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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
What about photographic film, the phonograph, the lightbulb, the airplane, the elevator, the skyscraper, the liquid-fuel rocket, the modern day electronic computer (nice one, claiming charles babbage, we'd all be pulling potatoes for Lord Blacksmere if you boneheads were in charge), laser, compact disc, on and on. And then there's this:
"So we arrive at the same conclusion: as the world military balance stands today, even in the unlikely case that the entire world aligns against them, the United States could not be conquered." Dylan Lehrke, IHS Jane's analyst hahaha! every last one of you could put aside your considerable differences and stop slaughtering, raping, and cheating each other and join in one big, smelly, some-part-of-the-goat-eating army and you still couldn't defeat the US! Ooooooh, that's got to burn!
I'll give you we have a lot of dummies here though. Robbie has a point. And even though we don't have a Mozart or an Alcubierre we do have, or had until recently, a culture of celebration of disruption and optimization.
In ten years, unless Hillary is elected, the answer might be different.
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Never said Americans didnt invent ANYTHING. Of course they did, now, what about all the shit that WASNT invented by Americans? Seriously, what a fucking retarded argument. The post I quoted, and then corrected, was wrong. Simple as that. My post was a correction and now you want to get into a pissing match? Also, you'll have noted that I differentiated between the first programmable computer and the first MODERN computer. Don't cherry pick.
Also, Dylan Lehrke is dead fucking wrong. America vs the entire WORLD? are you serious? you'd be wiped off the map in seconds. Unfortunately so would much of the rest of the world, but the USA would be a smoking hole in the ground. Dylan is fucking kidding himself.
Lastly, Robbbie is spot on. There is a perception in most of the Western World of Americans as being trigger happy, gung ho idiots. The first two parts are spot on but the idiots bit I wouldnt agree with. Uneducated about the rest of the world, definitely. But not idiots. Its just part of the culture and the education system that you guys are very inward focused. From what I can see you guys are taught TONS about your own history, something which Australia, for one, lacks. We do not do anywhere near the amount of Australian history as you guys do American history. But we do spend a lot more time on the history and geography of the rest of the world. I spent some time in the US several years ago and was shocked by how little international stuff was on the news. Unless you guys are bombing it, or something amusing happened it seemed like nothing at all was going on anywhere else.