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Prince Bane
05/31/20 5:36:51 AM
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how did you let it get so bad? How do you feel having your current president be the laughing stock of the rest of the world?

Watching everything unfold since 2016 from the other side of the planet makes me really curious about how you guys fell about your country.


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pinky0926
05/31/20 5:49:33 AM
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Wii_Shaker
05/31/20 5:50:34 AM
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I used to when it was the only country I had been to. Growing up we are indoctrinated to believe it.

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au_gold
05/31/20 5:51:11 AM
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No.

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Prince Bane
05/31/20 5:57:03 AM
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Wii_Shaker posted...
I used to when it was the only country I had been to. Growing up we are indoctrinated to believe it.

Is the pledge of allegiance still a thing that happens in classrooms? That always made me curious.

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WaterLink
05/31/20 5:59:43 AM
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Wii_Shaker
05/31/20 6:00:38 AM
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Prince Bane posted...
Is the pledge of allegiance still a thing that happens in classrooms? That always made me curious.

Yeah, kind of. They make you learn the pledge word for word without really explaining what it means.

The American lifestyle also uplays embracing superficiality that simply doesn't exist in other countries.

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Paper_Okami
05/31/20 6:18:19 AM
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lmfao

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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 6:33:43 AM
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Yes i do. I had nothing to do with things getting bad, money and power always attract the biggest pieces of shit. Thats why our Founders viewed government as an enemy to be controlled and mistrusted as much as possible. 3 branches baby.

Being a laughing stock, i dont care. The world mocking the US and Trump, if they are, its like a table of fat kids sneering at the sexy quarterback with a huge dick. Even though that guys an asshole sometimes, people still talk about him. Every country in the world is better off we exist, but i would not be the one to say we are perfect. If you like cars, computers, tv, internet, or electricity.. You are welcome.
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Caroniver
05/31/20 6:35:22 AM
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hell naw


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Prince Bane
05/31/20 7:09:30 AM
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Keith_Valentine posted...
Yes i do. I had nothing to do with things getting bad, money and power always attract the biggest pieces of shit. Thats why our Founders viewed government as an enemy to be controlled and mistrusted as much as possible. 3 branches baby.

Being a laughing stock, i dont care. The world mocking the US and Trump, if they are, its like a table of fat kids sneering at the sexy quarterback with a huge dick. Even though that guys an asshole sometimes, people still talk about him. Every country in the world is better off we exist, but i would not be the one to say we are perfect. If you like cars, computers, tv, internet, or electricity.. You are welcome.

The modern car was invented by a German. Computers were by an Englishman. Tesla, a Croatian , has more to do with the way we use electricity today.

Thanks for hip hop and hbo though.

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Colorahdo
05/31/20 7:17:36 AM
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It's told to us verbatim as kids over and over "America is the best country in the world"

Evert American beleives it until they leave. I was particularly surprised in places like Chile that no one ever thinks about America. Like it's just some random country to them.

And they're right, America is just another country. Definitely not the best to live in

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Solid Snake07
05/31/20 7:18:04 AM
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Kind of a vague question. By what metric?

I will say our international influence has shrunken in the past 4 years. It's certainly not gone but the door is much more open for a new top dog than it has ever been in my lifetime.

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Prince Bane
05/31/20 7:21:52 AM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
Kind of a vague question. By what metric?

I will say our international influence has shrunken in the past 4 years. It's certainly not gone but the door is much more open for a new top dog than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Some suggestion on how to judge but that up to you:

health
happiness
average wage
unemployment rates
education
equality
pollution


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RamboCell29
05/31/20 7:23:10 AM
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Yes, America is still the land of opportunity. There are things we need to work on but I wouldn't be anywhere else.

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TheGreatGeno6
05/31/20 7:24:47 AM
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Fuck no, in fact it's the worst of any first world nation by a country mile.

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Colorahdo
05/31/20 7:24:47 AM
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RamboCell29 posted...
Yes, America is still the land of opportunity. There are things we need to work on but I wouldn't be anywhere else.

Have you been to other countries?

There are places structured nearly the same as the US except with free healthcare, mental health facilities, incredible roads and infrastructure, much cleaner, lower crime etc etc

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Antifar
05/31/20 7:25:06 AM
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No
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LightningAce11
05/31/20 7:26:36 AM
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A lot of them are told it, very few get to experience it.

