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May 8, 2020 10:35 AM

BlueSeaneey

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What's your definition of a shithole country, because I got mine and it looks a lot like this?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Wow, that's not the reaction I would expect to reading about the emancipation proclamation...

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

so edgy. you must bleed a lot.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

*Flips book open on WW2* BeCaUsE wE bEaT ThE GeRmAnS tHe WoRlD oWeS uS.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Just read more about agent orange and it made me sad about American history :(

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Reading about all the dumb things people did during the Spanish Flu, and watching people do the exact same things today.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can't even find the page about the famous immigrant Nikola Tesla

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

America may often fail to live up to its principles, but it's got the most beautiful set of principles any nation has failed to live up to.

5 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 7

something something road to hell...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're about 3/5th right.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Actions speak louder than words

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I like this.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's not mine. It's by a Canadian author named Spider Robinson who spent a while living in the U.S.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

5 years ago | Likes 1087 Dislikes 5

You either die broadcasting historical documentaries or live long enough to run 24 hour marathons of "Swamp People"

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 1

I was going to post a meme questioning aliens, like how dumb of an idea. But what if .... Aliens

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

For as the philosopher Oscar Gamble said, “They don't think it be like it is, but it do"

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The History Channel did to history what MTV did to music videos.

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

I'm convinced the history channel has almost doubled the amount of conspiracy nuts out there

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If we don’t learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat history, then if we don’t learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The ones that learn from it are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Those who don't forget history are doomed to watch all the forgetful bastards repeat it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Happy is the country that has no history.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

America is the only country in the world that only considers its flaws and never considers their glories. Didn’t used to be this way.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 18

Have you fallen into a weird parallel dimension and can't get out?

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

We've got work to do for sure, but I'm happy to be here and wouldn't be anywhere else.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This country was founded by middle-class racists who were mad about gun control and taxes. It's absolutely what America's about. Which is 1/

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 13

why we should strive to be better, not revel in some twisted nationalism.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 8

It's easy to America bash. Biggest baffoon in the room. But sometimes that ogre does something smart or caring and it goes unnoticed

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wait a minute. Are you saying life isn’t a fairy tale and the world doesn’t run on hugs? Children think that.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

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5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

We Americans don't learn much from history, and tend to repeat it over and over and over again

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 13

Why are you booing him? He's right

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We humans. FTFY

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

If history teaches us one thing, it's that US can do whatever we want with minimal consequences. If anything, they're learning.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I hate that I agree with you

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a non American I just don't understand the extreme resistance to public health carer, gun control and affordable education.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Actually, I also don't understand not having a wage award, that tipping system is bullshit.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Because if you have not 100% planned out your life from the moment you were conceived then it's entirely your fault you are poor.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The rich do not like paying ANY taxes. Especially if it benefits poorer people more than them.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

America's not great, but it IS one of theleast-shitty places around, which is pretty great.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

You mean America isn't perfect. It is great and better than most places around the world to live

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

Ah right, no healthcare, debt for education, terrible leadership, and everyone's got guns. I'm packing immediately.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No healthcare???

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Did they stutter? They know what they mean.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

How can it be not great but also pretty great

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Being on the top of the shit pile doesn't mean you don't stink. Reading comprehension will help you go far.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Was simply pointing out that he contradicted himself

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Why don't you guys just have another revolution?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 7

All the ones who would actually revolt vehemently hate violence so they screech into the internet

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Some of us tried in 1860, but it didn't go so well.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I know this is a joke, but we have the attitude, and we have the righteous fury. The problem is that the people that are being for change/

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Aren't the people that are aggressive. Aggressive people want less government control, making them right leaning, while the people that/

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

Are getting walked all over, starving, dying, and being ignored want more government control, making them left leaning. The people that/

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Who in their right mind wants more government? All they do is fuck things up and tax us to pay for it

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Anyone that needs help and doesn't get it. More assistance means more government.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Feel the urge to use force aren't the ones that need a change.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

I think the real problem with having a revolution is that drone beats gun

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Because revolutions very rarely produce regimes better than what they replace.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

