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#25 - grizzlebear (01/09/2014) [-]
mfw politics on fj
mfw politics on fj
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#21 - ridivey ONLINE (01/09/2014) [-]
I'll just leave this here
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#188 to #145 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
Hell, I'm American and I think the US is facing economic and political upheaval. Europe needs to stop playing hypocrite though, they've got urgent economic issues of their own.
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User avatar #50 - awesomeguyTS (01/09/2014) [-]
The reason our education looks so bad is that we test everybody, most f the top tier countries only test their best and brightest.
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User avatar #51 to #50 - awesomeguyTS (01/09/2014) [-]
*of
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#171 to #50 - lordmoldywart (01/10/2014) [-]
I don't know whether to laugh at your ignorance or cry in pity... I'll laugh
I don't know whether to laugh at your ignorance or cry in pity...

I'll laugh
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User avatar #174 to #50 - niggastolemyname (01/10/2014) [-]
>looks
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>LOOKS
haha
meanwhile students are still being taught by age and not skill
'sorry you know everything in this class for the entire year you're required to take it'
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#179 to #50 - whothewhereami (01/10/2014) [-]
What!?! Show me where other countries rate their performance by only measuring the top tier. Thats sounds so stupid I worry about your education system.
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User avatar #58 to #50 - snood (01/10/2014) [-]
good point, one of my friends did a project on how all of our stats as a country are weighed down by inner city kids, and idk if we have a plan to fix that, or if we even should. just my opinion.
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User avatar #103 - Greevon (01/10/2014) [-]
Where the **** do they teach creationism in school?
Texan here, pure evolution for us, as it should be in a scholarly institute.
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User avatar #109 to #103 - angelusprimus (01/10/2014) [-]
Texas, like many states, allows large freedom in curriculum to districts.
Your district decided not to "offer alternative explanations to evolution" but two districts south and it might have.
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User avatar #27 - tylermcall (01/09/2014) [-]
>Claims to be sporting powerhouse
>Only plays sports the rest of the world considers **** tier
Sorry we only got first place in the last Olympics.
Sorry we haven't had a #1 male tennis player this decade, guess we'll just have to put up with #1 female tennis player.
Also, sorry that we didn't win the fifa tournament last time.
Honestly I hate these people, I bet he/she is the people who believe japan is the greatest country on earth because they saw an anime of it.

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User avatar #164 to #27 - greenstrongworld (01/10/2014) [-]
I think America is the greatest country and I watch tons of anime. I don't even live in America but I take facts into account and think for a second about the aspects of it. Don't group us in with people like that please.
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#125 to #62 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
I ******* hate this image, and I'm not even ******* American. It's so bloody untrue...if you say that Americans make fun of people you might as well include every other country as well, because it seems to me that Americans don't make fun of other countries any more than any other countries do.

Americans also seem to take insults pretty well----you have those ******* sweden breeds jealously or whatevers and other nordic countries masturbating about their own country but as soon as Americans mention something good about the US then they get shot down.

