America was founded on a genocide, built through a holocaust, has led the world in environmental destruction, and is the greatest existential threat to humanity the world has ever known. Unlike Germany which has a culture that has a earned a place in the world through many centuries America has no justification for its existence. As a foreign person (to us) it’s kind of you to think maybe something worthy of existence could grow from our ashes but if it ever happens... no thanks.

And nothing America's checkered past has brought to the table will ever be as awesome as Hitler.

Well, I love movies, the Internet, AOR and jazz, so God Bless America.

Hitler >>>

eh... Your ancestors might not have supported him but they inspired others to. It's time you take your fair share of responsibility.

Also I'm done crying over the Indians. Those slackers were wasting a perfectly good continent.

And now we're using it to waste a perfectly good world. Weak minded white trash.

Inspired, shminspired... People get awfully bitchy about a few poisoned wells and ritually sacrificed Christian babies.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill...e-arrest%3famp

Stop the gestapo. Kill an ice agent.

maybe if they spent less time in the drum circle and more time inventing the wheel they would've been the ones to discover the old world

Also 90+ % of Indians died off from disease.

I'd say that, like many countries, America, despite its faults, has a lot to be proud of. Not sure that Anteater has done an accurate job though:-

movies - came out of France with the Lumiére Bros and Georges Méliés
Internet - usually credited to this guy, though as befits the invention itself, many countries contributed to the prelim developments that made it possible:-

but jazz, yes, blues, yes, rock'n'roll, yes.

Outside of music, one of America's virtues is the ability to throw money and resources at something. To me they deserve credit for helping out the Brits in WWII and then rebuilding Europe with The Marshall Plan. Plus the whole man-on-the-moon thing, which was a spectacular milestone, even if it didn't produce much obvious benefit.

^ Nice bit of victim-blaming, jwb! You forgot to post about how rape victims are asking for it.

They did. Then they left. Seemed like the smart decision at the time I'm sure.

among others, yea

jwb be like

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not long term

if you buy that it was a genocide via blankets you're a moron lol

Plenty of non-blanket genocide going around, Cletus.

He just likes to feel confident and manly cause he was raised by deep south rednecks.

Lol stop being a little bitch. Circumstances aside, America still birthed jazz. As in, it wouldn't exist today without those circumstances. Did Europe or any other country have a jazz tradition before the U.S.? No.

I missed an obvious one a few pages back too - electricity. America <3

^ Well, not in a list of things America can take some pride in, no. In an analysis of how art can grow out of atrocity, yes.

^ Not sure how to respond to "Yikes" as a debating point, elph! Luckily, I'm off to work now, so don't have to explore the morality of the Marshall Plan, which tbh, I don't know much about apart from what they told me in High School. :shycouch:

^ That's right, Anteater: heart America:-

obviously

more projecting. My parents are from NY/NJ. I never had a political opinion before going on message boards... Nobody in my family gives a ****.

it's my favorite genre.. not the only one I like

I know you think liking post punk makes you smart but it's really just a fashion accessory.

No, but it's pointless whining about what you are talking about when you have centuries of history prior to America where civilizations were built on the oppression, enslavement, whatever of whoever happened to be there before. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Does Rome ring any bells? How about the Mongols? Domestically, the Aztecs and Mayan civilizations were into some bad **** as well. Are those cultures devoid of merit despite the millions that suffered?

If you want something practical out of this, I'd recommend appreciating the fact that if diversity didn't matter in America, you wouldn't have multi-billion dollar companies and organizations pushing messages about toxic masculinity, the "evils of white nationalism", lots of imagery of mixed race couples, etc. into the mainstream or making Colin Kaepernick the face of an ad campaign that spent millions upon millions to reach a lot of people. Going by all that, I'd say diversity and the desire to perpetuate it is alive and well.

Blacks are rude, immigrants who can't speak good English are annoying, white guys who like hop hop are "unsophisticated" (see: too pussy to say dumb)

More wisdom from the fountain of wokeness that is elphenor

i mainly listen to hiphop but you're wrong about "only" hiphop https://boxden.com/smilies/hPqcKMe.png

my car is full or coldplay and linkin parks cds, with a bunch of mix cds of hiphop https://boxden.com/smilies/tv6aijN.png

go somewhere else with your meanie comments :)

:laughing:

Warning to all: The banhammer is raised. No more personal attacks.

Please do it. Start with me.

You really should just move to Denmark. Lots of free stuff, over 86% white, most likely a punk scene somewhere or atleast a few Evanescence cover bands. You'd love it. Just be careful where you shoot up because, you know, laws.

Bring it in guys. Group hug.

*love*

You're going the wrong way.

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And he's out. Who's next?

Looks like Buttigieg came out on top in Iowa after all. Crazy.