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[–]jet199Instigatrix 19 insightful - 8 fun19 insightful - 7 fun20 insightful - 8 fun -  (30 children)

I actually don't think Americans are all that dumb.

But then you write a post talking about how smart you are and half the inventions you give as examples weren't even invented by Americans.

I mean you're a joke which writes itself.

[–]NatSoc_Fren 12 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 6 fun -  (11 children)

This exactly.

Here's what Goebbels thought of the US and he sums up the US pretty well.

One is never sure which of two characteristics is more prominent in the American national character and therefore of the greater significance: naivete or a superiority complex. When for example they say things about our region, our surprise at their ignorance is surpassed only by annoyance at their stupid insolence. The less they know about a matter, the more confidently they speak. They really believe that Europeans are eagerly waiting to hear from them and heed their advice. They took our strategic decision not to discuss their shallow culture before the war as a sign of admiration. Their greatest technical accomplishments are refrigerators and radios. They cannot believe that there are cultural values that are the result of centuries of historical development, which cannot simply be bought. It was no bad joke when, after the war, they bought the ruins of German castles and moved them stone by stone to the U.S.A. They really thought that they had purchased a piece of national history embodied in stone, and were naive enough to think that mocking laughter from Europe was respect for the wealth that enabled them to buy what their own tradition and culture lacked.

A book by Scottish author Eric Linklater titled Juan in America has just appeared in German translation. With few words but deadly irony, it holds the mirror up to the Yankees. One must read this book, which takes place in the postwar period, to rightly understand the Americans. Recently the American press claimed that Americans were of the opinion that General Rommel learned his military techniques, admired throughout the world, from the Americans. General Lee used his cavalry in the same way Rommel used his tanks. One does not know whether to be astonished or contemptuous at this naive and stupid idea. In any event, it is genuinely American, and one can give odds of 10:1 that most Americans are firmly convinced that it is so.

Only in the U.S.A. could the wife of the president receive a thousand dollar honorarium at a charity gathering, and take the money without bothering to see if the gathering for the benefit of those injured in the war would thereby run a deficit. The New York newspapers recently reported this. Mrs. Roosevelt even appears for a healthy fee as a fashion model, showing the latest furs to an admiring public. She writes a column for a large number of U.S.A. newspapers titled “My Day,” in which she tells how she spent the previous day, what she wore, which cocktail parties she attended, whom she met, and what she plans to do the next day.

We really have the wrong image of America. Hollywood films are mostly to blame, since they present the life style of the upper ten thousand, which most Americans themselves experience though films. American observers waver between unlimited admiration and deep contempt. Superficial observers admire it, real experts always hold it in contempt. There is certainly much that is at first glance impressive in this new part of the world still in its adolescence. The height of the skyscrapers is, however, no measure of the level of culture. This land that wants to protect intellectual freedom in the ancient cultures of Europe and Asia itself has no permanent theater or opera. A private concern like New York’s Metropolitan Opera survives in peacetime only on German and Italian operas and had to close its doors for financial reasons once the war began.

The U.S.A. has no poets, no painters, no architects or composers of world stature. Whatever culture it has is borrowed from Europe. The land lacks its own language, culture, and civilization. It has borrowed everything, generally debasing it by Americanizing it, never improving it. Americanization is a kind of kitschification that gives every cultural value an American stamp, turning a mature language into slang, the waltz into jazz, a work of literature into a crime story.

If the Americans lacked money, they would probably be the most despised people in the world. Superiority is nowhere as annoying as with them. They naturally build the best airplanes and tanks, and by the hundreds of thousands. They have the best generals and soldiers, and their defeats are only proof of their intelligence in destroying the bravery of their enemies. Their president is a demigod, though he led the nation into an economic catastrophe from which he saw no way out other than war. They promised Europe a savior in 1917 and sent them a Wilson in 1919. They will repeat this great betrayal today if we do not prevent it. In short, it is a nation still a long way from being a nation, and a people that lacks the most important prerequisite for being a people, a clear style of life.

