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Copy Clerk  Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007     | |
Paperboy  Posts: 23 Joined: 17 Aug 2008  | The arrogance and the warmongering, mainly. Also that they can't spell and don't know what biscuits are. ;) |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007 |
Well, if we're going to be pedantic, it's Zeta. Quit using other people's words incorrectly, the US is trying to corner that market. Good money in it, I hear. |
Paperboy Posts: 23 Joined: 17 Aug 2008 |
No, this is Zeta: ζ Vive la Différence! |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | I dont hate America. Its just that most americans i have spoken to have a superioty complex. They just think they're better than everyone else and treat everyone else as though we're idiots. However, I have met some Americans i actually like so i cant say i hate america |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 546 Joined: 27 Aug 2008     | The fundamental reason that the U.S. is hated is that it is a.) rich and successful and b.) occasionally assertive about it. There is no "crime" so horrible nowadays in the universe of disgusting multiculturalist mush as to perhaps indicate that maybe you have a reason for thinking that you're actually good at something. Brutal dictators who stone women to death, oh, they can be forgiven because *they're* obviously not *good at anything*. But gawd help you if you're actually good at something. Calling someone "arrogant" nowadays is simply a code for saying "they're good and they know it". Is America universally good? No, we're coasting on the momentum of a past based on good fundamental principles, but those principles are under constant attack and failing more every day. But it's still one of the bright lights in the world, and if there's ever going to be a return of liberty in this world, it's probably going to start in the U.S., the only country ever founded by intellectuals for the explicit purpose of securing human rights. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007 |
Ack, you have level 3 pedantic...I should have guessed. Even have an accent on the 'e'. |
Paperboy Posts: 23 Joined: 17 Aug 2008 |
That's the general definition of arrogance, yes. I suppose a better description would be "delusional overconfidence".
That I agree on, if only for the reason that they'll take over and "liberate" anywhere that isn't doing things the same way as them. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 18 Jun 2008 | While I live in America and was born here, I still don't like many American people. They are idiots in my opinion. A stereotype of course not every American is an idiot but they people who run this country are. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007 |
Oh! I just thought of a good comeback (I should really sleep...) Languages evolve, yea? Zeta->Zed->Zee....we just use a more evolved form of the language. WooWooWoo...America #1! :D Okay, so it wasn't a good comeback... |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | I've had enough of reading this garbage nonsense. Let me clue you idiots in. We may not be perfect, but we don't have to explain that to the germans, russians, brit's, or any other country. We may not be perfect, but we are damn well closer than any of you fools who have socialism stamped all across your forhead. For starters, the U.S. has the best economy in the world. We make up over a quarter of the world economy yet have less than 4 percent of the world population. Our GDP is over 14 trillion dollars yearly. Second, unlike Europe, we actually value our freedoms and liberty. We were the ones who rebuilt Europe after World War 2. We were the ones who rebuilt Japan and turned it into a Democratic State. We were the ones who helped to put an end to World War Two, and while our involvement was not as significant, we gave over 300,000 lives for the sake of stopping Facism. We liberated Kuwait, Iraq, Sumalia. We toppled Saddam Hussain, an evil dictator who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. We Stopped The Soviet Union and the spread of Communism. We put people on the Moon. We send billions and trillions of dollars in foreign aid to impoverished countries. WE GIVE MORE IN CHARITY FROM PRIVATE CITIZINS FOR FOREIGN AID THAN ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD. Our military force is the best and most advanced in the world. Out of the 800+ billion dollars spent annually world-wide for Military expenditure, over 500 billion of that is spent by the U.S. We have total air superiority, and by 2020, our troops will all be armed with powered exoskeletons. For you Bush-bashers out there. President Bush, in the face of overwhelming opposition from the marxist politicians liberated Iraq, toppled an evil regime, and the people of Iraq are now well on their way to democracy. We are wiping the floor with Al-Quada. Over 4000 U.S. troops gave their lives for this cause. I am sick and tired of Europe and all of the marxist loosers of the world telling us that we failed, insulting the mission that our troops gave their lives for. You think we shouldn't be in Iraq? Why don't you ask the Iraqi people if their better of now? Why don't you ask the Iraqi people if they were happy when Saddam was in power. Why don't you ask them if they were happy to be raped and tortured in Saddams torture rooms. If they were happy to be buried alive and shot dead for political dissent. Why don't you ask our troops if they feel cheated? Our troops signed up to