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TheGreatGeno6
05/31/20 7:27:09 AM
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Colorahdo posted...
Have you been to other countries?

There are places structured nearly the same as the US except with free healthcare, mental health facilities, incredible roads and infrastructure, much cleaner, lower crime etc etc
Yeah exactly, that bullshit may have been true in the earlyt 1900s after Europe got ravaged by two huge wars, but present day it's not true anymore and the only people who think it is are the dumbfucks who believe all the bullshit the American school system shoves down their throats

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Parappa09
05/31/20 7:27:26 AM
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Prince Bane posted...
Thanks for hip hop and hbo though.
american fast food is p awesome too

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Dark_SilverX
05/31/20 7:29:59 AM
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Our great nation has become trash.

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PIG_B0SS
05/31/20 7:31:39 AM
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America is doing great.

Keep America GREAT

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TheGreatGeno6
05/31/20 7:32:21 AM
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Dark_SilverX posted...
Our great nation has become trash.
It was never great to begin with. It just seemed great in comparison to the hellhole that was 1800s Europe.

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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 7:53:39 AM
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Prince Bane posted...
The modern car was invented by a German. Computers were by an Englishman. Tesla, a Croatian , has more to do with the way we use electricity today.

Thanks for hip hop and hbo though.

Hmm . good points. Ok , you wanna get technical. First auto mass produced for average people, not one random super genius. American

Computer, ok, you got me again. First pc: American.

Tesla is a beast but he isnt credited with discovering electricity, he just mastered it. That was an American too.

Shall i list more American inventions? Light bulbs, planes, printers, cell phones. Space ships. What country do you think is the best?
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Prince Bane
05/31/20 8:05:07 AM
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Keith_Valentine posted...
Hmm . good points. Ok , you wanna get technical. First auto mass produced for average people, not one random super genius. American

Computer, ok, you got me again. First pc: American.

Tesla is a beast but he isnt credited with discovering electricity, he just mastered it. That was an American too.

Shall i list more American inventions? Light bulbs, planes, printers, cell phones. Space ships. What country do you think is the best?

Just to be clear, The USA is the best country because some inventors happen to be born there?

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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 8:19:06 AM
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Prince Bane posted...
Just to be clear, The USA is the best country because some inventors happen to be born there?

Nah, you kinda made it about inventions. I listed how American ingenuity has benefited the entire world through internet, tv, movies, photographs, widely available autos, ELECTRICITY, cell phones, planes, air conditioning. Now clean energy development.

Health technology, charity, raised standards of living around the world. Saving paets of the world from nazis and communism. Becoming the most powerful free market by being capitalist which every successful nation followed in some way. Being a melting pot which worked until people determined to break it. No country gives more aid and charity dollars o poor countries than the US.

Where would you say has done more?
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masterbarf
05/31/20 9:34:13 AM
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America is shaped way too much by primitive points of view, despite its own history repeatedly proving those beliefs to be dangerous. Racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, sexual repression, lack of respect for separation of religion and state, every man for himself mentality, an out of control wealth distribution, lack of healthcare and education, no respect for science, data, and the difference between valid and invalid sources of information, lack of respect for dealing with climate change, politicians who cater to the desires of a handful of wealthy people, voters who are brainwashed by the mouth pieces of those wealthy few. If America is the best country in the world, then humanity is doomed.

Our constitution is fucking brilliant though. Without checks and balances and limits on power, we could easily become a dystopia.
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RchHomieQuanChi
05/31/20 9:35:41 AM
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The country that elected Trump can't possibly be the greatest country.

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KiwiTerraRizing
05/31/20 9:37:58 AM
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If youre rich it is, if youre poor its a dystopia. America worships money, and being rich is the only virtue here so being poor is taken as a personality flaw.

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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 9:44:05 AM
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masterbarf posted...
America is shaped way too much by primitive points of view, despite its own history repeatedly proving those beliefs to be dangerous. Racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, sexual repression, lack of respect for separation of religion and state, every man for himself mentality, an out of control wealth distribution, lack of healthcare and education, no respect for science, data, and the difference between valid and invalid sources of information, lack of respect for dealing with climate change, politicians who cater to the desires of a handful of wealthy people, voters who are brainwashed by the mouth pieces of those wealthy few. If America is the best country in the world, then humanity is doomed.

