The three fifty amendment protects companies, operating in the US, owned by foreign governments.

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I've been to the Swiss Alps (just the area around Interlaken/Lauterbrunnen) and I've been to Glacier National Park and I would easily take the latter. That said, certainly some countries have amazing national parks that trump the US, no pun intended, in certain categories. But the US has incredible variety. Switzerland does not have a Zion, or a Grand Canyon, or a Hawaii, or a Great Smoky Mountains, etc etc.

Norway, Denmark, Iceland, The Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany. I'll leave Australia out of the conversation (I think it's debatable fwiw). I would personally choose to live in the United States over a few of those, but then I'm an intelligent cis straight white guy with no financial problems.

My recent travels have led me to believe that most large American cities, aesthetically speaking, are generally unappealing places. This is likely influenced by my familiarity with your typical American city. So I'm probably less likely to find them eye-catching. There are some bits that are nice but that's normally relative to their immediate surroundings. I've seen residential areas of countries that look more amazing than the best parts of American cities.

My lack of a car and driver's license keeps me from enjoying national parks and other areas of beauty while I'm here. It's a shame.

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The whole America GOAT country is infuriating. It's second to military fetishization in my pet peeves. I guess if your metrics are military budgets and number of propped up dictatorships in third world countries, then sure it is. But I choose to live outside of America and find that life there is better than America. I don't work myself to death. I have free healthcare and can easily live without private transportation. Sure the weather is **** in Scotland but it's cold and rainy in America too.

Is there a better way to tie the knot and avoid paying £20k for a day you won't enjoy with a load of people you don't really like?

If to support universal healthcare Americans have to believe their country's the greatest nation ever, maybe it's better they don't get it. The ROW has got pretty sick of hearing US politicians and celebs beating the drum about being the greatest nation on earth etc. when we see multiple shoot ups every year, institutionalised racism and casual invasions of other countries for non-benevolent reasons.

The challenge of the left should be to convince Americans that they're part of a global community in which no country is "better" than the others, and to dissuade jingoism and drum-beating.

You could start by getting rid of the stupidity of playing the national anthem every day at school,.

Yea you are missing out if you haven't visited national parks. I've been to at least 10 if not 20. Never seen a bear or a bike trail.

Seriously, national parks for the most part are ****ing awesome.

Yea, the more I visit Vegas, the more I think getting married there is a brilliant idea. Is there a single downside to getting married there?

They are. In fact they were (re)allowed in 2010 under the Obama administration, despite the fact that he was in the process of "taking our guns"!

Well there's having to go to Vegas, that's a pretty big one imo.

"How did this happen? Who is responsible for plunging America into this dystopian fever dream in which the resolution of every issue of global consequence hinges on the whims of an angry old man, expressed 280 characters at a time, with no regard for standard capitalization conventions?"

Thought this was a great part of this article.

When tweets cry

Trump companies wage their own War on Christmas

At this point isn't leaving office with these crimes hanging over his head worse for Trump than getting it all taken care of while still in office with some kind of deal/resignation? His kids and his organization are in danger and don't have the same protection he does.

I don't think he's getting impeached but the odds he doesn't finish his term are considerable.

He's also not getting re-elected. His rating among independents has plunged and there are a lot of people who won't vote for him again.

He'll make a deal and leave office.

Yeah but the rest of the world paying so much attention to USA politics (or even caring about it at all) exactly demonstrates the massive power/influence/“greatness” of the US. Hell, less than half our population has managed to destabilize the entire world by voting for a senile reality TV show character.

USA#1 at NATO contributions. Pick it up ROW. We are carrying you.

Great as in big or even important, of course. But that's not what people mean by great, usually.

Basically all of these and more.

I could go on, but I don't really want to completely derail the thread. My initial complaint was about my hatred for people saying "USA#1" unironically.

Who wants to hear that, even if it was true? Do any of you have a friend who constantly brags that they are "the best person"?

I'd add a few to Chris's list of better places to live - basically all of Western Europe and some of Asia.

"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in 'Jurassic Park' when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors," recalled McConney, who was the Trump Organization’s director of social media from 2011 to 2017. "I was like, 'Oh no.'"

loool

I love how people get fired up when arguing with USA#1.
It doesn't matter if USA is indeed #1 by any metric on any area of life.
What matters is that any person who comes up with a USA#1 tirade sounds like a dangerous lunatic and every person with half a brain hearing that is usually laughing out loud and/or scared.

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*looks at picture of Trump*

Clever girl

Drones and all of the rest are wonderful and lots of fun

jfc

So America has some bizzare emergent property where is leads in no individual stats but leads overall?

The main point is, it’s a dumb question! Its like saying who is the best person?

America is a great nation. People need to stop claiming it is the greatest nation because it feeds the stereotype that Americans are douches, it isn’t true, and it doesnt allow for for improvement.