nah

ikes blew that out of the water with his "zomg my taxes on 300k that year really sucked" post or whatever it was.

jj,

No one else has any idea what Canada has to do with anything either. USA #1.

The King in particular said the reason he chose us was the incredible level of care he heard people receive from the overnight pharmacist.

A+

No, America is not better than other countries. It used to have a much higher standard of living compared to the rest of the world, but that has changed. In fact, America doesn’t exist anymore. It’s just the United States. America was an idea, and now it's dead and gone. The United States is just one of 200 awful nation-states that have spread across the face of the earth like a skin disease. There’s no longer any difference between the US and any other country.

Nationalism implies a loyalty to your fellow countrymen. I have no loyalty to them. My countrymen are a constant threat to my property and way of life. As G.B. Shaw correctly pointed out, patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. It's simply an accident of birth.

Now I know many of you will point to the U.S. still having a good standard of living, some freedoms, good jobs, etc. But that's changing. Just look at 1920s Germany. Germany was the most literate, civilized, and even mellow, in some ways, country in Europe. It was much admired all around the world – a nation of shopkeepers, small farmers, and scholars. But the whole character of the place started changing in 1933, and it just got worse and worse.

Um... you probably need to do some reading on Germany in the 1920s.

He might've missed it by a decade or so, but his point is still valid.

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_culture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties. It's not like Germany was the center of this. Nor were the attitudes of non-Germans toward Germany mainly admiration.

Edit: And of course the comparison to the modern US is ridiculous as well. USA #1! (In the Roaring 20s)

American army vs Romans, Mongols and Macedonians combined. Do it!

Comparing the US to other modern nations with fewer people is invalid, but comparing the US to empires hundreds or thousands of years ago is valid.

Roaring twenties is a term pretty specific to the US. Not really surprising that the US was the center of that. The term for Europe is Golden Twenties and Berlin was arguably the center for it. I am not going to debate which was more golden or roaring, I am sure it were fun times in the USA, slurping virgin margaritas and all that.

Anyhow, I don't think that was the point Fermion was trying to make. And after reading your other points I think you know that.

Do you somehow think that wasn't a joke???

Seems like you're milking the male goat on this one. You're not claiming that Canada is better than the America, but you're using Canada as an example of how America isn't better than other countries(?). How about this: The US had millions of acres of public land owned by ~308,000,000 taxpaying citizens, who owns the public land of Canada (I think it might be that sweet old lady on that tiny island on the other side of that one ocean but I'm not sure)?

And, for the record lolCanada!

Ditto. I thought my use of the smiley would make it clear that I wasn't serious...

What are you talking about? Some silly person claimed that the US electing Obama was some major global milestone of progressive thinking. But there are other examples of countries that have elected a female (Margaret Thatcher) or visible minority (Fujimoro in Peru) before Obama. I only mentioned Canada in this case because someone else did.

Edit: And the correct response would be to point out that Canada never really elected our Female Prime Minister since her party never won a general election when she was the head of the party.

Lol at thinking theres actually a difference there. You keep holding on to that illusion.

One of the best parts of USA #1 is getting to threaten Fermion's property and way of life on a daily basis. USA #1.

When was it "alive"?

Ferm,



USA #1.

This was very funny imo

America has its pros and cons. You have to be realistic about things.

Right now, I am kind pissed at our government for certain things.

While sitting here in my room, I can't do the following because I live in Massachusetts.

Go to a casino (Foxwoods is 2 hours away)
Buy Bottle rockets (banned even in NH for some stupid reason)
play online poker (I can technically but not supposed to)
purchase MJ legally
Consume alcohol at the beach

Those are all things I as an adult would love to do but cannot legally.

USA #1 by far

70's were fun.....

Sigh...

That must be nice for kings, presidents, the mega-wealthy and heads of state, mustn't it? But what about the rest of us?

"Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system"
See: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/...65M0SU20100623

Where did you get the idea that healthcare in the U.S. wasn't awful? You realise in a few other countries it's free, right?

Sigh...

Kind of hard to make direct comparisons of "influence" between modern-day nations and civilisations hundreds and thousands of years ago, don't you think?

Like, if the Mongols and Romans lived in a time of mass communication with Internet, T.V. etc and had jets, bombers, and missiles that could be used to launch an attack on the other side of the globe within hours, they might have had even more influence? As opposed to communicating using hand-written notes carried personally by messangers and fighting wars with swords and spears.

You did acknowledge this crucial factor, but dismissed it so quickly and casually. Just like you somehow managed to dismiss healthcare, unemployment levels, quality of life, income per capita etc as unimportant factors in considering how good a country is.

Yikes, why are you more scared now of your countrymen considering crime rates are continually decreasing in the USA.

Also, no Germany was a power house in Europe leading up to the twenties. They just two years prior fought three other nations at once and was doing extremely well. The punishments from the treaty of Versailles caused a lot of these problems. I don't think we're in a spot at all like the Germans in the twenties.