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User avatar #133 to #125 - swizzll (01/10/2014) [-]
have you never seen an american do the whole "hurr derr muh freedoms" thing?
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User avatar #173 to #133 - jakecrafted (01/10/2014) [-]
No, that's a joke on the internet do you actually believe that people do that? What's wrong with you?
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#120 to #62 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
no **** you, we dont make fun of other countries any more than any other country does, however dumb ***** feel the need to constantly pick at the minorities of America's flaws. almost everything in this post is wrong aside from debt and maybe healthcare.. oh and while we have the largest debt, we also have the largest GDP which allows such a large debt. ******* greece didnt have a fraction of our debt and since its gdp is so low it crumbled, shaking the very foundation of the euro.
still pretty sure we're a technological giant and head and shoulders ahead of most western countries in some fashion or another, our military hardware is still pretty ******* awesome. obesity is a ******** measurement that doesn't take into consideration body structure and musculature. we generally win or finish top 3 in almost every Olympic event, our school system is great its the people in it that suck.. i'd type more but i'm running out of room you bigoted ass wipe.
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#131 to #120 - swizzll (01/10/2014) [-]
inb4 I'm a racist cocksucker, I know this doesn't apply to all Americans Americans are know for being arrogant, fat arseholes who give more ***** about patriotism than more important **** . Also you're pissed off cause america was made fun of kinda proved the point really
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User avatar #181 to #131 - fuckfacez (01/10/2014) [-]
Have you ever been to the U.S? And its ******** though, everyone gets made fun of and everyone fights back, its not just the U.S that does it.
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#195 to #181 - swizzll (01/11/2014) [-]
Yes I have been to the U.S, and I don't care if you make fun of the UK if you have a genuine reason to
Yes I have been to the U.S, and I don't care if you make fun of the UK if you have a genuine reason to
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#75 to #62 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
I don't really think America makes fun of countries that much. Aside from the France, muslims/middle easterns this is a group of people and you know what i mean , North Korea, Africa i know it's a continent and not a country and MAYBE Australia(i don't think the upside down joke is that offensive and neither is hur dur crazy animals). If you want you could say we make fun of Germany, but i think WWII nazi jokes aren't necessarily offensive since Germany is nothing like it was during that time. I think we more offend races and ethnicities. WIth the spics, ******* , chinks, etc.

tl;dr we don't really make fun of countries, just ethnicities.
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#60 - snood (01/10/2014) [-]
our country has problems so does yours, bottom line (this is more for the commentors than the content) if you feel superior because of what your country did then you probably haven't accomplished much yourself.
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User avatar #63 to #60 - eating ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
yea but yuropoors dont yell EUROPE #1 most of time..
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User avatar #68 to #63 - snood (01/10/2014) [-]
you're telling me that at the FIFA cup or the olympics people aren't screaming for their country? I mean I've never seen someone just walk out into the street and scream America #1 then go inside. if they do then they're stupid and they're the people my post is talking about too, but i really don't see that happening.
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User avatar #69 to #68 - eating ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
yea, but thats mostly 1 time per year. i talking about americans on funnyjunk and 4chan.. especially on 4chan.
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User avatar #71 to #69 - snood (01/10/2014) [-]
oh come on, it's equal between europe and america on the internet, tbh i've always thought the same thing about you guys (assuming your european) i guess it's just that you notice the other people doing it more than you notice your own country.
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User avatar #72 to #71 - eating ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
yeah. ok
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#46 - sausydangles (01/09/2014) [-]
>Wrong, 18 to purchase long gun and shotguns, 21 for handguns >Wrong, can **** before 18 and age of consent is by state >Sort of, you can drink with your parents in some states including at restaurants and bars >got us there. (I do agree it should be lowered to 19) >Is sporting powerhouse >I agree Rugby>Football, but Baseball>Cricket, and we have the best pro hockey league in the world(grant it is made up of people from all countries) which is really the only sport that matters. >We are aware of the problem and want to fix it but not at the costs of individual liberties to eat whatever the hell you want. >is tech powerhouse >still only country to go to the moon >Public education, yes that is true because education has not been nationalized. Private education, college education, and post-grad(especially medical school) is the best in the world >I went to both public and private schools and I learned about evolution in both and never creationism >no data to back up claim for or against >richest nation on earth >got ****** worse by Obama, best health care idea is to make it more like car insurance and make it so you can buy health care across state lines instead of health care only in your state. (PS we have the best health care, worst way of trying to pay for it) >Largest national debt, yes, but if you look at it by Percentage of GDP we beat almost all of Europe. >Not even touching that because it could be a rant by itself. >Yes, we do enjoy our freedoms and yes freedom does cause problems but I'd much rather be in a position where I can decide what's best for me than to be told what to do by a government. >Abortion is 100% legal in the U.S. in every state. A majority of Americans now support gay rights and it'll be a slow process but will be legal. (also not all of Europe is that cool with the gay) >Baseless anti-semitic paranoia
>Wrong, 18 to purchase long gun and shotguns, 21 for handguns
>Wrong, can **** before 18 and age of consent is by state
>Sort of, you can drink with your parents in some states including at restaurants and bars
>got us there. (I do agree it should be lowered to 19)
>Is sporting powerhouse
>I agree Rugby>Football, but Baseball>Cricket, and we have the best pro hockey league in the world(grant it is made up of people from all countries) which is really the only sport that matters.
>We are aware of the problem and want to fix it but not at the costs of individual liberties to eat whatever the hell you want.
>is tech powerhouse
>still only country to go to the moon
>Public education, yes that is true because education has not been nationalized. Private education, college education, and post-grad(especially medical school) is the best in the world
>I went to both public and private schools and I learned about evolution in both and never creationism
>no data to back up claim for or against
>richest nation on earth
>got ****** worse by Obama, best health care idea is to make it more like car insurance and make it so you can buy health care across state lines instead of health care only in your state. (PS we have the best health care, worst way of trying to pay for it)
>Largest national debt, yes, but if you look at it by Percentage of GDP we beat almost all of Europe.
>Not even touching that because it could be a rant by itself.
>Yes, we do enjoy our freedoms and yes freedom does cause problems but I'd much rather be in a position where I can decide what's best for me than to be told what to do by a government.
>Abortion is 100% legal in the U.S. in every state. A majority of Americans now support gay rights and it'll be a slow process but will be legal. (also not all of Europe is that cool with the gay)
>Baseless anti-semitic paranoia

