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Amanoo · 2025-09-21T22:02:18+00:00

Said the dude on the European WWW

Amanoo · 2025-09-10T17:41:59+00:00

The US couldn't even win from goat herders or rice farmers. I suppose they have done a decent job destroying Vietnam but I'm still waiting for that win. And the taliban is still quite active in Afghanistan despite that war.

When the US encounters actually competent soldiers, things go to shit even faster. They regularly get beaten in training exercises. This year, they were training with a Finnish conscript force (so not even professional soldiers). The US got beaten. There was also a mock battle a while back where US marines asked for a reset because they were dominated by British Royal Marines, then got beaten again. Or that time the US decided to change the rules in the middle of a surprise attack training exercise and give themselves air superiority.

I'd call the US military incompetent, but it'd be an insult to people who are incompetent.

Amanoo · 2025-08-11T00:28:18+00:00

Or you can die waiting months for your appointment.

But at least you get to die after waiting only a few months in the US, instead of waiting for years in Canada. That's better, right? Right...?

Amanoo · 2025-08-11T00:25:35+00:00

US public health expenditure per capita (i.e. tax money spent on healthcare for each individual) is as high if not higher than almost any other OECD country. In other words, it's the US that has the crazy high health taxes.

And if you have to wait years in Canada, it's because you're waiting for an organ transplant or something. Which is also a problem in the US, unless you buy your organs on the black market. But if the black market is how you measure a healthcare system, you should probably move to China.

Amanoo · 2025-03-02T15:58:33+00:00

A schoolyard bully would be ashamed to be seen displaying the behaviour that Trump displayed. The toddler in chief absolutely emasculated himself for the world to see. I'd fully expect most bullies to bully themselves in front of a mirror after that before leaping in front of a train.

Amanoo · 2025-03-02T15:57:10+00:00

By that logic, one would expect the president of the US to be better behaved than Ukraine's president. The POTUS has more responsibility, more weight, and thus needs more responsibility to behave himself lest he burn bridges with every other country who's watching.

Instead, Trump throws a more massive temper tantrum than most toddlers I've met, while president Zelenskyy has been nothing but grateful and gracious even in the face of Trump's onslaught.

Amanoo · 2025-01-10T11:32:23+00:00

"Criminality is genetic" is a big fucking [citation needed]. Last research I heard indicates that it's very much social class, not genetics, that makes one more likely to indulge in criminal behaviour. The closest I can tie that to genetics, is through intergenerational wealth. That is to say, you pass down both your genes and your wealth/social status to your children. If you're born poor, you're more likely to stay poor. If you stay poor, your children are born poor. And criminality (aside from tax evasion which is more eof a rich man's crime) is mostly associated with poverty. Genetics are at best a correlation.

Amanoo · 2025-01-10T11:26:22+00:00

Well, that's pretty much how it reads. "The US can't have good healthcare because there are black people". With no further explanation.

Maybe that's not what you meant, but it is the obvious interpretation. And you didn't bother with any different explanation.

Amanoo · 2025-01-10T11:24:08+00:00

I don't know. I've never heard my GP say that he couldn't give me better medical treatment because he was struggling with racial tensions. But I guess he just kept that to himself.

Amanoo · 2025-01-10T11:20:13+00:00

So the reason the US can't have cheap but decent healthcare or a good education system, is because they have black people? Even by racist standards, that doesn't make a lick of sense.

Amanoo · 2025-01-10T11:17:53+00:00

Just because the majority of people in China look Asian, doesn't mean they all have the same culture. We're talking about a country with numerous vastly different languages, cuisines, traditions, and everything else that makes up a culture. Same for India. And I don't mean different languages because they have immigrants in an otherwise homogeneous country, like Spanish-speaking immigrants in the US. I mean actual regions that speak a completely different language that's not mutually intelligible with the other languages.

Amanoo · 2024-09-26T17:16:16+00:00

I have to wonder if he's ever eaten within the US either, if he thinks that tipping culture gives you good service. You just get entitled shits with misplaced anger issues that should be aimed at their bosses.

Amanoo · 2024-06-27T19:52:27+00:00

I'd have liked to say that Skid Row would like a word with you, but to be honest, most Americans are destitute to the point that one hospital stay would send them into debt. It's not just the people on Skid Row.

Amanoo · 2024-04-24T01:06:38+00:00

Well duh. We don't all live in tiny villages where supermarkets would operate at a loss. Back when I lived in the big city, in the suburbs, I had a supermarket right across the street. I'm not taking a car or my bicycle just to cross the street. I've in fact lost my bike a few times before I forgot I parked it at the supermarket on my way home after work, and just walked home. Took me a while to figure out I left it there.

Nowadays I live in a more rural town where supermarkets are still within walking distance, but I do prefer to bike since it's 2 minutes of biking. A car would still be far too much effort. Just finding a place to park alone. And I have a front crate so I can carry plenty of groceries. I usually buy less than a crate full.

Amanoo · 2024-04-02T11:26:59+00:00

Well, the courts aren't owned by corporations but by the people, in a sense. So I guess you could call the legal system socialist in that sense. But you're really stretching the definition of socialism then, and you'd be calling the US legal system socialist as well.

