Bash your *own* country! - Page 21

I love my country, and I love living here, especially when I hear how things are outside of the country, but there's still plenty I dislike, mostly the people.

The school I go to is the best public school in the state (Ohio), yet it's in like the worst public school district. The country in general fucks the education system horribly. Kids are educated to be stupid slobs so that the media is successful, people care about celebrities, everyone is a bunch of ignorant xenophobic socially backwards animals. I don't do anything or put any effort into school, while being at a school ranked #276 in the whole country, and I get top grades in the "hardest" classes, and everyone tells me how great and smart I am, and it's only because everyone is fucking stupid. But it's not really their fault, because they're being bred to be stupid. Education is shifting from being a system to force Americans to compete and hopefully be superior (educationally) to people around the world (namely, smarter than the soviets) to being a fucking day-care.

I'm not allowed to think in terms of stereotypes or be racist or sexist at all even when I see these stereotypes overwhelmingly on a daily basis. My school district is 80% "black" and 20% "white" even though, everyone who's not black (asians, hispanics, which apparently covers everyone not "black" or "white") is also part of "white". People don't just think it's cool to be dumb, it really is cool to be stupid and be "gangsta". Half of fucking bnet even calls people their "niggas" and talks in butchered "ghetto" english, and half of fucking bnet isn't even just americans wtf. The majority of the people I see at school on a daily basis are aggressive black men/boys and shrieking black girls/women. I wish they sounded like chimps, they'd be easier to listen to. Most of the white people are worse, in that they actually copy this stupid behavior because it's "cool".
My school is so ahead of the rest of the district, that they've decided to level out the playing field so we don't feel too elitist. They do this by dragging my school down to fail with the rest of the schools so no one looks "bad". It's fucking bullshit. The No Child Left Behind Act fucking butchered education. All it does is take kids who don't want to succeed, and put them in "good" schools to try and help them. But since they've been socially taught to not learn or succeed, all they do is bring the whole school down.

I'm supposed to compete with the rest of the world, but my country is socially teaching all kids to be stupid, so the media and education caters to stupid people. We really aren't taught to learn a foreign language. We have mandatory foreign language classes, but most of the time you really aren't expected to learn the language, just pass the class. The fact that you can pass a language class without learning the language alone is ridiculous.

Most of the country it seems like are fundamentalist conservative right wing morons who are xenophobic, homophobic, classist, and afraid of technology and progress. This results in the rest of the world out-competing us in every area. We've thrown aside the things that made us the most powerful country under this vague notion that we'll just always be the best, despite that we're slipping behind the world.

Since I'm American, any argument I ever make online is dismissed because I'm American. I'm not allowed to point out people wrong in my country, because it's not socially acceptable to be intelligent. I'm not allowed to point out people wrong outside of my country, because I'm an American slob.

I'm not allowed to be racist or nationalist at all because I'm American, but then people treat me like I'm racist and nationalist because I'm from America. There's this Catch 22, where the rest of the world won't let America not be ignornant fuckheads, but expects us not to be anyway, so we're just universally hated.

People inside the country whine that the government sucks, but they don't try to do anything about it. They complain how the whole politics system sucks, and protest it by not getting involved. People refuse to vote because there isn't a candidate specifically tailored to their own beliefs. You're not allowed to be in the middle, you have to be either left or right, and if you're not you're just hated by everyone. It's always left vs right, but both suck. The right are the fucking backwards ones, who ruin the country yet think they rule the world. They edge the country towards totalitarianism every chance they get. They're the people who read 1984, and say, Hey, this is a pretty good idea! Then there's the left, who read 1984 and say Man, we gotta protest this! Lets protest it by doing NOTHING, that'll show 'em!
The whole Clinton vs Obama thing was ridiculous. They were basically the same candidate ideologically, yet people were pitting them against eachother like it was Bush vs Gore again. The people who supported Obama hated Clinton just for being Clinton, the same assbackwards way the Republicans hate Clinton for being Clinton. There's no difference between Republicans and Democrats, they're the same idiots just preaching the other side. Obama supporters are cultist like Ron Paul supporters are.

The country's hipocrisy rivals 1984's DoubleThink. Republicans yell at Democrats for doing exactly what the Republicans are doing. Democrats let themselves get fucked in the ass, and when they get some power they either shoot themselves in the foot, or do nothing at all, the great wait-it-out tactic lol.

People whine about the economy when they're still in fucking middle class despite the economy going to shit. They bawwwwwwww about gas being so high, but all that does is mean they have to remove luxury expenses. The lower class really is going to shit, whether they drive or not, because the price of food, electricity, gas (for house heating), and all appliances and services are going up, without wages going up, which only further hurts the entire economy. So people decide to counter this by whining, and doing nothing else. Instead of finding a way to fix the problem technologically, they just blame people for the problem.

You're so socially expected to do and have things that you're a complete enigma when you don't want them.

My biggest complaint is the technology thing. People are afraid of all forms of technology they don't already own, it's ridiculous. People look down on the sciences, even though the sciences is what brought them all of their creature comforts.

People are so un-laid-back it's retarded. Everyone is busy with their life-drama, if they're not busy watching soap-operas on tv. Reality shows are fucking retarded. Most movies coming out fucking suck too.