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#114 to #46 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
> ******* lol at tech powerhouse. Asia says hi, btw.
> ******* lol at best private education in the country. yeah ok m8 gr8 b8.
> ******* lol at best health care, Scandinavia pisses all over your ******** .

Go drink some piss water usfag. Sorry I meant US beer.
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User avatar #128 to #114 - sausydangles (01/10/2014) [-]
> it might be assembled in Asia but it was probably designed in the US. Two of the largest computer companies are based in the U.S. Also, 8 of the 10 software companies in the world are American with the other two being European
> Top universities 20 of top 25 are American universities with the top 4 being American
> Some of the top hospitals in the world(Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic) are American
> American microbrews kick ass
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User avatar #158 to #46 - Deavas (01/10/2014) [-]
also if youre 18 and in the military you can drink on base
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User avatar #159 to #46 - niggastolemyname (01/10/2014) [-]
how about
oh
maybe
instead of paying a monthly bill like tards
you pay it off
maybe
i dunno
WITH YOUR ******* TAXES
A ******* 100 IQ person pulled off the streets could write a better tax and budget system
why is gerrymandering still a thing
presidential elections = FUBAR
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User avatar #163 to #159 - niggastolemyname (01/10/2014) [-]
Gov't: Iran? oh they're makings the nooks
CIA: no they're not
ISREAL's intel. agency: no they're not

1979: oh what's that? Russia is invading afghanistan? LET'S FUND SOME TERRORISTS THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH THEM WE'LL SHOOTS DEM!
Proxy war logic
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User avatar #176 to #163 - niggastolemyname (01/10/2014) [-]
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and also the amount of ****** the justice system is is off the charts
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User avatar #177 to #46 - lamarisagoodname (01/10/2014) [-]
"is sporting powerhouse"
"richest nation on earth"
"not going to defend the ridiculous and useless war on the middle east"
"blame the guy we voted in"
"still extremely poor health standards but lets waive that aside"
"I'm right, you're just a nazi"

I really hope nobody's taking you seriously
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#193 to #177 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
Sporting powerhouse as evidenced by the sheer dominance in the Olympics. Even when half our professional league's players go home to play for their own countries, the US still wins the lion's share of gold, silver, and bronze medals.