liberate Iraq, and that's exactly what they are doing, and you hate it. You hate seeing us succeed, so you ridicule us. The Iraqi people accept the United States as the liberators that we are. Unlike you appeasers in Europe and Britain, we actually try to spread democracy around the world. The marxist polticians in Washington and in the world are responsible for sitting idly as genocides go on all across the world. I guess Bubba Clinton didn't hear the screams of hundreds of thousands and millions of people, shot dead and massacred in Africa. I guess he didn't hear the cries of help from the victims of Saddam Hussain. I guess Slick Willy was too busy getting a BJ. You libs make me sick. Most of the world's drugs originate from the United States. Our health care system isn't perfect, but it's damn well better than anything else in the world. Your so-called "universal health care" is a marxist ideal that doesn't work. Out of the 85+ life-saving drugs that came onto the U.S. market between the 1998 and 2003, countries like France, Great Britain, Australia, etc-received less than HALF. Most Medical Breakthroughs originate in the U.S.-from Private businesses. The so called "big Pharmacutical" Your universal health care system fails. People wait over months, sometimes years for surgery. Great Britain has over 20,000 people waiting for a life saving surgery. You have an organization established for the sole purpose of keeping people from getting health care because you have too little doctors and your socialist style health care can't handle it. 16 of the 18 major cancers in the U.S. have high odds of survival. For example, Prostate Cancer survival rates for the U.S. are over 80-90 percent. They are less than 70 in Britain and France. Breast cancer survival rates-same story. This is because the U.S. health care system is the best in the world. Barack Obama throws out this figure of 47+million people uninsured. 9 MILLION OF THOSE ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OVER 18 MILLION CAN AFFORD COVERAGE AND CHOOSE NOT TO, AND MILLIONS MORE ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 32. But I guess that doesn't matter to you Brits and Europeans. At least you're "covered" and to hell with actually getting medical service, right? Another topic: Gun control. It is a proven FACT that banning guns DOES NOT WORK. Look at areas like Washington D.C. Total ban on guns, yet highest rates of crime in the U.S. One simply needs to look at statistical information and facts and it becomes very clear that banning guns does not work. Our constitution grants us the right to guns. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Private law abiding citizins cannot get weapons if you ban them. Criminals can get them no matter what-thats why they are called criminals, they don't follow the law. I value Liberty, personal property rights, limited government, free market economy. What does Europe and Britain value? Over-sized government regulating everything? That's why your health care systems fail. Many Canadian doctors (this has also been recorded statistically) actually get their degrees then come over to the U.S. because they are actually REWARDED for their efforts and not told what they can and cannot have. In France, you have over 58 percent of peoples earnings being taxed and taken from them. Thats over half of their labor being taken and redistributed by the government to lazy loosers who leech off of society. There is one disease in the world, it is known as Marxism. It is an idiology that originated in Europe, and has a firm grasp over European nations and Great Britain. The same disease is now spreading into the United States and in 20 years, if people like Barack Milhouse Nobama get elected, we will be just like Europe and Great Britain are today. Speaking of which, Britain is so damn politically correct, they are getting swarmed by muslims who set up bubble communities. If you don't do something about your muslim invasion, you will all soon be wearing turbans and praying to Allah. I'm dead serious, get you're oversized government to do something useful for a change and actually protect your country. Oh yeah, let's see what else is there? Oh yeah, you enviro-nuts. GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX. Get that through your thick heads. The world is ruining it's economy with this nonsense, and now the U.S. is expected to spend over 21 trillion dollars to try and play god and change the world temperature by less than one degree celsius. These same idiots yelling about impending doom were yelling about global cooling not too long ago. I mean literarly the same guys. One of whom used to work in NASA (or maybe he still does). You want alternate energy? Great, power up the nuclear power plants and convert cars to hydrogen. Solar, Wind, Biofuel wont power squat. For converting cars from oil, you need a steady source of cheap, and plentiful electricity. Switch to Nuclear power, and use hydrogen fuel cells for cars. On slow periods when power is wasted like at night time, use the power to make hydrogen fuel cells. There, problem solved. Finally, I see Americans posting here too. STOP INSULTING YOUR OWN COUNTRY. You're damn lucky to be living in the best place in the world, and you're not proud? You're insulting your nation? WHY DON'T YOU MOVE TO AFRICA WHERE BARACK OBAMA'S HALF BROTHERS LIVE ON LESS THAN A DOLLAR A DAY IF AMERICA IS SUCH A "MEAN" AND "CORRUPT" PLACE. Ungrateful idiots. I'm from Ukraine, I know what it's like to live on little. You sit here using up America's resources, going to dinner, living in a home, having running water, electricty, a computer. You have more than most people in the world will ever have. Yet you sit here and insult the nation that allowed you so much? You people are a disgrace to your Nation and what the Forefathers fought for. