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Australian goon here. I think the USA is shithole, and was headed that way even before Mr Trump took over. You have flags in your schoolrooms which you train your kids to salute and swear blind allegiance to every day. You have no universal health care. You have to take out private loans at rapacious terms if you want tertiary education. All this while spending nearly $600 billion a year on the military, nearly three times as much as the next highest (China). You all carry firearms for no goddamn reason other than because you think it's a human right or something. You imprison a greater percentage of your population than any other country, and mostly for relatively harmless drug issues. You still have the death penalty. You still do not use the metric system. Your You're ignorant, badly educated, and yet loudly opinionated through no fault of your own, because your education system is garbage and the national narrative since time immemorial has been rabid jingoism. And, worse, you think you're the greatest country on earth, and that everyone else wants to live there, while you don't know how bad you have it. In my experience you've been lovely people individually, but by God your country is hosed up. e: my opinion is my own, and I do not claim it as representative of anyone else's. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Mar 4, 2017 |
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your friend a dog posted:-an australian Seriously, though, why did you butt into someone else's thread that explicitly asks people for their opinions of the USA, just to get upset with peoples' opinions of the USA and be a big whiny baby?
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Shbobdb posted:Quoted because this is unacceptable hate speech. "No war but class war" types are what gave us President Trump because you are all a bunch of racist shitheels willing to throw people of color under the bus as soon as you either get what you want or when the going gets tough (which usually amounts to the same thing). Economic justice for me but not for thee. I... What? You're reading a whole lot of words between the lines that aren't actually there. e: or it's Poe's Law. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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Oh, right, that too! The fact that you're legitimately scared of your cops. That is not a thing that's supposed to happen outside of a dictatorship. Cops here are great if you're not aboriginal. e: also boner confessor posted:this is a goofy criticism because americans use the metric system where it matters. in science, engineering, the military, etc. people use the metric system. metric is taught in american schools. all american food packaging is labeled in imperial and metric. it's just that in day to day life people still use imperial mostly because of cultural inerta and at that point who cares I mean, sure, it's not nearly in the same league as the other stuff, but the day-to-day usage is exactly why it's irritating for non-US people. I don't want to have to get out the converter on my phone just to understand what you're on about when you tell me you get X miles to the gallon, eat a pound of cake or drink an ounce of coffee. You might as well be talking Martian. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Mar 6, 2017 07:44
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Oh sure. Our country has some massive problems too. Thread's not about us, though 
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Mar 6, 2017 22:27
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On the other hand, American people I've met have been very nice. Maybe a tendency to talk faster then we usually do, but I can't remember anything else remarkable. Then again, I haven't meet many Americans.
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doverhog posted:The US seems like it would be cool to visit or maybe even live in you were really rich, but is pretty poo poo for most people. Compared to "socialist" Finland. Yeah. I'm dying to visit New York and New Orleans, because they're so drat cool. But I'm not going to, because they happen to be located within the US.
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