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Why the USA is a disgrace
#11
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 11:38 pm)Irrational Wrote:
(February 5, 2016 at 11:33 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Sorry. The U.S. of A does some shitty things.  But mostly we're just a Western nation with greater power to enforce our idiocies. I don't think Australia would do anything better.

Australia certainly isn't any better.

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#12
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 11:45 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(February 5, 2016 at 11:38 pm)Irrational Wrote: Australia certainly isn't any better.

Fight!  Fight!

Nah, I let others do the fighting for me Tongue
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#13
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
Why does the rest of the world think they can shit on us as country when usually they're just as bad or worse. Geez. Shut up.
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#14
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 11:30 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: I've gotta agree with the Captain on this one.

No, we're not perfect. Yes we're quite well aware of it. We're also sick and fucking tired of being painted in strokes wider than the fucking Atlantic.

Yeah, nobody is more critical or self-loathing then Americans anyway. For every flag-waving redneck, you have someone like Min who bitches endlessly about America. In some ways they are cut from the same cloth though. One believes America is the source of all good in the world and the other believes America is the source of all evil in the world. The reality is that other countries have their own agency in their own affairs. Other countries have their own problems and when your sample size of countries that you are comparing to is 'first would countries' which is a tiny amount of countries, you can always find poor comparisons. It's fine to criticize America, but America is just one part of world. We need a more global view.
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RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 11:47 pm)Irrational Wrote:
(February 5, 2016 at 11:45 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Fight!  Fight!

Nah, I let others do the fighting for me Tongue

Just like Australia! Zing!
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RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 11:50 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(February 5, 2016 at 11:47 pm)Irrational Wrote: Nah, I let others do the fighting for me Tongue

Just like Australia! Zing!

Australia seems to be doing the opposite, though ...
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#17
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
1. I think our country needs a lot of work

2. I believe we can learn a lot from the rest of the western world

3.Just because our European roots aren't deep doesn't mean we aren't just as old and proud of our heratige

4. We DONT live off hamburgers! They are a cheap easy thing to eat on the go. Stop being deliberately ignorant about American culture and food. Which by the way varies wildly on region, and ethnicity. You have Google. Use it!

5. Unless you want come try talk to our leaders about fixing: 1 Income inequality 2. Student debt 3. Racial inequality 4. Disability rights 5. The pay gap 6. No child left behind ETC shut the hell up.

6. Personally I do think we should mind our own business. Most of the American people do. But as I already mentioned little black blind girls don't really get to tell the government what to do.
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#18
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
Agree BQ, except the "old" bit...
You are the new kid on the block compared to Europe... Australia is 3 times as young again...
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RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 6, 2016 at 1:27 am)ignoramus Wrote: Agree BQ, except the "old" bit...
You are the new kid on the block compared to Europe... Australia is 3 times as young again...

I repeat new to non natives.
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#20
RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
(February 5, 2016 at 9:30 pm)Aractus Wrote: Okay, so sometimes people comment that I'm "too anti-American". Well I have good reason. Some of the shit that they do has far-reaching consequences.
  • The USA starts wars. They're the most war-hungry nation on the planet.
  • They are the worst first world country in their handling of income inequality.
  • Companies based in the USA extort people. This includes so-called "copyright trolls" and other companies like PayPal that freeze accounts without warning and keep all of their client's money.
  • Prostitution is still prosecuted, and pornographers have not been forced to provide a safe work-palace, despite the enactment of a new law in California.
  • Minors can be tried as adults - something not done in any other first world country.
  • Criminal prosecutions are excessive.
  • They trigged the GFC because they allowed predatory behaviour in the corporate banking world.
  • Because they have corporations that are based on distributing creative works, they fight to keep copyrights and patents at unreasonable lengths, in measures that only benefit publishers and not artists or researchers.
  • They believe they can dictate to other sovereign States how they should behave, and what policies they should enforce.
Feel free to add your own points.

Great, stay the fuck out and we'll all be happy.

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