The Fourth of July is an annual American celebration of freedom from repressive laws and government. In time-honoured tradition, the American people observe this date by setting off as many illegal explosions as they can before the police show up.
Probably because when Trump said it, he was explaining how America could be made better.
You seem like one of those people who thinks that America is terrible no matter what.
Also, the slogan was LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and not AMERICA SUCKS, huge difference.
just to qualify: america does suck
Nah.
But it isn’t living up to its (enormous) potential.
Is there any country currently living up to its potential?
Some countries are closer than others. America, as a continent-spanning superstate with abundant natural resources and a major high tech imdustry, has more potential than other countries, and thus has a bigger gap to try to live up to.
Probably because when Trump said it, he was explaining how America could be made better.
You seem like one of those people who thinks that America is terrible no matter what.
Also, the slogan was LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and not AMERICA SUCKS, huge difference.
just to qualify: america does suck
Nah.
But it isn’t living up to its (enormous) potential.
America: *destroys a country*
America: Damn…this country needs some help. these poor people….
America: *destroys it again*
America: Yikes, there’s no helping here
Ross, buddy, Singapore is orders of magnitude more homogenous than the US. Of course healthcare will be cheaper there. Industrializing customizability is hard.
Forget the fact that Singapore is something like 75% ethnic Chinese. The government there is just flat out more competent, responsive, and self-disciplined. You and I both know, Slart, that the Central Provident Fund (and its component healthcare programs) cannot exist in the United States of America because even if it weren’t shot down as evil anti-freedom paternalism, it would be raided for either tax cuts (Republicans) or social programs (Democrats) within ten years of its creation.
That’s fair.
Hopefully we can automate medical specialist jobs soon.
Look Slart, all I’m saying is that I should be made technocratic dictator of the North American Union. Then I can enact thousands of weird ideological trades and replace congress with a legislature made up of delegated voting think tanks that bet competitively on the outcomes of their laws to determine their funding.
It’ll be great.
Old: A white man goes to Asia and learns their mystical art of kung fu. He becomes better than all the students that have lived there their whole lives, then returns to America to seek vengeance for his dead buddy cop.
New: A white man goes to Asia and learns their mystical art of sushi. He becomes better than all the students that have lived there their whole lives, then returns to America to open an Asian Fusion restaurant to seek vengeance against GMO food.
Ross, buddy, Singapore is orders of magnitude more homogenous than the US. Of course healthcare will be cheaper there. Industrializing customizability is hard.
Forget the fact that Singapore is something like 75% ethnic Chinese. The government there is just flat out more competent, responsive, and self-disciplined. You and I both know, Slart, that the Central Provident Fund (and its component healthcare programs) cannot exist in the United States of America because even if it weren’t shot down as evil anti-freedom paternalism, it would be raided for either tax cuts (Republicans) or social programs (Democrats) within ten years of its creation.
Edit: The zoning laws aren’t going to be fixed. The law enforcement is not going to be fixed. We aren’t going to pay our politicians an amount which actually reflects how dangerous/important they are to the economy, and we’re going to get a higher minimum wage and higher unemployment and a trash fractional UBI rather than wage subsidies. Cities will go bankrupt and urban sprawl will drain our energy. Money for clean energy will be invested into solar walkways that don’t even work.
Average Argumate post kills 1.3 people” just statistical error. The average Argumate post kills only 0.0015 people. “no guys, it’s totally safe to come to Australia”, which kills over 3,000 Tumblr users each year in drop bear attacks alone, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
regular reminder that Australian wildlife is tame compared to America
(via argumate)
America was actually the Death Continent all along. Woe betide any who dare think to master it!
Handful of ancaps following this blog despite the plan to transform America into a bigger and more heavily-armed Singapore - or because of the plan to transform America into a bigger and more heavily-armed Singapore?
Ok a little bit political
I’m glad I don’t have a brainless racist narcist demented idiot for president. Oh and, when he got elected I already predicted this would lead to a new civil war.
Aren’t you in Europe?
Come now, you Europeans love America! That’s why you’re trying to turn Europe into America after all, with internal open borders, a federal government, a unified currency, and the emergence of a monoculture founded on those three traits, which has only minor regional differences in culture.
Soon you’ll have your own New New York, with your very own Orange Man. It’ll be great.
@mitigatedchaos What do you know about Europeans? We have some sort of hate-love for you guys.
Look, mate.
Trump complaints from Euros just convince Trump’s base that Trump is on the right path, especially in the form of “brainless narcissist” etc.
It often goes hand-in-hand with an idea of Europeans as the more Cultured and Refined civilization - but the kinds of people that expressed those ideas in America are also the ones put their cultural and economic interests ahead of the Rust Belt voters that gave Trump the Presidency, and frequently insulted them (and celebrated their demographic replacement).
Trump’s base has a negative amount of trust for them.
So that makes the post a good opportunity to dunk on the European Union as a project by pointing out the irony involved.
The reason the US dollar functions well despite spanning a continent, while the Euro has contributed to the collapse in Greece, is a combination of US Federal government spending and higher labor mobility, which evens out the spread of dollars. The spending and issuing of currency are unified at the same level of government, allowing them to work together. (This can also kinda work with some separation if the economies are similar enough.)
That is not the case in the EU, where the currency issuing and government spending are separated, and the government performance levels are quite dissimilar.
To unify them, it would be necessary to shift even more power to the EU government (which is apparently happening). To make a true European Federation, not a mere European Union. That would make Europe much more similar to America in structure.
Secondly, it requires the increased labor mobility. Cultural uniqueness grows in environments with friction that allow drift from other cultures and cuts the rate of memetic transmission, and the increased overhead of communication, up to a certain level, makes business harder rather than easier. (Think language barriers as an example.)
So all those people moving around to where the money is will start to converge on a more unified culture as a means of doing business more easily (like having only one or two languages that they all share!), just like in the United States of America. Cultural traditions will spread more quickly and widely, meaning there will be fewer of them. Cultural preferences, too, will be more evenly distributed throughout the Continent.
Plus this whole thing about “increasing diversity” by importing large numbers of foreigners like America will also erode the local traditions as they do not share them. Instead, they’ll buy into the new broader Euroculture.
So Europeans are complaining about the American President while taking the steps required to make Europe much more like America - eventually France and Germany will be no more different from each other than New York state and Illinois.
Anyhow, only going halfway at it is actually even worse, as it causes things like the situation in Greece. Either be a true Federation or be independent nations.
And yes, I know not all European countries are in the EU, or have the same level of integration into the EU. After all, Britain kept the Pound (a decision I agree with).
