Stuff about YOUR country that pisses you off

[thankyouagain]

that people are always criticizing America for everything
people have and are literally DYING to get here because they will be free and have a
chance to become what they can be.
we need to celebrate the great wonders of our nation and our people at least as often as
we criticize and bitch.

 

[Elwood70]

that people are always criticizing America for everything
people have and are literally DYING to get here because they will be free

........for now,anyway....

They think they will be,but it's bullshit.

 

[marquis2]

I don't have a problem with state sponsored health care at all, but I also don't think the government should have to step in and cover for incredible stupidity or easily preventable carelessness in every situation either. The fact that it might is more the problem with government policies about your health care, than actually having government sponsored health care. Maybe you should consider adding that to the list of things you shouldn’t like about your country.

Government policies about health care don't directly impinge on us. If we need medical treatment we get it free at the point of delivery , regardless of the causes.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I think Andrew Jackson was the greatest President in U.S. history. :hatsoff: If America could go back to those times, we'd be great.

Hey, that's a good idea for a thread: Greatest (or most favorite) U.S. president. :hatsoff:

 

[Riffy]

The fact that we haven't actually got a proper Constitution racks me off to be honest. By proper I mean written down like the US one is.

That's one of the problems with Blighty... stuff just gets left and never properly sorted out.

 

[titsrock]

Stuff that pisses me off about my country--the U.S.? Well, our racist founding for one thing. But, more contemporary, the fact that my country is incompetent and exists only to serve corporate interests.

Case in point: The INABILITY TO CONSTRUCT NEW TWIN TOWERS (or the "Freedom Tower") has gone from being a sad, little joke, to being a NATIONAL DISGRACE. How can we possibly be arrogant or *dumb* enough to think that we can lend a hand to a foreign country (Iraq or Afghanistan) to build a national identity/gov't when we can't build a goddamn skyscraper!

As for National Healthcare: maybe this is the only thing Gov't should do for citizens today--provide healthcare and enforce laws which protect citizens from other citizens and corporate negligence/duplicity.

I don't want the freedom to eat McDonald's every day of my life for every meal if it means that when I go to a hospital I walk out bankrupt.

More Americans today file for bankruptcy because of healthcare costs over every other reason...that alone should tell us our healthcare HMO system is full of shit.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Stuff that pisses me off about my country--the U.S.? Well, our racist founding for one thing. But, more contemporary, the fact that my country is incompetent and exists only to serve corporate interests.

Case in point: The INABILITY TO CONSTRUCT NEW TWIN TOWERS (or the "Freedom Tower") has gone from being a sad, little joke, to being a NATIONAL DISGRACE. How can we possibly be arrogant or *dumb* enough to think that we can lend a hand to a foreign country (Iraq or Afghanistan) to build a national identity/gov't when we can't build a goddamn skyscraper!

As for National Healthcare: maybe this is the only thing Gov't should do for citizens today--provide healthcare and enforce laws which protect citizens from other citizens and corporate negligence/duplicity.

I don't want the freedom to eat McDonald's every day of my life for every meal if it means that when I go to a hospital I walk out bankrupt.

More Americans today file for bankruptcy because of healthcare costs over every other reason...that alone should tell us our healthcare HMO system is full of shit.

You just have to know how to work the system.

 

[The Paulinator]

The fact that we haven't actually got a proper Constitution racks me off to be honest. By proper I mean written down like the US one is.

Ahh, the US constitution is largely ignored these days.

Especially that part about some "Bill of Rights" bullshit.

Oh, yeah, and that "...Of, by, and for the people" nonsense.

 

[Hot Mega]

I don't want the freedom to eat McDonald's every day of my life for every meal if it means that when I go to a hospital I walk out bankrupt.

The operative phrase in you statement is you "don't want the freedom" ..which you're perfectly free to not want. Like freedom of religion is ALSO freedom from religion.

If a part of your calculus is that you don't want your diet to be the cause of you going bankrupt one day, I suspect you won't decide to eat at McDonald's everyday. But YOU'RE the one that's the deciding it.

Some people don't seem to realize there is a cost for many things including individual freedoms and health care in this case. If you want to pay for the health care of every individual in a free society then you MUST realize individual freedoms will remain at the expense of universal health care.

The alternative is universal health coming at the expense of individual freedoms...in other words, government give me the security of universal health care and I'll forgo some of my individual freedoms because of that.

That's not what The U.S. is about IMO.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin 1818

 

[tartanterrier]

Our shitty fooball league structure.I'm sick of looking forward to a 12 team season
every bloody year.I just hope that one day i'll see it increased to 20 teams where
everybody plays each other twice (Home & Away) instead of 4-6 times depending
on cup fixtures.