According to official American statistics, there are 190 Protestant and 430 Catholic churches in New York, but 1000 synagogues. What else should one expect of a city with a Jewish mayor who recently attempted at a reception for foreign journalists to explain European problems in the jargon of the gangsters! The Jews have given their stamp not only to this city, but the whole of public life. The president is surrounded by Jewish advisors and his wife clears the way for her Jewish friends to enter the administration and war office. One feels the need to wash one’s hands after reading American newspapers. They are filled with intellectual filth, daily printing such stories as an announcement that a number of prisoners have formed “Fighters, Inc.,” and offered their services to the president. They were ready to fight in the ranks of the Allies against aggression. Mr. Roosevelt happily accepted their offer.

Can anyone name a single country in Europe where the public would accept such a thing? There was not a word of protest in the U.S.A. The same president recently told a press conference that a surprisingly large number of young people were unsuited for service in the army and the marines because they could not read or write. Is it any surprise that a cunning and demagogic leadership can do what it wants with a nation of such an educational level? At a time when U.S. forces experience one defeat after another and its ships sail the world’s oceans only at the risk of death, they naively announce that they are producing a million victory medals for American soldiers to wear as a sign of their worth when they occupy Germany. American officers are studying at Southern University such matters as civil administration, the laws of war, and related matters. Their task is to return to good order the territories now occupied by the Axis powers.

So far, not a single U.S.A. soldier has set foot on foreign soil, but many have been chased back to U.S. soil in disgrace. After a siege of two or three weeks, an army of 60,000 men with munitions and food sufficient for six months gave up, leaving all of 600 dead behind. That does not bother its brilliant leadership in the least. Of course, it does not have a citizenry able to defend itself against such silly illusions. Everything is junk and make-believe. Everything is sensational. Public opinion can be kneaded like dough. It is a paradise for cunning Jews and businessmen who terrorize the people while flying the flag of democracy and citing Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. Only in the U.S.A. is it possible for criminals to become world famous gangsters, the guests of mayors and police chiefs, who give interviews for journalists from newspapers with circulations in the millions in which they give their opinions on the questions of the day.

We would not say anything if the U.S.A. were aware of its intellectual and moral defects and was trying to grow up. But it is too much when it behaves in an impudent manner toward a part of the earth with a few thousands years of glorious history behind it, attempting to teach it moral and intellectual lessons, whether out of innocence or a complete lack of genuine culture and learning. We can forgive the mistakes of youth, but this degree of arrogance gets on one’s nerves.

We therefore have no appreciation for the Americanism that can be found in certain of our circles. We fail to see why we as the leading musical nation in the world should borrow even a single note from the U.S.A. We have a level of culture and civilization that is denied to most Americans. One who understands this can hardly have much sympathy for what they understand as culture and civilization. Although we affirm the technical achievements of our age, we see behind them an intellectual strength that grows from the roots of our people. Machines are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. As much as we appreciate the achievements of modern civilization and use them to improve life, we know that they are not the sole meaning of life. There are national values that are the result of centuries of history and tradition. They cannot be purchased, only built by the labor of generations.

In any event, we prefer not to be buried in America. In the midst of the confusions of the day, we still have the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood and gold from floss. We are not impressed by American big talk and orgies of numbers. We know well enough that the trees do not grow as high as heaven on the other side of the Atlantic either. As far as God’s country goes, Europeans discovered it and give it life even today. Were it left to its own resources, it would soon return once more to desert and prairie, as wide and as empty as the souls of its people.

[–]wecandobetter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

What a sour grapes screed, and history put Goebbel's words to the lie.

[–]NatSoc_Fren 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

It is a genuine critique of the US. It's not a "sour grapes screed". No decent man would want to conquer America. As Hitler once said, America is half Judaised, and the other half negrified.

[–]wecandobetter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lmao you nazi worshipers are hilarious. Look how out of date and stupid half his complaints are now. Where, I wonder, was his smug superiority while he was suiciding his own children and then himself.

[–]Conductive-rabbi 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

He is right tho, america is full off mongrels

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Lets do better

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What Europe did to the First Nations was disgusting, and you can blame the European patsies from that time for raping this land and giving birth to a monster.

