How does the World view America these days?

[Lane Visitor]

Yeah but when you talk to other forum members and reference america as ignorant fat greasy slobs, you put us in the same pool as trump supporters, alt right, and the worst of america. Forums like this are living proof (if you refuse to find other ways to demonstrate to yourself) that not all "merkans" are pieces of shit. In fact 95% of people i know here (and i even live in arizona) are compassionate, cultured, hard working people with a mostly liberal view of the world (ok maybe 90%). So you come off as a buffoon when you vomit nonsense like this. Critize our goverment, leaders, history, policies etc.. But you don't get to go off about how stupid / ignorant our entire way of life or attitude is from your glass house over there without expecting some pebbles chucked back at you. And dont bring up exceptionalism or obsession with money / greed bit unless youre prepared to tell me how giving, ego-less, and pure the ruling elite is in your neck of the woods.

[Hugh Mughnus]

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ps love & light

Edited October 5, 2017 by Bulk VanderHooj

[eugene]

 

there are some timeless qualities to these islands and fuck aye i'll stand up for them,

 

 

just can't snap out of it, huh?

[cwmbrancity]

Yeah but when you talk to other forum members and reference america as ignorant fat greasy slobs, you put us in the same pool as trump supporters, alt right, and the worst of america. Forums like this are living proof (if you refuse to find other ways to demonstrate to yourself) that not all "merkans" are pieces of shit. In fact 95% of people i know here (and i even live in arizona) are compassionate, cultured, hard working people with a mostly liberal view of the world (ok maybe 90%). So you come off as a buffoon when you vomit nonsense like this. Critize our goverment, leaders, history, policies etc.. But you don't get to go off about how stupid / ignorant our entire way of life or attitude is from your glass house over there without expecting some pebbles chucked back at you. And dont bring up exceptionalism or obsession with money / greed bit unless youre prepared to tell me how giving, ego-less, and pure the ruling elite is in your neck of the woods.

 

 

fat greasy slobs? you must be projecting some sensitivity there because i was singular in my worship of your biscuits & gravy & you mistook humour for petulance

 

if merkin heffers wanna keel over from that, thats their business, i didnt mention fat or slobs once chap & only in this post to impart the essentials

 

never said you were all pieces of shit either, christ this is like conversing with my neighbour who has Alzheimers

 

i stand by every point on the previous page

 

vast sections of your society worship money, the entire US system is built on the notion of financial "attainment"

 

whats the olde cultural model, feudalism, civilization & decadence?

 

well the good ol' US skipped the civilization aspect & went directly to decadence from feudalism

 

great, yer not a part of that, but systemically thats what remains unchecked, i saw it up close and v personal & it left me baffled as to how a nation with so much disposable income couldnt get a viable healthcare plan into action til O'bama & even then if you get cancer it can effectively bankrupt whole families

 

US foreign policy since WWII is a record of shame, pick a continent & chances are the US military-industrial complex leveled it, then sent contractors in to be paid to rebuild, or failing that install a less than benevolent dictator

 

is the UK clear of blame? not at all, like i said virtually everywhere a redcoat bootprint was left, everything went to shit, but your

 

and the pebbles yourself & others brought to the table were mainly just "lol" etc, just look at Eugene's av to clarify his mindset, kinda tragic for what must be someone over 25 at least (and thats a conservative estimate)

 

over to the herd....

[cwmbrancity]

 

 

there are some timeless qualities to these islands and fuck aye i'll stand up for them,

 

 

just can't snap out of it, huh?

 

 

 

as an archaeologist, no, as individual i quite like my accidental place of birth, even if thats troublesome for someone like you

 

i could've stated the same thing for most nations, but, oh shucks, its past 2am here and essays arent something you really digest without prejudice

 

besides.....

 

 

 

how old are you again exactly?

[eugene]

22, u?