Iraq was a colossal mistake, most Americans realize that now. That's why we shut down Kerry and Obama's plan to get us involved in Syria. So much for dems not being warmongers too.

We voted in the last idiot too. Washington DC, by which I mean the senate too not just the presidential administration or any one party, is completely corrupt. Nothing is going to change while we keep faith in the GOP and DNC.

He never said "nazi", he called OP out on his "controlled by jews" conspiracy crap.
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#119 to #46 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
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User avatar #54 to #46 - WutsAtroll (01/10/2014) [-]
The NHL originated in Canada and 50% of all players are Canadian
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User avatar #61 to #54 - sausydangles (01/10/2014) [-]
majority of the teams are based in the US and 4 of 6 of the original 6 teams were american
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User avatar #74 to #61 - WutsAtroll (01/10/2014) [-]
What's your favourite team?
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User avatar #78 to #74 - sausydangles (01/10/2014) [-]
Boston Bruins, my grandma was best friends with the owners daughter growing up and she and I watch the bruins together
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User avatar #82 to #78 - WutsAtroll (01/10/2014) [-]
that's cool I don't follow them much but don't they have mostly Canadian/European players?
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User avatar #107 to #46 - shadowkingdr (01/10/2014) [-]
eeh the only reason you have the best hockey team is because it has all of Canada's good players (and before anyone's panties gets in a twist im exaggerating)
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#110 to #46 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
>Yes, we do enjoy our freedoms and yes freedom does cause problems but I'd much rather be in a position where I can decide what's best for me than to be told what to do by a government.

Yeahh... you're talking about something that is long gone... I WAS ONLY JOKING NSA! No please1!11
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#88 to #46 - scant (01/10/2014) [-]
I'm just commenting my appreciation for your use of "gay" as a noun.
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User avatar #95 to #88 - sausydangles (01/10/2014) [-]
more of a typo, but i like it
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User avatar #111 to #88 - masterfluffydubs (01/10/2014) [-]
just spit out my drink laughing when I realized your finding. Great job
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#117 - atoaster (01/10/2014) [-]
Actually, my social studies teacher explained to us why the assumption that we have a bad education system is not true. The intelligence of our education is mapped with test scores, same goes for many other countries. My teacher explained that in many countries, especially in Asia, there is literally a cutoff in your education based on a test. Around certain levels, there is a test that decides if you are smart enough to continue, if not you are dropped. This means that the country is only accounting for the top x% of their society. Meanwhile America has a system where everyone deserves an education and they are able to get one, reasonably so. On the counter of that, I have no idea if this is at all applicable to the US and the worlds, as the post does mention how IQ scores are lower. I'm just hoping that the statement is just a local thing or a small amount of examples. Sort of like how the post mentions how creationism is taught. I was never taught creationism. No one really cared, why should it be in school, to be honest? It's something that each individual child should choose whether they partake in the belief. Also something I would like to mention is that America is incredibly advanced in the projects it focuses in. What other country has a wide of a robotics program? While other countries like Japan have soccer robots, America is trying VERY hard to apply technology into the world. Robot is Petman, by Boston Dynamics TL;DR America doesn't have a cutoff like some countries do. Could mean incorrect results.
Actually, my social studies teacher explained to us why the assumption that we have a bad education system is not true. The intelligence of our education is mapped with test scores, same goes for many other countries. My teacher explained that in many countries, especially in Asia, there is literally a cutoff in your education based on a test. Around certain levels, there is a test that decides if you are smart enough to continue, if not you are dropped. This means that the country is only accounting for the top x% of their society. Meanwhile America has a system where everyone deserves an education and they are able to get one, reasonably so.

