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Ignoring the current america's not perfect debate.
America has done the following things right or better than any other country.
Medical Research(instead of bitching about our research why not bitch about how no other country on the planet pulls as much weight as we do in this field).
Technology(We invented nearly every friggin device everyone on the planet uses. AC motors to the internet). Just think about it, delete all the advances made by the US in the past 100 years and there is little left. Oh, you'd rather bitch. I forgot.
Selectively Abolish Communism and dictatorships (What other country tries to fight such things, hmmmm, it's strange that on one hand people bitch about us being repressive but at the same time bitch if we go to war and free other countries, who cares if it helps us in the long run(oil, security, whatever). Iraq was a shithole country run by the supreme asshole, who had professional rapists on the government payroll, they tortured their olympic athletes, they wage a war on the kurds in a attempt to completely eliminate them, and used chemical weapons on detractors. Oh, and I'm going to feel bad that a few thousand of them die to change that, Well, suddam literally hundreds of thousands, and would have killed more. Have you ever watched the videos they(suddams regime) recorded doing such things, they are on the internet, and then go compare that to what the bad americans do, get a frickin clue.) Oh, and generally the people against the war bitch about gas prices. The irony.
You can be whatever religion you want to be outside of ones that promote violence and such.
You can actually practice BDSM, try doing it in China, former Iraq, Communist Russia, etc...(Well, I guess you could if you were a member of the military, hell you could even do it for a living, and on top of it, it doesn't even have to be consentual. Professional rapists, torturer, sex slave) Oh I forgot we're worse we humiliated some prisoners, and didn't let them sleep regularly, Cry me a river, better than raping them or cutting their fingers off, or worse.
In this country you can actually have a chance of making it big. Most of the largest companies in this country and the world were started by regular people(non-rich to begin with) in the last 50 years. That had a good idea and the will to make it happen. Wal-Mart, MicroSoft, Wendy's, Google, Nike, etc..... I don't know of any other country that allows a person the opportunity for advancement than this one. Bill Clinton grew up in a broken home with no financial advantages, or ties, and became the president of the most powerful nation on the planet. Outside a select few countries that doesn't happen. This is the reason the most intellectual and motivated come to this country, because this country is the best place to turn that into wealth and power. yeah, go do that in another country. It's possible but much harder. It sucks if you aren't motivated or moderately intelligent, but the world is full of socialist countries that would better suit those that just want to live and not aspire for anything.
Media in general. Sorry we rule in every aspect of Media, movies, music, games, whatever you can think of. Sure sometimes a band will pop up from another country, or a film. But overall most of the world wide smash hits come from the US.
I could keep going... but figure that is a modest start..
Things this country does wrong....
Give money away to other countries for no reason other than some kind of self-hating logic that the rest of the world deserves it more than we do, when we should use it for our own improvement or debt reduction. It's not my job to pay for other countries citizens(taxes).
Actually, listen, to what other countries think about our country. I could care less personally, what someone in another country thinks we should do, unless they help us in one way or another. If you'd like that ability, come to this country get citizenship, and vote, or shut the hell up. Why in the world should I care what france thinks for example, they mean nothing to us. They never have helped us either. Canada at least exports oil to us, good for them, they bought some influence. Britian, helps us more militarily than any other country, so they have our ear. There are others that help us, and we help them, but listening to the opinions of countries that have absolutely nothing to do with us or work against us(as in encourage the decline of the US) is obsurd. So, why should this country care what countries think that don't help us anyway. Oh my we lost the support of France, Cuba, Iran,Korea,Egypt, etc.....(Basicly a bunch of third world countries, or countries who have their own eye on gaining more power) Who cares, they lose more by being counter to us than we lose. We have plenty of friends in the world, that are so closely tied to the US, they would have no choice but to work with us if something serious occurred or they would tank as well. And at the end of the day, our interests in the world are the same as theirs. Our friends rise with us. It's simple. I mean does anyone care if a asshole in their personal life doesn't like them. No. So, why would you care on national level.
Ridiculous Drug Policy. Alcohol is legal yet pot is illegal. Done both got to say pot is way less destructive than alcohol.
Immigration Policy. I have no problem with immigration, but a open border is ridiculous, and not healthy.
Sex industry: No logical reason why it is illegal, especially since if it was legal it could be regulated in a much healthier way for both the sex worker and client.
Prison system: Way to much focus on simply removing people from the streets, and far to little emphasis on treatment. Current system is equivalent to locking up a pack of wild dogs and expecting them to come out more socialized. Doubt it.
Welfare system, emphas in my humble opinion should be on lowering taxes encouraging job growth, and setting in place systems to encourage people to work, like near free child care and such. And less emphasis on directly redistributing wealth.
Complex Tax code. To many loopholes, and to complex once at the corporate level for anyone to be on the same playing field as those with full time accountants. Billions wasted in accounting and tax preparation, could be used elsewhere. We are a corporation and way to much time is spent on this non-productive task. Though if much larger it wouldn't matter as would have a full time accountant still wasted money in my opinion, but it would be a smaller fraction of expenses.
I could go on, but that is plenty. But generally the US is in my humble the opinion is the best place on earth. Other countries may be better in one area or another, but overall, I think we still reign supreme. A better question might be what country is better than the US and why do you think that. A lot of bashing of the US, but to me that is because currently we are the only country worth bashing. So it's a compliment of sorts, really.
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