USA Is Europe's Laughing-stock, And For Good Reason:

Discussion in 'Western Europe' started by janpor, Nov 5, 2012.

  1. janpor

    janpor Well-Known Member

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    How horrible the storm Sandy was... my colleagues and I had an awesome laugh on the USA's backwardness over lunch today... wooden electricity poles? LMAO!

    America Has Already Lost Tuesday's Election

     
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    The article is not wrong but i don't think that Europe is in the mood to laugh , 30m unemployed , over 50m under poverty and the south is treated like dirt , Europe is at war with their people and they use banksters instead of drones killing entire classes .
     
  3. Anders Hoveland

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    Do not forget that Sweden (that magical socialist utopia) now has rape rates higher than the United States from all the asylum seekers they have let in.
    The USA is at least fortunate enough to be getting its migrants from Mexico. Somalis and Pakis seem to be a bit more unruly.
     
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    America has a very large third world population. They have brought third world conditions to America.
     
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    Oh god you Europeans crack me up!

    I'll give you that the GFC was our fault and was stupid.

    But for you to have been taught the lessons of the GFC through the wonderful tool of hindsight, and not see the absolute sh#t storm your central banks, and your government's insistence on continuing with the failed experiment that is the EU........well perhaps this GIF will help you figure out what I am saying here:

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    http://www.londonpatriot.org/2010/05/28/why-the-european-union-will-fail/
     
  6. Anders Hoveland

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    And yet the rape rate in Sweden is higher. 70% percent of the rapes are committed by 15% of the population. No one believes for a second that it is blonde-haired swedish people committing all these rapes.

    Europe is America's laughing stock because at least the migrants the USA has taken in are hard-working. Meanwhile Europe has taken in a people of violence, carrying with them a dangerous political-religious ideology, supporting over half of them all on the dole, and giving far many more free handouts than their Mexican counterparts get in the USA.
     
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    The definition of rape is not the same as in other states including America, that is why Julian Assange is having all the trouble he is. What is considered rape in Sweden would not even get to court as rape in the UK or America so trying to say that Sweden has higher rape rates than the USA is a fallacy.
     
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    I am sure there is some level of truth to this assertion, but at the same time rape is treated as a much less serious offense in Sweden than the USA.
    (for some examples of what I mean: http://www.politicalforum.com/western-europe/231661-ridiculously-light-sentences-sweden.html )
    Many states in the USA, by contrast, have only recently stopped executing rapists in the last 2 decades, and there is still plenty of support for the death penalty as punishment for particular types of rapes:
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-280_162-4017519.html

    But even this cannot explain the higher rape rate: an EU report shows that the number of reported rapes in Sweden is twice as many as the UK which reports 23 cases per 100,000 and 20 times higher than certain countries in southern and eastern Europe. According to the report, the Swedish rape rate “cannot be explained purely by an increased tendency to report rapes and other more minor sexual offences.”
     
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    You do have to wonder why World Wars, Crematoria, mass graves, ethnic cleansing and concentration camps are so popular in Europe. Europeans need to quit trying to think, they are not good at it.
     
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    Mostly metallic power poles are used in Germany. Many cables are in-ground. But we also use wooden poles; its a cheap and good solution. What is wrong about the use of wooden poles? Why LMAO?
     
  11. Anders Hoveland

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    The best way to prevent ethnic conflict is to prevent ethnic diversity before it grows. It is far easier to just make immigration requirements more restrictive now, than what it will take to deal with all the problems in the future. Sorry the media is hiding from you all the severe social problems, crime, and urban decay that ethnic diversity has brought to America.
     
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    Out of curiosity, how would you define ethnic diversity in countries in which have been ethnically diverse for centuries....and have never been ethnically homogeneous bar at the time of the first migrants.........because every one of us in the West is descended from migrants even though some of our ancestors arrived a long time ago and those of others arrived relatively recently.?

    And is ethnic conflict really because of ethnicity or is it more because of the attitude of the people who have lived in a country for ten minutes objecting to those who arrived two minutes ago getting the benefit of what they had paid in to benefit themselves over that ten minutes? Ethnicity, whatever it is in this mongrel world, has nothing to do with anything really.....the problem in the Western world is the growing and more vutuperative sense of greed, self interest and entitlement by people who just don't want to share their good fortune with people less fortunate....or are maybe just chuffed to bits to always have people arriving they can blame for all their life's problems, to save them having to wonder if they should be taking some responsibility for their own lives?

    OK, I know I am being simplistic and generalising too much..........but no more so than you have been.

    Had to laugh at Sorry the media is hiding from you all the severe social problems, crime, and urban decay that ethnic diversity has brought to America. If they are that would be because they have another agenda at the moment. The media prints what will sell papers to their particular reader base, so they cater for that reader base......unbiased and accurate news has nothing that much to do with anything anymore....it has more to with what the media is trying to rile them up about at any particular time to give them an ongoing and lucrative campaign which will sell papers. Maybe severe social problems, crime, and urban decay is not something the bulk of the readership of US media give a toss about atm.

