Okay, WOAH! Relax. Sounds like you haven't done much traveling.
Sure, the U.S. blows, compared to some of the other top countries, but in the grand scheme of things, this is still one of the best places, in the world, to be.
I definitely don't see myself settling down in this country. Traveling within the country, every time I set foot outside NY, I feel like I've left civilization behind. I can't deal :rolleyes: .
Be reasonable, and aim for dual citizenship.
Lira
I was going to write a long-winded post explaining why the US is awesome. But then I found this:
this is outstanding on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin.
Paradox Lost
Nice, I've been searching for a Guantanamo roomie.
neo geo
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Originally posted by Blake
Okay, WOAH! Relax. Sounds like you haven't done much traveling.
Sure, the U.S. blows, compared to some of the other top countries, but in the grand scheme of things, this is still one of the best places, in the world, to be.
I definitely don't see myself settling down in this country. Traveling within the country, every time I set foot outside NY, I feel like I've left civilization behind. I can't deal :rolleyes: .
Be reasonable, and aim for dual citizenship.
I've been to 8 different countries from Europe to Asia and 2 of them twice. I know enough that I no longer like this country and wish not to be a citizen here anymore
neo geo
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Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Does this look familiar?
yeah. you wrote that almost a year ago to the day. if your problem wasn't immigrants i'm sure you'd find something else. you have bigger issues.
Of course it looks familiar you twat I wrote it. My hatred has only grown since then.
idoru
" this place. I ing hate everything about it, yet I haven't even lifted a finger to try to change it."
That attitude essentially renders you just as ing worthless as the "Mexicans [who] dip their hands into [your] social security". Even if voting doesn't change much, you still have the ability to get out there, to protest, to form groups of people who want to see the changes you want and who want to fight for them, etc.. For as much as you've bitched about how much America sucks, you have done a damned fine job of playing right into a stereotype that the rest of the world has for us - you are incredibly arrogant and lazy as .
idoru
quote:
Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Does this look familiar?
yeah. you wrote that almost a year ago to the day. if your problem wasn't immigrants i'm sure you'd find something else. you have bigger issues.
I ing love how he calls America a "violent society". :stongue: Someone needs to visit a third world country.
Vector A
Well, there's not much getting around the fact that America is very violent compared to most other countries of comparable wealth, though I understand that the UK has us beat in terms of rapes.
Edit: And what is up with Sweden having the second highest rate in the world? Maybe a classification issue?
:wtf:
JEO
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Originally posted by Vector A
Edit: And what is up with Sweden having the second highest rate in the world? Maybe a classification issue?
:wtf:
quote:
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On the face of it, it would seem Sweden is a much more dangerous place than these other countries.
But that is a misconception, according to Klara Selin, a sociologist at the National Council for Crime Prevention in Stockholm. She says you cannot compare countries' records, because police procedures and legal definitions vary widely.
"In Sweden there has been this ambition explicitly to record every case of sexual violence separately, to make it visible in the statistics," she says.
"So, for instance, when a woman comes to the police and she says my husband or my fiance raped me almost every day during the last year, the police have to record each of these events, which might be more than 300 events. In many other countries it would just be one record - one victim, one type of crime, one record."
...
George. 