America has done so awful thing but the true history of America is setting founding principles above where we were at the time & striving to

5 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 15

They are awful in todays terms, but so were most things. You are misrepresenting history if you even think you have a clue how it was.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I don't claim to know what it was like living in that time. I can only look back and see.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Only great parts of our history is helping in a war and going to the moon.It's pretty shitty otherwise because we're entitled little shits

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

You're missing one hell of a lot.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

You're mistaken but i truly pity you. It must be truly awful to live with a worldview of so much hate and toxicity. I hope things get better

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

"going to the moon" was the result of us being the greatest superpower in the world. The results of us working together, instead of dividing

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean the entire motivation was fuck the russians, and it used shit tons of Nazi scientists, though we did a great job at throwing money

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

bring ourselves up to that level of our goals that we have set for our country. The US history has dark spots but it is a trendline upward.

5 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 7

What goes up, etc.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

It's really not. Like, before Covid took over the news you were actively committing Genocide. You have Neo-Nazi's in the streets right now!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 9

I would like a source for this "genocide" you speak of.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Democracy was invested thousands of years ago and you guys were 200 years late to abolishing slavery. Actions speak louder than words

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 8

In 1665 The US wasn't.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The US fought a major war to free slaves... get it right

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And everyone else just passed it peacefully with no fuss.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which still disproportionately targets minorities

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And then you replaced slavery with the prison industrial complex

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No one claimed the US invented democracy and like it or not there are dark spots in the history of the US but they don't erase the trend

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

Dude what trend? Ya’ll have been slacking hard compared to the rest of the developed world. USA just rich & even that’s uneven

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it depends on how you measure things. if you presume the rest of the west is right then yeah...we are different. I personally don't agree

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Anyway I’m sorry for bashing you so hard

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

is it tho

5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 7

Eh, it has been, historically. And I think we're still above where we started.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Last I checked, slavery has gone away. Women and minorities can vote. Native Americans aren't systematically oppressed and murdered. I /1

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

don't know about you, but I'd call that an improvement. 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

You abolished slavery late and literally still have systemic racial inequality. Also ain’t you building pipe lines through natives land?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

2 steps forward, and one step back. Is one step forward.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Fuck me if that ain't the most apt American description I've ever heard

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You know, as a Canadian, I'm getting sick and tired of the American bashing. It's not perfect, and there are history lessons 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

But there are warts, and skeletons in the closets on every country on earth. I think America is great, and deserves a bit more Thanks

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

As a Canadian who grew up in America. It really isn't that great.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

What about WW2? What about the civil war? Enough of this glib bs

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

You mean when the U.S. imprisoned many Americans in concentration camps for daring to be Asian?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

*Asian-American

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Correct. I should have said, "of Asian descent".

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How about liberating Jews from the holocaust?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

So? That's not on topic for how the U.S. is in many ways worse than any other western nation.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Like which one do you mean... Canada? That’s a joke

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also, as far as I can recall, the United State is the only western country to fight a major war to free enslaved people

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can find your tea...... IN THE BAY YOU SORRY RED COATS!!! *fires musket*

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

American History? Must be a leaflet

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 6

Nonsense, Civilization taught me that George Washington founded the United States in 4,000 BC

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, you experienced the current US education purely based on fiction? Don’t worry, your President did too.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, it just says, “We created this land and everything has been awesome ever since.”

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

No, just one sentence: „So much winning, cough...“

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean if by created you mean murdered the folks that were there already, sure.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That’s exactly what I mean they would say, and have, in that situation.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

" History started July 4,1776. Everything prior was a mistake." - Ron Swanson

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

To be fair, America is still a baby nation. At this age, Rome was still trying to unite the neighbours in the Second Latin War.

5 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 5

Arbitrary metric. America is a wealthy empire that’s how you judge it, not as a “baby nation”

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I mean America is functionally older than a lot of other countries; GERMANY, ITALY, GREECE, BELGIUM all came about post 1776

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

That's why I used "nation", not "country".

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Laughs in Scandinavian

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Functionally maybe. But culturally and historically, those are all successors to much older nations (except maybe Belgium).