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 105 Joined: 12 Mar 2008 | The superiority complex of the US is certainly...deterring. Hearing constantly from Americans "our country's the best and you know it" or "other countries should be like us" is just downright irritating. Firstly lifestyle wise, you do make some good TV shows but then that likely also ties into America's obesity issues. You're the founders of the fast food concept, but then again....obesity....bad. I have no issues with the country as a whole but it's the stuck-up people who try and impose their values on others who wreck it for the US. Not to mention stuff like starting wars under false pretenses and trying to force their political and social views on all the other countries. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and the US has a LOT of sin. -I love being an Australian, however without visiting all other countries in the world i'd never dare to claim that Australia is the best. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 73 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 | Where do I start? They enter wars for no good (valid) reason whatsoever and they loose but still declare victory. Arrogance. But well lot's of countries have been into imperialism (UK/Germany/Holland/Mongolia/Sweden etc). So imperialism isn't really it for me. As always whitey is to blame for that kind of action. A lot of yanks seem to believe that the US of A is the number one country of the world. They are very very wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start. "We won WW2" Well it was basically the world vs Germany at the time. If you want to be picky it's mostly Russians fault the Germans caved. Culture. What works in the west might not work in the east. Cultural difference and so on. Mind you all/a lot/some of this fits a lot of the countries in the world. What I like about USA is their idea of freedom. But they themselves fails at it. They have the idea but doesn't really live by it. Work that out and I'm there. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007 |
I think that's a thread killer. Way to go prove everyone's point, dude. ...How hard is it to emigrate to England? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1011 Joined: 1 Dec 2007   | I hate America because it's culturally fucked up, and I hate Americans because they lie through their teeth about said fucked up status. Apparently even Obama is having to walk carefully because if he criticizes America's oozing, septic wounds he might be considered unpatriotic.
A poll published by the Washington post had 30 percent of Americans unable to name the date of 9/11.
Except America was found to be average in a comparative study of 5 Western nation's medical system's quality. |
Muckraker  Posts: 255 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   |
Was that hypothetical, or did you actually meet someone that didn't know that 9/11 happened on September 11th? Do they know that the Fourth of July is celebrated on July 4th? |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | Hey Danny, are you mentally thick? Did you read my post? GUNS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE ANY MORE THAN KNIVES OR PENCILES. A gun is a mechanical device. A person using a gun kills people. When you give law abiding citizins guns, then they can protect themselves from criminals who will have guns no matter what. Statistics and facts back up my statement. You, like all America-Haters, spew crap out of your ass and don't even back it up with facts. There is a reason the second amendment exists. Though I'm sure you wouldn't understand that. "Gun Violence" is a code word invented by far left loonies to try and paint a picture of guns rising up on their own and shooting people without any human help. I don't know what twisted world you live in, but in mine, when some asshat pulls a gun, we pull one back instead of waiting for the police to arrive half an hour after I'm dead. Thread killer indeed. I guess you're not used to so many facts and truths in one post. GO DO YOUR OWN DAMNED RESEARCH. I will say this again, what has Britain or Europe done for the world? We've only been around for over 2 centuries, and yet we have accomplished more and done more good than any of you. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 5 Jun 2007 |
We even know Cinco de Mayo! There's PI day, a lot of us know that one. |
Muckraker Posts: 265 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | Hate is strong, I prefer loathe its much stronger. Really it just stems from gaming and having Americans painstakingly try to convince me they where the heroes of the world war despite waltzing in at the end of it. They kicked our (Britain's) asses in a war hundreds of years ago and they take the piss out of every type of foreigner, culture and belief's despite being built up on those principles. Then there is the warmongering corrupt government that enters country's with cry's of liberation and leaving behind a war torn shattered shadow of what once was while they have people who make millions off this happening. I could go on. Note i am aware of those who aren't like this, but i am more aware of those who are. |
Beat Writer Posts: 144 Joined: 20 Feb 2008 |