 

[bandanoantri]

Our shitty national football team, easily the worst in the world right now.

 

[pinksock69]

American cheese sure dose blow

 

[Facetious]

Re: Stuff about YOUR country that pisses you off

"the suspect was said to have been a man in his twenties, clean shaven, bald head, about 5' - 10'' tall, about 200 lbs. and was wearing a dark sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers."
"If you believe that you have seen a man that fits this description, please notify your local authority".

Note : Since there is an imbalance of races in our prison system, we must level the playing field, therefor, we will not . . . I REPEAT, we will NOT disclose the race extraction of said suspect "gentleman".
Just call us if you see anybody that matches the above description . . . is that so difficult ?


*"get whitey get whitey get whitey get whitey get whitey get "




:jester: :1orglaugh :tongue::anonymous

 

[Hot Mega]

The disclaimer should read:
"Since there is an imbalance in the rate of false accusations involving whites falsely accusing blacks. . . we will not I REPEAT, we will NOT disclose the race extraction of said suspect "gentleman".
Just call us if you see anybody that matches the above description . . . is that so difficult ?"

 

[bustybbwlover]

how we treated max hardcore, i know his porn isn't for everyone and is sick and twisted but putting him in prison for it...come the fuck on

 

[Hot Mega]

how we treated max hardcore, i know his porn isn't for everyone and is sick and twisted but putting him in prison for it...come the fuck on

I don't like the material he produced but in reading the way he as persecuted it's obvious he was railroaded by a zealous Justice department.

Actors paid to perform acts that appear illegal happen in all manners of media. That should have been the standard applied in his case.

If there was no proof he engaged in illegality they should have left the guy alone no matter how distasteful and objectionable they felt his content was.

Free speech lost in this case and it's too bad we can't/don't hold public officials accountable for exploiting laws and statutes to attack people who are within their rights.

Can you imagine a mainstream movie director/producer like Martin Scorsese having to defend himself in court for every act that appeared illegal in the movie "Good Fellas"? It's the same thing IMO.

It was clear they wanted to nail the guy because they didn't like HIS material. Who's next?

 

[reddy]

gypsies...

 

[marquis2]

The operative phrase in you statement is you "don't want the freedom" ..which you're perfectly free to not want. Like freedom of religion is ALSO freedom from religion.

If a part of your calculus is that you don't want your diet to be the cause of you going bankrupt one day, I suspect you won't decide to eat at McDonald's everyday. But YOU'RE the one that's the deciding it.

Some people don't seem to realize there is a cost for many things including individual freedoms and health care in this case. If you want to pay for the health care of every individual in a free society then you MUST realize individual freedoms will remain at the expense of universal health care.

The alternative is universal health coming at the expense of individual freedoms...in other words, government give me the security of universal health care and I'll forgo some of my individual freedoms because of that.

That's not what The U.S. is about IMO.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin 1818

Some freedoms are more important than others and at times they are in conflict with one another.Absolute freedom is a total fiction, there are always choices to be made and some things have to give way to others.
By the way, just because Benjamin Franklin said something doesn't make it true.

 

[Hot Mega]

Some freedoms are more important than others and at times they are in conflict with one another.Absolute freedom is a total fiction, there are always choices to be made and some things have to give way to others.
By the way, just because Benjamin Franklin said something doesn't make it true.

It was Ben Franklin's opinion....it's neither true nor false. You either agree with it or not. I happen to agree with it.

I don't worry about "absolute freedom" as the concept is more nebulous than fiction. It's not a fiction that individuals should decide for themselves what they believe is in their best interest...It is their most basic freedom. Because too few people appreciate that as a principle they allow that freedom to be encroached.

Safe to say you and I just don't agree that the freedom to decide your interests as long as they don't directly or proximately violate the rights of others is most paramount.

But our government relies on manipulating people who think like you (my original point) for their support in implementing freedom robbing laws.

 

[Ol-Skool-Perv]

As a Canadian, I really hate how we think we're better and above all that America is smeared for being. America does the dirty work and we la-de-da right behind doing great business with the corporations and very things we say we're not. I hate how stupid Canadian people generalize Americans into one group worthy of our critiques. We have probably the same number of stupid people per capita, and even stupider because they think they're better than the "dumb Americans". Idiots are idiots all around the world and in every nation.

In the same vein I hate how we are America's bitch most of the time. "Fighting" the war on drugs aka feeding the massive bureaucracy and winning nothing. At least we didn't join the Coalition of the Willing. I'm proud of that!

I hate how we think hockey is our divine right to speak/act upon/play the best/control or whatever. It's just a game folks, and one that only we're really interested in at fanatical levels.