[–]NatSoc_Fren 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I'm from America, I still consider America an abomination.

you can blame the European patsies from that time for raping this land and giving birth to a monster.

Colonialism is anti-nationalism. A nationalist would never agree that occupying a foreign nation is morally justifiable. Only self defense is ever justifiable. Hitler was very much against the British colonies in India and Africa.

Jews have led to the massive disaster that we today know as America. It was the Jew who brought the first negro into America. It was the Jew who started the slave trade. It was the Jew who funded both sides of the Napoleonic Wars, and it is the Jew who rules the America of today.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I meant, the European goons who worked for the Jewish patsies. Europe has been their best friend since the Normans claimed Wales as their own. Or maybe before, with Rome. I'm not as well read in that regard, but I know that we can thank the old money lenders for destroying European nationality and for creating the monster known as the United States.

[–]NatSoc_Fren 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Tru dat

[–]KennyLogins 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you not understand how to use quotes?

Reddit has arrived. "This exactly" and a lack of understanding on how to use the platform, fill their pockets.

[–]NatSoc_Fren 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If by 'quotes' you're referring to '>', quotes grey out text and make it harder to read on low brightness screens. And if I'd used a '>' before a fucking essay, it would have been both hard to read and, since the piece is bigger than your normal effortpost, graying it out would be straining on the eyes.

If you're referring to "", I don't need to put quotes, as I have already introduced the subject and the author in the second topic sentence.

[–]HegeMoney 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

Inventing the computer, smart phones, cell phones, the internet, space travel, etc.

.

half the inventions you give as examples weren't even invented by Americans.

Which ones were invented outside of the USA?

[–]CheesyPeas 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Computer = UK; Internet as in WWW = UK. Also Gordon Welchman invented the very notion of networks and network analysis and the notion of 'metadata'. He moved to the USA in later life chasing $$$$$ and became part of DARPA and the rest they say is history. But the network DARPA built was based on ideas created in the UK during WW2; Space travel = Russia first satellite and first astronaut in space also let us be honest the USA's space program at this point in time was just a bunch of ex-Nazi's so I would argue Germans with American money got America into space; Cell phones = Germany 1918; And the first 'smartphone' = IBM;

So 1 out of 5.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Computer = Germany : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse. He had working prototypes in the 1930ies way ahead of Alan Turing. Turing wasn't even thinking about computers at this time because he was too young. WW2, the Polish intelligence on and Enigma-encryption made him think about the theory for computers. German computers already calculated a lot of stuff when no Turing bomb existed.

The actual "usable" first smartphone with a touchscreen (as a defining factor for this class of devices) was from Nokia but waaaay ahead of its time. (This one in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7710)

So Smartphone = Finnland.

USA never "invented" anything else other than building monopolies and "selling" slavery (forcing is the actual correct term) as so called "freedom" onto people. (Forcing their ideologies down people's throats is more correct than freedom in this sense).

This is especially ironic from today's perspective since they advertised their first waves of "free" immigrants with freedom of religion into moving there.

That is why they labelled this bs as the "American Dream" which actually only consists of getting influence and money yourself so you can become a Jew (not in a religious but rather behavioural sense) yourself. And if you look at this it is at its best label dizziness and at its worst a direct lie.

These Jewish tactics are now well known for over 2500 years. That is why they were expelled from other societies so many times in history.

USA = 0 : Rest of the World = 1 .

[–]CheesyPeas 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

'Jewish tactics'

Fuck of anti semite. Go fuck yourself cunt.

signed : A Jew.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

So now you're exposed to some truth and are climbing down the pyramid. Nice .

You're running out of other options, aren't you ?

Anti-Semitism is a world labelled by Jews so they can simulate being slaughtered or being lambs when in fact they are very well hidden slave-drivers.

But from time to time they are exposed as such and reactions differ: Can be anything from expulsion to a bullet, like the Nazis did.

I just don't like them, fyi.

[–]CheesyPeas 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Exposed to some truth? Only 'truth' I have been exposed to is your bigotry and hatred.

'Pyramid of debate'. Pull the other one. Were you in the pyramid of the debate when you blamed da jooz for everything?

