Do you hate the U.S?

In a way I'm grateful for this crippling necrobump, because it gives me a chance to review some of the truly glorious moments in this thread:

Speaking of strange laws...


I had a friend recently got accused for not helping his friend when he was in need (keep in mind this friend was not required to have special care)

Youre walking together with your friend out somewhere.
You leave just for a minute.
Your friend gets assaulted by someone and has a seizure.
You get arrested.
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Really depends on where in the US. Here where I live at the moment (Texas) basically you can shoot anybody if they are on your property and you have cause to think they might do harm to yourself, family, or property. Head over to California, and that part of the burglar slipping and hurting himself and thus suing you happens, with annoying regularity.

That's my single greatest beef with this country, the so called, justice system. Sure it's a good concept. But it's gets abused too often. My favorite is when some dumbass spilled coffee on herself, got burned. And sued McDonald's cause it didn't have a warning on it.
Are you fucking joking? If you couldn't guess fresh coffee was going to be hot, please get the fuck out of here. You're making the rest of us look bad.

Other than that, I'm a typical American. I believe our military is the best, and no amount of bitching is going to change my mind on that. Then again, I am in the military, so my view is skewed. I understand a bit more about it then most people, and can back up the efficiency of it. As to the debt, maybe if we could manage to keep business in this country instead of outsourcing it, we'd actually have some damn money.

/rant

I hate the US cause of their obsession with being some kind of 'world police'. They're always butting into other countries business, trying to decide stuff, they're ALWAYS at war, and even though they don't say so, it's obvious that is only for personal profit, hiding behind some 'greater cause', like war on terrorism and stuff. BULLSHIT! I say, stop thinking that you're the center of the world and keep your goddam nose in your own country.

I love the USA because they haven't outlawed cake (like Canada if I recall correctly).



Where are you getting "loads of violence"?

It's my home. However I'm beyond disgusted with the representation we get. It always some arrogant Jack Ass that makes everyone look bad. In all forms the hard working to the down and out. If your Middle Class then your yuppie complacent dick, If your well then your corrupt, If your a Black American then you are supped to be a Dumb Ass, If your informed then your a paranoid conspiracy nut because you read too much. All over the world every one seems to have an idea of who we are the the people living here.

Just so you know, I dont support what he said, but I live in St Louis.

I realize this place doesnt compare to some other places in the world, but every day....every....day... the news is always about a murder/ court shooting/ killed policeman/ raped women or girls/etc.

I remember one time specifically about a report of a man who got his girlfriend pregnant and when she was 8 months into it, he shot her in the head with a shotgun and dumped her body into the Missouri River, which made her unborn son pushed out of her uterus from the pressure.

Yeah. He's still in jail, thankfully.

So theres definitely some violence in St Louis.

PS. I take that back, sometimes they complain about the economy or whatnot.

I hate the fact that New Jersey has the highest fucking property tax rate on average in the entire damn nation.

Why the hell do you guys have property taxes? People actually WANT to live there?

Well most people hate their lives in the U.S. because the U.S. promotes the individual achievements. What I mean by this is that the U.S. gives better jobs and more money to educated people the people that don't like America are usually those that are not educated enough to advance in capitalistic society , or those who are to lazy to do something important with their lives. I don't care if it's education the fact is those with money in a capitalist environment don't hate the country. Now im not rich but I know that by going to college and furthering my education it betters my chances. America is the land of opportunity you just have to take the initiative.

It helps if you happen to be born rich. Many of these "lazy" people simply lack the means to succeed. How are they going to improve their lives if half the week is spent working two jobs just to be able to afford housing and food? Just because person A is not as smart as person B they do not deserve a good life? I am not defending the few truly lazy people out there, just those who lack access to the avenues for improvement.

I know what you mean. I truly feel sorry for those people that work two jobs just to live. Most likely those people probably didn't have the most stable lives at home as children and when they left whatever eduction they did have. They probably didn't make the best choices at the time, because the fact that they were uneducated. See im still in high school and I have my priorities straight and I know what im going to do when I get out of college. I will be one to admit that things don't always go as planned and I could very well be the one that's working two jobs to live in the near future. But if I was I'd take the initiative and try something impossible, or do anything I had to do to better my situation. The Constitution grants me life, liberty, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

Don't worry, it sounds like you know what you are doing. As long as you graduate college, degree = easy street, in this country and don't get a degree in a field that has too much competition, things work out.

Pro Patria. So much about the U.S. of A. makes me proud to be born here. Most of that is emotional exchanges I've had with the people I know here, and I would like to say it is very possible I might have had those with other people in other countries had I been born in those places, but honestly it's the freedoms found in America that enabled most of those exchanges. The government is the worst that I've heard of, though, with lack of motivation being in second place. 100% of the people I know think the government is wrong and needs to be changed, yet no one is willing to take up the banner of American badass that we've glorified and, pump-action in raised fist, lead us in a revolutionary march on capital hill to change what we find wrong with America. Kinda the point of the Right to Bear(?) Arms: If we, the government, fuck you guys over, feel free to take up the local posse, grab your guns, and fuck shit up. I would do it if, ya know, I was any kind of leader at all.

Sounds good, just let me know when you have enough firepower to take on the police and National Guard.

The only way being rich helps you succeed is it becomes easier to save money when you have more money. Now, we can debate what it means to have a decent life but, that's more of a personal thing. 20k or 200k really whats the difference other than having money to support your materialism?

As Hentai-legacy already stated. The constitution gives you the right to pursue happiness. It says nothing about being granted happiness. It all boils down to a single word opportunity.