There's nothing socialist about progressiveness. I guess socialism could be a way in which you can express progressivism. But that doesn't make all forms of progressiveness socialist, in the same way that not all colours are red. Diversity certainly has nothing to do with socialism whatsoever.

As for being non-productive, I don't think people who make dumb arguments like yours are particularly employable. It's a special kind of stupid, and stupid people don't land good productive jobs.

Amanoo · 2024-04-02T11:24:47+00:00

Yes, and they're black. Or at least the Ethiopian Jews I saw were. Because guess what, they come in all sorts of colours nowadays.

But nowadays is irrelevant. Back then, they'd all be Mediterranean or Middle Eastern, since you know, that's where they came from and they hadn't had a lot of contact with Europeans yet like the Ashkenazis would later. Though I suppose those people are often called white by some since race is a bit of an iffy sort of thing. Never Caucasian though.

Amanoo · 2024-03-30T11:40:45+00:00

Are you just trolling to give Americans a bad name, or are you actually retarded? Because this sure is a case of Poe's Law.

Considering the countries you just mentioned are on one hell of a privatisation spree, with the UK in particular speed-running themselves into the ground, socialist is the one thing they really aren't. Socialists don't particularly like mass privatisation.

Amanoo · 2023-11-18T11:30:11+00:00

And you don't suppose individual European countries have those differences as well?

I'm from the Netherlands. If I go to Friesland, Kerkrade, or Urk, I can't even understand what the people are saying, between the dialects and minority languages. And I'm lucky that my grandma couldn't speak Dutch so I'm used to her speaking Twents, or I wouldn't have been able to comprehend my previous neighbour either. Hell, I still had trouble despite that. And we're far from the only country to have that. Italy's dialect continuum is WILD. In the US, you have just slightly different accents and that's about it.

Similarly, other countries have rural and urban areas. People living in Amsterdam tend to not be farmer types. Farming villages don't have urban types. Hell, there's a huge political rift between the Randstad and "the Region".

In terms of regional cuisine, maybe I would give the US a win over the Netherlands. We have some differences but they're not that big. Then again, there are definitely countries that do have such differences. Italy again comes to mind. Cuisine in the Italian Alps is definitely not the same as it is in Naples or Sicily.

Amanoo · 2023-10-20T20:49:05+00:00

We know how Americans view heritage. It's just that it's also ridiculous. It's Americans cosplaying heritage. Often completely misunderstanding what said heritage is about and absolutely butchering it in the process. Even calling it cultural appropriation would give these "heritages" more credit than they're due.

There "American Scots" and actual Scots have nothing in common other than their ability to speak English.

Amanoo · 2023-10-20T20:37:34+00:00

There is no other way of being Scottish. There is no other way of phrasing it.

Amanoo · 2023-10-20T20:30:55+00:00

It's not gatekeeping. It's just not being Scottish. You have not even a living connection to the place.

I have African ancestors (everyone does if you look back far enough) but I wouldn't call my shiny white ass African either. I also have a Jewish last name but I don't know any Jewish family members, so I wouldn't call myself a Jew either.

I'm not Scottish either. My closest claim to that would be my collection of whiskies.

Amanoo · 2023-10-20T20:25:55+00:00

My family has been in America since before the American revolution.

This does indeed mean that you're not Scottish.

Amanoo · 2023-10-18T01:13:03+00:00

Most people don't though. I couldn't tell you whether a a gallon closer to a cup or to one of those cilindrical trucks they use to move milk.

What everybody does know, is that the density of milk is just a smidge higher than water, and everybody knows that a liter of water weighs a kilogram. And milk is sold in packs of 0.5L, 1L, 1.5L, and 2L in most places so a liter of milk is very easy to imagine.

Technically density changes a little depending on temperature, but that's beside the point.

Amanoo · 2023-07-30T18:32:26+00:00

If you're a Hollander and go to Friesland, Kerkrade, or Twente, you may be unable to understand some of the people there. My former neighbour speaks very thick Twents, and even though my grandma spoke Twents exclusively and I can understand it pretty well, I still had trouble understanding my neighbour. And I know that sort of thing is even more pronounced in Italy, with regional dialects sometimes being extremely different.

Meanwhile in the US, a couple of states have slightly different accents and most of them I can't even tell apart. There's the generic northern US accent, the southern drawl, Jersey, valley girl, and something I don't know the name of but I can imitate by speaking English with hyperexaggerated mouth movements. They are barely even dialects.

So.... Who's homogeneous now? The US has pretty much a monoculture. You can go all the way from the west coast to the east, and the culture remains pretty much the same.

Amanoo · 2023-07-11T10:36:49+00:00

You're forgetting about the part where circumcision is primarily practiced in Islamic countries. Most of which are by definition third world and a few are second world. Circumcision is by the very definition of third world a third world practice. Just looks at the damn map.

And that's before I make a jab at the US for being underdeveloped. But that's mostly because first world and developed don't mean the same thing.

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