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Eh. Aside from Germany those countries had very little commonality or consistent history before forming

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

New Zealand is younger and has their shit together

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South Sudan is the youngest and is already falling apart. Maybe a country's "age" has nothing to do with how civil or developed it is?

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Yeah but they talk super funny.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

New Zealand is also barely a country compared to the US. Like...if New Zealand were a state, they'd rank below ALABAMA in population and GDP

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

So you are saying the US is bigger and richer and is still unable to cope?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

I'm saying it's unable to cope BECAUSE of those facts. Too many idiots, and too many rich people to make those idiots dance to their tune.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Why don't you work on it on state level?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Oh interesting! Is there a certain time period from creation that most nation's either pass or fail?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I couldn't quote it, but there are a few articles about the average "life span" of a country or empire. Helpful without a source, I know

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, but i'd guess around 2023

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Mayans thought 2012 so let's see whose right!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, we try and lacquer over that with some Norman Rockwell post-war idyllic imagery. Buffs right out, like it never even happened!

5 years ago | Likes 175 Dislikes 11

And western films with John Wayne.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even that would be smoke and mirrors. Norman Rockwell was not afraid to make political statements with his art

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

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A 50's that never was, that includes POC and LQBTQ folks in an idyllic, prosperous country free of war and strife*does* sound nice, but I..

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

..feel like the MAGA crowd have something a little different in mind.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Obviously America has its problems. But, is there a country that has done it better?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 9

There is a very long list.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Is there a country that has done better with power.. No.. All principles corrode away.. First outside then Inside.. with all empires

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The longer i think, the more im sure, that the best way to handle power in an empire, is to throw it around like a hot potato, by lot

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

between a independent coalation or federation of democratic states. Never let it rest long enough to start corroding.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For the us, the best solution would be, if the ruling of the empre wouldnt happen in washington, but instead go around from state to state.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Most countries are more just? Could you name some?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index-new This one marks us as 15th "most free" nation worldwide, behind the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If we’re cherry picking, as people often do when complaining about America, we could certainly find fault with UK and German history

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yes.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

We're at the bottom of the barrel as far as first world countries go. We just have the best media/PR to convince us otherwise.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't know what media you've been following, but unless they are biased right (fox news) then they dish the shit out like Halloween candy.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most northern European countries seem to be doing a better job by most metrics. I love the US but we could learn a lot from others.

5 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

That’s fair. A lot of Scandinavia has a higher quality of life rating. However they don’t have the diversity of America.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Could you explain how diversity precludes us from having a Scandinavian social safety net?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

By "diversity" do you mean race, or wealth? Because if US reduced diversity in wealth, it means less poor/homeless, and less ultra-rich.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Race

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This. We share our wealth. It doesn't matter what your skin colour is. Everyone pays taxes and everyone gets help when they need it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If no one is hoarding all the money at the top, and no one is starving living paycheck to paycheck, less diversity is a good thing.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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Phone refuses to load this but hopefully one is "Mine" officially called "Manifest Destiny" if we want it we own it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes toball

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It ain’t perfect, but it’s been (mostly) ahead of the curve, in light of the rest of the world.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How 'bout those endless GoodRx ads where the mom can't get the meds her son needs w/o a coupon, and we're all like "sure, makes sense"

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Oof

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not enough choices....

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

What's national prayer breakfast?

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

No idea. Grew up in the Pacific NW and have never heard of such things here.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Fraud! NPR covers it every year. Everyone in PNW listens to NPR while we drink IPAs, go to farmers market, and roast coffee

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

OMFG. We’ve got one too ! ?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What the hell is lunch debt??Or national prayer breakfast?? These don't make any sense

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I suggest you try google bud, lunch debt is a thing in america

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I have 2 children in school and work for a school district and have LITERALLY never heard this phrase. This isn't as widespread as you think

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Basically some parents have to pay for kids food at school, if they dont then they get into a lunch debt, sometimes dont get food 1/?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It depends on the area if it is a thing or not, in some areas kids can't graduate if the lunch debt is not paid off. 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As an American, I haven't heard of any of these...so I'd go with a obese joke like "Would you like cheese on that?"