Fuck of you absolute melt. Thinking you are smart and clever. Trying to 'catch me out'. Gonna have to try a lot harder than that you racist piece of shit.

'Anti-Semitism is a world labelled by Jews so they can simulate being slaughtered or being lambs when in fact they are very well hidden slave-drivers.'

Less than 0.5% of the global population has you all enslaved does it? Wow. What a weak buncha of cunts you all must be if that is the case. Sounds like you deserve it if that is the case.

Imagine being controlled and trampled and turned into slaves by such a tiny minority.

What a joke you are. 'Master race'. Sure hunny bunny.

Enjoy.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm only half-German by bloodline, fyi. I know my ancestors 260 years back. Do you ?

And you're climbing down the pyramid again. Since i'm self-employed (in three different instances to be exact) no Jew will fuck around with me since people buy my / our stuff and services. I just laugh at people wearing ties or wage-slaves when they try to get into my head.

As i already mentioned: I talked about Jewish behaviour not the Jewish religion. My rl friends come from very different cultural circles.

The Jewish wife your people tried to sell to me i didn't buy (her hair wasn't red enough and her eyes were too brown for me to be able to actually look at her every day... :) ).

I never even wrote about a master race. You did. Exposing yourself and your own beliefs again.

You really do believe all the bullshit you were force-fed, i'm sure of that now. This makes you quite the sheep for a Jew.

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Go back to reddit

[–]CheesyPeas 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Aw bless. Got me self a stalker bro. Sup stalker bro.

'Go back to reddit'.

How about no, what now stalker bro? You powerless feeble little peon.

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

This is low iq

[–]CheesyPeas 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Jews have a higher average IQ than white people.

You are measurably incorrect.

What now beta boy?

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is not reddit, reddit love jews, you should stick with them

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are forgetting about airplanes in a rather major way.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Haha my dude...everything in the USA was invented by someone from somewhere else. Poaching other country's top talent is our entire way of life. That doesn't make the internet a UK invention.

[–]PencilPusher55 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

They'll trace back to some small bit of information that says a insert nationality other than American helped on these projects, so that means it's not an American invention.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Failing to understand that literally no one is 'from' America. Nation of immigrants, dudes. We're really more like a company that a country, and we go around poaching your top talent by offering them more pay and better benefits. Doesn't mean it isn't our invention.

[–]PencilPusher55 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are German inventions. British inventions. Italian inventions. American Inv.... "We'RE LiEK a CoMPaNy".....

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What? We are. When you accept that fact, and give up on the idea of being some kind of nation, our behavior makes a lot more sense.

[–]Godman 4 insightful - 8 fun4 insightful - 7 fun5 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

Amerucans are snart?Give me a break.Normal americans are stupidest people on earth.Immigrants are showing high IQ though.Americans are so spoiled that they do not need to brain.Thats why americans are slaves of jew.

[–]wecandobetter 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You can't spell, punctuate, or communicate with correct grammar so I'm not sure why anyone would be listening to you.

[–]flugegeheimen 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yet there's this white-guilt, liberal narrative that Americans are dumber than foreigners.

I'm not sure you can blame the stereotype shared by the entire world outside the US on "liberal white-guilt". The image of incredibly dumb, uneducated and arrogant yankee is probably more than a century old now, though modern American Left definitely put a lot of effort to invigorate this meme by their own example.

[–]SaidOverRed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah yes way back 2nd and 3rd wave feminism and then before the libertarians decided to worship China. Yes, once upon a time your average Joe could, off one income, own a home, support a family, and even travel abroad if he wanted. All these 'peasants' showed up everywhere polluting otherwise upper-class only destinations. For shame.

Don't worry, elitist, those days are long gone. As Obama, the unbeliever in American exceptionalism said, "those jobs aren't coming back."

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You underestimate to power of media. The opinions of everyone outside of America all come from the same place, and Hollywood is extremely anti white and anti American.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You just made my friends' list. ;-)

[–]AsInBeer 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's nothing better than having your mortal enemy underestimate you. Armies TRY to make that happen and come up empty handed. We get it for free.