On the counter of that, I have no idea if this is at all applicable to the US and the worlds, as the post does mention how IQ scores are lower. I'm just hoping that the statement is just a local thing or a small amount of examples. Sort of like how the post mentions how creationism is taught. I was never taught creationism. No one really cared, why should it be in school, to be honest? It's something that each individual child should choose whether they partake in the belief.

Also something I would like to mention is that America is incredibly advanced in the projects it focuses in. What other country has a wide of a robotics program? While other countries like Japan have soccer robots, America is trying VERY hard to apply technology into the world.

Robot is Petman, by Boston Dynamics

TL;DR America doesn't have a cutoff like some countries do. Could mean incorrect results.
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#123 to #117 - roykynx (01/10/2014) [-]
Thanks!
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#126 to #117 - sacrilegious (01/10/2014) [-]
Also there are lower standards in some other countries.
I read a thing that India graduates more college graduates per capita than the US, but it's hell of a lot easier there than here.
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#1 - carlsaganrealness (01/09/2014) [-]
Boy I tell you Hwat Bill Dauterive is pretty much the personification of the history of America, used to be running **** but now things are in the ****

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#3 to #1 - symmiie ONLINE (01/09/2014) [-]
Bill, go home.
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#6 to #3 - carlsaganrealness (01/09/2014) [-]
I can't let anyone impose on muh freedoms Hank
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#44 - SirSheepy (01/09/2014) [-]
>dat creationism is schools >implying that you're better because you believe something different. >implying that any government funded school is even allowed to teach creationism as fact. >only play sports the rest of the world considers **** tier. >implying that football is the only sport played in the U.S. >implying the U.S. doesn't kick every other country's ass in Olympic Medals. >cant **** till 18 >implying that you can't have sex before you're 18. >implying that letting 14-year-olds **** 50-year-olds is a good thing.
>dat creationism is schools

>implying that you're better because you believe something different.
>implying that any government funded school is even allowed to teach creationism as fact.

>only play sports the rest of the world considers **** tier.

>implying that football is the only sport played in the U.S.
>implying the U.S. doesn't kick every other country's ass in Olympic Medals.

>cant **** till 18

>implying that you can't have sex before you're 18.
>implying that letting 14-year-olds **** 50-year-olds is a good thing.
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#56 to #44 - irishlawyer (01/10/2014) [-]
Even private schools, as in not funded by the government, don't teach creationism as a fact.
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User avatar #67 to #44 - moistnuggests (01/10/2014) [-]
One quick google search has revealed that creationism is indeed still taught in some public schools. Not really surprising in southern states like Texas and Tennessee
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User avatar #76 to #67 - brobathehutt (01/10/2014) [-]
Not legally, if the people cared they could sue the school.
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User avatar #113 to #76 - moistnuggests (01/10/2014) [-]
Ripped right out of wikipedia:

"n the United States, creationists and proponents of evolution are engaged in a long-standing battle over the legal status of creation and evolution in the public school science classroom.[67]

There are states that teach the criticisms of evolution, such as Ohio. And others who teach Creationism along with evolution, including Kentucky. Colorado and New York are two states that do teach evolution, but it is up to the schools, teachers, and counties on how this subject is taught and portrayed to the students. (Boyle 2005). There are several factors that decide what is taught in public schools. Texas tends to set the standards for textbooks throughout the country"

So yea, its perfectly legal but still controversial.
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User avatar #194 to #113 - brobathehutt (01/10/2014) [-]
No I mean it's not constitutional. It happens, sure, but the supreme court can not legally let it happen UNLESS it's a private school. Also trust me, I live in Texas and I have never seen creationism taught in school. I also hear about public schools that get in tons of trouble over it.
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#96 to #67 - chubbies (01/10/2014) [-]
Yes they teach about it. Same way one person could talk about torture and not condone it.
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User avatar #19 - loomiss ONLINE (01/09/2014) [-]
Sorry but who just sent a rover to mars and won the last Olympics?
I may sound like a butthurt American but most of this was bullll ****
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User avatar #29 to #19 - EventHorizon (01/09/2014) [-]
I'm an American, in the military, and that 4chan post is a hairs-bredth away from perfect.
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User avatar #32 to #19 - ireallylikepotatoe (01/09/2014) [-]
>won the Olympics