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Medical bankruptcy is the most common kind of bankruptcy in the USA. How are you so sheltered that you've never heard of it?

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I'm just living my life. No one I've ever known or met has ever mentioned it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The national prayer breakfast has been on the news every year it's happened since forever, school lunch debt is more recent but still -

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I guess my cellphone tailors my news and fails to mention national prayer breakfasts. Is school lunch debt related?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

quite a thing, schools across the nation have taken to threatening to take children away for not paying the debt, which the parents cant-

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Take children where?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and I find it really hard to believe you don't know about all the mass shootings of the last 5 years

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oi vey.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Fuck off, Nazi trash. Conflating corporate greed and Christian government interference with Jews, you piece of shit.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Me: Uses a casual cuss word most people have never heard that I heard on The Simpsons maybe(?) which I use all the time like the word fuck.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You: THIS REPLY. ...Maybe yall want to go have a sit down on a quite room somewhere and consider your life choices and anger issues.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I had to google lunch debt. So glad we're cutting education funds to fix the economy and help those CEOs buyback their stocks. /s

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 3

We spend more on education than most and it’s funded locally so suck a dick with your lying whore mouth

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 15

Well all that fucking education fund is CLEARLY not going to schools, considering lunch debt, and teachers being underequipped and underpaid

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It goes to college sports lol

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Id be inclined to believe that if College Tuition wasnt several thousa... Actually, yeah. I believe it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was talking about local funding. I know how it works. Fucking retard.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Obviously not or you’d know that it’s not being cut. Face it, you’re an ass clown that wants to critique using lies. Keep silent idiot

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

Perhaps we should federally fund schools based on a set of criteria instead of the current setup, which is just a poverty trap

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

It’s not a money issue, my local schools get tons of cash but the performance is crap. They did get a new indoor swimming arena though...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

There are tons of public schools. The problem is one county over there is a horrible shithole school. County level funding sucks

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

school lunch debt is definitely a matter of money

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

E. Gun show

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

School shootings? Morbid obesity? Corruption? Imprisonment of masses of your own people? Taking stupidity to a whole new level...

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This is so cool and strong.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yep, it's all going down the pan

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And being unwaveringly proud of it all!!!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3 of those aren't very uniquely American. Just very true in America.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

... I think "Legalized privatization of Slavery via imprisonment" is an interesting contender, as its in the fucking CONSTITUTION.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

All that and we're still the most powerful and influential country on Earth. Kind of embarrassing isn't it?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

China is probably more influential

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

“prison industrial complex” or “mass incarceration” are more succinct.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I didn’t even know about this private prison industry until lately (European here). Dude, that shit is scary!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The only thing worse than watching this shit show on the outside is to be a self-aware member of its cast [Send Help]

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Us Brits are taking a fair stab at being fat and corrupt

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What do you think the school lockdown drill is there?

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Drills and safety procedures are in place as a result of the "quintessentially American" school shootings. Call a spade a spade.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Tbf, corruption isn’t uniquely American, but it is among developed nations.

5 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 2

America is a third world nation cosplaying a first world nation.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Among all nations. Developing nations are marinating just as deeply in it as anywhere else.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Never forget that Canada's auditor-general spent $23.6 million and 2 years to find around $400,000 in questionable expenses by senators.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Seems to be the standard political model these days everywhere. But US corruption looks glaringly obvious to a non US citizen currently.

5 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

It's weird what having a free press will do to your image.

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Yep.....this is quite literally the only difference between corruption in a developed nation as opposed to an underdeveloped one.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Pizza is a vegetable.

5 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

Flour, olive oil. tomato, oregano, All veggies (we will ignore the cheese and massive mounds of meat)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

... So and are bread an vegetables?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Flour yeast water. Sounds fairly vegetable to me.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ketchup is a vegetable.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

tbf! if they didn't say that then they wouldn't have given us pizza at lunch in school. YOU DO NOT want to eat the public school veggies.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah, napkins are vegetables because they're made of paper which is made from plants!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

American paper is made from trees not plants

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

... Trees are plants

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is there a country this doesn't apply to?