[cwmbrancity]

22? that explains a fuck load, if u'd said 23 i'd have been justifiably concerned.......see the intro to Cities of the Red Night's opening 'invocation' for an explanation

 

me? old enough to have experienced & compared the function of certain cultures across the world to know the US is an extreme example of collective entitled narcissism to another level

 

besides, its late.....hugs & cuddles

 

cwmbrancity

xx

 

[Alcofribas]

woah this thread is cool as hell now

[Lane Visitor]

 

Yeah but when you talk to other forum members and reference america as ignorant fat greasy slobs, you put us in the same pool as trump supporters, alt right, and the worst of america. Forums like this are living proof (if you refuse to find other ways to demonstrate to yourself) that not all "merkans" are pieces of shit. In fact 95% of people i know here (and i even live in arizona) are compassionate, cultured, hard working people with a mostly liberal view of the world (ok maybe 90%). So you come off as a buffoon when you vomit nonsense like this. Critize our goverment, leaders, history, policies etc.. But you don't get to go off about how stupid / ignorant our entire way of life or attitude is from your glass house over there without expecting some pebbles chucked back at you. And dont bring up exceptionalism or obsession with money / greed bit unless youre prepared to tell me how giving, ego-less, and pure the ruling elite is in your neck of the woods.

 

 

fat greasy slobs? you must be projecting some sensitivity there because i was singular in my worship of your biscuits & gravy & you mistook humour for petulance

 

if merkin heffers wanna keel over from that, thats their business, i didnt mention fat or slobs once chap & only in this post to impart the essentials

 

never said you were all pieces of shit either, christ this is like conversing with my neighbour who has Alzheimers

 

i stand by every point on the previous page

 

vast sections of your society worship money, the entire US system is built on the notion of financial "attainment"

 

whats the olde cultural model, feudalism, civilization & decadence?

 

well the good ol' US skipped the civilization aspect & went directly to decadence from feudalism

 

great, yer not a part of that, but systemically thats what remains unchecked, i saw it up close and v personal & it left me baffled as to how a nation with so much disposable income couldnt get a viable healthcare plan into action til O'bama & even then if you get cancer it can effectively bankrupt whole families

 

US foreign policy since WWII is a record of shame, pick a continent & chances are the US military-industrial complex leveled it, then sent contractors in to be paid to rebuild, or failing that install a less than benevolent dictator

 

is the UK clear of blame? not at all, like i said virtually everywhere a redcoat bootprint was left, everything went to shit, but your

 

and the pebbles yourself & others brought to the table were mainly just "lol" etc, just look at Eugene's av to clarify his mindset, kinda tragic for what must be someone over 25 at least (and thats a conservative estimate)

 

over to the herd....

 

 

ill throw lol's any day over pebbles. not looking to list off ills of the uk at the moment, i think theyre quite easy to find on a google search. your problem is here seems to lie with world superpowers and the corruption and greed of humanity. yes, america is the superpower of superpowers (though russia and china seem to be getting close to taking the torch there), but so is is the EU. Ill give it to you that your country and EU nations may *currently* - important word currently - have better conditions (re: healthcare, guns, etc) than any of the other super-powers. but the rest of your "list" (which is mostly half baked) is a poor foundation of your claim to "we're better than merka".  poor because why? not because one can't even compare apples to apples like that, but because it's juvenile and pointless to do the whole "my country is better than yours". but this is light years off topic now.. my initial problem was yours and godel's kneejerk bashing of america as a country/people just moments after a massacre in our country. it's not like we dropped bombs on some country and then you posted fuck america, no you took the opportunity to kick someone when theyre down. so how do you think im gonna respond to that as someone who lives here? do you think i don't already realize how maddening gun culture is here?? are you that solipsistic to think that just because you live outside of america, you can see it "for what it truly is while we can't?", and even more absurd - that oh because you lived here for a bit that it all of the sudden makes you a cultural specialist on the states and the mindset of this nation? this is the problem with people generalizing -- whether it's nationality, race, gender, religion, orientation, etc etc -- and before you say but but world super power, okay, superpower number 3, check yourself before you get all conflict theory on superpower number 1 / 2. until we can recognize the problem of corruption and greed is one of humanity and knows no national boundaries or borders, we will be bickering and playing chess, wagging our own tales, and never getting quite at the issue. 