good fundamental principles like slavery? genocide? and stealing other peoples land? |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | Here is a challenge to you America-Haters. Try posting facts instead of spewing forth crap. I will sum up everything I posted. Iraq Is a success, you wouldn't know what a free market economy looked like if it bit you in the ass (thus your socialist style redistribution of wealth) Your universal healthcare system fails and sucks utter eggs (has been proven by history as well as your months and years wait time and utter lack of drugs and medical equipment compared to the U.S.) you're all indoctrinated into this wild socialist driven belief that America is evil (when in fact, we've done more good in the last century than you ever have). We have the best economy in the world, we have the best military in the world, we have one of the highest standards of living in the world (says a lot consider the size of the U.S.). I am proud of America and I would like to see you people justify what your countries have done that somehow gives you a right to sit here and run your mouths off about America. How many billions have you donated in Charity to third world countries? How many countries have you liberated? How many lives has your military given for spreading peace and democracy through the world? How many inventions is your country responsible for? How much money does your countries economy generate? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 | I think it is because America acts like they are the best country in the world and they are always the best etc. Watch Team America, thats what I think is the problem. The american government ought to mind its own business. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 8 Aug 2008 | Pillowfire, wow. Just wow. I award you no points, and may gtod have mercy on your soul. Even though your post is a complete diatribe that for the most part does not address the topic, I actually would have to say that I agree with many of your overstated points. People look to the US to solve their problems and then blame the US for the result if/when things don't go as planned. The US has a target on its back for any and all world political critics. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 105 Joined: 12 Mar 2008 |
ahh the unquestionable wit of the American mind....sure unquestionable because they swiftly resort to name calling and profanities, but hey. I live in Australia, we have jack-all gun violence, we have jack-all guns...doesnt take a genius to put 2 and 2 together. A partial ban on guns in a country such as the US isnt going to do anything, nor even a total ban mind you, until the overall attitude of American citizens lifts. If this is the sort of person the "Best country in the world" turns you into, then screw you, i'm stayin in Aust. Because at least here we appreciate our fellow man, i'd quote your British-Muslim line, but i really cant be beavered trying to find it in your non-sensical ramblings. |
Muckraker  Posts: 228 Joined: 19 Jul 2008 | Are you kidding me? I love America! The accent... the sense of humor, you can really have more fun on an American Guildwars district than a UK one, thats one of the first things I noticed. I can't see why anybody would hate Americans. |
Muckraker Posts: 265 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
Wow you usually make an argument to persuade, however you start off by making an insult, so obviously you are here for a flame war using your own sense of patriotism "what has Britain or Europe done for the world? We've only been around for over 2 centuries, and yet we have accomplished more and done more good than any of you." so I'm going to be kind and not get in to a America bashing session and instead say you are a retard who doesn't embody the view of the majority and shouldn't be given anything to argue with. Please don't respond as I won't argue with someone such as yourself. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 920 Joined: 21 Feb 2008  | good fundamental principles like slavery? genocide? and stealing other peoples land? Yes, because Europe never did any of that. |
Muckraker Posts: 265 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
Well said, note Australia has perhaps the best immigration policies. |
Muckraker  Posts: 301 Joined: 27 Aug 2008  | I grew up in America. I was schooled in Rochester, New York until midway through the fifth grade. Later on I moved to Scotland. It was quite the culture shock at first but I soon adapted. I am now a British Citizen. One thing I learned is how more 'free' the UK is. Having more political parties allows for citizens to find a party that suits their views a lot easier than just 2 parties. Also, PillowFire, the ability to mock the country we live in is proof that we have it good. We should never be forced to love a country, nothing is ever perfect. Who are we to say if a culture is wrong or not? I'm sure the Native Americans were happy before guns and white man values arrived from across the sea. There is nothing wrong with Islam, they are not terrorists, only certain few Islamic groups might have left/right wing views that m |
You. Just. Butchered. The. English. Language.
Seriously, my screen has little red squiggles everywhere by how much you just butchered the language. What right do you have to say the US should get their own language, when you don't appreciate the one you have enough, to use it properly? Jeezy Creezy, I suck with grammar - but, what you did is just horrible.