America is retarded...
Dänk 1010011010
and all I can say is that America looks retarded in comparison to the
rest of the world.
Europeans certainly do have their own flaws, but it was an amazing
experience to travel across national borders - all the way into former
communist territory - without having to show my passport. U.S.
Customs looked like a police state by comparison.
The formerly communist countries of Hungary and Serbia looked more
civilized than many parts of the USA, and as I flew over Chicago it
looked more decayed than the socialist-era concrete apartment blocs of
Belgrade.
And for some reason Europeans manage to stay thin, despite a diet rich
in meat, alcohol, and lots of tobacco. I think it is because of
public transportation, that they wind up walking a lot more than
Americans. Earlier today I drove myself to Wal-Mart to see fat
Americans waddling down the aisles like penguins, filling their
shopping carts with bags of snacky cakes and cheezy-poofs - a stark
contrast to the vibrant farmers' markets in Europe.
European politics are similar to American - divided between leftist
socialists and rightist nationalists - but somehow they wind up being
more effective than ours. Walls are especially symbolic since they
remind Europeans of Communist oppression, and as I was leaving they
were constructing a "Belgrade Wall" made of cardboard bricks, which is
to be torn down on November 9th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Unfortunately, the symbolism of
walls is lost on us Americans, who are currently building our own
walls along our own borders.
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Foxtrot
>I just returned home after traveling through Europe for three weeks,
>and all I can say is that America looks retarded in comparison to the
>rest of the world.
>Europeans certainly do have their own flaws, but it was an amazing
>experience to travel across national borders - all the way into former
>communist territory - without having to show my passport. U.S.
>Customs looked like a police state by comparison.
>
>The formerly communist countries of Hungary and Serbia looked more
>civilized than many parts of the USA
>And for some reason Europeans manage to stay thin, despite a diet rich
>in meat, alcohol, and lots of tobacco. I think it is because of
>public transportation, that they wind up walking a lot more than
>Americans. Earlier today I drove myself to Wal-Mart to see fat
>Americans waddling down the aisles like penguins, filling their
>shopping carts with bags of snacky cakes and cheezy-poofs - a stark
>contrast to the vibrant farmers' markets in Europe.
>European politics are similar to American - divided between leftist
>socialists and rightist nationalists - but somehow they wind up being
>more effective than ours. Walls are especially symbolic since they
>remind Europeans of Communist oppression, and as I was leaving they
>were constructing a "Belgrade Wall" made of cardboard bricks, which is
>to be torn down on November 9th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
>the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Unfortunately, the symbolism of
>walls is lost on us Americans, who are currently building our own
>walls along our own borders.
The Berlin Wall was built to keep people IN. We find it necessary to
build fences to keep many people OUT. Walls are erected to keep people
IN bad places and OUT of good places. Get it, America hater?
I see Google in your message header. Wanna take a wild guess which
country they came from? And you use Windows. Guess where they
started. How about that Pentium chip in your computer? How about that
Firefox?
You think "America is retarded"? You like places like Serbia more? So
go there and never come back. Use their technology not ours since we're
so "retarded".
Sheesh
obbzerver
> I just returned home after traveling through Europe for three weeks,
> and all I can say is that America looks retarded in comparison to the
> rest of the world.
So why'd you come back?
Werner
He's talking about now, not then. I think he's trying to point out
that the US is becoming more authoritarian while Europe is becoming
less authoritarian.
I'm not entirely in agreement that this is true. Some think Europe is
evolving into a more centralized government. Brick walls are down but
centralized legal walls are growing.
European country national debts are even bigger than ours. Once the US
can not longer afford to police the world for them I suspect the EU
will start to have more competing than cooperating interests. Some of
this is already evident with the GM bailout squabbles and the European
bank bailouts. European countries have more of a welfare state to
support and drag them down. Perhaps its paranoia, but I'm even
starting to suspect G20 cooperation in the financial mess was
predicated on US adopting a more European health care system to make
the playing field more even.
5272 Dead, 405 since 1/20/09
A wall is a wall is a wall, bubbles. Doesn't matter if you are building
it to keep people in or out, it's still nothing more than an expression
of your fear and hate.
>
> I see Google in your message header. Wanna take a wild guess which
> country they came from? And you use Windows. Guess where they started.
> How about that Pentium chip in your computer? How about that Firefox?
The Pentium chip was made in Taiwan, and Firefox is an international
effort. And are you seriously holding up Windows as an example of
American superiority and freedom?
Steve
<de...@dead.com> wrote:
>A wall is a wall is a wall, bubbles. Doesn't matter if you are building
>it to keep people in or out,
<Chuckle> Of course it matters.... it matters a lot.. A prison
keeps bad people in, while the walls around a gated community keeps
the bad people out....
--
Contrary to what liberals are whining, nobody
owes you anything.
Eric Gisin
will be 100% of GDP. Few western governments (Japan/Italy) are higher.
Here's are related story: Eric Sprott and David Franklin: U.S. risks default
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/04/eric-sprott-and-david-franklin-u-s-risks-default.aspx
"Werner" <whet...@mac.com> wrote in message
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Werner
> The current issue of the Economist reports the US fed+state debt for 2010
> will be 100% of GDP. Few western governments (Japan/Italy) are higher.
>
I used this:
http://buttonwood.economist.com/content/gdc