Edited October 5, 2017 by Lane Visitor

[sweepstakes]

Yeah but when you talk to other forum members and reference america as ignorant fat greasy slobs, you put us in the same pool as trump supporters, alt right, and the worst of america. Forums like this are living proof (if you refuse to find other ways to demonstrate to yourself) that not all "merkans" are pieces of shit. In fact 95% of people i know here (and i even live in arizona) are compassionate, cultured, hard working people with a mostly liberal view of the world (ok maybe 90%). So you come off as a buffoon when you vomit nonsense like this. Critize our goverment, leaders, history, policies etc.. But you don't get to go off about how stupid / ignorant our entire way of life or attitude is from your glass house over there without expecting some pebbles chucked back at you. And dont bring up exceptionalism or obsession with money / greed bit unless youre prepared to tell me how giving, ego-less, and pure the ruling elite is in your neck of the woods.

I'm a fat greasy American slob with mostly liberal view of the world, and probably an ignorant piece of shit, and I take offense to this.

 

Also cwm is 100% on the money about money worship. I thought I would get desensitized to it as I got older but it actually disgusts me more and more and I'm beginning to see it as the root cause of the vast majority of the bullshit that is wrong with this country and, by extension, the world. I really don't give a shit if he's singling out America for it because I see it god damn everywhere I go in this country and I didn't see it nearly as bad in Japan (sorry, those are the only 2 countries I'm really familiar with).

Also I am proud merkin but real patriotism = healthy criticism, imo.

Also thank American Geezus that Alco is back

[usagi]

Also thank American Geezus that Alco is back

 

there is hope yet for us.

[zaphod]

i remember when eugene first started posting. he was only seven years old. 

[Lane Visitor]

 

Yeah but when you talk to other forum members and reference america as ignorant fat greasy slobs, you put us in the same pool as trump supporters, alt right, and the worst of america. Forums like this are living proof (if you refuse to find other ways to demonstrate to yourself) that not all "merkans" are pieces of shit. In fact 95% of people i know here (and i even live in arizona) are compassionate, cultured, hard working people with a mostly liberal view of the world (ok maybe 90%). So you come off as a buffoon when you vomit nonsense like this. Critize our goverment, leaders, history, policies etc.. But you don't get to go off about how stupid / ignorant our entire way of life or attitude is from your glass house over there without expecting some pebbles chucked back at you. And dont bring up exceptionalism or obsession with money / greed bit unless youre prepared to tell me how giving, ego-less, and pure the ruling elite is in your neck of the woods.

I'm a fat greasy American slob with mostly liberal view of the world, and probably an ignorant piece of shit, and I take offense to this.

 

Also cwm is 100% on the money about money worship. I thought I would get desensitized to it as I got older but it actually disgusts me more and more and I'm beginning to see it as the root cause of the vast majority of the bullshit that is wrong with this country and, by extension, the world. I really don't give a shit if he's singling out America for it because I see it god damn everywhere I go in this country and I didn't see it nearly as bad in Japan (sorry, those are the only 2 countries I'm really familiar with).

Also I am proud merkin but real patriotism = healthy criticism, imo.

Also thank American Geezus that Alco is back

 

 

