Is the US fucking awesome?

CH156378
CH156378 Posts: 1,539
edited April 2012 in A Moving Train
Hell yes! :thumbup:
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    I know where this thread will eventually go but before it does I just want to say...
    The United States of America is awesome ! God Bless the USA !

    Godfather.
  • CH156378
    CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    Godfather. wrote:
    I know where this thread will eventually go but before it does I just want to say...
    The United States of America is awesome ! God Bless the USA !

    Godfather.
    +1
  • maj4e
    maj4e Posts: 605
    I don't know what the criteria is but I'm cool with America!
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Yes it is.

    Woot!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    I dig it.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Godfather. wrote:
    I know where this thread will eventually go but before it does I just want to say...
    The United States of America is awesome ! God Bless the USA !

    Godfather.

    It's the best place to be living however as for blessings, I'd bless the the ENTIRE WORLD!

    Peace
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    It's a Start, we could be so much better.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    potentially...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Fucking awesome at what? Is it the best place in the world to live? Potentially, though not by most standard metrics. Is it the best place to get educated? Nope., Safest? Nope, Richest? Nope. Most fierce military weaponry? Yep. So we are awesome at killing other people, and keeping our people relatively stupid. ;) However, it is a place where I can write something like this and be free to do so, it's where my family and friends live, and there is a lot to be happy with. I think there's nuance between wanting to improve on our faults, while respecting that we are relatively lucky, and arguing that people who think like me are unamerican and should move away. That's not what has been said so far, but generally the argument that this thread will create devolves into that.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    BinauralJam wrote:
    It's a Start, we could be so much better.
    This. Great country, but like all countries, has it's faults.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    RW81233 wrote:
    Fucking awesome at what?

    rules, rules, and and more rules, over-sensitivity, insensitivity, blame, self righteousness, claiming different levels of awesome, using the word dude, giving concussions, conversely treating concussions, fake bravado, fighting for my freedoms, hyperbole, autotuning the news, 1800 ask gary, television, being prudes, booty dancing on youtube...we are pretty much awesome at everything..

    Yes the US is fucking awesome, doesn't have to be equated to any other country or any other area in order to be that...it is fucking awesome, but it isn't the only place that is
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    I think blanket nationalist pride is the refuge of lazy-minded fools...but that's just me.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Drowned Out wrote:
    I think blanket nationalist pride is the refuge of lazy-minded fools...but that's just me.
    So those Olympic gold medals in hockey are meaningless to you? ;)
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Drowned Out wrote:
    I think blanket nationalist pride is the refuge of lazy-minded fools...but that's just me.

    born from the narcissistic epidemic ...
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    butter prices are reasonable.
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Jason P wrote:
    Drowned Out wrote:
    I think blanket nationalist pride is the refuge of lazy-minded fools...but that's just me.
    So those Olympic gold medals in hockey are meaningless to you? ;)
    I don't have a problem saying 'Canada rules at hockey'...but I would never just say 'Canada rules'....:)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Not to discount the rest of this earth, but yes, I do believe it is.

    This country HAS been awesome, is teetering somewhat at the moment, but can return to its former awesomeness. Some kinks need to be worked out first, I think.

    I love the freedom here to not only succeed, but also to fail (the latter usually HAS to happen in order for the former to). And, after failing, still having the opportunity to try again - and not with the "everyone's a winner!" mentality because let's face it, everyone is not.

    The US, to me, is about liberty. Providing it, living it. Many in my family came here hopeful about their new wide-open future and the right to live their lives free of restraint of thought, religion, sexuality.

    This is a magnificent land made up of some magnificent people. From all over.

    I love it.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    hedonist wrote:

    The US, to me, is about liberty. Providing it, living it. Many in my family came here hopeful about their new wide-open future and the right to live their lives free of restraint of thought, religion, sexuality.

    As long as you're a straight christian.

    I do dig this country, but come on.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    g under p wrote:

    It's the best place to be living however as for blessings, I'd bless the the ENTIRE WORLD!

    Peace

    I was thinking the same thing. The U.S. is a great place in many ways. But it's like the rest of the world- it has good people and not so good people. It has places I love seeing and places I don't care to see again.

    I guess I'm more of a community or planetary kind of person- macro or micro. I don't understand political boundaries. Geographic boundaries make more sense. Regional makes more sense to me. If it weren't for political boundaries, unless you're crossing a river or an ocean or you come across another tribe, you would never know you're going from one state or country into another.

    Community makes more sense to me than state or nation.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    hedonist wrote:

    The US, to me, is about liberty. Providing it, living it. Many in my family came here hopeful about their new wide-open future and the right to live their lives free of restraint of thought, religion, sexuality.

    As long as you're a straight christian.

    I do dig this country, but come on.
    That strikes me as unfair and somewhat narrowly-viewed.

    My family isn't Christian and one side is middle-eastern. Pretty diverse, actually, on all fronts. They've not only been welcomed by their countrymen, but helped them out as well.

    So, I see your "come on" and raise you a "really"?

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