[–]suckitreddit[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

And I am not blowing smoke up your asses!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Surely not. It is sugar. Powdered maybe.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

No, Americans are pretty much the most dumbed-down nationality on Earth. Sure, their IQ isn't awful, but they are so uneducated and unrefined, it should come as no surprise that Americans are thought of as the retard bully of the schoolyard.

You who are so in love with those muricans, you're posting assertions without any backup. Come on, bring the data and let's check how smurt muricans be.

[–]wecandobetter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

See, the Japanese made that mistake in WWII. The Romans made that mistake with the Germanic tribes. They both mistook a lack of cultural edifices and 'refinements' as a sign of primitiveness or incompetence. Europe or Japan's snooty idea of civilization is not a measure of intelligence or capability. Some of the brightest men I've known have been barely educated rednecks lacking any interest in literature or opera, but with encyclopedic knowledge of their particular career fields and extreme skill in a range of practical matters. Conversely some of the absolute stupidest people I've ever met in the USA have been very refined, very urban and sophisticated, but had wits dimmer than a firefly's ass. And the MOST uneducated, unrefined nation on earth? Haha surely there are few in the Middle East, or Africa, or South America, or Eastern Europe that would be in contention for that honor.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You hit the nail on the head. A lot of dumb people obsess over "high society". I think is a subconscious ego driven behavior. They find their intelligence lacking so they can't base their own value on intelligence or they would have to feel they are always less then everyone around them. So instead they base their ego on how "high class" they are. To service that ego they adopt all the superficial behaviors and attitudes associated with rich people.

[–]maskdebater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't agree with your posts until now. I see what you're saying about mistaking a lack of cultural edifices for stupidity. A shining example of this is McDonalds. It's like plastic food and roundly mocked the world over for lack of sophistication, but a lot of thought and effort actually went into making McDonalds what it is. Every single step of the process has been honed to maximum efficiency with an optimized supply chain and mechanized aids to produce this food quickly and cheaply. That's kind of America in general, not exactly the most culturally refined (although some places are) but damn if we aren't businesslike, focused and efficient.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a fantastic example. McDonalds, our supreme cultural cuisine, is not artistic like Japanese food or...I don't even know what you'd call it...needlessly complex like French cuisine, and thus it gets a lot of shame. Hurrdurr, dumb Americans eating burgers. But in reality the R&D lab of McDonalds is basically the most advanced food science lab in the world. They've created food that's inexpensive and good-tasting, and within reasonable portions, actually nutritionally decent. And by the way, for all the mockery, I've personally witnessed teens and adults in all corners of Europe crowded into McDonalds to get their taste of 'inferior American culture'.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Are you American? Your level of reading comprehension says you are.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah yes good attacking the person not the argument. You've proved once and for all the inferiority of this American arguer and I bow to your superior culture and intelligence.

/s, in case you're too brilliant to figure it out

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're talking about nationalities and levels of intelligence. I'm still talking about that topic, using yourself as an example.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do not compare America with the Germanic tribes. There are way more similarities between Rome and the US than between any Gaelic tribes and the US.

[–]AwakenGoyimEcoSlaves 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They really are stupid. Look how many support genocidal israel and their corruption of our politicians.

[–]PencilPusher55 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I love this country and wish I could agree but I just cannot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykDxdXJwdAg And this is why.

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mark Dice is wonderful.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you seriously not understand that these videos are edited so you only see what they want you to see. They do a hundred interviews and show you the 10 where people couldn't answer the question. Not to mention the whole thing could easily be staged.

Go ask the this question to the people you know. See if the results are the same. I grantee you will get very different results. How do you explain that? Are the people you know not American?

[–]PencilPusher55 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Doesn't matter. This is unacceptable. Not one person who lives here should be unaware of how many stars are on the flag.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does anyone you know in real life not know? Don't believe everything you see on tv.

[–]dissent 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No race or citizenry of a nation is smarter than any other. Fact.

[–]wecandobetter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The real answer, and I had to come all the way down here to find it.

[–]AsInBeer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for that perspective.