American education, ladies and gentlemen.
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#38 to #32 - anon (01/09/2014) [-]
We got the most gold metals per athlete of all the countries. I know it's not supposed to be about winning or losing, but this is the real world. The real world has winners and losers. Mostly losers.
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User avatar #39 to #38 - ireallylikepotatoe (01/09/2014) [-]
Think of how badly the UK would have 'beat' the US if they had the same population.
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#57 to #39 - leathermanshadow (01/10/2014) [-]
Population didn't help China did it? Don't make assumptions.
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User avatar #59 to #57 - ireallylikepotatoe (01/10/2014) [-]
The overall population doesn't make the difference.

The gold medal to population ratio does.
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User avatar #144 - tlstheseen (01/10/2014) [-]
Massachusetts checking in, test scores ranked separately from the rest of the U.S., third in the world (or around that) along with functional healthcare, working gun laws and freedom of sexuality and expression.

We are the last stand of the American Dream.
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#161 to #144 - cossackwhoop (01/10/2014) [-]
Best of luck, Comrade.
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#190 to #144 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
Test scores in the inter-mountain west and the northeast most part of new england are high too. The one sided states are doing the worst; Cali, NY, and NJ have similar IQ results to TX, GA, and SC.

Teach students to question. Focus on science, math, language, and how to find your own answers. Don't just teach the answers needed for the endless, ******** standardized tests. Don't use the education system as a political, social, or religious soap box. That's where the Super-Democrat and Super-Republican states are ******* up.
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User avatar #196 to #190 - tlstheseen (01/12/2014) [-]
Damn right. My high school has consistently outperformed many of the others in Massachusetts outside of standardized tests because we have a literacy in communications as applied to science, history, art, language and mathematics to encourage questioning of what we are told. Nearly every book we read up until junior year, starting when we were grade schoolers, was about some kind of dictatorship or messed up government and rebelling against it.
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#157 to #144 - The Fonz (01/10/2014) [-]
Massachusetts face when
Massachusetts face when
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#100 - facepalmftw (01/10/2014) [-]
>richest nation on earth

