RE: Does Atheism make sense?
December 20, 2011 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2011 at 9:28 pm by Aegrus.)
Wow. So Jiminez thinks that Europe is primarily Christian, that China is a shitty country, and that America is still a superpower?
I'm an American, and I can personally tell you that there are two ways to be a superpower. A- You're economically successful.. B- You're militarily successful.
America goes trillions of dollars further in debt every year, so no, even though we can pay for good lives for now, we aren't actually economically viable long-term. We got a taste of collapse since the recession started, but I dread what's coming if people keep insisting that we're the best country ever without facts or logic to back it up. We're not. We just spend the most money, so we can look like the best for a while.
As for the military bit, we can't even end the war in Iraq. We have a huge and advanced army, but it's not the best. Russia has better tanks. China has more soldiers. We have the best airforce, but so many people in America are idiots like the original poster that we can barely find any people qualified to fly them.
And, as stated, we can't win wars anymore. That's the real test, and we fail over and over again. We have some of the biggest guns, but those don't do us any good because we don't know where to aim them.
News to America: if you want to win a modern war, spend less money on bombers and tanks and more on technology that will actually let us figure out who to shoot at.
I'm an American, and I can personally tell you that there are two ways to be a superpower. A- You're economically successful.. B- You're militarily successful.
America goes trillions of dollars further in debt every year, so no, even though we can pay for good lives for now, we aren't actually economically viable long-term. We got a taste of collapse since the recession started, but I dread what's coming if people keep insisting that we're the best country ever without facts or logic to back it up. We're not. We just spend the most money, so we can look like the best for a while.
As for the military bit, we can't even end the war in Iraq. We have a huge and advanced army, but it's not the best. Russia has better tanks. China has more soldiers. We have the best airforce, but so many people in America are idiots like the original poster that we can barely find any people qualified to fly them.
And, as stated, we can't win wars anymore. That's the real test, and we fail over and over again. We have some of the biggest guns, but those don't do us any good because we don't know where to aim them.
News to America: if you want to win a modern war, spend less money on bombers and tanks and more on technology that will actually let us figure out who to shoot at.
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