Poll: Would you want the United States to join another country?

[Eclectic Dreck]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I refuse to use letters when they have no effect on how you pronounce the word. I'll be damned if I have to use an extra keystroke without good cause.

 

[sivlin]

Why on Mexico and Canada?

Double why on England and China.

WTF on Japan?

Seriously, what is the reasoning on these five? Until I hear the reasoning behind these choices, I'll stick with Independence.

Yeah, to be honest - Japan was the worst choice he put up there. Japan is one of our closest allies but is completely dependent on the US Military for protection (since we made it so). They have an army of sorts but we have severely restricted their personal power.

England really just wouldn't happen for obvious reasons. I would like to say there is not much enmity between the UK and the US but according to these forums apparently the UK hates us where I'm pretty sure the large majority of American's either like the UK or have no opinion whatsoever.

Mexico and Canada just do not have the power to be contenders in the game. Not trying to be mean to either country but you could hardly call either a super power.

Barring complete collapse, which of course could happen - the only likely candidates for absorbing the United States would be China or Russia. Due to their ideology, however, were it to come to that I'm pretty sure it would be at the expense of civil war if it was sanctioned by the government, and world war 3 (and most likely the end of the world as we know it) if it was a hostile takeover by either country.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

If the United Kingdom's government would realize that 1984 wasn't intended to be a guide for governance, I would say they might not be so bad.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I refuse to use letters when they have no effect on how you pronounce the word. I'll be damned if I have to use an extra keystroke without good cause.

Wait you don't pronounce the u? Clearly colour has a subtle u in there as does honour and valour.

 

[zehydra]

No, we should be going the opposite direction.

 

[zehydra]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

lol, or you know we could just have a different dialect, that's cool too.

 

[zehydra]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I refuse to use letters when they have no effect on how you pronounce the word. I'll be damned if I have to use an extra keystroke without good cause.

Wait you don't pronounce the u? Clearly colour has a subtle u in there as does honour and valour.

no, we don't. We pronounce "Color" as "Kuh lur"

In any case, English is absolutely terrible with phoenetics, to the point that maintaining proper English spellings, for no other reason than "that's the way it's supposed to be", is a waste of time (with the only exception the ability to read older texts with ease).

English Grammar, however, is still very important.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

lol, or you know we could just have a different dialect, that's cool too.

I don't think you got the joke. I guess the shortness of your honour is to blame.

 

[Ham_authority95]

No, we would bring problems into those countries and they would bring their problems here.

 

[ecoho]

Also, no-one ever gets mad at the Canadians for bombing/murdering innocent people and nations.

Even though that does not happen?

That's what I mean; the Canadians rarely (as far as I know) bomb innocent people, maybe they'll be a good influence on the Americans.

I mean the Yank's do not do that.

Well you could argue that the invasion of Iraq was entirely under false pretense, but that's been done to death. Instead, here's the most famous video of American soldiers killing undisputedly innocent people, the wikileaks released Collateral Murder.
<youtube=5rXPrfnU3G0>

My favourite part is where they find they've just killed two children and one of the soldiers says "Well, they shouldn't bring their kids into a gunfight" It's their fucking home, you brought the gunfight to them!

Watch on Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0]

oh so they should break down and cry in the middle of a battlefield? what you and the people who released this dont understand is they dont relish in killing civilians but they know that if they lose it it could mean their deaths, so the guy defuses the moment with some bad comedy.Ive seen the men who come home from this shit the people over there LIKE them more then we do. also as to the whole we went there for the wrong reasons yeah the CIA fucked up but you know what? we should have killed his ass the first time.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I refuse to use letters when they have no effect on how you pronounce the word. I'll be damned if I have to use an extra keystroke without good cause.

Wait you don't pronounce the u? Clearly colour has a subtle u in there as does honour and valour.

no, we don't. We pronounce "Color" as "Kuh lur"

In any case, English is absolutely terrible with phoenetics, to the point that maintaining proper English spellings, for no other reason than "that's the way it's supposed to be", is a waste of time (with the only exception the ability to read older texts with ease).

English Grammar, however, is still very important.

Neither do I, kuh lur is not what I meant. I meant Co-lour Perhaps you do not hear it as a subtle U but I sure has hell do. I just feel that if you leave that letter out you miss out on the subtlety in the pronunciation which leads to a more vulgar and unsubtle sounding language.

 

[Thaluikhain]

They should become part of England, (though, they'd have to learn English first)...just to further alienate and marginalise the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish.

No, wait, that'd fuck the Commonwealth up, the US would be allowed to be in the Commonwealth games.

 

[zehydra]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

lol, or you know we could just have a different dialect, that's cool too.

I don't think you got the joke. I guess the shortness of your honour is to blame.

lol, I'm tired. Nice.

 

[zehydra]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I always put this American failure down to the fact that they just have less Valour than us (literally).

