How is that not a victory? Would it only be a victory if they were completely annihilated?dex-dex said:I so agree!bdcjacko said:America doesn't care about soccer. I'm calling shenanigans.
also Japan and Germany surrendered. how is that a victory?
also the americans did not join the war until 1941 the war started in 1939(little late to the party). while other countries were getting the shit beaten out of them and having millions dying. America just prances in and says we will come and save the day!
Looking back I apologize for my rather hasty reply. I get somewhat defensive when people lump all Americans together. But I digress.KaizokuouHasu said:To put it short; Almost. But who said that the people who posted this on facebook are rednecks and ignorant fools? It wouldn't surprise me if many of them were actually properly educated - college level for some - but were subjected to propaganda as part of their education and therefore have some very deeply rooted irrational dislike for Japanese people.Drenden said:So you generalize American education based upon some backwater redneck morons viewpoints? Since we're assuming things here, I'm going to go ahead and go along the lines of saying that you think that every American is in league with these rejects, am I right?KaizokuouHasu said:You're right... that really is obnoxious.Monkfish Acc. said:Hold on let me find some obnoxious .gifs.
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What the fuck am I doing.
Anyway. This isn't even really surprising anymore.
It's like nobody ever fucking taught the stupids about Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Or maybe they did but whichever jackass it was had a PATRIOTISM moment and spelled it out like America was dropping pureness bombs on the devil's asshole which was poking out in two seperate Japanese residential zones somehow.
I don't really know what the curriculum in the U.S. covers, but I'm pretty sure it goes along the lines of:
"-We won WW2. Single Handedly, obviously. The Europeans were defenceless. By the way. The capital of Europe is France, and they have the Queen of England on the throne.
-Pearl Harbour was an act of evil from the Japs and there was nothing we could have done to defend ourselves from this demonic evil - not even lift the radio silence so we could warn them about the incoming attack that we knew about for more than 24 hours.
-We won the Vietnamese war. Totally. That was just a tactical retreat to... y'know... stuff.
-Oh! And we won the Civil war. Definitely! And, yeah, it totally counts as a victory to us - and it doesn't matter that we fought against ourselves!"
It's interesting to think that the U.S. has actually not ever won a war. They're good at getting into them though. Must be some younger-brother complex.
Back on topic: Wherever you go there will stupid people with stupid comments to make. Wherever you are in the world. But please people, don't group the majority of Americans with the minority of ignorant jackasses.
That said; America has a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge amount of people who are very undereducated on what in other parts of the western world seem to be known by near the 100% bar (assuming you're actually an average person who just finished his education). Things like: Where is the U.S. on the map? The value of pi. How Israel was founded. What the long term effects are of eating junk food daily. The virtue of avoiding debt and credit cards.
You're right though; there will be ignorance and assholes wherever you go. I just find that the vocal majority of them seem to be American.
It's the audience these forums have. I think most here have a vested interest (primarily through past and planned purchases, I would guess) in industries/products predominantly or exclusively from Japan (such as video games, anime, etc.). It's an inescapable fact that Japanese video games and anime are linked, either directly, or indirectly through the culture, just as could be said of American or European produced television/movies and video games. Simply put, our interests have broadened our sensibilities.Carrots_macduff said:is anyone else freaked out as to how simaler all these comments are?
can you say hivemind?
YES! (not actually)Bobic said:How is that not a victory? Would it only be a victory if they were completely annihilated?dex-dex said:I so agree!bdcjacko said:America doesn't care about soccer. I'm calling shenanigans.
also Japan and Germany surrendered. how is that a victory?
also the americans did not join the war until 1941 the war started in 1939(little late to the party). while other countries were getting the shit beaten out of them and having millions dying. America just prances in and says we will come and save the day!
chrono16 said:Stop judging us by a hand full of fuckwads...or by Texas....
(Let the record show: Yes I am American)Leviathan_ said:*snip*
You seem kind of upset. If you would have taken the time to read the OP, you would have seen that I feel sorry for the non-stupid Americans that will be put in the same basket as the dum-dums because of this. As the title and the OP also suggest, it's more of a rant about people not thinking before they post silly stuff. Something you just did yourself, it seems.harmonic said:Wow.
Congratulations for labeling my entire country for the facebook posts of 0.0000003% of our population.
Perhaps I should do a collage of the titles of "America sucks" threads started by Europeans. Probably isn't enough bandwidth on the entire internet to fit that image file.
In regards to the ignorant comments, it is an amazing scientific discovery you have stumbled upon... people use the internet to say stupid shit. Give this kid a Nobel Prize.
Indeed, Shenanigans should be called. Either way this is still really stupid and ignorant. Those people need to get a soccer ball kicked into their crotch several hundred times.bdcjacko said:America doesn't care about soccer. I'm calling shenanigans.
I'll let you in on a secret.KaizokuouHasu said:To put it short; Almost. But who said that the people who posted this on facebook are rednecks and ignorant fools? It wouldn't surprise me if many of them were actually properly educated - college level for some - but were subjected to propaganda as part of their education and therefore have some very deeply rooted irrational dislike for Japanese people.
The scary thing, to me, is that you might actually believe what you just wrote here.KaizokuouHasu said:That said; America has a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge amount of people who are very undereducated on what in other parts of the western world seem to be known by near the 100% bar (assuming you're actually an average person who just finished his education). Things like: Where is the U.S. on the map? The value of pi. How Israel was founded. What the long term effects are of eating junk food daily. The virtue of avoiding debt and credit cards.
And I find that an awful lot of Europeans are intolerant bigots who look for any excuse they can find to hate America.KaizokuouHasu said:You're right though; there will be ignorance and assholes wherever you go. I just find that the vocal majority of them seem to be American.