Our constitution is fucking brilliant though. Without checks and balances and limits on power, we could easily become a dystopia.

The US has done more to overcome most of the issues you stated than anywhere else. The US leads the world in health technology, renewable energy, we spend more than anyone on 'education'. Youre really just throwing out isms, like any country with this diverse a population wouldnt have racial strife. Womens rights? I point my finger at almost every other non first world country in the world. Women cover their face and body elsewhere, youre bitching about the US? They get married off as children with no choice.

How about LGBT rights? Thats a hot take. You wanna be fucking gay in the middle east? Or Africa? What country has done more good? If the world is doomed, who will save it? Jc
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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 9:45:00 AM
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you saying the US doesnt lead the world in science? What the fuck
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ThunderTrain
05/31/20 9:46:02 AM
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Absolutely not

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PickleRick2017
05/31/20 9:46:10 AM
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We have Trump. He has made us great again.
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BignutzisBack
05/31/20 9:48:45 AM
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Keith_Valentine posted...
you saying the US doesnt lead the world in science? What the fuck

I don't believe the US is the greatest country in the world anymore, the issue is people who are gloating about this fact are from shitholes themselves so they over embellish things. I don't think I've ever seen a poster here from a country I would put in the running to be the best in the world, they're too busy living their best life.

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Colorahdo
05/31/20 9:51:08 AM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
being poor is taken as a personality flaw.


damn that is so true

I'm a mountain guide and my rich clients are very interested in how much I make and can be offended when I say I don't care if I ever get rich, like I've just insinuated their life is wasted or something

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SableWolfAngel
05/31/20 9:53:23 AM
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No way, man. This country sucks ass. But it's where I was born and the culture I'm most familiar with so I stick around. I wouldn't mind travelling to a different country just to get away from this dump of a nation, though. I really wish I could at least visit Germany or Brazil or even Canada. That would be a dream...

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Muflaggin
05/31/20 9:55:05 AM
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Of course it is. Doors that way if you don't like it.

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IloveJesus
05/31/20 9:56:02 AM
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I don't even consider it a civilised country.

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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 10:22:42 AM
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BignutzisBack posted...
I don't believe the US is the greatest country in the world anymore, the issue is people who are gloating about this fact are from shitholes themselves so they over embellish things. I don't think I've ever seen a poster here from a country I would put in the running to be the best in the world, they're too busy living their best life.

So where's better? Not sure what your point is, Nuts. What country has done more for mankind?
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Antifar
05/31/20 10:25:41 AM
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Keith_Valentine posted...
How about LGBT rights? Thats a hot take. You wanna be fucking gay in the middle east? Or Africa?

The question is whether we're the greatest in the world, why are you comparing us to countries that wouldn't make the top 100?
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pauIie
05/31/20 10:26:32 AM
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all i really know about living in other countries are like those yearly happiness indexes that come out. no experience of my own.

so i'll just say that i really fucking hope america isn't the best country.

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SolidSonicEX
05/31/20 10:27:54 AM
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Given that I come from Hong Kong and knowing what they're putting up with now, it's better than that...sort of. Nothing bad has happened to me directly.

There seem to be better places to live, though. I just don't know how I'd acclimate to those cultures coming from the background I presently have.

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SocksForWoksMAX
05/31/20 10:42:24 AM
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Yes, its still the best country so far in human existence.
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Keith_Valentine
05/31/20 11:00:02 AM
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Antifar posted...
The question is whether we're the greatest in the world, why are you comparing us to countries that wouldn't make the top 100?

Where is better? That didnt already massively benefit from our influence. Or did . give a name.
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Hop103
05/31/20 11:01:01 AM
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It's pretty good here as long as you aren't in a major city, where only the rich can live in comfort.
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Irony
05/31/20 11:10:02 AM
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The greatest country is the one I never heard of that's completely self sustaining

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ThunderTrain
05/31/20 11:10:39 AM
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Keith_Valentine posted...
Where is better? That didnt already massively benefit from our influence. Or did . give a name.

lol this doesn't make sense

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ToiletDuck64
05/31/20 3:37:34 PM
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There is no such thing as a country that doesn't suck. All countries just suck in different ways.

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Smackems
05/31/20 3:38:39 PM
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It's the best one I've ever lived in.. And also the only one

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