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

I refuse to use letters when they have no effect on how you pronounce the word. I'll be damned if I have to use an extra keystroke without good cause.

Wait you don't pronounce the u? Clearly colour has a subtle u in there as does honour and valour.

no, we don't. We pronounce "Color" as "Kuh lur"

In any case, English is absolutely terrible with phoenetics, to the point that maintaining proper English spellings, for no other reason than "that's the way it's supposed to be", is a waste of time (with the only exception the ability to read older texts with ease).

English Grammar, however, is still very important.

Neither do I, kuh lur is not what I meant. I meant Co-lour Perhaps you do not hear it as a subtle U but I sure has hell do. I just feel that if you leave that letter out you miss out on the subtlety in the pronunciation which leads to a more vulgar and unsubtle sounding language.

The American variation of the English language does not have the subtle pronunciation of that word. But to say it's vulgar? Well, you can go be proud of having a "subtle" dialect of the language.

 

[zehydra]

America will spell correct english (metre NOT meter and you're missing a u in colour!)

lol, it doesn't really matter, any English-speaking country could go proclaim that they are the true owners of the REAL English language.

Sure, we don't have a "u" in colour, but hey, don't you guys call a flashlight a torch?


Let's all make fun of the way we all talk, shall we?

 

[jackknife402]

And now we're onto the "Americans kill the innocent" topic. Alright lets get this straight, in war there are always innocents whom get caught in the crossfire; be it bad intel, mistaken identity, or a woman decides to push her baby in a cradle out into a bloody mortar firing zone; it'll happen. Don't blame it all on us, every country that has ever fought a war(Yea, Canada throws troops at stuff all the time by the way, being part of the United Nations requires their military support, they get their share of innocent blood on their hands as well)has spilled the blood of those whom are just trying to live day to day in the turmoil.

The real problem here is, everyone wants to blame the ol' U.S. of A and bastardize them as much as possible; which means when something goes wrong and a single person hears about it; we become the bane of all existence. Easy to follow right? Everyone hates us, so despite their own shortcomings in innocent deaths in wars others have participated in, its only the Americans that kill babies, right?

God if only they had cameras during the Crusades Part 1, 2, and 3.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

The U.S. should not join any one country. The U.S. should use its influence to be a founder of an international confederacy of nations which will be greater than any single nation ever has been. First we should invite other developed nations. Consolidate stability and power. Later developing nations. Use the resources of the confederacy to help bring them to strength.

Then, finally, once absolute strength of the confederacy is assured, we bring in undeveloped powers and bring them up to par with our excess.

The world united under one banner.

Sigh... Seriously, not being a troll here, but f*ck off Communist (not a personal insult, nor the curses of a right-wing mad man).
I'm sorry, but that's a terrible idea. It won't achieve anything except discontentment. Peace is achievable through other means than establishing a global nation. It's called the UN. However, before I continue my argument, may I ask what method of government you would envision in this dream world of yours?

A Confederacy that unites nations. Nations with excess of certain valuable resources would, in return for the support of the rest of the world, agree to distribute some of those resources either cheaply or freely to other countries.

U.S. gives away food.
Arab countries oil.
X gives away Y.

Each nation within the Confederacy would be able to maintain its own governance as that is an internal issue. While I would hope that the sort of cooperation built by the confederacy would lead to a more Communistic attitude and that more nations would internally shift to egalitarian command economies, that is an internal issue.

Couldn't that be achieved through trade agreements/ unions? Your hardly changing anything except international trading, which would be far more achievable through the current system aforementioned agreements/ unions. Alright, of course nothing could be given away, but I wouldn't class "exporting goods for free" as a good thing. One of the major disadvantages of modern third world countries is that they're unable to grow to a self-sustainable level, because of the constant influx of foreign goods which are sold at prices lower than they can even produce their products for. So, the solution to that problem is to simply give them those exports now? Why would anyone buy or produce anything if they can get it for free from abroad?

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Uh,what?Back to belonging to England?Unite itself with Mexico?Were you high when you came up with the idea for this thread?We all know that China's gonna buy the US pretty soon,so I'm surprised it's not THE ONLY option in the poll(no,in all seriousness,only about 7% of the american debt is owed to China,and obviously,I'd want it to stay independant as it is.It's the most powerful country in the world,and you think it could unite itself with Mexico?Whaaaaat?)

Heaven forbid someone puts up a hypothetical question on the internet. And god forbid someone over react to a hypothetical question on the internet. Oh wait, it's the internet, that always happens.

Ohwell,too bad I'm atheist
I know it's TEH INTERRWEBZ but why not come up with something more..I dunno...relevant?
Like "Suggest me a good henta..I mean,anime" or "character from the last game u played wants 2 kill u" or "stop hating on cod" or even "cod sux!".The possibilities are just endless!

 

[thespyisdead]

the question is no should the US merge with some country, but which country would want to do such a thing( except china, who already owns the US), because of their huge debt