "We're #1" largely because we were able to easily expand our borders due to a combination of a lot of things (being an ocean away from the rest of the civilized world, being able to subjugate the natives, etc.). We became a world power because our war machine economy was profitable and innovative, and because we didn't need to spend time/money/people trying to rebuild after a couple World Wars. We've maintained our dominance through alliances and military campaigns.

Indeed, if there's one thing this era of global terrorism is proving, it's that our way of maintaining power that worked from the 1950s through at least the 70s or 80s - allying with despots and warlords who are more than happy to take our money for their natural resources (Saudi Arabia), fighting proxy wars by training and supplying local populations (Afghanistan), and toppling governments who won't play ball and replacing them with puppets (Iran, much more recently Iraq) - no longer works. Pissed off people from around the globe can now reach us. And man, are they pissed.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

American exceptionalism is pretty stupid, and I say that as an American.  "We're #1" largely because we were able to easily expand our borders due to a combination of a lot of things (being an ocean away from the rest of the civilized world, being able to subjugate the natives, etc.).  We became a world power because our war machine economy was profitable and innovative, and because we didn't need to spend time/money/people trying to rebuild after a couple World Wars.  We've maintained our dominance through alliances and military campaigns.

Indeed, if there's one thing this era of global terrorism is proving, it's that our way of maintaining power that worked from the 1950s through at least the 70s or 80s - allying with despots and warlords who are more than happy to take our money for their natural resources (Saudi Arabia), fighting proxy wars by training and supplying local populations (Afghanistan), and toppling governments who won't play ball and replacing them with puppets (Iran, much more recently Iraq) - no longer works.  Pissed off people from around the globe can now reach us.  And man, are they pissed.

Why didn't any of the South American countries ever achieve something comparable to what America achieved?

[quip]

Can someone provide a rebuttal?

There is no direct rebuttal. 

Such is - by design - premised upon a set of unassailable (and unsupported) proclamation. Which exists as it's own fatal rejoinder.

[KevinM1]

American exceptionalism is pretty stupid, and I say that as an American.  "We're #1" largely because we were able to easily expand our borders due to a combination of a lot of things (being an ocean away from the rest of the civilized world, being able to subjugate the natives, etc.).  We became a world power because our war machine economy was profitable and innovative, and because we didn't need to spend time/money/people trying to rebuild after a couple World Wars.  We've maintained our dominance through alliances and military campaigns.

Indeed, if there's one thing this era of global terrorism is proving, it's that our way of maintaining power that worked from the 1950s through at least the 70s or 80s - allying with despots and warlords who are more than happy to take our money for their natural resources (Saudi Arabia), fighting proxy wars by training and supplying local populations (Afghanistan), and toppling governments who won't play ball and replacing them with puppets (Iran, much more recently Iraq) - no longer works.  Pissed off people from around the globe can now reach us.  And man, are they pissed.

Why didn't any of the South American countries ever achieve something comparable to what America achieved?

According to this, mostly because of economic reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Amer...rld_War_II

[Aegon]

American exceptionalism is pretty stupid, and I say that as an American.  "We're #1" largely because we were able to easily expand our borders due to a combination of a lot of things (being an ocean away from the rest of the civilized world, being able to subjugate the natives, etc.).  We became a world power because our war machine economy was profitable and innovative, and because we didn't need to spend time/money/people trying to rebuild after a couple World Wars.  We've maintained our dominance through alliances and military campaigns.

Indeed, if there's one thing this era of global terrorism is proving, it's that our way of maintaining power that worked from the 1950s through at least the 70s or 80s - allying with despots and warlords who are more than happy to take our money for their natural resources (Saudi Arabia), fighting proxy wars by training and supplying local populations (Afghanistan), and toppling governments who won't play ball and replacing them with puppets (Iran, much more recently Iraq) - no longer works.  Pissed off people from around the globe can now reach us.  And man, are they pissed.

Why didn't any of the South American countries ever achieve something comparable to what America achieved?

I think this is a more complicated question than you realize.

[Minimalist]

Why didn't any of the South American countries ever achieve something comparable to what America achieved?

They did not coordinate their revolutions against Spain and never morphed into a single nation as a result.  BTW, what have we achieved?