    Not that much different, really to our redtops doing the daemonising of people on benefits...and if that person is an immigrant, to boot, they have a field day. It used to be racism they pushed, as the different races started trickling in. I remember the No Irish days...then it was "terrorism", as an acceptable buzz-word for being anti-Muslim, and now they are like pigs rolling in crap being able to combine all their past decades biases in one fell swoop........ad nauseam.

    Often wonder if the media was primed to prepare the way for the Government cuts and privatising of the benefits system...as in by getting us hacked off by the few, we would be happy to accept the trashing of everybody on the off-chance the few get caught. Haven't noticed such alacrity on reporting at such length or, in such judgmental terms about the consequences being felt by those being trashed by the private companies our Government has employed at a cost of millions of pounds annually, to trash our poor, sick and disabled with impunity.

    Ethnicity isn't the problem....Friedman's version of capitalism ruling the West is the problem....and our Western propensity for pushing that interpretation of economics onto other countries under the guise of democracy, with the help of the World Bank and IMF. I find it hard, tbh, to be against immigrants who come here because we in the West haven't left them with enough food and resources to get a life as good as the one they see some of us having on what should have been available for them to have a minimal standard of living in their own countries.

    We in the UK have been whining about immigration, since we started turning half the world pink. But we got rich on the backs of the poor, in our own country and in countries all over the world and it seems more than hypocritical to complain when people we have trashed turn up and say "Where's mine!" And now the rest of the West is starting to reap the whirlwind...and they have only themselves to blame.
     
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    Lets also remember that Sweden has had a right wing government for the last six years.

    But I am sure you never let the truth get in the way of a good point.
     
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    What a crock of (*)(*)(*)(*)! It would be helpful if you stopped lying!
     
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    I blame the Irish immigrants ;-)
     
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    I just do not understand why our government requires all these poor people to come to my country before they can get the free things and help. I suspect the real reason for taking in immigrants does not actually have to do with helping them...
     
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    Just a point ............The majority of British DNA, 95% is indigenous. 5% from invasions and so on ......we came as hunter gathers after the last Ice age. The only others indigenous to Europe are the Basques.

    Every Civilization has natural migrations and 'immigrations' from within and without . This 'multiculteralism' is not natural though. It is forced. The way in which it has been forced has destroyed the cohesion of the Societies it has been forced apon. And both the evil of PC and so called 'racism' disallows us as societies to discuss openly and have any say in what is happening in our home.

    To say we were so wicked to the rest of the World we must now pay the price does no one any good, not us nor the World. By our mistakes and faults we learn and so we build, guilt is just a part of the journey to wisdom it should not swamp us.
    Our mistake was been not to have given ourselves time to recover the aftermath of Empire and War before being overwhelmed...................... it is a tragedy for the World and ourselves.
     
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    Yeah, because Germany and the rest of the EU have a (*)(*)(*)(*)ton to laugh about don't they.
     
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    Another one who doesn't get what halpogroups are about .
     
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    Pardon, but this is ridiculous! The US still has a higher living standard, better perspectives, a stronger economy and a higher technological standard than the average of the European Union. There are some countries like Norway (rich because of oil; not an EU member by the way) or Liechtenstein (Tax Haven) which exceeds the US living standard, there are some you can compare like Germany or the Netherlands, but there are many people from much other EU countries who would prefer the situation in the US.

    It's not always good or bad politics which makes the difference. I think Latvia e.g. one of the poorest contries of the EU makes great progress, but there is still a huge gap.
     
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    As long as we continued to elect the hacks from both parties to high political office, America will continue to be the laughing stock in Europe.
     
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    The people who control the US behind the scenes wanted Obama to win. In the US and UK the puppet-masters always make sure their candidate of choice wins an election by making the opposition completely unelectable. Hence Thatcher versus the useless 1980s Labour party, and later Blair versus the useless 97/noughties Tory party. Who on earth would vote for Mitt Romney? He is so out of touch he might as well be living on Pluto.
     
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    Right as in right-of-communists yeah. They're not a rightist party, there's only one rightist party in sweden and that's the sweden democrats. Is it rightist to shrink the military? To have the most generous immigration policy in th world? to try to destroy swedish culture? hell no.
     
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    At least the US isn't in economic sclerosis and decline, unlike the EU. The EU is an even bigger laughing stock around the world.
     
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    That because Southern Europeans, unlike Northern Europeans like the British and the Germans, are lazy, workshy people who never pay their taxes on time. That's why Southern European countries like Greece and Spain are in such an economic mess.
     

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