Why the USA is a disgrace

[SofaKingHigh]

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.

What, do you mean we're almost as bad as the British Empire would have been if it had lasted through today, in a world where King George III wasn't an idiot?

EDIT: Oh, pleeeEEEEEZE!!! This shit comes from Australia, that penal colony of the British, which depends on the rest of the world to defend it from multiple hostile cultures which surround it, and was even worse in their regard to the dignity of native human life than the US was 150 years ago? I agree with Julian Assenge, but don't go pretending that you are naturally better people just because your country has never been in the position to become the monster which you despise. On this, Jared Diamond absolutely nailed it - it's geographic factors which make a culture what it is!

Just reading this thread for the first time, the British did send many convicts to Oz. this is true, but we sent far more to the US.

If we had a "penal colony," that title would be better served if given to the US.

Just saying.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's the end of the conversation.

When you are basing your points on faith, having a discussion with you is pointless.  Goodbye.

I'm sorry.
The files I need to get the evidence from, are highly protected & classified, heck, poor Assange tried & got thrown in jail.

No, you don't get to act like you know something without proving you know it.

I donb't believe you. Demonstrate your claims, or shut up.

I believe that ISIS is composed of Martian females who have assumed the shape of humans in order to harvest their heads. Human heads are a delicacy on Mars, and ISIS is a for-profit venture.

I don't have evidence. You'll have to take it on faith. Dipshit.

[WinterHold]

I'm sorry.
The files I need to get the evidence from, are highly protected & classified, heck, poor Assange tried & got thrown in jail.

No, you don't get to act like you know something without proving you know it.

I donb't believe you.  Demonstrate your claims, or shut up.

I believe that ISIS is composed of Martian females who have assumed the shape of humans in order to harvest their heads. Human heads are a delicacy on Mars, and ISIS is a for-profit venture.

I don't have evidence.  You'll have to take it on faith. Dipshit.

Oh, exchanging precious commodities for ink on paper...well..ah
Yah..that.

And cursing strangers online is not the best thing for your mental & physical health; so relax

Cursing me will not change the fact, that the act of 71 that Nixon did with his Saudi friends, is an act of robbery and a crime against every human on this planet.
Yah, I do think some ISIS members are aliens. Ironically, they spawn out of nowhere in places that the U.S has an interest in !

[WinterHold]

Oh and about a semi evidence:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...asion.html

They say: there's no smoke without fire.

[ignoramus]

What, do you mean we're almost as bad as the British Empire would have been if it had lasted through today, in a world where King George III wasn't an idiot?

EDIT: Oh, pleeeEEEEEZE!!! This shit comes from Australia, that penal colony of the British, which depends on the rest of the world to defend it from multiple hostile cultures which surround it, and was even worse in their regard to the dignity of native human life than the US was 150 years ago? I agree with Julian Assenge, but don't go pretending that you are naturally better people just because your country has never been in the position to become the monster which you despise. On this, Jared Diamond absolutely nailed it - it's geographic factors which make a culture what it is!

Just reading this thread for the first time, the British did send many convicts to Oz. this is true, but we sent far more to the US.

If we had a "penal colony," that title would be better served if given to the US.

Just saying.

And they all got jobs in parliament!
What are the odds!   Hehe

[account_inactive]

Wow, another Atheist forums thread bitching about America. How original.

Cause fuck everything that's Anti-American, right? Don't make me laugh. Your country is universally hated and rightfully so, not saying that all yanks are horrible people but I do understand why some folk hate it.

[Gawdzilla]

Wow, another Atheist forums thread bitching about America. How original.

Cause fuck everything that's Anti-American, right? Don't make me laugh. Your country is universally hated and rightfully so, not saying that all yanks are horrible people but I do understand why some folk hate it.

"Universally", meaning whomever is currently wearing your underwear. 

[Excited Penguin]

I'm not going to lie. I can't exactly complain about America since I want to live there someday, and not anywhere else. So that would be kind of hypocritical of me and it does say something about it, even with all of its flaws.

[Gawdzilla]

I'm not going to lie. I can't exactly complain about America since I want to live there someday, and not anywhere else. So that would be kind of hypocritical of me and it does say something about it, even with all of its flaws.

I'm only 65, so there's a still a chance I might meet someone over the age of 13 who says the US is perfect. Someday, perhaps. However, I've been to seventy-two countries while I was traveling with the USN, and all of them had positives and negatives, even the former USSR. None of them were 100% imperfect.

[Excited Penguin]

I'm not going to lie. I can't exactly complain about America since I want to live there someday, and not anywhere else. So that would be kind of hypocritical of me and it does say something about it, even with all of its flaws.

I'm only 65, so there's a still a chance I might meet someone over the age of 13 who says the US is perfect. Someday, perhaps. However, I've been to seventy-two countries while I was traveling with the USN, and all of them had positives and negatives, even the former USSR. None of them were 100% imperfect.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but compared to my shitty, shitty country it actually is perfect.

That's not to say Western Europe or Canada and some other states aren't good places to live as well, but I do prefer the U.S. in my mind, given what I've learned about it.