>largest national debt of any country

Welp, this post is **** tier.
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User avatar #104 to #100 - Greevon (01/10/2014) [-]
Both of those are true, though. America could pay off it's debt in less than a year if that's all it spent money on, but just as a person would normally have a mortgage on their home, we pay it off in chunks that end up being more than the cost of the initial debt in the first place.
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#112 to #104 - facepalmftw (01/10/2014) [-]
I understand the concept of debt. That's why I said it was a **** post. Being the richest nation means the United States bows to no-one in terms of finances. Having the greatest national debt means it bows to all others. The post is, in essence, a massive contradiction. It's like saying "I am the richest person in New York, but I owe way more money than anyone else."
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User avatar #121 to #112 - Greevon (01/10/2014) [-]
It's not a contradiction, it's just an oxymoron. Having a debt doesn't mean you're somehow inferior, it means that you're investing that capital into different projects. Very few nations don't have a national debt and none of them are major world powers.
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#124 to #121 - facepalmftw (01/10/2014) [-]
Oh no no, I understand that. What I'm saying is that a nation cannot have lots of disposable income AND lots of debt. It's not just bad budgeting, it's literally impossible. The only way the United States has fiscally survived in the past few years is by artificially extending their loan periods. You as a person cannot have large debts AND a bunch of disposable income. That income goes to your debts or, sooner or later, your property (or country) gets repossessed. That hasn't happened to the U.S. Government yet because a large portion of its loans are owed to its people, who have no idea that's the case.
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User avatar #127 to #124 - Greevon (01/10/2014) [-]
Well, again I'd go back to the mortgage analogy. People who buy $250,000 homes pay off a section of their debt while reserving some income as disposable income. I agree though, it's bad budgeting, I'd very much prefer if we could balance the budget and generate a surplus.
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#130 to #127 - facepalmftw (01/10/2014) [-]
We can, we just don't. Too much politics. You can get a mortgage and pay it off, save for retirement, and have a little disposable income ALL AT ONCE! What the fed is doing, though, is putting everything into the 'disposable' category. They're even guilt-tripping their opposition. "What do you mean you want to cut medicare? Do you LIKE making people poor?"
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User avatar #166 - miia ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
There is no creationism in american schools.
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User avatar #168 to #166 - lieutenantbuzzkill (01/10/2014) [-]
People are trying to. They are also trying to make prayer mandatory.
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User avatar #169 to #168 - miia ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
There are also people trying to make it illegal to be gay and make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. That doesn't mean they'll get anywhere with it.
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User avatar #170 to #169 - lieutenantbuzzkill (01/10/2014) [-]
I hate this country.
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User avatar #172 to #166 - digeredoo (01/10/2014) [-]
i wish it would stay that way
but since belief in evolution is decreasing in congress, i doubt it will.
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#186 to #166 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
A few counties still teach it, or are required to mention creationism alongside evolution, but for the most part, evolution is curriculum in this country. I'm getting rather tired of people overstating the claim that creationism is taught in American schools. A ridiculously small minority of schools should not be used as a stereotype for the country.
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#122 - domycatdaddy (01/10/2014) [-]
America checking in, our country has turned to absolute **** .
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#134 to #122 - captainsheperd (01/10/2014) [-]
American checking in again, I agree completely
American checking in again, I agree completely
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#139 to #134 - odytoboman (01/10/2014) [-]
California Agent, I concur. We're **** .
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#142 to #139 - Thehappyemu (01/10/2014) [-]
We're all pretty much in agreement, we suck.
We're all pretty much in agreement, we suck.
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#148 to #142 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
Texas checking in, we're actually doing pretty good here.
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#183 to #148 - fiercebannana (01/10/2014) [-]
Second Texas opinion, i love it here, minus the governer, but hey! the good weather is nice!
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#192 to #139 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
You don't get a say in this Cali, far as I'm concerned yours and New York's Super-Democrats are right in hand with the Super-Republican idiots in the south for excellence in ******* things up.
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#154 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
I agree with everything about this other than the debt thing. That is so stupid to say. Its impossible for us to have a positive trade gross, if we supply the world with a reserve currency we cant have a positive gain in funds
I agree with everything about this other than the debt thing. That is so stupid to say. Its impossible for us to have a positive trade gross, if we supply the world with a reserve currency we cant have a positive gain in funds
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User avatar #155 to #154 - The Fonz (01/10/2014) [-]
Sorry i forgot to log in.
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User avatar #162 to #155 - talkingmouth (01/10/2014) [-]
Blue brother!
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User avatar #70 - mcstorms (01/10/2014) [-]
America is a child born from war and then raised by it. We had to grow up fast becoming a super power in under 200 years. Now we're catching up on being a child and ******* **** up.
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User avatar #66 - joshuaz (01/10/2014) [-]
Did this come trom reddit? Because ilovethereddits
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User avatar #85 to #66 - ilovethereddits **User deleted account** (01/10/2014) [-]
Did you do that just to say my name?
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User avatar #151 to #85 - joshuaz (01/10/2014) [-]
Perhaps.. You must be popular.
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User avatar #152 to #151 - ilovethereddits **User deleted account** (01/10/2014) [-]
Sorta
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#55 - anon (01/10/2014) [-]
Sports wise I ******* love America. I really do not care that the rest of the world plays cricket and soccer, I'm fine with football, basketball baseball and hockey (not so much nascar...) and we still do fantastic in the olympics.
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