re: money worship, see but you're not doing anything but fanning the flames by being okay with singling out america. one of the biggest reasons humanity is fucking helpless with fixing our own problems and working together is because we're so goddamn addicted to pointing fingers and name calling, whether it's at others or ourselves-- both just as bad. america will always be this big bad enemy to the rest of the world as long as people choose to view it as such. like almost all things, it's a problem of language and words, and when we fail to see that forever labeling america as the "superpower imperialist colonialist entity" / "evil empire" is just as damning as one labeling all muslims as terrorists or all native americans as alcoholics or all white christian men as misogynists and on and on and on, we forget about the bigger picture. before you say "jesus fucking christ, cry me a river, we're talking about countries here, who really holds their nation of origin as sensitively as that?"... I'll tell you who do does... backwards ignorant redneck fucks who many of you guys in this thread love to generalize america as. Because they have nothing to cling to, no identity except their guns, kfc, and middle america mindsets, and nobody to vouch for them as decent people except their little circle of merka first-ers. and ya know what fuels these people to take the wheel of our country in the form of voting for and supporting people like donald trump? sentiments like fuck merka. it's a vicious cycle. this is just an example of the power of words and generalizations. not trying to say that a post like yours is responsible for the alt right or anything, but an example to illustrate the power of words. i didn't see it myself for the longest time. hell, i was the one on this forum to lambaste obama for not saying the words "islamic extremism" on the world stage and calling it for what it is. while that's not a perfect example as i still think it is an accurate word to describe what it intends to describe, i understand and recognize that simply using a phrase like "religious extremism" in place when addressing the world, although may not satisfy the collective resolve for terror attacks and calling a spade a spade, it absolutely does just a tiny bit less to fuel the flames of jihadists around the world, and also keeps from marginalizing the already marginalized peace loving muslims around the world who want nothing to do with said phrase. So yeah, it's words, attitudes, and nuances that shape global affairs. 

Edited October 5, 2017 by Lane Visitor

[Alcofribas]

i remember when eugene first started posting. he was only seven years old.

cwm is going to be pretty embarrassed when he realizes eugene has been an emeritus professor of anthropology since he was 12

[zaphod]

watching awepittance be humiliated by a ten year old wearing a letterman jacket is one of my most cherished memories. 

[sweepstakes]

you're not doing anything but fanning the flames by being okay with singling out america. one of the biggest reasons humanity is fucking helpless with fixing our own problems and working together is because we're so goddamn addicted to pointing fingers and name calling, whether it's at others or ourselves-- both just as bad.  

Why though? For real people are obsessed with money over here. I talk to people about what they're doing, about careers and it's always, I don't make enough money, I'm trying to get a better paying job, I want to get into an industry with a bigger starting salary. I bought the newer expensiver version of that thing you have, I'm buying the new iPhone as soon as it comes out, I don't buy used, I know riding the bus is better for the environment but I want to drive because I'm better than people who ride the bus, I want to eat where I can take cute selfies of my pretty food and might not even eat it, I need to see every big budget movie that comes out on opening day and I'm going to watch all the previews so I know about every other big budget movie coming out, I need the details of every single big product release, I must subscribe to every digital media service so I can watch a constant stream of new content.

 

Is it like that everywhere?

 

I didn't say shit about imperialism and all that.  All's I'm sayin' is

[Alcofribas]

watching awepittance be humiliated by a ten year old wearing a letterman jacket is one of my most cherished memories.

that’s beautiful man. iirc eugene is the youngest guy to debunk chomsky. our little man is impressive.

Edited October 5, 2017 by Alcofribas

[chenGOD]

I'll say one thing Americans have over the Brits - social mobility is much easier, because it revolves almost exclusively around money.

Still though, both British and American Empires were driven by pursuit of wealth.

Also Chinese conspicuous consumption is much more aggravating that that in the US.

 

 

We are all fucking worse off for having participated in this discussion. Nationalism is bullshit, fuck being proud of your country.

 

[sweepstakes]

We are all fucking worse off for having participated in this discussion. Nationalism is bullshit, fuck being proud of your country.

Hear, hear, this does not belong in a spoiler.

 

Well, I am still quite proud of American food, music, and cinema, but can I even take credit for any of that? Nah. Maybe gratitude beats pride.

[chenGOD]

Yeah but what is American music? Cinema? Food?

[sweepstakes]

Yeah but what is American music? Cinema? Food?

Mostly the work of immigrants.

[chenGOD]

 

Yeah but what is American music? Cinema? Food?

Mostly the work of immigrants.

 

 

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

[ambermonk]

I'm proud of...um...well, honestly I can only really take pride in a specific region, not the entire country.

[sweepstakes]

Frybread tho... mmm... delicious and immigrant-free.

[ambermonk]

Oh shit, I haven't had that in ages. Yes, indeed invented by the original Americans.