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I was still working on Venezuela, but then 'hey, look over there!'. Anything to keep the news off the trump files and his pillaging the country.
as an American let me fix this headline for everyone ... "Americans Are Fucking Stupid All The Time, Iran Is No Exception ".
You just called yourself stupid.
Never said I was smart. I'm not an egotistical cunt. I guess that makes me more self aware than the rest of you though which, I guess is better than falling into that manifest destiny horse shit.
It's how you get upvotes on this platform. America Bad.
Could you give me a few examples what's good about the usa?
They can't. On the bright side we can tag who the manifest destiny cunts are.
Sure.
The territory itself is amazing. From Mount Denali to the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley to Yellowstone, we have tremendous natural beauty here, and the foresight to preserve it. Our national park system is the largest and grandest in the world.
Though our social safety nets are at an all time low at the moment we have many of the best hospitals in the world. UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University teaching hospitals are both within an hour's drive of me, and there is no better medical care available on the planet. We still lead the world in medical research; if it wasn't for the United States, all of Asia would be spending the 21st century dying of smallpox by candlelight.
Though we're often judged for our snack and fast food industries, most of the best food can be found in America. We've been at the forefront of agricultural research for most of our existence, most modern farming practices were developed in the United States. You know the "It's not much but it's honest work" meme? Go look up who he was and what he did. From the wines of Napa Valley to the cheeses of Wisconsin, Kentucky bourbon to Vidalia onions, Vermont maple syrup to Hawaiian coffee, you can find the best of basically anything here in the United States.
We're the world's leading cultural exporter by a WIDE margin. I mean, one word: Hollywood. But even if we have Los Angeles sit this one out I think the United States could give the rest of the world's pop culture exports a run for their money. I'd bid the music industry of Tennessee against the whole of Western Europe. Nashville against the mainland and Memphis against Liverpool, I don't think I can take on the Beatles without Elvis. The Koreans and Japanese both have strong pop scenes but they ain't got a Justin Beiber or Taylor Swift, let alone a Madonna, Michael Jackson or Prince. The Indians make a lot of movies but none are as widely distributed as ours. And there are entire nations that have sold fewer books than Stephen King. There's a huge worldwide demand for American books, music, movies, TV shows and video games. After all, we invented audio recording, audio broadcasting, motion pictures, television and computer graphics and remain dominant in all five technologies and art forms. ...Okay, the Japanese have basically got us in video games, Master Chief and Gordon Freeman can't keep up with Mario and Sonic.
This one might bounce off your forehead given current geopolitics, but the United States is the most altruistic nation on Earth, at every scale. Individual citizens donate far more to charity than anywhere else on Earth, and the United States spends more on foreign aid than anywhere else, fully double the next entry on the list. The US alone provides 40% of the world's HIV/AIDS and Malaria care, to say nothing of tuberculosis treatment. We've spent the last 250 years accepting refugees from the rest of the world's famines, wars, plagues and genocides by the millions.
The usa doesn't have much to do with most of that, the landscape was even more beautiful before the us existed and made up a bunch of ugly zoning laws. I like the national park stuff tho, but sadly I've seen alot of america bad posts how the administration makes it worse nowadays.
The food would be very similiar if england spain and france would still own that place.
Hollywood was made great by Jewish refugees, Babelsberg was the place to before that, and most of the america bad posts complain about how the immigration stance of the us changed.
In general american media is on a decline, the great america that was potrait in the 80s and 90s just is a farce now.
Over 2% of the us population lives with less than 10$ a day. You guys are fucking poor for being so rich. Also something that many america bad posts point out.
The us always had a strong rich elite that created some amazing stuff. But now you have a esoteric health minister so good luck with that.
It was to cover the Epstein files, to cover the possible electoral massacre, and now to cover destroying Social Security and Medicare.
Who the fuck wouldn't have kompromat on the dude who spent his life doing terrible shit to actual children?
As far as I understand it, we attacked someone because public discourse consisted of two things: the Epstein scandal, and how bad practically everything is going.
We attacked Iran because Israel wanted us to.
A -> US attacks Iran
B -> ???
C -> Trump cancels midterms
I'll let you speculate on B.
B -> Profit.
Oil prices go up. Oil companies make more money. Oil companies give the corrupt more money. Profit.
Incorrect. This makes Trump and friends happy, but doesn't lead to canceled mid terms.
Oil prices surge so high that the common people cant afford to drive to work and civil unrest occurs and riots break out.
Closer. I agree with the last part: civil unrest = cancelled midterms.
But I don't believe high oil prices are a sufficient trigger. I think it will be something more specific and controllable
The goal was to get people off of talking about Trump's child trafficking empire. His previous world leader smash and grab didn't last long enough.
Apparently people from USA will rather send their young to die in a war than waddle into the streets and demand the justice to be served against their pedophilic elite.
"I don't care if little girls get raped, as long as I can order pizza from my couch and have it delivered to me"
It’s the same as any war: Fuck up the poors.
Yeah, rich people aren't actually concerned about a few extra dollars a gallon. The pearl clutching is wild. Eat the rich.
The goal is to distract from the trumpstein files.
Well of course they are, Trump and his Cabinet have been vibe-posting the truth as it comes to them
Like on elections? You guys are confused on war that shouldn't happen at all! plunkers!
Yeah, exactly why did the US attack Iran? Was it because that crazy Israeli dude said so?
Operation hide epstein is still the goal.
The goal of the Iran war are simple and obvious from the very beginning: to distract from Trumps crimes and failures.
The goals of the war in Iran are unknown to the US, unless Netanyaho has told them.
The reason the war started is because Israel wants it and Netenyahu (who is, sadly, not dead) got Trump to do it using the same bullshit line he has been repeating since the 80s.
Epstein file distraction, and maybe also oil as a distant secondary bonus. That's it. That's all. Nothing to be confused about in the slightest if you are paying any kind of attention and being honest with yourself about what it is you are seeing.
Why? It's always been about the Epstein Files. Pretty simple.
I'd put boost the flagging Russian economy as one of the goals. America First though.
Doesn't an incumbent party typically see an increase during wars at the polls?
This war seems so unpopular though, it's hard to imagine that happening. But it wouldn't surprise me if that had been the goal. The guy is such an unrestrained hot head that he was bound to inevitably blow his foot off with a bazooka.
It took years for the same thing happen with America’s war in Iraq. Maybe some people are learning.
No, people are dumber than ever. What changed is that in previous wars the lies were at least coherent. This time, every statement from every executive official contradicts every other statement, including those previously made by that same official.
Ah. So the people aren’t smarter — the leaders are dumber.
I remember GWB as a complete idiot but, going back and watching his news conferences and interviews, he looks like a genius compared to anyone in this administration.
He also wasn’t the one running the show.
Neither is Trump though. He sends out random panic threats on social media but, outside that, he is just being manipulated by his advisors and Netanyahu.
I meant that that GWB looked “smart” because of his puppeteers.
Trump is something else… puppet and puppeteers are all dumb.
That may well be, but I'm talking about solo interviews and other press events. No amount of competent coaching could get Trump to a place where he could be that coherent.
Dubya was at the very least sentient. Might even still be, I don't know.
Took longer to get Hussein too. Khomeini bit it within minutes.
It’s obvious that’s why it’s called Operation Epstein Fury! It’s all about Donny being the pedophile Epstein’s best friend and the most frequent person mentioned in the files.
It's the oil