America is just flawed by being socially backwards, and by educating the new generations to be socially backwards. We throw out everything that ever made us great, and then try to bring the world down around us. Look at all the shitty things happening in other countries as result of the US? All this terrorism scare shit? And we're in a war and losing? We're the fucking United States who fought back the nazi regime to Berlin and we can't occupy an oil field in the middle of a desert? And the people we're occupying for some strange reason don't want to be occupied but we can't imagine why... Doesn't everyone like being occupied by Americans? Look at Israel, fucking up shit in Lebanon. Since when has Israel had the privillege to fuck up a war and come out fine? It used to be, if Israel lost a war they'd lose their country, so they didn't lose wars, and didn't start fights they didn't need or couldn't finish, but the US has made them so lazy they start random fights now wtf.

The United States just isn't capable of living not in a state of Cold War yet I guess. Everyone who was raised and educated in the Cold War is educating their children like it's the Cold War, except without any pressure to learn maths and sciences. Which just leaves everyone regressive and backwards about the Cold War present -.-

Then the rest of the world talks to us like we're crap and wonders why we don't like them, but still expects us to do shit for them, then complains we're too involved in the rest of the world's affairs.

Our politics in general is hillarious. McCain, a tortured war hero is condoning torture, lol. Kerry gets flamed for being a veteran by a draft dodger. Obama is called a terrorist, wtf. The right flames McCain the whole election, and when he wins the nomination he's suddenly their hero. Clinton has the nomination in the bag, then manages to do everything wrong assuming she's still won the election, and doesn't figure out she might lose and restructures her campaign until it's too late. McCain pushes and supports everything Bush made and did, but people prefer him because he's not black and isn't a woman. Then liberals start gathering around Ron Paul as their hero, even when he openly denounces the theories of evolution. Clinton supporters are such blind idiots they try and threaten Obama supporters by saying they'll vote for McCain over Obama when it makes no sense to do so, especially when Obama ideologically is basically just a more charismatic Clinton. People vote or vote against Obama because he's black, Clinton because she's a woman, why does shit like that even matter in the 21st century, in the land of oppourtunities and freedom?

People worship violence, drugs, alcohol, hate education, it's silly lol.


If you don't mind racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, a fear of progress and a tendacy towards social and technological regression, the United States is great! Atleast we accept our capitalism and don't try and call it socialism.

France: a broke country where the president can increase his wage by 130% and reduce the taxes for rich people but then he will explain that there is no more money left and that he have to reduce the number of civil servants by two.

A country where the president during his campaign can quote Jaures, and de Gaulle and then spent his hollidays on the yacht owned by one of his billionaire friends, and take the decision to move towards full integration with Nato.

Moreover our dear president behave like a wannabe pimp:

Scarface[name] KK ?

This president got elected by an aging population in a country where "Security" is one of the main issue. People here are self centered, sometimes racist ( every kind of racism ). Youngs are angry because the retirement age is now 65 years and they will have to pay the pensions of the older generations.

Our dear president said that he wanted to " donner de la valeur au travail " but inflation increase way more than wages and half-time shitty jobs are nowadays the norm. Bye bye 35 H now our government want people to work longer.

0xdeadbeef said how bad the situation is in Germany about internet freedom but here it is worse. Thanks to a new law, the Internet access providers have to shut down your connection if you download illegal stuff ( without judicial procedure ).

Oh and here we have a marvellous currency: the euro.

22,000 $ in the US:



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25000 $ in France:

WELCOME TO FRANCE !

Or a Protoss one!!


On topic: ..

1. I hate that our retard-government voted yes to a new law that gives FRA (Försvarets radioanstalt), in english "Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment" the right to force all of our ISP:s to let FRA FULLY inspect ALL internet traffic. At the moment, FRA is using one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and they want more computerpower as well. OK?!
We, the tax-payers, is funding this crap. We are giving the goverment a big chunk of our sallary, so they can control our communication via the internet.

FACE IT, YOU WILL NOT CATCH "TERRORISTS" BY TRYING TO LURK THEIR MAIL, AND IF PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO BLOW UP SHIT HERE, LISTENING TO THEIR MAIL-CONVERSATIONS WON'T STOP THEM, THIS CRAP IS JUST ANOTHER MONEY SINK AND ANOTHER WAY TO CONTROL CITIZENS.

2 a. Some of our laws regarding alcholhol is just filled with double standards of morality. For you who don't know, the government in Sweden have a monopoly in liquir and beer (regular stores can sell it if the percent of alchohol is 3.5 % or lower. The place where we go to buy of alchohol is called "Systembolaget", and the age limit there is 21. The strange thing is that in the age of 18, it is legal to go to clubs, bars and so on and drink there. What if i'm not 21 and wan't to drink at home? A beer at a pub/club here in Sweden costs almost 4 or 5 times more than in "Systembolaget", and to begin with, the price there is high as well cuz our taxe for alchohol is so big.

2 b. The state here had monopoly in all sorts of gamble to not long ago. Nowdays, companies can compete at that market i.e internet-poker. (Private casinos is still not legal. We got only three here, and all of them is runned by the government. They were built around 5 years ago, before that, there was no casinos in Sweden.)
The thing is, when the state realized how much money there was in internet-poker, they quickly entered that branch of industry. They claim that they take a higher amount of social responsebility than the regular internet-gamble companies. They are reffered to as the "bad" guys, the internet-poker runned by the state is "better", ofcourse. IMO, states should get off the market. They can never get as effective as a "regular" company, and therefore, the money of the tax-payers go to waste.