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 Post subject: What does America do right?
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:03 am 
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It would be very easy to point to a million things that America clearly does wrong. The incarceration rate is the highest in the world. There are great universities, but tuition is unreasonable and student loan debt is skyrocketing. Health care is expensive and coverage is far from universal. Just go for a walk in San Francisco if you want to see with your own eyes gaudy wealth and desperate poverty living side by side. The American ranking in education seems to fall every year, and a child's zipcode seems to have more of an impact on their schooling and their prospects than their talents or intelligence. The children can't even feel safe going to school, with the prospect of gun violence confronting them every day. Cash seems to rule everything. The politics is polarized and the President is unfit for office. It is in many ways still a highly segregated country. And they are still minting pennies for some reason! The list goes on and on.

But what does America do right? Is there anything America does best?

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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FREEDOM!!!!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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Empowers the rich, the racists and the right religion while arming them all with assault rifles.

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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genuine answer: despite all the systemic mechanisms that keep people down, there still exists the possibility that with a lot of grit and a little bit of luck, basically anyone can better their station in life.


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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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My answer was quite genuine.

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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Our national parks are pretty fucking great.

Our landscape is our national treasure.


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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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BurtReynolds wrote:
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FREEDOM!!!!!!!

Unironically.

And national parks.

And tacos

yes! (and tacos because tacos, and tacos because melting pot, opportunity, etc)


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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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BurtReynolds wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
FREEDOM!!!!!!!

Unironically.

And national parks.

And tacos

Yep yep and yep

Also movies. We have smoked the rest of the world when it comes to movies.

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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Our major downfall has been our lack of bidets.

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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Our toilets suck in general

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Our toilets suck in general


thats not even close to being true..people still shit in holes in paris bars and restaurants


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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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West Coast IPA

best answer yet

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 Post subject: Re: What does America do right?
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doug rr wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Our toilets suck in general


thats not even close to being true..people still shit in holes in paris bars and restaurants

holes seem like they’d be way more efficient

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