5 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 6

No. The strong always take from the weak.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Eventually, yeah. Sometimes you'll get a somewhat moral gov for a while. Never lasts for long.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The Swiss, the Czech, the Irish, the Omani, the Malay, the Koreans, the Polynesians, the Sikhs can look at their history without wincing.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

It’s easy to see the history of other countries as untainted when you don’t know their history.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Many of these aren't countries. Each one of them has 'wince-able' acts in it history.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The Sikh don't have a country currently. The rest do. Nobody got a perfect sheet but these people have a great +/-. Better than the US.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

shhh, we're complaining about America because everyone loves to complain about the most popular.

5 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 10

The most popular? In which category?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Finally. Someone said it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If Americans weren't claiming exceptionnalism, they wouldn't be scrutinized like that.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

We don't have any of those things in the UK. We have plenty of other problems but these bitches ain't 4.

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Someone doesn't know their own country's history

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What? I know our history well. We are not know for lunch debt or medical bankruptcy. Dunblane was a major event but not representative.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I am responding to the comment not the initial post

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Trust me bro, you don't want to be bragging about what is or isn't in the UK history books

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

True. I have no pride at all for my country and it's shameful past. But we have made some progress in the last 100 years.

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Pretty much most european and asian countries, since our histories are more like a library than a single book

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Yes. Christian Europe and communist Asia history is a glorious trove of moral values completely free of atrocity.

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I think you should spend some time in a library, specifically learning how to read.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Speaking of literate. Are you really from 'most European and Asian countries'? Can one not read a 'history book' from a library?

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Forgoeing the Oxford Comma is acceptable due to the character limit, also I speak of the scale of history between the US and ROTW.

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The second wave of European explorers reported some settlements where the living fled without burying the dead (~30 years after contact)

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To be clear because either the dead were too many or the living were too afraid of disease to return to town

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Sad shit man

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Yes but if it had not happened French fries and pizza would never have been invented. Mixed feelings

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

how's that european invented those foods in europe related to killing indians in america?

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Brits took America from Indians. Americans took it from them. Indians took it from the tribe before them. And so on. All by force.

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The “Indians” had the land, mostly alone, to fight over with each other. Just like the old world existed without the Indians.

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Point is, there was 1 founder. After him, people just took land from each other. Indians took land from Indians. Was that somehow better?

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What part did the British play in the 'manifest destiny' policy of the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

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Nothing. But it’s human nature to expand explore and control.

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That may be the worst kind of apologism or rationalisation for genocide I've ever encountered.

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I didn’t say it is or was. Stop trying to sensationalize the point. All peoples are the same. Don’t think aboriginal peoples can be monster/

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NO ONLY MERICA BAD

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Absolutely not; the British empire clearly only grew as a result of mass slavery, violence, genocide and subjugation. However, the... 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

suggestion that only the British were responsible for "taking" America from the Native Americans is obviously false. 2/2

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Unlike every other nation on earth, which is presently populated by descendants of original human settlers.

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Most nations founded in recent history weren't done as a result of mass genocide and slavery.

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Pretty much the only nations for which this is true are nations which were colonies of European or Asian powers until recently.

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Name one

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One is already named. You can name an imaginary number. Wait, those are named too.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

The Czech Republic.

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Pogroms agents Jews in Prague (still part of their history)

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Not all, but many, yes. In Europe, it is all a question of migration and assimilation. Some modern countries almost haven't changed their --

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Yeah but what about 20,000 years ago when we “assimilated” the Neanderthals? All humans are like this, it’s what humans do, sadly.

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borders since the Migration Period (375-568 AD) just because they didn't migrate or assimilate. Notably ones like the Czech Republic, --

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whose core regions haven't changed since the Slavs settled that area after the Germans migrated to the newly vacated Gaul to the west

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People existed well before that. They are living on someone else's graveyards same as everyone else.

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Slavs have had much historic tribal infighting though right? I don't see how that's much better. Lots of violent death there

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